191 this world, a t;.~cub1e which, I pray God, I may i1ever be delivered from, until deliverance do come at once from this ftate of mortality. Yea the good Lord encreafe this trouble more .and more in all that believe. THE heart of a believer affetled with the g!ory of Chrift, is· like the neeclle touched with rhe Loadflone. It can no longer b~- quiet, no larger be fatisfied i·n a diftance from him. lt is put into a continual motion tQwards him. This motion indeed is weak and tremulous. Pantings, brt"::i.tflings, fighings,groanings, in prayer, in mediations, in the fecret rece!fes of our minds , are the life of it. How"ver_it is continually preffing towards him. But it obtains not its point , it comes not to its center and Reft in this world. BUT now above , all things are clear and fe.. rene ; all plain and evident in our beholding the Glory of Chrift ; we fhall be ever ·witb him, and fee him as he is. This is Heaven, this is Bleffednefs, this is eternal reft. THE Perfon of Chriff in a1i his Glory £hall be continually before us; and the eyes of our un ~ derfi:andings {hall be fo gloriouf1y illuminated, as that we £hall be able fteadily to behold and comprehend that Glory. BUT alas l here at prefent our ·minds recoil, our medirations tail, our hearrs are overconf~, our thoughts confnfed, and car eyes turn . afide fi:om the lufhe of this glory ; nor can we abide in the contemplation of it. But there, an immediate, confi:ant view of it, will bring in everlaiting refrdhment and joy unto our whole fouls. THIS
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