· I 1098 Book.V. Chap. I.Sect.Io ' ' they take nor only a view ofChriH,ofrheEfiential glory ofChri!t, ofthe tranfaCl:ions ofChriLl:, things excellent in tbemfelves, bur they fee all there as to make them b,1ppy ; they fay ofChri!l:, and ofall his achngs, thefe are mine, and for my happinefe; A fl:ranger may look upon a King, and fee beauty, and majell:y, and glorh and honour in him, but the ~een looks upon the King and his beauty as her own; fo the Saints look upon the King ofhe:tven, they fee Chrilt, and all in Chrill: as their own,to make them happy for ever and ever. 5· . They l11all fee Chri{i- a; leis; but wh,lt? do we not fee him now a; l:e fo· ? oh no: we now fee him not as he i5 indeed and truth, but onely as he is in hear-f.1y, and report; we now fee him only as he is l11.adowed out to us in the Gofpel ofpe,1ce; and wh~t is the Gofpel, but the poumaiture of the King, which he fenr to another Land to be feen by his Bride? fo Kings and ~eens on earrh wooe one an()[her; whiles the Bride is on earth, D1e never feeth him as he is in his bell: Sabb,lth-RoyalRobe of immediate £,lory, {he feeth him rather by the feconi.l hand, ( i. ) by mefiengers, words, mediation; he rather fends his pourrraiture, than comes hi mfelf; but in heaven the Saints fee him a; le h·, they fee ChriH himfelfin his own very perron; they fee the red and white in his own f.Ke; they fee all the infide of ChriLl: ; and thoufancls of excellencies l11all then be revealed, that we fee not now; the mvHeries of that glorious Ark l11all then be opened ; his 'inc,lrnarion, his rwo natures in one perfon, his fuffering as man , and his fining in tlfe fear of God a~ God, all thefe J},ali be feen. 6. They Jh1ll fe.e ChriLl: without interruption, anr:l wicbour inrermi!Iion to all eternity. If once the eye be fer on the face of J efus Chrirt, it will never be taken ofl: :r;ain. Some concieve this to 9e the reafon why rhe Saint;; in heaven em never fall away, _becaufe they l11all have a continual view of ql!'il1: as God; Sure!y to have but one glimpfc of Chrirl: in this refpeCl:, though it were gone prefently, ir w~re a gr~ar happineffe beyond all that the world affords ; it was fometimes th~ cle!ire of a Philofopher to fee the nature ofrhe Sunne, though he w<:re ro b:: burnt by ir ; fo if CbriH Jhould but grant u> this luppineffe, JO# - Jhall come to fee me, but the fight of me rvi..!t dejl:r-oy rou, this n:ere a defirable thing; bur to luve fttch an excel!em glorious fight as ' (hall
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