Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself

Answ. There were two relations in Christ; one as Viator, going toward glory,¹ and leading many children with him to glory; another, as comprehensor, seeing and enjoying God. 2. There were two sights in Christ, one of Vision, another of Union; the sight of Union of two natures, is the cause of the sight of vision. Christ being on his journey travelling toward glory, did with a faith of dependency rest on God, as his Father, seeing and knowing that the Union could not be dissolved; but as a Comprehensor, and one at the end of the race, enjoying God in habit, there was no necessity, that Christ should always, Et in omni differentiâ temporis, actually see and enjoy God, in an immediate vision of glory.

Answ. There were two relations in Christ; one as Viator, going toward glory,¹ and leading many children with him to glory; another, as comprehensor, seeing and enjoying God. 2. There were two sights in Christ, one of Vision, another of Vnion; the sight of Vnion of two natures, is the cause of the sight of vision. Christ being on his journey travelling toward glory, did with a faith of dependency rest on God, as his Father, seeing and knowing that the Union could not be dissolved; but as a Comprehensor, and one at the end of the race, injoying God in habit, there was no necessitie, that Christ should alwaies, Et in omni differentiâ temporis, actually see and enjoy God, in an immediate vision of glory.

1. 1How faith of dependency was in Christ.How faith of dependencie was in Christ.

For, 1. this implieth no contradiction to the personal union,¹ even as the seeing of God habitually, which is the most joyful sight intelligible, and by necessity of nature, does produce joy and gladness, may, and did consist in Christ, with groanings and sadness of Spirit, even before his last sufferings: so the interruption for a time, of the actual vision of God, might stand with Christs personal happiness, as God-man. 2. If we suppose there were just reasons, why God should command that Angels, and glorified Spirits, should not actually see God for a time, there were no repugnancy in this, to their true blessedness, so it fell not out through their sins, no more then the Sun should lose any of its nature, if we suppose God should command it to stand still, and to be covered with darkness many days, as in Joshua's time, it stood still in the firmament some hours, and for a time was covered with darkness at the suffering of Christ. What an interposed cloud of covering it was, or what a screen did interrupt the flux of the beams and rays of the Godhead from actual irradiation on the soul and faculties, and powers of the soul of the man Christ is more then I can determine. Certain it is, God was with the Manhood, and so near as to make one person, but there was no actual shining on the powers of the soul, no heat and warmness of joy, but as if his own infinite Sea of comfort were dried up, he needed a drop of the borrowed comfort of an Angel from heaven. Now whether this Angel,