Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

Though it's little that they bring home, but more acquaintance with Sin, and Vanity, and Vexation. How many more Years do Thousands spend in the reading of multitudes of tedious Volumes, that they may know what others knew before them. Printers and Booksellers live by our desire of Knowledge. What Soul then on Earth can possibly conceive how great a pleasure it will be for a glorified Soul to see the Lord? Though I cannot now conceive what that intuition of God himself will be, and whether it will not be a glorious kind of concluding or abstractive knowledge; whether the Glory which we shall see be only a created appearance of God, or be his very Essence, it satisfieth me that it will be as perfect a knowledge as is fit for me to desire; and I shall then desire no more than is fit: And what it is I shall then know by itself, for it is not otherwise to be clearly known. And all the pleasure that I shall have in Heaven in knowing any of the works of God, will be in my beholding God himself, his Being, his Vital power and action, his Wisdom, and his Love, and Goodness, in those works: For he is the Life, and Glory of them all. Blessed are the pure in Heart, for they shall see God.

Though it's little that they bring home, but more acquaintance with Sin, and Vanity, and Vexation. How many more Years do Thousands spend in the reading of multitudes of tedious Volumes, that they may know what others knew before them. Printers and Booksellors live by our desire of Knowledge. What Soul then on Earth can possibly conceive how great a pleasure it will be for a glorified Soul to see the Lord? Though I cannot now conceive what that intuition of God himself will be, and whether it will not be a glorious kind of concluding or abstractive knolwedge; whether the Glory which we shall see be only a created appearance of God, or be his very Essence, it satisfieth me that it will be as perfect a knowledge as is fit for me to desire; and I shall then desire no more than is fit: And what it is I shall then know by itself, for it is not otherwise to be clearly known. And all the pleasure that I shall have in Heaven in knowing any of the works of God, will be in my beholding God himself, his Being, his Vital power and action, his Wisdom, and his Love, and Goodness, in those works: For he is the Life, and Glory of them all. Blessed are the pure in Heart, for they shall see God.