Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

THE Person of Christ may be considered two ways. 1. Absolutely in it self. 2. In the Susception and Discharge of his Office, with what ensued thereon. His Glory on these distinct Accounts, is distinct and different; but all equally his own. How in both respects we may behold it by Faith, is that which we enquire into.

THE first thing wherein we may behold the Glory of the Person of Christ, God and Man, which was given him of his Father, consists in the Representation of the Nature of God, and of the Divine Person of the Father, unto the Church in him; For we behold the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6. Otherwise we know it not, we see it not, we see nothing of it: that is the way of seeing and knowing God, declared in the Scripture, as our Duty and Blessedness. The Glory of God comprehends both the Holy Properties of his Nature, and the Counsels of his Will; and the Light of the Knowledge of these things, we have only in the Face or Person of Jesus Christ. Whatever obscure imperfect Notions we may have of them otherways, we cannot have [Greek or Hebrew] the Light of the Illuminating, irradiating Knowledge of the ⟨p. 15⟩Glory of God, which may enlighten […]fie our Hearts, but only [Greek or Hebrew] in the Face or Person of Jesus Christ; for he is the Image of God, 2 Cor. 4. 4. The Brightness of the Fathers Glory, and the express Image of his Person, Heb. 1. 2. The Image of the invisible God, Col. 1. 16. I do here only mention these things, because I have handled them at large in my Discourse of the Mystery of Godliness, or the Person of Christ; whereunto I refer the Readers for their full Declaration and Vindication. Herein is he glorious, in that he is the great Representative of the Nature of God, and his Will unto us, which without him would have been eternally hid from us, or been invisible unto us; we should never have seen God at any time, here nor hereafter,