Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

THERE will be use herein, of our bodily eyes, as shall be declared. For as Joh says, in our Flesh shall we see our Redeemer, and our eyes shall behold him, Chap. 19. 25, 26, 27. That corporeal sense shall not be restored unto us, and that glorified above what we can conceive, but for this great use of the eternal beholding of Christ and his Glory. Unto whom it is not a matter of rejoicing, that with the same eyes wherewith they see the tokens and signs of him in the Sacrament of the Supper, they shall behold himself immediately, in his own person. But principally, as we shall see immediately, this vision is intellectual. It is not therefore the mere Human Nature of Christ, that is the object of it, but his Divine Person as ⟨p. 146⟩that nature subsisteth therein. What is that perfection which we shall have (for that which is perfect must come and do away that which is in part) in the comprehension of the bypostatical Union, I understand not; but this I know, that in the immediate beholding of the Person of Christ, we shall see a glory in it a thousand times above what here we can conceive. The excellencies of Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power therein, will be continually before us. And all the glories of the Person of Christ, which we have before weakly and faintly enquired into, will be in our sight for evermore.

THERE will be use herein, of our bodily eyes, as shall be declared. For as Joh says, in our Flesh shall we see our Redeemer, and our eyes shall behold him, Chap. 19. 25, 26, 27. That corporeal sence shall not be restored unto us, and that glorified above what we can conceive, but for this great use of the eternal beholding of Christ and his Glory. Unto whom it is not a matter of rejoycing, that with the same eyes wherewith they see the tokens and signs of him in the Sacrament of the Supper, they shall behold himself immediately, in his own person. But principally, as we shall see immediately, this vision is intellectual. It is not therefore the meer Human Nature of Christ, that is the object of it, but his Divine Person as ⟨p. 146⟩that nature subsisteth therein. What is that perfection which we shall have (for that which is perfect must come and do away that which is in part) in the comprehension of the bypostatical Union, I understand not; but this I know, that in the immediate beholding of the Person of Christ, we shall see a glory in it a thousand times above what here we can conceive. The excellencies of Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power therein, will be continually before us. And all the glories of the Person of Christ, which we have before weakly and faintly enquired into, will be in our sight for evermore.