~?O Meditations and Difcottrfi.i r_erruption.Herein fhall we be made like unto Angels.· 2. AS our minds in their ejJential powers ancl - faculties £hall be enabled to corn prehend and acQ qnie!ce in this Glory of Chrifc, fo the weans o~ 'wflrument of the beholding of it, is mtich mor~ excellent than Faith, and in its kind ab!olurely 'perfeCt , as bath in part beei1 before declared. This is v.ijion or fight. Here we walk by Fa~h~ there by Sight. And this Sight is not an external (tid, like a Glafs helping the weaknefs of the 'Uifiv.e faculty to fee things afar off; but it is an inQ tcrnal pewer, or an aQ: of the internal power of our minds , · wherewith they are endowed' in a glorified ·ftate. Hereby we tha1 b~ abl~ to fee him face to face, to fee him tU he is, ip· a direct c:omprehenfion of his Glory ; for this fight or wifive power £hall be given us for this very end~ namely, to enable us fo to do. Hereunto 'th{! whole Glory of Cbrift is clear, perfpicuous and evident, which will give us eternal Acquiefcency therein. Hence fhali our fight of the Glory of Chrift be invariable, and alwaies the fame. 2. THE Lord C~dft will n~ver in any one inftance, on any ()ccafion, [o much as one moment ·withdraw himfe!f from ·us, or Ecllpfe the propo!al and manifeftation of bimfelf unto our figh~. This he cloth fometimes in this life, an~ lt is neec1ful for us that fo he fhould dp. · We jhall be e~er with the Lord, I Tbef 4- l7. wi~hout end, without interruption. This is th~ Center of good and ~vil, as to the fumre qifier.ent ftates ,of men. They- jhall be for C1Jer, · Etermty makes them aqfo!ntely goo4 qn th~ one hand, an~ ~pfqlur~tr · ' · ~ -· evt!
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