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Thirdly, all those consolations, those admirable ¹soul-ravishing comforts that the Saints of God have ever had in this world, have all been but the first fruits of those glorious things that are hereafter to to be revealed, they are but as the Clusters of grapes that that blessed Land of Canaan is so full of.

1. 13.

Fourthly, then all the expressions that man can give of those things that are to be hereafter, must ¹needs be but dark resemblances of what shall be revealed hereafter: As the infant in the womb knows not what the light, the glory and beauty of the world is; so we, while we are in this darkness, know little of the beauty and glory of heaven. St. Augustine ⟨p. 496⟩speaking concerning what we can say of it, says, It is but as a little drop of the sea, and a little spark of the ²great furnace: Those good things of eternal life are so many, that they exceed number; so great, that they exceed measure; so precious, that they are above all estimation. Augustine in one of his Epistles hath this relation, That the very same day wherein Jerome dyed, he was in his study, and had got pen, ink and paper to write something of the glory of heaven to Jerome, suddenly he saw a light breaking into his study, and a sweet swell that came unto him, and this voice he thought he heard, O Augustine, what doest thou? doest think to put the sea into a little vessel? when the heavens shall cease from their continual motion, then shalt thou be able to understand what the glory of heaven is, and not before, except you come to feel it as I now do, this therefore is beyond the expression of man.