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

In his Word there is a more clear and full discovery of his Nature and Will, but according to our capacity of receiving. The Divine Attributes in Scripture are masked and shadowed under sensible Comparisons: for no Light shines into our Minds here but through the Windows of Sense. The intellectual Powers depend, as to the first notices of things, upon the lower Faculties and Senses: therefore as Elisha in reviving the Shunamite's Child, contracted himself to the proportion of the Child, and put his Mouth upon his ⟨p. 289⟩Mouth, and his Eyes upon his Eyes, and his Hands upon his Hands; so God is pleased to condescend to our Capacity, and to adapt the Expressions of his Majesty to the narrowness of our Imaginations. But in Heaven the Revelation of the Deity is much more glorious: and the Mind is clarified from those terrene Images that flow through the gross Channels of the Senses. In this present state our purest Conceptions of God are mixed with Dross, and very imperfect; but there the Gold shall be separated from the Dross, and our Conceptions be more proper and becoming the Simplicity and Purity of God. Here the Objects of Glory are humbled to the perception of Sense: Hereafter, the sensible Faculties shall be raised and refined, and made the Subjects of Glory. Now when Divine Light shines with direct Beams, and the thick Curtain of Flesh is spiritualized and transparent, the Soul enjoys the clearest Vision of God. The Light of Nature was so defective as to the discovery of God's Compassionate Counsels to save the lost World; and the Minds of Men were so darkened from the Fumes of their Lusts, ⟨p. 290⟩that that Light was but the Hemisphere of the Night in comparison of the Revelation of the Gospel: as St. Peter expresses the happy Privilege of Christians, and their consequent Duty, that they should show forth the Praises of him who hath called them out of Darkness into his marvellous Light. And the Glorious Gospel compared to the Revelation of God in Heaven, is but as the Twilight of the Morning, wherein the Light of the Day is checkered with the Shadows of the Night, to the Sun in its full Lustre. In Heaven we shall see God Face to Face: which signifies the clearest manifestation of his Glory, and of his Favour to the Blessed: for the Face is the Throne of Majesty and Beauty, and the Chrystal wherein the Affections are conspicuous.

In his Word there is a more clear and full discovery of his Nature and Will, but according to our capacity of receiving. The Divine Attributes in Scripture are mask'd and shadowed under sensible Comparisons: for no Light shines into our Minds here but through the Windows of Sense. The intellectual Powers depend, as to the first notices of things, upon the lower Faculties and Senses: therefore as Elisha in reviving the Shunamite's Child, contracted himself to the proportion of the Child, and put his Mouth upon his