The first Ingredient into Fruition is Propriety; 1Whatsoever the Saints see in Heaven is their own; God saith to Abraham, 2now in the heavenly Canaan, what he once said to him of the earthly, Lift up thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art Northward, Southward, Eastward and Westward; for all the land which thou seest […] thee do I give it; whatever is within that vast circumference of Heaven it is Abraham's, and all his spiritual seeds for ever. Now David may tune his Michtam a key higher; and instead of, Gilead is mine, 3and Manasseh is mine, Ephraim and Judah, ⟨p. 51⟩&c. he may now sing, God is mine, and Christ is mine, and the Spirit is mine; all the elect Angels are mine, and all the whole Congregation of the first-born mine, all the glory of Heaven is mine. And so may the best of the Saints in heaven triumph, all is mine, and what pleasures, or riches, or honours, or glory, or joys, are in the presence of God, they are all mine. 4They did sing so while yet in the valley of tears; or they might have sung so; Faith gave them a title, their Jus adrem, a right to Heaven, but the blessed vision giveth them now real interest, Jus in re, right in Heaven; and they need not now fear to call it theirs; they might have said, my God, my Christ, and my Comforter here below, but one thing was to be done first; sound Scripture evidence was to be cleared out, and sealed up to their souls, but some or other defect therein (did not seldom) check their confidence, and damp their joy for a time. But now in glory Propriety is beyond all dispute; their evidences were seen and allowed at their first admission into Heaven, and now mine, mine, is their song and triumph to all eternity, and God is not ashamed to be called their God; truly he was not ashamed to be called so, even when they had but too much cause to be ashamed of themselves, and gave God too much cause to be ashamed of them. But now God is so far from being ashamed of owning them, that he rejoiceth in them, and glorieth over them.
The first Ingredient into Fruition is Propriety; 1Whatsoever the Saints see in Heaven is their own; God saith to Abraham, 2now in the heavenly Canaan, what he once said to him of the earthly, Lift up thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art Northward, Southward, Eastward and Westward; for all the land which thou seest 〈…〉 thee do I give it; whatever is within that vast circumference of Heaven it is Abraham's, and all his spiritual seeds for ever. Now David may tune his Michtam a key higher; and instead of, Gilead is mine, 3and Manasseh is mine, Ephraim and Judah, ⟨p. 51⟩&c. he may now sing, God is mine, and Christ is mine, and the Spirit is mine; all the elect Angels are mine, and all the whole Congregation of the first-born mine, all the glory of Heaven is mine. And so may the best of the Saints in heaven triumph, all is mine, and what pleasures, or riches, or honours, or glory, or joyes, are in the presence of God, they are all mine. 4They did sing so while yet in the valley of tears; or they might have sung so; Faith gave them a title, their Jus adrem, a right to Heaven, but the blessed vision giveth them now real interest, Jus in re, right in Heaven; and they need not now fear to call it theirs; they might have said, my God, my Christ, and my Comforter here below, but one thing was to be done first; sound Scripture evidence was to be cleared out, and sealed up to their souls, but some or other defect therein (did not seldom) check their confidence, and damp their joy for a time. But now in glory Propriety is beyond all dispute; their evidences were seen and allowed at their first admission into Heaven, and now mine, mine, is their song and triumph to all eternity, and God is not ashamed to be called their God; truly he was not ashamed to be called so, even when they had but too much cause to be ashamed of themselves, and gave God too much cause to be ashamed of them. But now God is so far from being ashamed of owning them, that he rejoyceth in them, and glorieth over them.
- 11. Ingredient Propriety.
- 2Gen. 13.14
- 3Psal. 60.7, 8
- 4[Greek or Hebrew], John 1.13〈non-Latin alphabet〉, John 1.13
