The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

To explicate this, it is requisite to consider the expressions in Scripture, that signify the eminent degrees of Knowledge in the Blessed. Our Saviour assures us, that the Pure in Heart shall see God. Sight is the most noble, extensive, and affective Sense, and therefore fit to notify the clear, sweet and satisfying intuition of God in Heaven. 'Tis true, the Deity is spiritual and invisible to the Eye of the Body, infinite and incomprehensible to the Eye of the Soul; but the glorified Saints so clearly understand the Divine Perfections, that our present knowledge of God, compared to that Vision, is but as the seeing of a dark Shadow in a Glass, to the immediate view of the living Substance and Person. The discovery of the Deity to us in the present state, is by his Works and Word: and both are imperfect, and far inferior to the manifestation in Heaven. The absolute fullness of Perfection that is inseparable from the Godhead, is inimitable by any Creature; for the Perfection of any Creature; is limited in its kind as well as degrees. Therefore God was pleased by variety of effects and resemblances, ⟨p. 288⟩to express and represent his Attributes, that our Minds might ascend by those steps to contemplate those Perfections that are in him eminently and beyond all comparison. The Light of Heaven in all its purity and lustre, is but a shadow of his unapproachable Brightness: all the Excellencies of visible things are but a weak representation of the Glory of his Attributes, like the describing with a Coal the beautiful Colours of the Morning: and compared with the immensity of his Perfections, are like the describing in a sheet of Paper the vast Celestial Spheres.

To explicate this, it is requisite to consider the expressions in Scripture, that signify the eminent degrees of Knowledg in the Blessed. Our Saviour assures us, that the Pure in Heart shall see God. Sight is the most noble, extensive, and affective Sense, and therefore fit to notify the clear, sweet and satisfying intuition of God in Heaven. 'Tis true, the Deity is spiritual and invisible to the Eye of the Body, infinite and incomprehensible to the Eye of the Soul; but the glorified Saints so clearly understand the Divine Perfections, that our present knowledg of God, compar'd to that Vision, is but as the seeing of a dark Shadow in a Glass, to the immediate view of the living Substance and Person. The discovery of the Deity to us in the present state, is by his Works and Word: and both are imperfect, and far inferiour to the manifestation in Heaven. The absolute fulness of Perfection that is inseparable from the Godhead, is inimitable by any Creature; for the Perfection of any Creature; is limited in its kind as well as degrees. Therefore God was pleased by variety of effects and resemblances,