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

6. Love (even to the Saints as well as unto God) is one of the graces that shall endure for ever, 1 Cor. 13. It is exercised ⟨p. 75⟩upon an Immortal object (the Image, and Children of the Most High) and therefore must be one of the Immortal Graces. For Grace in the Nature of it dyeth not: and therefore if the Object cease not, how should the Grace cease, unless you will call it's perfecting a ceasing?

It is a state too high for such as we, and I think for any mere Creature to live so Immediately and only upon God, as to have no use for any fellow Creature, nor no comfort in them. God can make use of Glorified Creatures, in such subserviency and subordination to himself, as shall be no diminution to his All-sufficiency or Honour, nor to our glory and felicity. We must take heed of fancying even such a Heaven it self, as is above the capacity of a Creature; as some very wise Divines think they have •one, that tell us we shall Immediately see Gods Essence (his Glory being that which is provided for our intuition and felicity, and is distinct from his Essence; being not every where as his Essence is) And as those do that tell us because that God will be All in All, therefore we shall there have none of our comfort by any Creature. Though ⟨p. 76⟩flesh and blood shall not enter into that Kingdom, but our Bodies will then be Spiritual Bodies; yet will they be really the same as now, and distinct from our Souls: and therefore must have a felicity suitable to a Body glorified: And if the soul did immediately see God's Essence, yet as no reason can conclude that it can see nothing else, or that it can see even Created Good, and not Love it, so the Body however must have objects and felicity fit for a Body.

It is a state too high for such as we, and I think for any meer Creature to live so Immediately and only upon God, as to have no use for any fellow Creature, nor no comfort in them. God can make use of Glorified Creatures, in such subserviency and subordination to himself, as shall be no diminution to his All-sufficiency or Honour, nor to our glory and felicity. We must take heed of fancying even such a Heaven it self, as is above the capacity of a Creature; as some very wise Divines think they have one, that tell us we shall Immediately see Gods Essence (his Glory being that which is provided for our intuition and felicity, and is distinct from his Essence; being not every where as his Essence is) And as those do that tell us because that God will be All in All, therefore we shall there have none of our comfort by any Creature. Though