. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. rthy to be called a sight. To behold as in a glass the gloryof the Lord is enough to change us into the same image, fromglory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord; but still it is onlyin a glass that we see, not face to face. He that hath seen Jesushath seen the Father, but yet only by reflection; we see the bright-ness of His glory, and the express image of His person, but yet notHimself. II. But the veil still hangs before the holiest place of all; noone has ever entered in there but the Hi
. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. rthy to be called a sight. To behold as in a glass the gloryof the Lord is enough to change us into the same image, fromglory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord; but still it is onlyin a glass that we see, not face to face. He that hath seen Jesushath seen the Father, but yet only by reflection; we see the bright-ness of His glory, and the express image of His person, but yet notHimself. II. But the veil still hangs before the holiest place of all; noone has ever entered in there but the High Priest alone, with theBlood of the one great Sacrifice of Atonement for sin, through whichalone any of our sacrifices are acceptable. We see the gorgeouscolours of the veil itself, and can trace the figures of the cherubimthat are wrought in it, that is, we can discern the loveliness of aperfectly holy life like that which Jesus lived on the earth, and caneven discern that it had in it something more than earthly, somethingspiritual, angelical; we know, as Nicodemus knew, that no man 133. TRINITY SUNDAY could do what Jesus did, except God were with him. This is perhapswhat He meant by those words we spoke of, 6 the angels of Godascending and descending upon the Son of Man. But though theknowledge of His life is to us an opening of heaven, a revelation ofthe things of God, it still is something short of the perfect sightof God Himself. We desire to enter into the holiest place—notpresumptuously, like King Uzziah, but by the Blood of Jesus, passingthrough the veil of His Flesh till we see all the fulness of the mysterywhich that Flesh hides—God as He is in Himself. And the mysteryof to-day gives us, if not admission within the veil, at least a drawingaside of it; if not a sight of Him who dwelleth in the light whichno man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can see,still a glimpse of His glory, that is, a promise and earnest of thedirect sight of the whole. There
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