[Even in this world he is glorified in and by his saints, as he himself has expressly declared f. But the Apostle has respect rather to that day, wherein Christ will " come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe g." Verily he will then be glorified in them. In what bright colours will then the whole assembled universe behold the virtue of his sacrifice, and the efficacy of his grace, and his fidelity to all his promises ! Of those that have been given him by the Father, not one will be losth : not one will be found to have been ever " plucked out of his hands'." What hosannahs will resound to him from all the hosts of the re- deemed, all singing, " To Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and our Father, to Him be glory and domi- nion for ever and ever ; Amen ! "
Then will the saints also be "glorified in him" —
[Already, as members, do they participate in the glory of their Head, " in and with whom they are already sitting, as it were, in heavenly places :" they may be considered also as already glorified in and with him, in that they are placed by him as a city set on a hill, and made both the salt of the earth, and the lights of a dark world. But in that day their glory will be complete : for they shall then be " like him," even in his perfect image, and be acknowledged by him in the presence of his Father and his holy angels, as his peculiar people, the purchase of his blood, the fruit of his. travail, the jewels of his crown. Then shall all that is his, be theirs: his crown, his throne, his kingdom, his glory, all will be theirs, their inalienable property, their everlasting possession.]
Then too will all the wonders of God's covenant, and the purposes of his grace, be unvailed and complete —
[All will then be seen to have been " according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Jesus Christ ;" between whom all was concerted from eternity : " The counsel of peace," says the prophet, " was between them bothk." What wonder will not the developement of these stupendous mysteries excite throughout all the regions of the blessed ; and to what songs of praise will it not give rise, through the never-ending ages
of eternity !
Contemplate these things, the object desired, the means by which it was to be effected, and the wonderful ends to be
f John xvii. 10. s ver. 10. h John xvii. 12.
1 John x. 28. k Zech. vi. 13.