476 / 674
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 furnished
with 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
if
the whole body shall
be
endued
all
over
with
the
senses
of
seeing
and hearing
?
What
if
these
sort
of
sensations shall
be
diffused
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
when
we
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
in
com-
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.
favours
this
ine-
ing,
-anti
T.erhaps
Col.
i.
LO
includes
the
same
thing.