plate His bright glory, and rejoice with him in his surpassing
blessedness.

See Him enthroned at the right hand of God his Father, clothed with
"great power and majesty." The personal union of the eternal Son of
God with the human nature gives Him, as man, undisputed pre-eminence
over all, in power, holiness, beauty, and every other attribute
communicable to a created nature. He is so completely possessed,
embraced, and penetrated by the Divine Nature, that His adorable
heart is the throne of the most perfect happiness ever enjoyed by
man. That loving heart, which is purer than the sun's brightest rays,
is filled to overflowing with the most exquisite joys emanating from
the very bosom of the most Holy Trinity.

While on earth, no one ever loved God and man as He did; and now
there is none in all the heavens who is equally loved in return, both
by God himself and the bright throngs that surround this throne. No
man, therefore, ever did, or ever can enjoy a happiness so pure, so
exquisite, and in so eminent a degree as He does.

While on earth, His soul was sorrowful even unto death; but now it
is inebriated with torrents of joy, too great for poor human language
to express. While on earth, He likewise suffered in all his senses.
He endured hunger and thirst, cold and heat, fatigue, and the
numberless privations which His poverty entailed upon him. But it was
especially during His cruel passion that his sight, hearing, taste,
and particularly his sense of feeling, were tortured to the utmost;
and now His glorified senses have become the avenues of the most
exquisite and refined pleasures. He now sees himself surrounded by
the thousands whom His precious blood has sanctified and beautified;
and he continually hears the sweet harmony of their grateful songs.
His sacred body, which had been bruised and mangled, disfigured and
dishonored by the filthy spittle of His enemies, is now the most
beautiful, perfect, and resplendent in the whole kingdom of heaven.
It is the very sun which, by its splendor, gives beauty and life to
the whole of heaven. In a word, Jesus, as man, is above all in power,
majesty, wisdom, glory, and enjoys the most perfect and complete
happiness that ever came from God.

But you will, perhaps, say: Does not Jesus enjoy all this unspeakable
glory, simply and exclusively in virtue of His high privileges? Is it
not on account of the Hypostatic Union that He is thus exalted above
all in glory? I answer