SO much as we know of Christ, his Sufferings and his Glo∣ry;
so much do we understand of the Scripture, and no more.
THESE are the Two Heads of the Mediation of
Christ and his Kingdom; and this is their Order which
they communicate unto the Church; first Sufferings, and
then Glory: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him,
2 Tim. 2. 12. They do but deceive themselves, who
design any other Method▪ of these things. Some would
reign here in this World; and we may say with the A∣postle,
would you did reign, that we might reign with you. But
the Members of the mystical Body must be conformed unto
the Head. In him, Sufferings went before Glory; and
so they must in them. The Order in the Kingdom of
Satan and the Word, is contrary hereunto. First, the
Good Things of this Life, and then Eternal Misery, is the
Method of that Kingdom, Luk. 16. 25.
THESE are the two Springs of the Salvation of the
Church; the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord
of the whole Earth; from which all the golden Oyl where∣by
the Church is dedicated unto God and sanctified doth
flow. This Glory of Christ in his Exaltation which fol∣lowed
on his Sufferings, is that which we now enquire in∣to.
And we shall state our Apprehensions of it in the
ensuing Observations.
1. THIS is peculiarly that Glory which the Lord
Christ prays that his Disciples may be where he is, to be∣hold
it. It is not solely so, as it is considered absolutely:
but it is that, wherein all the other Parts of his Glory
are made manifest. It is the Evidence, the Pledge, the
Means of the Manifestation of them all. As unto all
the Instances of his Glory before insisted on, there was a
Vail drawn over them whilst he was in this World.
Hence the most saw nothing of it, and the best saw it but
obscurely. But in this Glory that Vail is taken off, where∣by
the whole Glory of his Person in it self, and in the
Work of Mediation is most illustriously manifested.