Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

If it were not too great a digression, I could readily demonstrate the gain and advantage of Death from other Topics. Believers in the other life, shall possess and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, which doth more transcend the Kingdoms of this World, and all the glory of them, than the light of the Sun doth excel the light of a Candle; they shall be most gloriously perfected both in their Souls, and in their Bodies; their vile bodies at the Resurrection, shall be changed and fashioned like unto the glorious body of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹Their gain and happiness will be greatly augmented in the other life, by the work and employment that they shall do, and by the Society and Company that they shall have; they shall associate with an innumerable company of Angels, and with just men made perfect; with many of their dearest Relations and Friends, whom whilst alive they dearly loved, and whose death and departure hence they greatly lamented. Let me close this with one Text, 'tis in 1 John 3.2. There the Apostle tells, us wherein the gain and glory of the godly consisteth after death, he sums it up in two things, They shall be like Christ, and they shall see him as he is. Ay, that is the happiness of the Children when they dye, it lies in Conformity to Christ, and in the Vision, the beatifical Vision of him.

If it were not too great a digression, I could readily demonstrate the gain and advantage of Death from other Topicks. Believers in the other life, shall possess and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, which doth more transcend the Kingdoms of this World, and all the glory of them, than the light of the Sun doth excell the light of a Candle; they shall be most gloriously perfected both in their Souls, and in their Bodies; their vile bodies at the Resurrection, shall be changed and fashioned like unto the glorious body of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹Their gain and happiness will be greatly augmented in the other life, by the work and employment that they shall do, and by the Society and Company that they shall have; they shall associate with an innumerable company of Angels, and with just men made perfect; with many of their dearest Relations and Friends, whom whilst alive they dearly lov'd, and whose death and departure hence they greatly lamented. Let me close this with one Text, 'tis in