on the .Glorj of Chrijl. I 97 [peeding through it unto a ftate . Wherein they may behold the Glory . of Chrift. .They are . at home , and are unwilling to be abfem from the body , tho to be prefent with the Lord. They hope i.c may be that fuch a feafon will come at one time or another , and then it will be the beft they , can look for when · they can be here no more. But they have but a little fight of the Glory of Chrift in this world by faith, ifany at a11, who fo little, fo faintly defire to have the immediate fight of it above. cannot underftand how anv man can walk with God as he ought, or hath that love for Jef.us Chrift which true Faith will produce , or doth place his Refi·efhmems and Joy in fpiritual things, in things above, that doth not on ail jnft occafions, fo meditate on the Glory of Chrift in Heaven as to long for an admittance into the immediate fight of it. ' OUR Lord Jefus Chrift alone perfectly underftood wherein the eternal Bldfednefs of them that believe in him, cloth confift. And this is the fiu11 of what he prays for with refpett unto that end ; namely, that we mt'J be where he is to behold his Glory. And is it not our duty to live in a continual defire of that which he prayed fo earneftly that we might attain ? If in our felves, we as yet apprehend but little of the Glory, the excellency, the Bleffednefs of it, yet ought we to repofe that confidence in the VVifdom and Love of Chrifi; , that it is our bell: , infinitely better than any t.hing we can enjoy hete below. UNTO thofe who are inured Unto thofe contemplations , they ar~ the fait of their lives, Q ) where·
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