!244 !.feditatimu 411d Difcour Jes ,~ofp,el, is not by -F9itl;I; however it gives us maJlY preparatory dFg~ees unto it, as the Apoftlr: .fully declares, Phi!.~· ro, JI, 12, 1~, 14. SECONDLY, Vijio1~ is Beatijical, as it is corpJnonly called, and that not 'amifs. ~t gives pei·- feCt refi: and bleffednefs unto them in whom it is. ·Tqis· may b.e a Jittl,e op,ened in the enfuing Obfer- ~arions. - ' - · · " · r. THERE are continual Operations of God iry ,!Chrift, in the Sonls of them that are glorified, and Communications from him unto them. For afl Crearures ·" ffiu!(~ternally live e•~I1 in Heaven~ }n dep~ndan~_e .o:n him who is the eternal Fouqrain of B_.eing; · Li(e, Goo.dnefs and Bleffedne!s:un- ·ro alL As we cannot fubfift one moment in our o ~eings, ;Liv~s~ Sou]s, Bodies, the. inward or out~ lwarq mary, ' wi_thout the continual aetings of Di~ .vine ·Power ~n us, and towards us ; So in the f(lorified State our All fhaii depend eternally on Pivine Pqwer and Goodnefs; communicating themfelves unto us, for all the ends of our bleffed ~hbfifi:ence in Heaven. · ' ' · · "·; 2... ' W H A T ' is th~ way and manner <;>f thefe .CommtJnicarions, we cannot cqmprehend. VVe ~ahi1ot ·indeed fully underftand the nature an4 way of his Spiritual Communi~-·ations UntO us in this ~Xe. ' · VVe know there things by their figns, their outward means~ and principally by rhe effects rhey' proq nee in the real change of our natures. But in themfelves we fee but little of them.Ihe wind f.lo'we}h ·:;vhere -ii lijfeth ,:. aml ~e hear the found thereof, but ?-Pe kno;JJ, not , whmc~ it cometb , llnrl 1 • ' - •.. · . , ?Ph it her
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