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

2. I will consider the blessed Effects of the Vision of God in Heaven upon the Saints. Our Saviour tells us, This is Life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. The beginning and introduction of our Felicity, is by a lively Faith here, the consummation of it is by present sight in Heaven. From the Vision of his Glory, there will be a resultance of his likeness imprest on us. We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All the Perfection and Happiness of the Saints is comprised in that Promise. The Sun, when the Sky is clear and serene, forms its Image on a Cloud tempered to receive it, with that orient brightness, that the Eye cannot distinguish between the Copy and the Original. ⟨p. 298⟩Thus the uncreated Sun by powerful emanations transforms the Soul into its likeness, in that divine Degree of Holiness and Felicity, as gloriously resembles God. Moses by conversing with God in the Mount, and seeing his back-parts, returned to the Israelites with such a radiancy in his Face; that they could not look on it without a Veil. What an impression of Glory is in the Saints, who see his Perfections in their infinite lustre? 'Tis the privilege of Christians in this Life, above the Church under the Law, They behold in the Gospel as in a Glass, the Glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory: they become more Holy and Heavenly, more purified and adorned with his Virtues and Graces. Now if the Vision of Christ here in a Glass, an eclipsing Medium, be so influxive upon Believers, what an illustrious and infallible efficacy has the immediate, clear, and permanent view of his Glory upon the Saints in Heaven? That sight is productive and conservative of his Image in its purity and perfection for ever.

2. I will consider the blessed Effects of the Vision of God in Heaven upon the Saints. Our Saviour tells us, This is Life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. The beginning and introduction of our Felicity, is by a lively Faith here, the consummation of it is by present sight in Heaven. From the Vision of his Glory, there will be a resultance of his likeness imprest on us. We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All the Perfection and Happiness of the Saints is comprised in that Promise. The Sun, when the Sky is clear and serene, forms its Image on a Cloud temper'd to receive it, with that orient brightness, that the Eye cannot distinguish between the Copy and the Original.