And are changed.
I shewed before, how mans happinesse stands partly in commnnion with
The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes of God is shewed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great incouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the wayes of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.
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- The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes of God is shewed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great incouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the wayes of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N.
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"The excellencie of the Gospell above the law Wherein the liberty of the sonnes of God is shewed. With the image of their graces here, and glory hereafter. Which affords much comfort and great incouragement, to all such as begin timely, and continue constantly in the wayes of God. By R. Sibbs, D.D. Mr. of Katherin Hall Cambridge, and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Begun in his life time, and published by T.G. and P.N." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12183.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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God, and partly in his conformity, and likenesse to God. And surely wher∣soever there is communi∣on, there will be confor∣mity. This conformity is here set downe springing from communion. We all behold the glory of God, now reconciled in Iesus Christ, what doth that be∣holding worke? a con∣formity, we are Changed into the same Image, from glory to glory. In these words we see,
First, a necessity of a change, changed we must be:
Then in this change, there must bee a patterne of conformity, wee are changed into the Image
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of Christ, who is the preto∣tipe, the first type, and Idea of all perfection, we are changed into the same Image.
And then, how this change is wrought to the Image of Christ, it is by beholding the glory of Christ in the Gospel, there is a transforming power, in beholding the glory of Gods mercy in Christ, it is not a delighting object, onely to see the mercy of God in Christ, but it is a powerfull object that hath an influence upon the soule.
And then the state of man after this change, it is a glorious condition, Wee are changed from glory.
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And then it is a grow∣ing condition, wee are changed from glory to glo∣ry, still till wee come to that pitch, where there can be no growth, when the soule shall bee filled with the fulnesse of God, as the Apostle speakes, when the soule shal have (all the powers that it hath to re∣ceive, and retaine, & com∣prehend) al the corners of it filled, so we grow from glory to glory till then, these things follow one another: To begin with the first.