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Now there are six beatifical Objects in Heaven.

1. The seat and mansions of blessed Souls. 2. The glorified Saints. 3. The elect Angels. 4. The glorified body of the Lord Jesus. 5. God in the Divine essence. 6. All things in God.

The first vision which the Saints shall see, ¹is that which is called, Sedes beatorum, the seat or babitation of blessed souls, the mansions of glory, which our Lord hath purchased for his redeemed, and which he went before to prepare for them; the third Heavens; the Palace of the great King. A glorious place certainly, for therefore it is called Paradise, to set forth the beauty and pleasantness of the situation; that as the Paradise wherein God put man in his innocency, was the beauty and delight of the whole nether world, so Heaven the place which God hath prepared for man (restored to perfection) is the beauty and glory of all the upper Regions, the top and perfection of the whole Creation. Behold, the outside of this stately Palace is very glorious, beautified and adorned with all those bright and glittering Luminaries, the Sun, Moon and Stars; what think you is the inside? Consult that description which the Spirit of God hath made of it in the Revelations, ²the wall of jasper, the City of pure gold, the foundations of the wall of the City garnished with all manner of precious stones, the twelve gates of twelve pearls, every several gate of one entire pearl, the street of the City of pure gold, as it were transparent glass; and you will surely say, Heaven is a glorious place; and yet behold, this description of it is levelled to the low and childish capacity of our weak and fleshly senses, as we judge of things in this imperfect state of mortality: what think you then, will the glory of the new Jerusalem appear, when glorified sense shall be elevated and raised up to a perfection suitable to its object? Surely, Heaven will as much exceed the description of it in glory, as the bodies of the Saints in the Resurrection, shall exceed in beauty these vile bodies of ours, when they are resolved into dust and rottenness: What shall I need say more? Heaven is a place as beautiful and glorious as the wisdom and power of God could devise to make it, that it might be the Royal Palace of his own Residence: That august and magnificent fabric which the proud Babylonian Tyrant stood tracking and boasting over,