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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in some sort before hinted in the Text but to keep to those that are more pertinent and more naturally held out in it And first from the object of this Discovery The Glory of the Lord Observe That the grace of God revealed in the Gospel of his Sonne and conveyed to and conferred upon his Saints by the holy Ghost is Emphatically his Glory That is the greatest manifestation of his glory in this world or Thus more briefly Gospel grace is Gods greatest glory manifest to his true Church upon earth None in the earth like it to none is it discovered like as unto them which affords unto us our next Observation from the subjects in whom this discovery is made we all namely Secondly Observe That all they and only they that are renewed after that same image fore-described have this discovery rightly made unto them Thirdly from the modification of this discovery to them both wayes Observe That though such persons doe behold this Glory of the Lord with open face yet it is but as in a Glasse or Ridle Fourthly from the Efficient cause or author of such discovery Observe That in whatsoever manner or degree all such persons doe behold this Glory of the Lord it is all from the most powerfull and gracious work of the Lord the Spirit Before we come to speak of any of these we shall first take notice of the reference of these words to the Context unto which we are led by the Adversative particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But we all c. Whereby what followes in the Text is brought in by way of dissimilitude of what was found in Moses Ministration that whereas that was inglorious and dark in respect of this under the Gospel this is otherwise whence observe That the discovery of the mysterie of salvation under the New Testament is a much more excellent and cleare discovery then what was under the Old Testament Although God even in the Ministration of the Old Testament gave then unto his people what ever was necessary for the salvation of all the faithfull he being no lesse the Author of that then of what he hath since more clearely exhibited in the New and since the substance of the grace and salvation conferred upon all true beleevers both then and since is the same yea and the severall ordinances when he pleased were aequè efficacious to the due attenders on them though happily not aequaliter yea since the Spirit of God gives an honour yea glory to them as such in their season untill his most Soveraigne Authoritie laid them aside we may not deny it unlesse as in the case the Apostle speaks of they be sinistrously perverted to Eclypse the just glory of Gospel grace but as the account was given by the Ancients why the Jewish Sabbath was for a time observed together with the Christian Sabbath Quia vetus Synagoga cum honore erat sepelienda so of all Ordinances under the Old Testament in their ceasing yea the Apostle in this Chapter though he justly ascribes a greater glory to the Ministration of the new yet he acknowledgeth the due glory that was in the former as is evident it was glorious saith he ver 7. yea glory in the abstract ver 9. was made glorious ver 10. Yea Moses himselfe that received againe the second time the Moral Law then againe restored for the use of Gods people after the first Sculpture thereof had not without mysterie been broken by his own weaknesse to be as the Apostles phrase is their School-master even then to bring them to Christ yet then even Moses had such an outward glory remaining upon his face Exod 34. 29 33. that as our Apostle in the 13 ver speaketh he put a vaile over his face for that the Children of Israel could not stedfastly look unto the end yea this Minister of this Moral Law was all along glorious by eminent corruscations of divine grace towards in upon and by him First being wonderfully delivered from killing and drowning being a new-borne babe Secondly honourably liberally and learnedly educated in his youth that as he in the old and this our Apostle in the new Testament might afford some honour unto such ordinary helps under both administrations according to their subordinate nature and use But more especially in him when he was carried with zeale and confidence to manifest himself eminently to be Gods means to bring them out of Egypt and so selfe-denying in such a cause that by the strength of his faith as the Apostle Heb 11. shews That he refused to be called the son of Pharoahs daughter and chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season And did not God doe as great things by him in Egypt in the red Sea and in the Wildernesse both before and in his Legal Ministration But I may not here particularize but leave it to abler pens or more skilfull Pilots to steere that Ship in its right channel with our Apostle here to advance true Gospel grace though I must not forget the honour of his divine buriall after the manifestation of his humane frailtie and that in such a compassionate and fatherly manner admonishing and directing to the preparation thereof Goe up to Mount Nebo and dye as if with David that other man after Gods own heart he had been only to climbe up to the usuall bed of repose But as this penman so likewise that Law it selfe that he delivered in the delivery of it seemeth to have in divers respects a Gospel glory put upon it to shew that Gospel grace was then to make it up and perfect it because otherwise it was weak by reason of sin and it to be subservient to Gospel grace whence may appeare that it was not a making a Covenant of works with the faithfull people of God but an advancing of the old Covenant of works in what it was weak to the promoting of the perfection and excellency of the new Covenant of grace and this will be further manifest First in that God owns his people as Abraham's Isaac's and Jacob's Posterity and himselfe to be the Lord their God according to the tenour of it Secondly in that he is said to deliver them out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bondage which mystically denoted the spirituall deliverance out of the spirituall bondage of sin and Satan that he might wonderfully conduct them through the wildernesse of this troublesome world till he bring them to the possession of the celestiall Canaan And together with this Evangelicall delivery of the Law he gave them many Ordinances holding out and conveying unto the faithfull amongst them his Gospel grace by the Messiah that was to come beside the glorious manner and familiar way of delivering them such spirituall grace talking with Moses face to face as a man talketh with his friend all which may abundantly set forth if duly weighed the gloriousnesse of