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I say, to pass by this in silence, which yet certainly hath somewhat in it for the heightening of the beauty of this vision, (as we see in the Luminaries of this inferior world, their different orbs and magnitudes, contribute not a little to the beauty and ornament of these visible heavens): We may add this before we go off, viz. That the communion and converse with the Saints in heaven will be as sweet to the taste as the vision of them will be glittering to the eye; there will be heaven in both: Behold! their fellowship and converse here was so sweet, that David could say, All my delight is in the Saints that are in the earth, ¹and in the excellent ones: David could take no pleasure in the company of any in the world, but only in Gods holy Ones, who were beautified with his Image. Oh what will their communion and fellowship (think you) be in heaven, when they shall be totally divested of all their sinful corruptions, their ignorance, their pride, their passion, their peevishness, their tenaciousness, their impurity, their envy, their ⟨p. 6⟩impatience, their censoriousness, their unseriousness, their insincerity, and their unsavouriness, whereby they are apt to offend and hurt one another? Yea, when they shall have put off their natural infirmities as well as their sinful, their impertinences, their mistakes, their weaknesses, their indispositions, their hunger and thirst, their drowsiness, their vanity, their mutability, whereby they are not more unlike to other men than to themselves (sometimes) their diversions and reservedness, &c. whereby they are less able to do one another good? What will their converse be, when they shall put off all their defects and all their imperfections? When there shall be no dissent amongst them, much less dissension, but when they shall all speak the same thing, and there shall be no division, but they shall be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment, which the Apostle commends so passionately, even to the Saints on this side Heaven, 1 Cor. 1.10. When there shall be such a perfect harmony amongst the Saints, as if there were but one soul to act that whole Assembly of the first-born? When there will be nothing in them to converse with but pure grace, grace without mixture, grace and nothing else but grace? Yea, not pure grace only, but perfect grace;