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890 Of the ioyetofheaten. gloriewhich thouhaFtgiue»me.Yca,in this knowledg of him, he placeth a chicle part ofour heavenly happineffè, laying, lob 19.lf17 that it is life eterna llto know God,and whomhe path fens IeJrte Chrift. Of which happinefle, holy lob affureth himfelfe, where he faith,that he was not onely Pure that his Redeemer 1, ued,but allo that he fhould fee and behold him with his bodilie eies. By which knowledge of Chrifl, and fellowfhip with him,we (ball bane ineflimable ioy and comfort; for iflohn Luke r.44. the Baptiff (prang for ioy in his mothers belly, at the pre. fence ofChrifl in his firfl conception ; if his earnefl delire to Luke 1.29.30. fee Chriil in theflefh,made old Simeon with the prolonging ofhislife; andhauing obtained his delire, and feencChrift his faluation,was moil willing to depart in peace : If the des Luke ro.ax.13. of the difciples were blefled by Chrifis owne reflimonie, be- caufe they had feece that, which many Prophets andKings had defired to fee, and yet could nor, to wit, the Sauiour of the world clothed with ourhumane nature,and but in the e fiate ofaferuant, defpifedofinen, and contemptible in the world : And finally,if`Peter, Iames,and Iohn,feeing but fome Matth.57.4. fmal fparkes ofhis glorie and maiefiie in his tranftiguration, were fo rauifhed with delight, that fitting afide all worldly delires, they wifhed only the continuance of this ioy; then what ineflimable pleafure, comfort,and reioycing (pall wee haue,when we Thal continually behold our Sauiour Chrifl in his glorie and maie(lie, adorned in his kingly attire, accom- panied with his bleffed Saints and Angels, and-fitting at the right hand of his Father, like a triumphant conquerour, ha- uing fubdued and troden vnder foot all his and our enemies? efpecially conlidering that wee fhall not be barebehol8ers onely of his glorie and happineffe, but fhall communicate with him, as members of his bodie, in all his ioyes,and bee made partakers ofall his glorie. O what rauifhing ioy (hall then pofleflè our foules,when as wee, who haue long been contraéled to our Lord and husband, (hall fee that bleffed time come,whcn we fhall haue that roiall marriagebetween him and vs folemnized in the prefence of God and his holy Angels,and ¡hall haue the fruition of him, and all his happy- nelle,