OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESSc 137 persons keep up themselves to a diligent attendance on it, where they find it preached to their edification, they find great delight in it, and will undergo great difficul- ties for the enjoyment of it : let thembe diverted from it for a season; after a while it grows indifferent to them; any thingwill satisfy them that pretends to the same duty. CHAPTERVII. Especial objects of spiritual thoughts on the glorious state of heaven, and what belongs thereto. First, of Christ himself. Thoughts of heavenly glory, in oppo- sition to thoughts ofeternal misery. The use of such thoughts. advantage insufferings. IT will be to our advantage, having stated right no- tions of the glory of the blessed state above, in our minds, to fix on some particulars belonging to it, as the especial object of our thoughts and meditations. As, 1. Think much of him, who to us is the life and centre of all the glory of heaven, that is, Christ him- self. I shall be very brief in treating hereof, because I have designed a particular treatise on this subject, of beholding the glory of Christ, both here and to eternity. At present, therefore, a few things only shall be mentioned, because on this occasion they are not to be omitted The whole of the glory of the state above, is expressed by being ever with the Lord ; where he is, to behold his glory. For in and through 'aim, is the beatifical manifestation of God and his glory made for evermore : and through him are all communications of inward glory unto us. The present resplendency of heavenly glory consists in his media- tory ministry, as I have at large elsewhere declared 12*
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