132 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDEESS. sible perfections of his nature : for the perfect nature hereof, divine revelation hath left under a veil, and so must we do also. Nor do I designedly handle these things in this place, but only in the way of a direction how to exercise our thoughts about them. This is that notion of heaven, which those who are spiritually minded, ought to be conversant with; and the true acting of it by faith, is a discriminating char- acter of believers. This is no heaven to any others. Those who have not an experience of the excellency of these things in their initial state in this world, and their incomparable transcendency to all other things, cannot conceive how heavenly glory and blessedness should consist in them. Unskilful men may cast away rough, unwrought diamonds, as useless stones; they know not what polishing will bring them to. Nor do men unskilful in the mystery of godliness, judge there can be any glory in rough unwrought grace ; they know not what lustre and beauty the polishing of the heavenly hand will give to it. It is generally supposed, that however men differ in and about religion here, yet they agree well enough about heaven ; they would all go to the same heaven. But it is a great mistake, they differ in nothing more ; theywould not all go to the same heaven. How few are they, who value that heavenly state which we have treated of; or understand how any blessedness can consist in the enjoyment of it But this and no other heaven would we go to. Other notions there maybe, there are of it, which being but fruits and effects of mens's own imaginations, the more they dwell in the contemplation of them, the more carnal they may grow, at best the more superstitious. But spiritual thoughts of thisheaven, consisting principally in free-
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