Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

BUT alas! here at present our Minds recoil, our Meditations fail, our Hearts are overcome, our Thoughts confused, and our Eyes turn aside from the Lustre of this Glory; nor can we abide in the Contemplation of it. But there, an immediate, constant view of it, will bring in everlasting refreshment and joy unto our whole Souls.

THIS beholding of the Glory of Christ given him by his Father, is indeed subordinate unto the ultimate vision of the essence of God. What that is we cannot well conceive; only we know that the pure in heart shall see God. ⟨p. 156⟩But it hath such an immediate connection with it, and subordination unto it, as that without it we can never behold the face of God, as the objective blessedness of our Souls. For he is and shall be to eternity, the only means of Communication between God and the Church.

THIS beholding of the Glory of Christ given him by his Father, is indeed subordinate unto the ultimate vision of the essence of God. What that is we cannot well conceive; only we know that the pure in heart shall see God. ⟨p. 156⟩But it hath such an immediate connexion with it, and subordination unto it, as that without it we can never behold the face of God, as the objective blessedness of our Souls. For he is and shall be to eternity, the only means of Communication between God and the Church.

AND we may take some Direction in our looking into and longing after this perfect view of the Glory of Christ, from the example of the Saints under the Old Testament. The sight which they had of the Glory of Christ, for they also saw his Glory through the obscurity of its Revelation, and its being veiled with types and shadows, was weak and imperfect in the most illuminated believers, much inferior unto what we now have by faith, through the Gospel. Yet such it was, as encouraged them to enquire and search diligently into what was revealed,