The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and…

11. Do you not seem to forget both where you are your selves, and where you must shortly and for ever live? Where would you have your Friends, but where you must be your sel•es? Do you mourn that they are taken hence? Why, if they had staid here a thousand years, how little of that time should you have had their Company? When you are almost leaving the World your selves, would you not send your treasure before you to the place where you must abide? How quickly will you pass from hence to God, ⟨p. 71⟩where you shall find your Friends that you lamented as if they had been lost, and there shall dwell with them for ever! O foolish Mourners! would you not have your Friends at home! at their home and your home, with their Father, and your Father; their God, and your God? Shall you not there enjoy them long enough! Can you so much miss them for one day, that must live with them to all Eternity? And is not Eternity long enough for you to enjoy your Friends in?

Obj. But I do not know whether ever I shall there have any distinct knowledge of them, or love to them, and whether God shall not there be so far All in All, as that we shall need or fetch no comfort from the Creature.

Obj. But I do not know whether ever I shall there have any distinct knowledge of them, or love to them, and whether God shall not there be so far All in All, as th•t we shall need or fetch no comfort from the Creature.

Answ. There is no reason for either of these doubts. For, 1. You cannot justly think that the knowledge of the Glorified shall be more confused or imperfect than the knowledge of natural Men on Earth. We shall know much more, but not so much less. Heaven exceedeth Earth in knowledge, as much as it doth in joy.