Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…

So Is, as that it was, so was as that it shall be, so shall be as that it is: Eternity is a single Point, such are all the blessednesses of the Saints, were, and are, and shall be: so Past, as to come, and so to come as present, this is a mystery, and it is marvellous in our eyes.

Out of these nine Ingredients or Properties there ariseth a tenth, the very top of all, scil. Delight and Complacency; ¹and this makes Heaven to be Heaven indeed, the joy of the Lord, even the same joy which God himself possesseth; the same for kind, though not for degree.

1. 110 Property. Complacency.

Propriety, Possession, Intimacy, Suitableness, Satiety, Reflection, Immutability, they all meet in God essentially, making up an infinite delight and complacency in the Saints and Angels, they are perfectly, though bounded and limited according to the capacity of the Creature, ¹making up a delight and joy, which (on this side Heaven) passeth all understanding; of which the Psalmist sings,

Propriety, Possession, Intimacy, Suitableness, Satiety, Reflexion, Immutability, they all meet in God essentially, making up an infinite delight and complacency in the Saints and Angels, they are perfectly, though bounded and limitted according to the capacity of the Creature, ¹making up a delight and joy, which (on this side Heaven) passeth all understanding; of which the Psalmist sings,