Looking unto :jt[ 114. Book V. 1085 r:he adminillrations of it ihall vaniih away, will not the fountain b:: much more fweet than all the ftreames? furdy (raft s, and Jwatr;rJTr, mJd marriiw, andfatnejfe, . are terme_s exceedingly too dimunitive to give us any more than a fmall hint of rluit incomprehen!lble fatisfact ion by immediate communion. CJthe won· ders of heaven! there ihall be light without acandle, and a perpetua l daywithout a Sun; there ihall be he<~1th without phylick, and ll rength of bodywithout ufe offood; there ihall be know. ledge without Scripture, and ietled government without a written law . there {hall be communion without Sacraments, and joy with'out promifes to be its fewel; the foul in glory {hall go £height unto God, and immed iately patt icipate his glory and happmeffe. 'Tis the comparifon of a learned Divine, [uppofe )On(aw tt compnny of Chryftal Globn placed inap.qra!lel lJne, bec.u:(e their poji1ure will not adrnit the Suns immediate beames ; wee' le [upp1(t another jingle Globe Jet by the middle of them, to ' trt~nfminhe Sun•beames unto all thof eG/obes, by t his meanes they 11 11 /hine , though it be only by rrjiefJion; but when the Sunjballfo come about, a.· that thry may immedi.uely receive it's beames,there's m• fu rther ufe of the jingle Globe t hen ; Jo here, whilewe thro1tgh our diftance from God fire uncapable of immediate mjoymtnt, there's a necejfirie ofChriftsmedi.uion, butwhenallthings that caufe that difl.mce are removed, , and we brought into the prefmce.chamber of God himfelfe , there's nofuch n{ed ofa Mediatour then. Now here is one thing, wherein he is our all in all, we ihall enjoy him immediately. 2 . It con!ills in our enjoying of God fuHy. Now I k_now in C p.rrt (fai th the Apoftle) but t hen ljball know, even as 1 am k_nown: 1 or,,~ . 0 • our enjoyment of God is but here in it's infancy, there it will be in it' s full age; here it is in drops, there it wil.l be in the ocean; here we fee Gods back parts, and we can fee no more, but there we ihall fee his face, not his fecond face (as fomedifiingu ifh) which is his grace and favour enjoyed by faith, but hisfirft face, which is his Divine effence enjoyed by fight. Yet I meane not fo, as if the foul which is a creature could take in the who~e cffence of God which is incomprehenflble; but the foul !hall and mull be fo full ofGod, as that it ihall not be able to receive, ordefire one jot more. And oh how excellent is this enjoyment above all prefent enjoyments? it is now our highell happineffe . to. f
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=