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

AGAIN, the word glory, as applied to God in scripture, implies the view or knowledge of God's excellency. The exhibition of glory, is to the view of beholders. The manifestation of glory, the emanation or effulgence of brightness, has relation to the eye. Light or brightness is a quality that has relation to the sense of seeing: we see the luminary by it's light. And knowledge is often expressed in scripture by light. The word glory very often in scripture signifies or implies honour, as any one may soon see by casting his eye on a concordance.^* But honour implies the knowledge of the dignity and excellency of him who hath the honour. And this is often more especially signified by the word glory, when applied to God. Num. 14. 21. "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord." i. e. All the earth shall see the manifestations I will make of my perfect holiness and hatred of sin, and so of my infinite excellence. This appears by the context. So Ezek. 39. 21, 22, 23. "And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God. And the heathen shall know, that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity." And 'tis manifest in many places, where we read of God's glorifying himself, or of his being glorified, that one thing directly intended, is a manifesting or making known his divine greatness and excellency.

AGAIN, the word glory, as applied to God in scripture, implies the view or knowledge of God's excellency. The exhibition of glory, is to the view of beholders. The manifestation of glory, the emanation or effulgence of brightness, has relation to the eye. Light or brightness is a quality that has relation to the sense of seeing: we see the luminary by it's light. And knowledge is often expressed in scripture by light. The word glory very often in scripture signifies or implies honor, as any one may soon see by casting his eye on a concordance.^* But honor implies the knowledge of the dignity and excellency of him who hath the honor. And this is often more especially signified by the word glory, when applied to God.