on the Glory of Chrifl. 11 · to it, wbereof in this life it hath . neither . foretaft, fenfe, experience, nor evidence. No man ought to look for any thing in Hef!veri, but what one way or other he bath fame q:peri~nc~ of in t})is Life. lf men were fully ,perfwad~~ her~of, they would be, it may be, more in the exercife of Faith and Love abol.'tt Heavenly things,than for the moft part they are. At prefent .thety kno\A,I not what they enjoy, and they look for they know not what. · HENCE is it, that meti utterly !hangers unt9 all Experience of the Beginning of Glory in themfelves as an etTea of Faith, have filled their Divine vVodhip with Images, Piflures, and Mujick, to reprefent unto themfelves fomewhat of that Glory which tl}.ey fancy to be above. For into that Which is truly fo, they _have no profpeCt, nor cali have ; becaufe they have no experience of its power in themfelves; nor do they tafteofits Goodnefs by any of its Fidt-fruits in.their own minds. Wherefore by that view alone, and not otherwife, which we have of the Glory of Chrift by Faith here in this World, we may attain fi.1ch bleffed conceptions of our beholding his glory above by immediate vifton, as fhall draw out our Hearts unto ~he Admiration of it, and defires of its full en~ Joyment. · .3· ;HERE 1N then out prefent edification is pnnc1pa1ly concerned. For in·this prefent beholding of the Glory of Chriff, the Life and Power of Faith are moft eminently acted. And from this Exer- ~ife of Faith,- doth Love Unto Chrift principally; ~f not folely arife and fpring. If therefore we defire tp hav~ Faith in its vigor, or Lo·ve in its. Po:wer~ i · giving
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