OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. 129 ence, and enjoyment of these things, however were and frequently interrupted, our apprehensions of them, however dark and obscure, are the only means whereby we are made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light. To have the eternal glory of God in Christ, with all the fruits of his wisdom and love, whilst we are our- selves under the full participation of the effects of them, immediately, directly, revealed, proposed, made known to us in a divine and glorious light, our souls being furnished with a capacity to beholdand perfectly comprehend them ; this is the heaven which, accord- ing to God's promise, we look for : but, as was said, these things shall be elsewhere more fully treated of. It is true, that there are sundry other things in par- ticular that belong to this state of glory ; but what we have mentioned is the fountain and spring of them all. We can never have an immediate enjoyment of God in the immensity of his nature, nor can any cre- ated understanding conceive such things. God's com- munications of himself unto us, and our enjoyment of him, shall be in and by the manifestation of his glory in Christ. He who can see no glory, who is sensi- ble of no blessednes4 in these things, is a stranger to that heaven which the scripture reveals, and which faith leads to. It may be inquired, what is the subjective glory, or what change is to be wrought in ourselves, that we may enjoy this glory l Now that depends principally as to our souls in the ' perfection of all grace, which is initially wrought, and subjectively resides in us, in this world.' The grace whichwe have here shall not be done away as to its essence and nature, though somewhat of it shall cease as to the manner of its op-
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