45d NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN. [Disc. VI7i body, those sensitive powers shall be nobly enlarged and made more delightfully susceptive of richer shares of knowledge and joy. . Or, what if we shall have that body furnishedwith such unknown mediums or organs pf sensation, asshall make light and sound such as wehere partake óf, unnecessary to us ? These organs shall certainly be such as shall transcend all the advantages that we receive, in this pre- sent state, from sounds or sun-beams. There shall be no disconsolate darkness, nor any tiresome silence there. There shall be no night to interrupt the business, or the pleasures of that everlasting day. Or, what ifthe whole body shall be endued all over with the senses ofseeing and hearing ? What if these sort of sensations shall bediffused throughout all that immortal body, as feeling is diffused through all our present mor- tal flesh? What if God himself shall, in a more illus- trious manner, irradiate all the powers of the body and spirit, and communicate the light of knowledge, holiness and joy in a superior manner to what we can now con- ceive or imagine ? This is certain, that darkness in every sense, with all the inconveniences and unhappy conse- quences of it, is and must be for ever banished from the heavenly state. There is no night there. When our Lord Jesus Christ shall have given up his inediatorial kingdom to the Father, and have presented all his saints spotless and without blemish before his throne, it is hard for us mortals in the present state to say, how far he shall be the everlasting medium of the communication of divine blessings to the happy inhabit- ants on high. Yet whenwe consider that the saints and angels and the whole happy creation are gathered toge- ther in him, as their head, *' it is certain they shall all be accounted in some sense his members; and it is highly propable he as their head, shall be 'for ever active incom- municating and diffusing the unknown blessings of that world, amongst all the inhabitants of it, who are gathered ánd united in him. T come in 'the last place to make a few remarks upon the foregoing, discourse, and in 'order to render them The Greek word avaxscpxyaeoW, used in Eph. i. 10. favoursthis ine- ing, -anti T.erhaps Col. i. LO includes the same thing.
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