Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

I SHALL not here enquire into the nature of this vision, or the power and ability which we shall have in Heaven to behold the Glory of Christ. Some few things may be mentioned, as it relates unto our Minds and our Bodies also after the Resurrection.

1. FOR the Mind, it shall be perfectly freed from all that Darkness, Unsteadiness, and other Incapacities, which here it is accompanied with; and whereby it is weakened, hindered and obstructed in the Exercise of Faith. And they are of two sorts. First, such as are the remainders of that depravation of our Natures, which came upon us by sin. Hereby our Minds became wholly vain, dark, and corrupt, as the Scripture testifieth, utterly unable to discern spiritual things in a due manner. This is so far cured and removed in this Life by Grace, as that those who were darkness, do become light in the Lord, or are enabled to live unto God under the Conduct of a new spiritual Light communicated unto them. But it is so cured and removed in part only, it is not perfectly abolished. Hence are all our remaining Weaknesses and Incapacities in discerning things spiritual and eternal, which we yet groan under, and long for deliverance from. No Footsteps, no Scars or Marks that ever it had place in our Minds shall abide in glory, Ephes. 5. 27. Nothing shall weaken, disturb, or incapacitate our Souls, in acting all their Powers unimpeded by Vanity, Diversions, Weakness, Inability, upon their proper Objects. The Excellency hereof in universal Liberty and Power, we cannot here comprehend: Nor can we yet conceive the Glory and Beauty of those immixed spiritual actings of our Minds, which shall have no Clog upon them, no Encumbrance in them, no Alloy of Dross accompanying of them. One pure Act of spiritual Sight in discerning the Glory of Christ, one pure Act of Love in cleaving unto God, ⟨p. 150⟩will bring in more Blessedness and Satisfaction into our Minds, than in this World we are capable of.

1. FOR the Mind, it shall be perfectly freed from all that Darkness, Unsteadiness, and other Incapacities, which here it is accompanied with; and whereby it is weakened, hindred and obstructed in the Exercise of Faith. And they are of two sorts. First, such as are the remainders of that depravation of our Natures, which came upon us by sin. Hereby our Minds became wholly vain, dark, and corrupt, as the Scripture testifieth, utterly unable to discern spiritual things in a due manner. This is so far cured and removed in this Life by Grace, as that those who were darkness, do become light in the Lord, or are enabled to live unto God under the Conduct of a new spiritual Light communicated unto them. But it is so cured and removed in part only, it is not perfectly abolished. Hence are all our remaining Weaknesses and Incapacities in discerning things spiritual and eternal, which we yet groan under, and long for deliverance from. No Footsteps, no Scars or Marks that ever it had place in our Minds shall abide in glory,