1 GLORY OF CHRIST UNVEILED Or The Excellency of CHRIST Vindicated in his Person, Love, Righteousness, &c. This is Part 2 of 4 Parts. by Joseph Hussey 1706 2 Republished by Bierton Particular Baptists 11 Hayling Close Fareham Hampshire PO143AE www.BiertonParticularBaptists.co.uk With gratefulness we thank the unknown person who la- boured to digitize original text enabling this republication. 3 PUBLISHERS PREFACE This current edition of Joseph Hussey’s work is republished by Bierton Particular Baptists is part 2 of 4 parts with a view to bring attention too, and encourage the reader to be clear as to the na- ture and extent of the atonement, and gospel invitations, made by the Lord Jesus Christ. The publishers personal testimony as to the importance of understanding Particular Redemption, is fully told in, ‘‘Bierton Strict And Particular Baptists’ including ‘The Bierton Crisis’. , in which he tells of his secession, from the church, in 1984. Due to matters of conscience. The Bierton Church, was founded in 1831, and was a Gospel Standard cause but it failed to defend the gospel truth of Particular Redemption and had lapsed into other serious errors. This book seeks to bring attention to the truths relating to the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and is one of the many recommended reads. See the Further Publication list at the end of this book. According to one source, only five hundred copies of Hussey’s Original Edition {GLORY OF CHRIST UNVEILED, a massive vol- ume totaling nearly 1000 small print pages} were printed in 1706, and we know from a remark by Hussey, in his Preface to his next book {GOD’S OPERATIONS} that almost all were sold by 1707. 4 CONTENTS CHAPTER 13 6 How grossly Mr. Hunt has mistaken relation to the love of Christ. CHAPTER 14 47 Of Mr. John Hunt’s 10th, 11th and 12th Disparagements of Christ. CHAPTER 15 87 Of Mr. John Hunt’s 13th Disparagement of Christ, concerning the Redeeming Efficacy of the Lord Jesus. CHAPTER 16 121 Of Mr. John Hunt’s 14th and 15th Disparagements of Christ. CHAPTER 17 161 Of Mr. John Hunt’s Four Last Disparagements of Christ; his Three Open Disparagements of Christ’s Worth and Fullness; and his One Disparagement of Christ’s Possessions. CHAPTER 18 186 Of Mr. John Hunt’s Five Reflections more upon the Person of Christ. Namely, Three Reflections upon his Godhead, one upon his Hypostatical {or Personal} Union, and the Last upon the Glory of his Person, as second Adam. CHAPTER 19 199 Of Mr. John Hunt’s Five Reflections upon the Glory and Excellency of Christ’s Righteousness. CHAPTER 20 229 Of Mr. John Hunt’s Seven Reflections on the Sufferings, Righteousness and Redeeming Efficacy of the Lord Jesus Christ. CHAPTER 21 247 Of Mr. John Hunt’s Ten Last Reflections of the Seven and Twenty upon Christ, viz., one upon his CONTENTS 5 Justice, one upon his Covenant-Power, two upon his Government, four upon the Glory of his Honor, one upon his Loveliness, and the Last Reflection of the Ten upon Christ’s Fullness; and all in a few Hints. CHAPTER 22 259 Of the Excellency of Christ, Vindicated from Mr. John Hunt’s Notion of a Sinner’s being too filthy to go to Christ by Faith. FURTHER PUBLICATIONS 310 The Bierton Crisis 310 A Testimony Of David Clarke 310 The Parousia 312 Mary, Mary Quite Contrary 315 Bierton Strict and Particular Baptists 317 2nd Edition 317 6 PART 2 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 13 How grossly Mr. Hunt has mistaken relation to the love of Christ. Here I enter upon his second disparagement of the love of Christ, by mistaking the grounds of Relation in the children of God to that love. The passage is this “know for thy comfort, if thou mournest for these infirmities, as Paul did, if thou prayest and strivest against them, and shunnest all temptations and occasions leading thereunto, thou mayest be dear to Christ, thou notwithstanding, he may hate thy failings, and yet dearly love thy person.” {Page 142} This is the matter. Now as plausibly as all this looks, I would show you, if the Lord please, that here lies a great disparagement of Christ. And first of all I may take notice {with a brief touch} how he hath disparaged the Hatred of Christ to sin, as well as the Love of Christ to the souls of his elect. “He may {says he} hate thy failings,” whereas it is absolutely sure, he doth hate thy failings. With what a careless inconsistence doth this poor man’s stock present us! For indeed, I am weary of miscalling it {as he hath done} the “Saints Treasury,” for there is so little of Christ and so much of the creature in it; and blessed be God, the Saints Real Treasury hath none of these uncertainties and maybe’s in Christ. “Tis not there that he may, but he absolutely doth hate these failings. That’s their mercy, for since he hates their sins, and loves their persons, they are sure to be troubled no more with their sinful failings in another world. Oh! No “Saints Treasury” whatsoever, but a poor creature-bundle of in-and-out religion, to call a book by so excellent a title, as Christ the Most Excellent {as his book goes by this title too} which yet ex- poses to the Saints view such Gibeonitish rotten rags, Josh.9:5, and old clouted shoes for pieces of the saints treasury, as that Christ may hate their failings, who most surely is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, Hab.1:13, without detestation. Nay, the Human Nature itself, the Glory-Man standing now openly in God, cannot endure iniquity. Does not Christ hate all that filthiness of sin in PART 2 CHAPTER 13 7 which I come, and attempt to bow myself before him with? Yes. If he did not, I could have no encouragement to come before him with it for relief against it. Because, unless he did powerfully and holily, as God, hate sin, he would not be the way and means to destroy it, but destroy the worshiper, when I come therewith to him in Confession, and lay it before him, how that which his soul loathed was yet Judicially laid upon him, Isa.53:6; in order to take it quite away in bearing our sins in his own body on the tree, by a Power equal to his Hatred. “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.” {I Pet.2:24-25} But the Mystery of this I shall have occasion to state and ar- gue, if the Lord is pleased to bring me on to those distinct chap- ters, in the proper joint of this Vindication of Christ, where it falls; I say, a Vindication of Christ in our very going to him with the filth of sin! A Vindication of him as to the Infiniteness of his Per- son, and so the Impossibility of his being defiled with our filth, when we are helped to come to Christ with the sense of our sin; and the necessary agreeableness of this to the Advocacy of Christ in Heaven, in the case of all that can be said of our sin on Earth; as well as the agreeableness of the Spirit’s in-being, or the Holy Ghost’s indwelling in the soul, by and amongst all this body of sin and death, Rom.7:23-24; though no doubt, but our Master Hunt thinks this is a Disparagement of Christ beyond any of his own; and indeed, to help him out, so did zealous Peter in the Predic- tion of his Sufferings, because of the disparagement all men would look upon this to be, “be it far from thee, Lord; this shall not be unto thee,” Mt.16:22; but I may have room and place to show this other to be no disparagement, but a Vindication, and consistent with the Exaltation of Christ. My work now is to demonstrate that part of the aforesaid pas- sage to be Mr. John Hunt’s second open disparagement of the love 8 PART 2 CHAPTER 13 of Christ; and there it is, as our mismatching brother builds the souls relation to the love of Christ upon prayer, mourning for in- firmities, shunning temptations, &c., but it ought to be no such matter; as the soul is built upon Christ, antecedently to his own praying, mourning, repenting, believing, &c., and it is the ante- cedency of my Relation, or being dear to Christ, which brings on the opening cause by influences of the Holy Ghost sent from Christ’s Mediatorial summons, when I am ever graciously brought to pray, believe, confess and mourn for my corruptions, as Paul did by Grace, and not by self-holiness. Rom.7:18-19. The soul is not built upon prayer, nor mourning for what he miscalls infir- mities. Dearness to Christ likewise is not built upon prayer, nor upon mourning for sin, nor upon striving against sin, and shun- ning all temptations, and occasions leading thereunto; as this blind teacher falsely suggests; but dearness to Christ is built upon Christ Himself, even as Christ is built upon God. I Cor.3:23.