A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismRidgley, Thomas
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A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism
or to be disapproved; especially because you seem to have been
negligent as to the duty of self-examination. Whether he who is
diligent in the exercise of this duty, and yet cannot apprehend that
he is in a state of grace, be, in this respect to be disapproved or
no, it is certain, that he who is a stranger to himself, because of
the neglect hereof, is disapproved._
Footnote 108:
Vide Bellamy’s Works, 3 Vol. p. 81-83.
Quest. LXXXII.
QUEST. LXXXII. _What is the communion in glory, which the members of
the invisible church have with Christ?_
ANSW. The communion in glory, which the members of the invisible
church have with Christ, is, in this life, immediately after death;
and at last perfected at the resurrection and day of judgment.
After having considered believers, or the members of the invisible
church, as enjoying this privilege of union with Christ, and, as the
immediate consequence hereof, communion with him. It has been farther
observed, that this communion with him, is either in grace, or glory.
Their communion with him in grace consists in their partaking of the
virtue of his mediation, in their justification, adoption, and
sanctification; which have been particularly considered, together with
other graces and comforts that accompany or flow from them. We are now
led to speak concerning the communion which they have with him in glory;
which contains the highest privilege they are capable of receiving;
consisting in his giving them some right discoveries of the glory which
they behold and enjoy by faith, in this life, and also of that which
shall be immediate, and, in some respects, complete, after death; and,
at the resurrection and day of judgment, be brought, in all respects, to
the utmost degree of perfection; when their joy, as well as their
happiness, shall be full, and continued throughout all the ages of
eternity. These are the subjects insisted on in several following
answers, which remain to be considered in this first part of the
Catechism.
Quest. LXXXIII.
QUEST. LXXXIII. _What is the communion in glory, with Christ, which
the members of the invisible church enjoy in this life?_
ANSW. The members of the invisible church have communicated to them
in this life, the first-fruits of glory with Christ, as they are
members of him their head, and so, in him, are interested in that
glory which he is fully possessed of; and as an earnest thereof,
enjoy the sense of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy
Ghost, and hope of glory; as, on the contrary, the sense of God’s
revenging wrath, horror of conscience, and a fearful expectation of
judgment, are, to the wicked, the beginning of their torments which
they shall endure after death.
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