Robert Traill (The Lord's Prayer, John 17:24), Works 2:151:
When Christ was not only ascended into heaven, but had sent down the promise of the Father, his Holy Spirit, upon the infant Christian church, Acts 2, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, shone out as the sun in its strength. All believers, all preachers, all ordinances, were filled with Christ’s glory. In this gospel-temple, did every one, every thing, speak of his glory; as the word is, Ps. 29:9. All divine worship was given to him, and to God by him; all grace dispensed by him. And thus it will be until his coming again. While God hath a church on earth, it is gathered together in Christ’s name; built on Christ as the rock and foundation, 1 Cor. 3:10, 11; grows up in him, and on him, Eph. 2:20-22; 1 Pet. 2:4, 5; worships him, and the Father in him and by him; is fed and nourished by his Spirit, and the influence thereof, until that blessed state it is to be brought to at the last appearance of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, Tit. 2:13.
When Christ was not only ascended into heaven, but had sent down the promise of the Father, his Holy Spirit, upon the infant Christian church, Acts 2, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, shone out as the sun in its strength. All believers, all preachers, all ordinances, were filled with Christ’s glory. In this gospel-temple, did every one, every thing, speak of his glory; as the word is, Ps. 29:9. All divine worship was given to him, and to God by him; all grace dispensed by him. And thus it will be until his coming again. While God hath a church on earth, it is gathered together in Christ’s name; built on Christ as the rock and foundation, 1 Cor. 3:10, 11; grows up in him, and on him, Eph. 2:20-22; 1 Pet. 2:4, 5; worships him, and the Father in him and by him; is fed and nourished by his Spirit, and the influence thereof, until that blessed state it is to be brought to at the last appearance of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, Tit. 2:13.
