A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast

There must be a qualification of those that heaven is provided for.

They must be such as love God, such as are altered and changed, and sanctified to love him; Because no unclean thing shall enter in thither; Because we cannot so much as desire heaven without a change; we cannot have communion there with Christ, and those blessed souls, without likeness to them, which must be by a spirit of love: our natures must be altered: Therefore it is a vain presumption for any man to think of heaven, unless he find his disposition altered. For we may ⟨p. 147⟩read our eternal condition in heaven, ¹by our disposition upon earth. The Apostle Peter saith, 1 Pet. 1. Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that hath begotten us to a lively hope of an inheritance immortal, and undefiled▪ reserved in heaven. So that the inheritance in heaven, we are begotten to it, we must be new borne, we must have a new birth before we can inherit it, he hath begotten us to an inheritance immortal, &c. He that is not a child, may not think of an inheritance. Put case there be never so many glorious things in heaven, that eye hath never seen, nor ear ever heard, &c. if our names be not in Christs will, that we are not his, and ⟨p. 148⟩prove our selves to be his, by the alteration of our dispositions, what are all those good things to us, when our names are not contained there?

They must bee such as love God, such as are altered and changed, and sanctified to love him; Because no uncleane thing shall enter in thither; Because wee cannot so much as desire heaven without a change; we cannot have communion there with Christ, and those blessed soules, without likenesse to them, which must be by a spirit of love: our natures must bee altered: Therefore it is a vaine presumption for any man to thinke of heaven, unlesse he finde his disposition altered. For wee may