The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

¹It is an observable place that we have in the Hebrews, it is said concerning the state of the Church, that the law ⟨p. 184⟩had but a shadow of good things to come. Heb. 10.1. and not the very image of the things. It is not so much as an image: observe, a shadow is not so much as an image; but an image is not so much as the thing it self: but that was not an image, but a shadow. As a Painter that takes an image, he draws first the dark shadow with a coal, there is a great deal of difference between that shadow, and the image in beauty: so much difference there is between all the glory of God in the Church in the time of the law, and that glory of God that is among his people in the time of the Gospel▪ We may safely say, there is the like difference between Gods manifesting of himself to his people then, and now; as between a dark shadow drawn with a coal in comparison of an image. But mark, it was but a shadow of the image; that which we have now is but an image. As there is not so much in a shadow as in the image, so there is not so much in the image as in the thing it self. The presence of God and all his ⟨p. 185⟩goodness to his people, and his glory to his people now, it is but an image to that which shall be; there shall be another presence of God, another communication, and revelation of God hereafter, in another kind then there is now; all that we have now is but an image of that which shall be; all that was in the law was but a shadow of that image: therefore we should have a great deal of delight in the Saints.

¹It is an observable place that we have in the Hebrews, it is said concerning the state of the Church, that the law ⟨p. 184⟩had but a shadow of good things to come. Heb. 10.1. and not the very image of the things. It is not so much as an image: observe, a shadow is not so much as an image; but an image is not so much as the thing it self: but that was not an image, but a shadow. As a Painter that takes an image, he draws first the dark shadow with a cole, there is a great deal of difference between that shadow, and the image in beauty: so much difference there is between all the glory of God in the Church in the time of the law, and that glory of God that is among his people in the time of the Gospell We may safely say, there is the like difference between Gods manifesting of himself to his people then, and now; as between a dark shadow drawn with a cole in comparison of an image. But mark, it was but a shadow of the image; that which we have now is but an image. As there is not so much in a shadow as in the image, so there is not so much in the image as in the thing it self. The presence of God and all his