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( 15 ) his glory: his abſolute glory, his comparative glory, his relative glory: they are all one upon the matter, yet there is a formal different conſideration of them, I. His abſolute glory is manifeſted. What does the ſoul ſee, that is matched and married to Chriſt? Alas! ſome ſee nothing but dreams and fancies; but when the believer is matched with Chriſt, he fo deals with him as with Moſes, he makes all his glory to paſs before him: The perſon gets a view of the glorious attributes of the Son of God. 2. He manifeſts his comparative glory: “Thou art more excellent than hills of prey.—Fairer than the ſons of men.” The bride, the believer, ſees him “As the apple-tree among the trees of the woodevery way incomparable; whatever he be compared to, he excells it. If he be a lilly he is the lilly of the valley; if he be a roſe, he is the roſe of Sharon; if he be a plant, ne is the plant of renown; if he be a phy- ſician, he is the phyſician of value; if an advocate, he is an advocate with the Father: he is repreſented without any parallel. 3. His relative glory is ma- nifeſted: he is diſcovered as a glorious Prieſt, a glor- ious Prophet, a glorious King, a glorious Huſband, a glorious Redeemer and SavTour; and there will be a light of his glorious fulneſs in all theſe relations, and the glorious fitneſs of that ſuffciency and fullneſs, all tinted for the ſoul: and thus revealing himſelf, he removes all jealouſes and miſtakes from the bride, ſupplies all her wants, heals all her diſeaſes, and out-bids all his rivals, who can offer nothing to allure the ſoul, while he can, and doth ſay, I am All-ſufficient to help thee.

III. We come now to the third thing propoſed, namely, To offer ſome reaſons of the doctrine, why Chriſt comes under a marriage-relation to believers.

I anſwer, 1. His own ſovereign will is the heſt reaſon why he comes under a marriage relation in