Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Secondly, the life of glory is much more obscure and secret; for notwithstanding the first fruits and inchoations thereof be in this life begun in the peace of Conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost (as in an Eclipse of the Sun some dim glimpses do glance from the edges of the interposed body) yet in regard of the plenary infusion of glorious endowments, and those prerogatives of the flesh which belong unto it at the redemption of the body, it is a hidden mystery; It is a light which is ¹only sowed for the righteous; though we expect a revelation of it, yet now it is but as corn in the ground, covered over with much darkness. Now we are Sons, saith² Saint John, we have Jus ad rem, right unto our Life and Crown already; but we are in a far country like the prodigal, absent from the Lord; and therefore It doth not yet appear what we shall be: we can no more distinctly ⟨p. 434⟩understand the excellency of our inheritance by these seals and assurances which ratify our right thereunto, then one who never saw the Sun could conjecture the light and lustre thereof by the twinkling of a little star, or the picture thereof in a table; Only this we know, that when he shall appear, we shall be like unto him; not only in true holiness, for so we are like him now (we are already created after him in righteousness and true holiness) but in full holiness too; we shall be filled with³ all the fullness of God, as the same Apostle speaks: Such a fullness as shall satisfy us: when I awake I shall be satisfied with thy likeness. Therefore the last day is by an emphasis called a Day of redemption. First, in regard of the manifestation and Revelation thereof. The Lord shall then appear and be revealed from Heaven, all those curtains shall be drawn, those veils between us and our Glory, those skins with which the Ark is overlaid, shall be torn and removed: our sins, our earthly condition, our manifold afflictions, the seeming poverty and foolishness of the ordinances, shall be all laid aside, and then we shall see our Redeemer, not as Job did from a dunghill, nor as Moses through a Cloud, but we shall know even as we are known.

Secondly, the life of glorie is much more obscure and secret; for notwithstanding the first fruites and inchoations thereof bee in this life begun in the peace of Conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost (as in an Eclipse of the Sunne some dimme glimpses doe glance from the edges of the interposed body) yet in regard of the plenarie infusion of glorious endowments, and those prerogatives of the flesh which belong unto it at the redemption of the bodie, it is a hidden mysterie; It is a light which is