The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

We shall see God. 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 perfection of our Happiness consists in this knowledge. The Deity is spiritual and invisible to the Eye of the Body, infinite and incomprehensible to the Soul. But we shall then so clearly understand the Divine Perfections, that our present ⟨p. 33⟩knowledge compared to that, is but as the seeing a dark resemblance in a Glass, to the clear view of a Person in the native beauty of his Face. God is most gloriously present in Heaven. For according to the degrees of excellence in the Work, such are the impressions and discoveries of the Virtues of the Cause. Now all sensible things in the low order of Nature, are but weak resultances from his Perfections, in comparison of their illustrious Effects in the Divine World. The Glories of the Place, and of the Inhabitants, the Angels and Saints, clearly express his Majesty, Goodness and Power. But in a transcendent manner he exhibits himself in the glorified Mediator. He is styled the brightness of the Father's Glory▪ and the express image of his Person; not only for his equal Perfections in respect of the unity of their Nature, but to signify that God in the Person of the incarnate Mediator is so fully represented to us, that by the sight of him we see God himself in his unchangeable Excellencies. This appears by the following words, that having purged us from our sins, he sate down on the right-hand of the Majesty on high; for they respect the ⟨p. 34⟩Son of God as united to the humane Nature, in which he performed the Office of the Priesthood, and took possession of his glorious Kingdom. During his humble state, the Divine Virtues, Wisdom, Goodness, Holiness, Power, were so visible in his Person, Life, Revelations, and miraculous Works, that when Philip so longed for the sight of the Father as the only consummate Blessedness, Show us the Father, and it suffices; He told him, He that has seen me, has seen the Father also. But how brightly do they appear in his triumphant Exaltation. 'Twas his Prayer on Earth; Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory. Inestimable Felicity!

We shall see God. 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 perfection of our Happiness consists in this knowledg. The Deity is spiritual and invisible to the Eye of the Body, infinite and incomprehensible to the Soul. But we shall then so clearly understand the Divine Perfections, that our present