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Again, in Heaven you know God himself is the portion of the Saints, they have the presence of God: What presence of God do you enjoy here? Were your souls ever acquainted with the presence of God in the Ordinances? What blessed vision have you of God here? Those who come to Heaven, God gives a sight of himself here. And what union have you with God? What union of grace? What mystical union between God and your souls? And what fruition have you of God? Is it God that you enjoy in the creature? and God in all things? God in the Ordinances? and what rest do your souls find in God? though you be tossed up and down in regard of the uncertainty of the creature, yet is God your rest: yea, do you enjoy your selves in God? the beginning of all these are now for the present. And likewise for communion with Jesus Christ, what communion and converse is there between your souls and Jesus Christ? Is it not a riddle to you? Are ⟨p. 667⟩you delighted in the communion of the Saints? Are the Sabbaths your delight, as a beginning of the eternal Sabbath you shall keep in Heaven? Therefore now do you ask, Who shall have Heaven? and, Who shall ascend into the Mount? Those whom the Mount now comes down unto. Many hope they shall have God when they dye, but surely if God be not so merciful as to give you spiritual mercies for the present, he will not be so merciful as to give you eternal mercies hereafter; if he do not give you mercies of grace here, he will not give you mercies of glory hereafter.

Again, in Heaven you know God himself is the portion of the Saints, they have the presence of God: What presence of God do you enjoy here? Were your souls ever acquainted with the presence of God in the Ordinances? What blessed vision have you of God here? Those who come to Heaven, God gives a sight of himself here. And what union have you with God? What union of grace? What mystical union between God and your souls? And what fruition have you of God? Is it God that you enjoy in the creature? and God in all things? God in the Ordinances? and what rest do your souls finde in God? though you be tost up and down in regard of the uncertainty of the creature, yet is God your rest: yea, do you enjoy your selves in God? the beginning of all these are now for the present. And likewise for communion with Jesus Christ, what communion and converse is there between your souls and Jesus Christ? Is it not a riddle to you? Are ⟨p. 667⟩