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A59934	[Evangelion aionion eis t aionch] doxotaton, or, A glimpse of gospel glory. The first part together with a short but pithie treatise of Mr. E.D. shewing that Peter was never at Rome : to which is subjoyned as an appendix some pregnant collections by ... H. Nelson ... to a like purpose.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?; E. D., Mr.; Nelson, H., 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3404; ESTC R25256	86,334	226

man to appease thereby his Fathers wrath against him and restore him into a State of grace And that such his goodness might not be cast away as that before conferred by Creation upon him was God the Father and the Son will send the holy Spirit who proceeds from both by whose all-powerful efficacious grace that most glorious manifestation of God the Fathers incomprehensible goodness towards lost man and that most gracious manifestation of God the sons most tender love and compassion towards lost man this work of salvation should be irresistably and most effectually carried on by informing the mind reforming the will conforming his heart and soul to the will of God and confirming the whole man in his reformed condition and all this by bringing home this gospel discovery of the Glory of the Lord spoken of in the Text and by that his peculiar work and undertaking as we shall endeavour by the assistance of the said Lord the spirit in due time to shew from the last words of the Text. Now according to this three-fold manifestation of the glory of the Lord from the beginning have all the most glorious dispensations of the grace of God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost ever since been derived revealed communicated applyed preserved conserved rewarded in the souls and persons of all Gods faithfull servants in all Ages and so will be to the end of the world and was but mens Religion setled upon this foundation of Gods own laying and steered in a right course to his own end that as all grace is from himselfe so the glory thereof might be given to him alone how might the Church of God be setled in truth and peace But let us a little view the most radiant beames of this incomprehensible love this supernatural grace this divine Glory of God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost as from time to time they are darted out of Heaven and powerfully sent home into the souls of poore sinners upon earth together with the reflexions of those radiant beames in and upon those poor sinners souls for I speak not here of those close stopped bottles that will suffer no good liquor to fall into them though much fall upon them yea though cast into a sea of water yet none can enter because they are close stopt up or such dark Lanthorns that receive no light though they be set in the bright Sun-shine at noon-day but of such as like burning or looking glasies in the beholding of this glory as in the Text receive from the Sunne of Righteousnesse that shines most gloriously in their Hemisphere only as the light of old did in Goshen when thick darknesse was in Egypt receive I say from him both light and heate and brightnesse and are transformed into the same Image Where should I begin to speak of the glory of their transfiguration or when should I make an end Look upon their birth it is celestiall it is divine it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is from above it is from God so they are not only a truly noble or Royall which the vaine world is apt too much to prize alone but they are also a reall divine Race 2 Pet. 1. 4. But this glory of theirs being that of the Queens Daughter is mainly within this spirituall life of theirs is hid with Christ in God Col. With this new birth and life is conveyed a divine and spiritual illumination into their souls with this is inseparably conjoyned a particular spiritual application of every sacred truth by that illumination discovered out of the word of God by any means whereby God sets it before them from this application proceedeth love which labours to manifest it selfe in an affectionate constant endeavour of all due thankfulnesse and obedience to his divine Majestie in the improvement of all grace received and all gracious dispositions and affections and in the performance of all duties toward God and man and so when the holy Spirit hath taken possession Christ sits regent in all their souls where he hath a spiritual and invincible Kingdome of which there shall be no end whose Subjects shall never be traytors nor revolters from his Divine Majestie bribes shall not allure them terrours shall not fray them they are sworne feodaries to him and will approve themselves his liedg Subjects their Rule and Law is Gods word their Strength is his grace and joy their Teacher and counseller and comforter is his sacred Spirit their Tower of defence and rock is the rock of Ages their Guard the holy Angells their Annuitie or portion the good of the earth the ayre the Seas here in their non-age their present inheritance the grace of God the favour of God the peculiar providence of God the promises of God the Covenant of God with all the benefits of redemption purchased for them by that infinite ransome of the blood of Christ needfull for them in their pilgrimage here on earth till they enter the possession of the heavenly and eternal Kingdome of Glory And this constant course of glorious Gospel grace God the Father Sonne and holy Spirit have manifested and magnified themselves by to the true and invisible Church throughout all generations to this very day though in different manners and degrees and still will doe so to the end of the world and this glory of the Lord is so great in the eyes of true believers that if all the excellency of temporal glory not only of the Kings and Kingdoms of the world but the Glory of the Sunne Moone and Starres were united into one it would seeme to them obscure and contemptible in comparison of this and so full of sound comfort is their interest in this glorious grace that were they offered the wealth the pleasure the honour the favour of men the confluence of all the seeming worth of the world without this they would in their right temper refuse and reject them all as an incompetent offer yea faithfull Moses and all the Martyrs in their times would rather chuse to suffer affliction with the people of God to injoy this than to have the pleasures of sin for a season for oh the pearless worth of their secret but certain injoyment of the favour of God their secured interest in Christ the guidance the teaching the comfort of the holy Ghost his life-giving grace his grace-working Ordinances the spiritual pleasures of his house their communion with himselfe the satisfaction the securitie the soul-ravishments of his love with the reflections thereof their love againe to his Divine Majestie that twofold righteousnesse of Christs imputed and theirs endeavoured that peace of conscience that passeth understanding that joy in the holy Ghost unspeakeable and glorious in which the Kingdome of Heaven doth consist as the Apostle witnesseth Rom 14. 17. The Glory indeed of this Kingdome is not discerned but by the spiritual eye of faith the happinesle thereof is not injoyed but in the particular application of a truly believing soul herein

and to my present more soundly intelligent or tractable hearers at my Lecture at Baldock grace truth and glory from God the Father through his Beloved Sonne and by the Lord the Spirit now and for ever CHristian Reader who ever thou art I wish thee a no less affecting discovery of Gospel glorie unto thy Soul in the reading of these Sermans then I have found in the preaching and transcribing of them for these are the times foretold Isa 11. 9. When the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea though men are such High-landers they care not for comming near the bankes of such waters nor the margins of such books which as Conduite pipes would convey those waters to them As unthankefull Israel of old they loath Gods heavenly Manna though Angels foode falling neer their tents be it never so strengthning wholsome or pleasant their pallats being distempered they are not pleased with it but they will have quailes though they have a plague to boote with them for while the meate was in their mouthes the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them Psal 78. 30 31. If men loath Gods delicates and begin to surfeit of their own superfluities it may be expected that he come to them as a skilfull Physitian and give them a strong purge and make the chosen or young men of Israel to bowe as the words signifie and well will it be with them on whom it workes a cure to rectifie their taste and affect their soules with the bread of life I offer thee here but a small demensum or cantling of this bread thou art not like to surfeit by it and if thy taste agree with mine I think thou wilt not loath it it was cordiall to my own soule as made of the kidneys of Gods own wheate his glorious grace being the subject of it And for you my well beloved and worthy friends who formerly had by my weak hand the substance of these delighting and inlightening truths pointed out in some sort unto you happilie they were not by meanes of the craft of Satan then so much regarded or since considered by you and I am conscious to my self that they were neither then so largely or perspicuously set before you as here you may have them if God give them enterance into your soules I hope you may say with me you discearne them better then you did before And you my more late and more soundly intelligent hearers supposing you to be such as thirst after true grace and upon that account desire your share in the discovery of gospel Glory I must acknowledge there hath been a threesold obstacle thereof in my Late preaching of this and other subjects to you namely a dark pulpet a dim sight and a weake memory though all graciously supplied both then and now by the assistance of a good God to which I may add a fourth perhaps the ground too of all the former to wit the great imbeeilitie and weakness of my animal spirits and declining state of body by years and labours with much variety of afflictions troubles and vanities of this present world much decayed and wasted were not my defects frequently supplyed in my service by my almighty and heavenly father so that I might say with our Apostle 2 Cor. 12. 10. That when I am weake then am I strong namely through my God for otherwise I have unspeakeably more cause with him to say though I be nothing vers 11. sutable to an observation of an old disciple declared in my hearing in the presence of many grave learned and religious persons as found most remarkeable from all his long experience namely that God was all and he was nothing which excellent lesson who so rightly learn though they be nothing yet they both are and shall be the better in Gods account because they so know this and acknowledge it for if God be no loser at their hands they may be sure they shall be no loser at his hands who delights to put his most precious treasure in empty vessels filling the hungry with good things Luke I. whilest many wise in their own eyes are meer fools in Gods whilst many rich in their own conceit are found by Christ as the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3. to be poore naked and miserable But to you my more weak but teachable hearers let me say a word to prevent your prejudice perhaps you may stumble at some passages exprest in unknown tongues to you first let me tell you sometimes such expressions by such as understand them I doubt not but will be acknowledged as observable or of special force again some are more pertinent and occasionally delivered the Apostle Paul disdained not to quote Heathen Authors recorded in the sacred Scripture in their own language but more especially let me informe you if you be indeed teachable that I have indeavoured to prevent your disadvantage thereby by explaning usually after them the words or sence in your native language so that you need but pass by those unknown expressions and still you have the sence and then they will be in effect to you as if they had not been at all and so with my prayers for you and all other right Christian readers of this my weak outward indeavour to promote the discovery of gospel Glory unto you unto him who undertakes this work effectually by blessing his own meanes even the Lord the Spirit as in the Text that you and all they may have all the good thereby which is intended unto those upon whose souls God is pleased to set home such truths for their spiritual advantag and godly edifying by reducing them from error convincing them of truth inciting them to good reclaiming them from sin for the better information of their understandings inflaming their affections with what is spiritually good conforming their wills to his revealed will reforming their whole conversations according to his appointment and with and above all such a transformation of their souls into the same Image as in the Text that in the end that real transformation in the state of Grace in such soules may in Gods good time be perfected in the consummation of glory with him in his everlasting kingdome there to be rendring to him that glory which is his due to all eternity which will be the perfection of their happiness there so prayes Your soules weake yet desirous to be their faithful Servant in the things of the Lord. W. Sherwin COurteous Reader be pleased to take notice that this small Treatise being about to come forth divers moneths agoe was stopped by the sudden death of the first undertaker of the publishing thereof by which meanes those into whose hands the Copy thereof did fall not having the directions left by the Author with the deceased party and another reverend and judicious friend that had promised the oversight of the press who upon either the omission or mistake of some

and Revelations as a more plausible way with some under the New Testament and among some by denying the lawful comfortable use of outward good things as meats and decent apparel and civil respect with too much insisting upon trivial matters scruples in some things where God makes none though of some things it may haply be said as our Saviour spake of the tything of Mint Annise and Cummin These things ye ought to doe and not to leave the other undone while cleare and manifest truths and duties are rejected and neglected Proceed we now to the Text it selfe the maine subject where of is that glorious Gospel grace so excellently many wayes deciphered therein and first by that excellent title the Spirit of God here ascribeth to it The glory of the Lord whence after some short explication of the words premised our First Observation was Obs 1. That Gospel grace is the greatest Glory of God manifest to his true Church upon earth Which first is to be understood of revealed glory not his essentiall glory which no man can here behold and live yet this revealed glory is to be understood complexive and extensive containing all the rich free wonderfull grace of God through Christ communicated unto his Church by the holy Ghost Et grat is data et gratos faciens as the Schools speak both given freely and making men acceptable Proceed we then to the proofe and illustration of the poynt which First may appeare that the excellent title of Glory is so often ascribed in holy Scripture to the grace of God that they are often put one for another as by comparing this Text with others may be evident in 40 Chap of Isa ver 5. The Prophet having foretold ver 3. of the coming of John Baptist whose voyce should cry in the Wildernesse prepare the way of the Lord he adds in this 5. ver concerning this Gospel grace That the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together which though it was in a great degree fulfilled in Christs coming in our flesh whose glory was the glory of the only begotten of the Father though as being full of grace and truth Joh 1. 14. yet that that was not all the meaning may be evident from the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now what this seeing this Gospel glory is our Saviour teacheth Joh 3. 3. Except a man be borne againe he cannot see the kingdome of God not have true faith or grace or be in a state of salvation Againe all flesh shall see it together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it namely that the Gentiles together as well as the Jewes should come together to see this glory at his revealing of his grace to them Thus our Apostle calls the Riches of Gods grace the riches of his glory Rom 9. 23. that is his grace freely given and in like manner he speaks of his grace viz. that makes them acceptable Eph 3. 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 And so the othe● side we finde grace put for glory as 1 Pet. 3. 7. As heires together of the grace of life that is heires of life by grace a phrase somewhat like to which he likewise hath Chap 1. 7. That the tryall of your faith might be found to glory Hence likewise it is observable that the gracious manifestations of God both in Old and New Testament are stiled his glory Whence the Arke is called the glory 1 Sam 4. 22. So Rom 9. 4. To whom belonged the adoption and the glory The like of the Tabernacle in the Kingly Prophet Davids dayes Psal 26. 8. Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and as in the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place of the Tabernacle of thy glory the manifestation of his grace being there So againe Psal 63. 2. To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary Thus the gracious manifestation of God in the Temple in Solomons time though it was but by a cloud is called the glory of the Lord 1 Kings 8. 11. So that the Priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord yet in the very next words before it was said the cloud filled the house of the Lord so in that the cloud was a manifestation of Gods gracious presence and acceptance it was therefore the glory of the Lord and hence the pillar of the cloud by day as well as the pillar of fire by night were equally the glory of the Lord before the Camp of Israel in the wildernesse because they were both manifestations of his gracious presence with them Now further to demonstrate and illustrate this soul-satisfying truth in its wayfairing condition First We shall endeavour to shew that it hath been the great designe of God to glorifie himselfe by Gospel grace from the beginning of the world yea from all eternity unto all eternity Secondly that he hath been is and will be more glorious in the eyes of all his faithfull people by this then by any other or all other his glorious workes besides whereby he hath any wayes discovered his glory in the world Thirdly that by means of this only men are made capable of glory and true glory made truly glorious in their eyes Fourthly that Gospel grace and celestiall glory differ not in nature but in degrees and the first shall be perfected in the other when grace shall be swallowed up of glory .. Lastly that from this Gospel grace shall be infinite cause for all glorified Saints and Angels to celebrate the glory of the Lord to all eternitie all which being done I hope it may sufficiently appeare how emphatically Gospel grace in the Text is stiled the glory of the Lord. First that it hath been the great designe of God by such Gospel grace to glorifie himselfe from all eternity is not only cleare from all such Scriptures as speak any thing in reference to that grace as eternall a parte ante for what is past as that Christs blood was shed and that he offered himselfe unto God through the eternall Spirit Heb 9. 14. and that the Gospel is called the everlasting Gospel Rev 14. 6. But we have a full declaration of Gods great designe herein from all eternity plainly set down by the holy Apostle Paul Eph 3. who having minded them in the former part of the Chapter that the mystery of the Gospel was by revelation made knowne to him and that he should be the Minister thereof to the Gentiles and as ver 9. that they might see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world had been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ who is the beginning of the creation of God Rev 3. 18. But