Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Now glory is nothing else but the manifestation of some excellency to the view of others: so we attribute still the word, glory, to such in whom we see some excellency: to see a man in gorgeous apparel, An Army under banners, to see a ship under sail, we say they are glorious. So Michal said of David, How glorious was the King of Israel to day? because then he manifested himself: Now when God sheddeth abroad his Spirit into the heart• of any, whom he infuseth the graces of his Spirit into them, he is said to put glory into them, This Christ doth wheresoever he cometh, because he furnisheth them with grace, and every grace is glorious, As it is said of wisdom in the Proverbs. He that is in estimation for wisdom and glory: That is for wisdom which is glorious: so when Christ cometh into the heart of any, he makes them wise, and therefore glorious. The like may be said of an• other virtue; therefore in the Epistle of Peter, virtue, and glory, are joined together. In a word, the Image of God is in them: which is compounded of many graces, Now that image is a glorious Image, 2 Cor. 3. You are changed to the Image of God from glory to glory. That is from one ¹glo•i us degree of grace to another; And this is the first b•n si• we have by Christ, he makes them glorious in whom he dwelleth, because he putteth his graces in ⟨p. 127⟩them, and stamps his similitudes upon them.

Now glory is nothing else but the manifestation of some excellencie to the view of others: so we attribute still the word, glory, to such in whom we see some excellency: to see a man in gorgeous apparel, An Army under banners, to see a ship under sail, we say they are glorious. So Michal said of David, How glorious was the King of Israel to day? because then he manifested himself: Now when God sheddeth abroad his Spirit into the heart• of any, whom he infuseth the graces of his Spirit into them, he is said to put glory into them, This Christ doth wheresover he cometh, because he furnisheth them with grace, and every grace is glorious, As it is said of wisdom in the Proverbs. He that is in estimation for wisdom and glory: That is for wisdom which is glorious: so when Christ cometh into the heart of any, he makes them wise, and therefore glorious. The like may be said of an other vrtue; therefore in the Epistle of Peter, vertue, and glory, are joyned together. In a word, the Image of God is in them: which is compounded of many graces, Now that image is a glorious Image,