194 Meditations and Difcourfet the A~gels themfelves, 1 Pet. I. j. Ephe[. ~· 9, I o~ IN this frame of heart and fuitable actings of their fouls, there was more of the power of true faith and love than is found among the moft at this day. They faw the promifes afar off, and were perfwaded of them, and embraced them, Heb. I I. 1 3· They reached out the arms of their moft intent affections, to embrace the things that were promifed. We have an inftance of tl)is . frame in old Simeon, · who fo foon as he had taken the Child Jefus in his Arms, cryed out, Now Lord, let me depart, now let me dye, this is that ..which my foul hath longed for, Luke 2. 2 8, 29 . OUR prefentdarknefs and weaknefs in beholding the Glory of Chrift, is not .11f<e theirs. It is not occafioned by a rvail of Types anJ Shadows, caft on it by the Reprefentative lnftitutions of it; It doth notarife fi·om the want of a clear Do8:rinal R.ervelation of the Perfon and Office of Chrift; But as was before declared, it proceedeth from two other caufes. Firft from the nature of Faith it felf in comparifon of Vifion. Jt is not able to look direCtly into this excellent Glery, nor fully to comprehend it. Secondly, from the way of its propofa!, which is not {ubflantial of the thing it felt: but only of an Image of it, as in a Glafs. But the fight, the view of the Glory of Chrift, which we fhall have in Heaven, is much more above that which we now enjoy by the Gofpel, than ~Jlat we do, or may fo enjoy, is above what they have attained under their types and fuadows. There is a far greater diftance between the Vifion <?f Heaven, and the fight which we have now by fa ith, than is between the ·fight whi'h we now . nave
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