the great and holy God who is light and life it self Cant. 1. 12. VVhile the King fitteth at his table and my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof as if the Church had said while I held communion with him my graces broke out I was not the same as before as the Sun hath influence upon the flowers so the spirit of righteousness has influence upon the graces of Gods people Luke 24. 32. They said one to another did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way and opened to us the Scriptures such is the heat of the Son of righteousness that can bring life to the deadest and warmth to the coldest heart I am perswaded that many of your own experiences will bear witness to this truth that there is power and life in his presence How many a time when you have been with God in prayer or at a Sermon have you come away inflamed with better resolutions and stronger affections How great impressions of sorrow joy fear hope have been made upon your spirits according to the word that hath been delivered and the dispensation of Gods grace therein 4. They hereby derive glory and lustre from him Exod. 34. 30. When Aaron and the children of Israel saw Moses behold the skin of his face shone and they were afraid to come nigh him Moses had been with God in the Mount Men that are known to be much with God derive such Majesty that those who are guilty and have their consciences in any degree awakened are even afraid of them Such are commonly reverenced and beget an awe in those that hate them for their strictness Joh. 18. 6. Assoon as Christ said to the men that came to apprehend him I am he they went backward and fell to the ground Christ did not use any violence against them but with amazement they all fall down before him Thus Foelix that proud Governour trembles while he has a pious and holy divine man before him reasoning of so high matters as righteousness and temperance and judgment to come One would have thought Paul macerated and worn away with watching and labouring with fasts and imprisonments should have trembled before Foelix but Foelix trembles before a poor despicable man and his prisoner Acts 24. 25. 5. They hereby come to be in a better capacity of obtaining what they stand in need of and desire from him Those that are at Court and about the King are in the way of gaining favour and being preferred Their petitions may more easily be presented their addresses made and desires obtained than those that are at a distance from and strangers to the King so they that live with God may by their prayers more prevail with God than those that are strangers What can God deny that man that is still with him and is his favourite who is ever admiring and adoring his perfections Exod. 32. 10. Now therefore let me alone saith God to Moses such power have the servants of God God bids Moses to forbear to solicite him and hold his hand when he is going to fetch the blow of his vengeance upon his Israel Psal. 145. 18. 19. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth He will fulfill the desires of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and save them The cries of a child especially if for bread for help do move the heart of a compassionate parent and will not God then hear the cries of his children since he is a God of bowels and tender mercies 6. This abiding with God here doth make way for their abiding with him for ever The way to live with him for ever hereafter is to live here with God Here Asaph is a proof thou shalt guide me by thy counsell and afterward receive me to glory This is the way and preparation for glory This being with thee here is to make me fit for thee hereafter Having given you the reasons why pious men live with God now we come to the application Use 1. of Information to inform us 1 of the great condescention and goodness of God that will receive and suffer such vile creatures as we are to come into his presence and be familiar with him oh what condescention and goodness is here It is a great piece of condescention to suffer the best men on earth to be with him nay to let the highest Angels stand before him and admire his glory therefore for God to permit such sinful unworthy creatures as we are to come and live and be with him is great condescention indeed For a Prince to suffer one of his poor subjects nay one that hath been an enemy to his crown and dignity and very life not only to come into his presence but likewise to be familiar with him would be deservedly looked upon as an instance of great condescending goodness How much more hath God done that is the great King King of Kings capable of greater injury and affront as having greater glory and more sensible of it than the greatest mortals can be and yet hath sent his beloved Son to beseech rebels to be reconciled unto God and to draw as many as are children of peace after him that they may be where he is that is with God Great persons are loth to take those that are of inferiour rank into familiarity with them saith Job 30. 1. speaking of those his enemies that took advantage of his grievous affliction to deride him Now they that are younger than I have me in derision whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock So far below him in estate esteem parts and qualifications Now for the great high and mighty God to whom the inhabitants of the earth are as Grashoppers to take poor and contemptible worms into familiarity with him is an argument of wonderful condescention 2. It informs us of the happiness of pious and holy men that they may be admitted into the presence of and unto familiar converse with God Oh this is a singular priviledge and worthy to be pursued with greatest praise and gratitude What the Queen of Sheba says of Solomons servants 1 Kings 10. 8. Happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom may much rather be applyed to the servants of God Happy indeed are they that may appear before God behold his glory as well as hear his wisdom and tast how good he is Psal. 89. 15. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound Not only the sound of the ordinances and of the Trumpet but relish the spiritual refreshments that are exhibibited in them They walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance and in Matth. 4. 17. saith Peter in a rapture and transport with the greatness of the glory of Christs transfiguration It is good for us to be here It is good for me to draw
a rude draught of that glorious City or Jerusalem that is above which is a thousand times more glorious than ever the earthly Jerusalem was in its most ample and succesfull estate Some of those general hints which the word contains of it I shall give you in these following heads 1. It s Ancient 2. Reall 3. Supernal 4. Satisfying 5. Transcendent 6. Eternal glory 1. It s Ancient it is such as God himself hath been enjoying and delighting himself in from all eternity Before there was any such thing as worldly glory this glory was in being Joh. 17. 5. And now Oh Father glorifie thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was Besides which there is a created glory which God is said to have prepared for them from the foundation of the world Mat. 25. 34. 2. It is real As for the glory of the world it s but a meer shew or fancy Psal. 39. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a disguise The glory of the world is like a Play wherein one is a King another a Queen a third a Peasant according to the Plot and will of the contriver whereas they are no such persons but carry a little present resemblance of them Of this nature is worldly glory it s rather an appearance or shew of glory than glory it self a piece of pageantry a shew not real With what magnificence and state did Agrippa and Bernice enter into the Judgment Hall And how doth the Evangelist express it he saith they came 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 25. 23. With much Phancy All their Princely gallantry and bravery in the Judgment of the Evangelist amounted to no more than a meer conceit or Phancy They were glorious no doubt in their own eyes and admired by the people that love to gaze at Pomp but this was but conceitedness phantastical and vain shew But now this glory that is to be revealed but doth not yet appear in its refulgency so as it will is real and solid such as hath substance and weight in it 2 Cor. 4. 17. A weight of glory the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in answer to the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which as I told you in its primary notion imports weight or heaviness As much difference as there is between Massy Gold and Copper or Tin so much between the glory of this world and that glory which is laid up for them that love God and wait for the coming of Christ. 3. It is supernal or above Indeed God can create glory wherever he pleases If he will have glory to be on Mount Sinai or Mount Tabor there glory shall be Where this King of glory doth manifest himself more fully there glory doth appear but the place he hath pitched upon for the exhibiting of himself in glory in a settled standing way is above No place on earth being fit for so high and noble use he was pleased to make choice of one above Psal. 8. 1. How excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the Heavens Psal. 103. 4. The Lord is high above all Nations and his glory above the Heavens Those visible heavens when Stephen looked up stedfastly into heaven he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God which if it were more than a created representation of it to his outward and inward senses we must understand of a miraculous vision wherein Christ arrayed with glory and Majesty was beheld by him supernaturally enlightned Into this glory above then our Lord Christ was received 1 Tim. 3. 16. So that if ever we will share in this glory we must leave the earth ascend into the Heavens and pass beyond both Clouds and Stars 4. It s a satisfying glory To have a glory out of the reach of enemies is much then to have it satisfying to answer the desires of souls is a great matter As for the glory of the world it do's a little dazzle the eye and tickle the Phancy but it do's not satisfie the soul. Who had ever greater glory than Solomon he was glorious as Job was poor To a Proverb Mat. 6. 29. Solomon in all his glory He built houses planted Vineyards made Gardens and Orchards planted trees of all fruits made pools of water he had servants and maidens possessions of great and small cattel he gathered silver and gold he got him men singers and women singers he withheld not his heart from any joy But was he satisfied though he had what heart could wish No Eccles. 1. 8. All things are full of labour man cannot utter it The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing But this glory I am speaking of will afford satisfaction Psal. 17. 15. As for me I will behold thy face in righteousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness When Peter upon Mount Tabor had but a little resemblance of it he was so affected with it that he cryes out Mat. 17. 4. Lord it is good for us to be here Oh what would he have said if he had been in Heaven and seen all the glory there Seen the blessed Saints and Angels those pure and perfect creatures beholding the face God Seen the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory attended most gloriously and sitting at the right hand of the Father heard the incomparable melody of the Hallelujahs sung How would this have ravished him Could I present you with a glimpse of this glory you would long to be there where you might have a perfect prospect and then you would say not one half nor the thousand part of the glory was told you 5. It is transcendent Glory It exceeds all other glory nay all expressions and imagination So great was the glory of God upon Mount Sinai that the raies of it made the skin of Moses his face to shine Exod. 34. 29. The spirit of grace and glory shone in Stepbens face when he made his confession of Christ all saw his face as it had been the face of an Angel And so great was the glory of Christ when he appeared to Paul in the way to Damascus that it dazled his eyes Acts 22. 11. He could not see for the glory of that light Nimis sensibile laedit sensum The brightness of the Object overcame his sight And God doth sometime adorn his Church Militant with much glory Isa 66. 11. That ye may be delighted with the abundance of her glory But alas what 's all this in comparison of the glory of that place I am speaking of 2 Cor. 4. 17. A far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory The words in the Original are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a phrase so high and lofty that Expositors scarce know how to express But this is evident that it imports such glory as is exceeding high and transcendent Here every thing
heaven we are taught in Scripture 1 Tim. 3. 16. God that was manifest in the flesh was received up into glory And that the head and members should be together is undeniable whether it be a body Naturall Politick or Mystical and so our Saviour seems to hold forth Joh. 12. 26. And for this reason he receives them up into glory that head and members that have suffered together may rejoyce together Rom. 8. 17. Being heirs of God joynt heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together Reas. 6. May be drawn from the preparation that hath been made in order to the taking of them up to glory 1. God hath prepared glory for them Mat. 25. 34. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you John 14. 2. I go to prepare a place for you Those invisible inexplicable things of glory God hath prepared for them that love him This is the City that God hath prepared for them that are not minded to take up with the Kingdom of this world or the glory thereof Heb. 11. 6. And this preparation was made partly by the erecting of this glory at the Creation partly by sending his Son to purchase it for them 2. He hath prepared them for it They are the vessels of mercy which he hath afore prepared unto glory Rom. 9. 23. He makes them meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. What work doth God make preparing happiness for them by his goodness his grace and mercy and preparing them by sanctification of the spirit belief of the truth that they may pertake with those that are sanctified of the glory ordained and made ready for them Reas. 7. From their prayers they pray that they may be received up into glory And when they have finished their course here they have done the work appointed them to do how do they long to appear before God in glory There is no one who retains any thing of the nature of a man but he would when he dies enter into glory Numb 23. 10. Balaam saith let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his The greatest despisers of godliness the persecutors of the servants of God that were thorns in the eyes of them by their holy Conversation and stinging convictions of their own wickedness would desire to be like these that they bitterly hated and injured What then may be expected from those that are of better principles and affections we may well account that as they pray that God would guide them by his Counsel here so receive them into glory How doth Moses desire to see Gods glory the back parts of which he was only capable of beholding flesh for he could not see his face and live Exod. 33. 18. I beseech thee saith he to God shew me thy glory By the goodness they partake of now they are inflamed with earnest desire to see the face of God in glory and how glorious will the mercy and grace of God appear in heaven Last Reas. He takes them up into glory that he may recompence them for the service they have done They have done him service though all according to strictness of demand renders them no more than unprofitable servants that have but done and not fully what they ought to have done Yet God is not unmindful of the good wills and the labours of his servants Heb. 6. 10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name And he so remembers it as to requite it as in other ways so principally in receiving them up into glory Mat. 25. 34. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was a thirsty and ye gave me drink Hence it is called a reward Heb. 11. 26. He had respect to the recompence of reward Not that our service doth bear any proportion to it but that God hath promised glory thereunto Be thou faithful unto death and thou shalt have a Crown of life Use 1. of Information Of the wonderfull goodness of God What that he should be at the pains and care of guiding us here leading us by the hand teaching us to walk in his ways leading us in the ways of uprightness and after he hath done this take us up to glory oh what goodness is this Alas who or what are we that we should have to do with glory We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. That is of deserving it by any works or performances of our own We are not worthy of the least crumb of bread We have more reason to think of prisons gibbets flames and damnation than glory when we consider our deservings from God This is perfectly an act of grace and faithfulness grace in making the promise faithfulness in performing it 2. This informs us of the profitableness of Religion We may neglect blaspheme and persecute it but there is no way comparable to it Men may wonder and scorn at it and think strange that serious professors run not with them into the same excess bear patiently reproaches greatly esteem the reproach of Christ take joyfully the spoyling of their goods glory in tribulations not accept of deliverance but the servants of God see reason for it and great advantage in Religion though with persecution They have as much as heart can wish Whom have I in heaven but thee there is none on earth that I desire beside thee In the words immediately following 1 Tim. 4. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come Would you have honour pleasure length of days Prov. 3. 16 17. Length of daies is in her right hand and in her left hand are riches and honour Her ways are ways of pleasantness If these are not given in a carnal and sensual way they are in a nobler and better 3. This informs us of the happiness of the servants of God If we see a man that hath great things towards him we count him an happy man Mal. 3. 15. We count the proud blessed not because they are proud but because as it is said they have something to be proud of Happy then is the man that is in this case that hath God for his Lord that hath right to glory hath an expectancy of a Kingdom of glory which he shall not miss of or be in possibility to be dispossessed of A Kingdom that shall not be shaken There is abundance of difference betwixt the condition of worldly men and the servants of God As for the former their happiness is only for term of life but for the other their misery is only so Use 2. By way of exhortation 1. More generally To all you who would do well hereafter labour to be holy and the servants of God here Follow not your own understandings in
our applications and have our recourse to him advise with him When we are exercised with any doubts fears or troubles let us open our case to him and desire his help Psal. 85. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace unto his people Psal. 73. 17. Gods providences and the wisdom and Justice of his counsell therein were too painful for him till he went unto the sanctuary of God then understood he their end 3. Let us close with what counsell he is pleased to give us We must take diligent care that we be not mistaken that we take not that for the counsell of Gâ—d which is not when he hath imparted his mind unto us we must be sure to close with it Let it appear with what aspect it will it is that which tends to our good It is that which being followed will lead us up to glory Now having dispatched the first part of this verse thou shalt guide me by thy counsel we proceed to the latter part and afterward receive me to glory wherein we draw this doctrinal position according to the words of the Text. Doct. That after God hath guided his faithful servants by his counsel he will receive them to glory He hath ever exercised the thoughts of wise and considerate men what must become of them after the expiration of this life This is the language of every serious man oh what will become of me Where must I be and what must I do for ever Nay the more regardless and desolate sort of men when they come to die are not altogether without such thoughts witness Adrian a great wit but a bad man being upon his deathbâ—d saith he O my soul quae nunc abibis in loca into what place art thou a going Now as it is God only who can resolve this doubt so he hath done it by degrees in the old Testament more obscurely in the new more clearly and distinctly 2 Tim. 1. 10. Now it is made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel Though in the old Testament this be exhibited more darkly yet hath he set down many passages therein especially as to what shall become of the righteous from which an observant person may receive much light amongst which this is one thou wilt guide me by thy counsel here and afterward receive me unto glory He is the King of glory Psal. 24. 10. Who is the King of glory The Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory He hath glory to dispose of 1 Chron. 16. 27. Glory and honour in his presence And he will in such a way and at such a time as he thinks fit convey his servants to it Psal. 49. 15. But God will redeem my Soul foom the power of the grave for he will receive me whilst the wicked shall be thrown into the graves and into hell he will receive me into a state of glory and rest So Isa. 58. 8. Thy righteousness shall go before thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rere-ward in the original it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Pagnine renders gloria dei colliget te A very remarkable passage importing as much as the glory of the Lord is ready to gather us up into it so prepared is it and fitted for us If we will but fear aright obey aright and live aright we shall see the day wherein the glory of the Lord will stretch its arms round about us and gather us up into it self hence the words of Christ entring into his Fathers Joy and Rest Psal. 15. who shall abide in Gods Tabernacle and dwell in his holy hill that is not meant of Zion or Moriah those not being able to contain all such as there are mentioned but who shall dwell in heaven who shall be admitted into thy kingdom of glory to behold thy face for ever For the farther illustration and proof of this position we shall consider four things 1. What is meant by glory 2. What kind of glory this is that God will receive his servants into 3. In what manner God will manage his business 4. When he will do it 1. What is meant by glory The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in its primary notation imports gravity or weight According to the more frequent use of it it imports glory To both those notations the Apostle seems to have respect 2 Cor. 4 17. When he opposes the weight of glory to the light affliction This glory is ponderous it weighs much with his people more than all their sufferings Thus Christ for the Joy set before him endures the cross Now for the word glory The meaning of it is so well known that I can scarcely offer you a word for the describing of it which is not as obscure as it self It do's in this place import a splendid magnificent state such as is attended with a confluence of all good things even what ever is requisite to the rendring of a man happy This the Holy Ghost proposes to us under several notions as a Crown Rev. 2. 10. I will give thee a Crown of life a throne Rev. 3. 4. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne A kingdom Mat. 6. 33. seek first the kinglom of God and the righteousness thereof Rest. Heb. 4. 9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God Joy Matth. 25. 21. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord Pleasure Psal. 16. 11. At thy right hand are pleasures for evermore and here glory These and such like terms do's the Holy Ghost use to hint unto us the meaning of that state which God after he hath guided them with his counsel will take his servants into it 2. What kind of glory is this and here I would give you a particular account of it But alas who am I that I should do it that I should attempt it This is a work fitter for some glorious Angel than for such a worm as I am In these mystical and sublime matters we can go no farther than God is pleased to help us with special revelation And what he hath revealed concerning the present business he hath set down in his word But the account we have therein concerning it consists rather of some few general hints than any particular distinct discoveries Even the Sacred Penmen themselves found themselves at a great loss in this matter 1 John 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be John the beloved John that lay in the bosome of Christ was the beloved Disciple he that was in the mount with Christ did not fully understand what the Saints shall be And when we have gone over the Bible perused all that the holy men of God have left behind them concerning it and set it together it will be but like the Prophets pourtraying of Jerusalem upon a tile Ezek. 4. 1.
little-flock it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a Kingdom And what needs any farther reason to prove the lawfulness and equity of it If he be for it what hath any one to do to be against it Rom. 21. 9. 21 23. What if God be willing to make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath afore prepared unto glory shall any one dare to question his proceedings What will men make of God Shall the Potter have more power over his clay than God hath over his creature That is the clay and he the Potter Nay O man who art thou that replyest against God Reas. 2. Is taken from his promise whereby he hath engaged himself to do it As he hath promised to guide them by his counsell and given his Angels charge concerning them so he hath engaged himself and given his royal word for it that however mean and despicable they are and are exercised with divers afflictions yet after they have suffered a while he will take them up unto himself Psal. 84. 11. He will give grace and glory and will withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly Dan. 12. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars for ever and ever Oh what a ravishing truth is this Take this along with you Go home and wonder that such poor mortal sinful carcases as we should shine as the firmament the stars for ever nay as the Sun Mat. 13 43. Then shall the righteous shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of the Father If you have ears hearken to this if you have hearts to be affected with the glorious grace of God to sinners through Christ. Let men and Angels Heaven and Earth stand astonished at it for ever and ever As sure as this is the word of God this honour shall be done his Saints If you will not receive and be affected with this truth get you another bible that may affect you more and reward you better Let the worldlings voluptuous ambitious go to their Mammon their delicious fare their preferments and see what they will do for them What can they promise more than they will ever perform they can do nothing but help to a treasure of wrath and fearful recompence Not one Iota not one title of Gods word shall fail Here are words and more than bare words of eternal life which are delivered by truth it self God that cannot deceive God that cannot lye This truth I will stick by and yet that such a poor mouldring ever dying and perishing creature as I ready to turn to putrifaction and dust should be carried above the heavens have the conduct of Angels and the welcome of those blessed creatures unto the land of happiness how doth it amaze me with wonder at free grace What a thing is this Though it be great yet he having given his word will be sure to effect it as for other reasons so this in particular that he hath given it under his hand as well as engaged his word called heaven and earth to witness Before he hath issued out his promise he doth such things for his own pleasure but when he hath granted his promise a farther reason accurs to strengthen our consolation and good hopes through grace Reas. 3. Is taken from the will of Christ who upon the account of his interest in the Father and his own merits intercedes with his father to do it Our blessed Saviour has ever been concerned about mans welfare None save Christ could bestead us when we were thrown out of Paradise then saith Christ I will undertake be surety for them Lo I come to do thy will O God I will pay the debt and ransome them though it cost me dear This loss shall be for their advantage they shall be conveyed to another and better estate than ever they were in upon earth When Christ was upon earth he died for them and now he is in heaven he pleads his death and as for other purposes so for this in particular that God would gather in his elect that they may be where he is O Lord and Father remember my sufferings how the Messias was not cut off for himself not for any sin of his own He knew no sin but was made sin for thy people he bore their sins on his body on the tree And our Lord ever livet h to make intercession for his people Heb. 7. 25. What his intercession is you may learn partly from his intercession on earth and his last desires he left this to uphold the hearts of his people in his will and Testament which by the death of the Testator is confirmed to us Joh. 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me Oh sweet words that where he was his people should be His lips were as a thread of scarlet and his words comely His lips drop sweet smelling myrrh partly by his promise John 12. 26. If any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there shall also my servants be what Christ hath promised he can make good he did reveal his Fathers mind and God hath a mighty regard to the will of his Son As the Son never disobeyed the will of the Father so the Father never denyed the request of his son Joh. 11. 41. 42. Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me and I know that thou hearest me alwaies Could Christ prevaile while on earth for the raising of Lazarus to life Now he is in heaven his arguments and interest are strong and great enough to raise his people to glory Reas. 4. God will take his servants to glory that Christ may enjoy the benefit of his own purchase He hath made a double purchase He hath purchased glory for them and them for it As for glory it is the purchased possession or inheritance 1 Eph. 1. 14. And he hath purchased his Church with his own blood we are redeemed not with corruptible things as silver and Gold from our vain Conversation that we may be made meet for his his glory but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish or without spot It s highly reasonable Christ should have his bargain that he hath paid considerably for and he shall have the fruit of this double purchase without fraud from the just God whose ways are equal and who deceiveth not Christ hath redeemed his people that were slaves to sin and Satan hath wrought deliverance for the Captives hath bought an inheritance in glory for them and when he hath guided them by his Counsell here without farther delay afterwards they shall be received up into glory Reas. 5. That the head and members may be together That Christ is their head the Scripture thews Eph. 5. 23. And that he is in