Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…

THE word glory, as applied to God or Christ, sometimes evidently signifies the communications of God's fullness and means much the same thing, with God's abundant and exceeding goodness and grace. So Eph. 2. 16. "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might, by his spirit in the inner man." The expression, "According to the riches of his glory", is apparently equivalent to that in the same epistle, chap. 1. 7. "According to the riches of his grace". And chap. 2. 7. "The exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us, through' Christ Jesus". In like manner is the word glory used in Phil. 4. 19. "But my God shall ⟨p. 99⟩supply all your need, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus". And Rom. 9. 23. "And that he might make known the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy". In this, and the foregoing verse, the apostle speaks of God's making known two things, his great wrath, and his rich grace. The former, on the vessels of wrath, ver. 22. The latter, which he calls the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, ver. 23. So when Moses says, "I beseech thee show me thy glory;" God granting his request, makes answer, "I will make all my goodness to pass before thee." Exod. 33. 18, 19.^†

THE word glory, as applied to God or Christ, sometimes evidently signifies the communications of God's fulness and means much the same thing, with God's abundant and exceeding goodness and grace. So Eph. 2. 16. "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthned with might, by his spirit in the inner man." The expression, "According to the riches of his glory", is apparently equivalent to that in the same epistle, chap. 1. 7. "According to the riches of his grace". And chap. 2. 7. "The exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us, thro' Christ Jesus". In like manner is the word glory used in