Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

The light of that shall be of another nature then ¹the light of the world; the light that we have here is a material light, but the whole body of heaven is of an higher nature then the body of the Sun; and there shall be such a glorious presence of God, as there shall need no Sun, Moon and Stars to enlighten it; and then with the brightness of the body of ⟨p. 527⟩Christ, and the brightness of the bodies of the Saints, there shall be a glorious lustre.

The light of that shall be of another nature then ¹the light of the world; the light that we have here is a material light, but the whole body of heaven is of an higher nature then the body of the Sun; and there shal be such a glorious presence of God, as there shall need no Sun, Moon and Stars to enlighten it; and then with the brightness of the body of ⟨p. 527⟩Christ, and the brightness of the bodies of the Saints, there shall be a glorious lustre.

1. 14.

And for the large extent of it: the lowest heavens ¹are but as a prick of the centre, in comparison to the starry heaven; and the starry heaven is but as a prick of the centre, to the highest heaven. Men boast here, if they have but a few clods of land; as Socrates put a scorn upon Alcibiades that boasted of his lands, he brought him to the Map of the whole world, and prayed him to show them there, and there was not one prick vouchsafed for them in it: What is a little land to a country? and what is a country to the world? and the world is but as a prick to the lowest heaven, and the lowest heaven is but as a prick to the starry heaven, and the starry heaven is but as a prick to the highest heaven, and the Saints shall possess all that. You that have no possessions here, know there is a possession hereafter, that is more then if you had all the Lands in the world.