Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

IN the mean time, it is the Duty of all those who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, to give Testimony in a peculiar manner unto this Divine Person and Glory, according unto their several Capacities, because of the Opposition that is made against them.

I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversy (which formerly I have engaged in) but so, as together with the vindication ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthening of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Knowledge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of these things.

I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversie (which formerly I have engaged in) but so, as together with the vindication ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthning of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Knowledge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of these things.

THAT which at present I design to Demonstrate is, That the Beholding of the Glory of Christ, is one of the greatest Privileges and Advancements that Believers are capable of in this World, or that which is to come. It is that whereby they are first gradually conformed unto it, and then fixed in the Eternal enjoyment of it. For here in this life, beholding his Glory, they are changed or transformed into the likeness of it,