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Fourthly, what soul soever hath an interest in heaven, heaven is in that soul already: The kingdom of ¹God is in them, and they have taken hold of eternal life, now eternal life abides in them; Whom he hath justified, he hath glorified already, they have the glory of heaven begun; you heard what that was. In heaven there is the perfection of our natures, the image of God shall be renewed; now is the image of God begun? hath God marked you, and set the stamp of his image upon you? There is no soul that God does intend to put glory upon, but he marks that soul, and stamps his image upon it in the work of conversion, and says, Here is a soul I set the stamp of my image upon, because I mark it out to glory: if ever you come to Heaven, God must see his own Image and Superscription upon you. As the Beast set his ⟨p. 666⟩mark upon men, and would suffer none to trade but those that had his mark: so God will set his mark upon his people, and none shall come into his Kingdom but those that have his mark: now a mans Image is upon a thing, when by beholding of it I am put in mind of him that it is an Image of; so if you have this Image and stamp of God, a man that knows God, as soon as he looks upon you, as soon as he beholds your conversation, he is put in mind of God, and he says, I have heard and read much of God, of the holiness and righteousness of God, and by this mans conversation I am put in mind of that holiness and righteousness of God, the brightness of which I see shining here.

Fourthly, what soul soever hath an interest in heaven, heaven is in that soul already: The kingdom of ¹God is in them, and they have taken hold of eternal life, now eternal life abides in them; Whom he hath justified, he hath glorified already, they have the glory of heaven begun; you heard what that was. In heaven there is the perfection of our natures, the image of God shall be renewed; now is the image of God begun? hath God marked you, and set the stamp of his image upon you? There is no soul that God does intend to put glory upon, but he marks that soul, and stamps his image upon it in the work of conversion, and says, Here is a soul I set the stamp of my image upon, because I mark it out to glory: if ever you come to Heaven, God must see his own Image and Superscription upon you. As the Beast set his