Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

SO do the Papists delude themselves. Their Carnal Affections are excited by their outward Senses, to delight in Images of Christ, in his Sufferings, his Resurrection, and Glory above. Hereon they satisfy themselves, that they behold the Glory of Christ himself, and that with ⟨p. 7⟩Love and great Delight. But whereas there is not the least true Representation made of the Lord Christ, or his Glory, in these things, that being confined absolutely unto the Gospel alone, and this way of attempting it being laid under a severe interdict, they do but sport themselves with their own deceivings.

SO do the Papists delude themselves. Their Carnal Affections are excited by their outward Senses, to delight in Images of Christ, in his Sufferings, his Resurrection, and Glory above. Hereon they satisfie themselves, that they behold the Glory of Christ himself, and that with ⟨p. 7⟩Love and great Delight. But whereas there is not the least true Representation made of the Lord Christ, or his Glory, in these things, that being confined absolutely unto the Gospel alone, and this way of attempting it being laid under a severe interdict, they do but sport themselves with their own deceivings.

THE Apostle tells us concerning himself, and other Believers, when the Lord Christ was present, and conversed with them in the Days of his Flesh, that they saw his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth. Joh. 1. 14. And we may enquire, what was this Glory of Christ, which they so saw, and by what means they obtained a prospect of it? For (1.) It was not the Glory of his outward condition, as we behold the Glory and Grandeur of the Kings and Potentates of the Earth; For he made himself of no Reputation, but being in the Form of a Servant, he walked in the Condition of a Man of low Degree. The Secular Grandeur of his pretended Vicar, makes no Representation of that Glory of his, which his Disciples saw. He kept no Court, nor House of Entertainment, nor (though he made all things) had of his own where to lay his Head. Nor 2. Was it with respect to the outward Form of the Flesh which he was made, wherein he took our Nature on him, as we see the Glory of a comely or beautiful Person; For he had therein neither form nor comeliness, that he should be desired, his visage was so marred more than any Man, and his form more than the sons of men,