Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

THIS is the progress of our nature unto its Rest and Blessedness. The principles remaining in it concerning Good and Evil, with its practical convictions, are not destroyed, but improved by grace; as its blindness, darkness and enmity to God, are in part taken away. Being renewed by Grace, what it receives here of spiritual Life and Light, shall never be destroyed but be perfected in Glory. Grace renews Nature; Glory perfects Grace; ⟨p. 152⟩and so the whole Soul is brought unto its rest in God. We have an Image of it in the blind Man whom our Saviour cured, Mark 8. 22, 23, 24. He was absolutely blind, born so, no doubt. Upon the first touch his Eyes were opened, and he saw but very obscurely; he saw men walking like Trees. But on the second he saw all things clearly. Our minds in themselves are absolutely blind. The first visitation of them by Grace, gives them a sight of things spiritual, heavenly and eternal, but it is obscure and unsteady. The sight of Glory makes all things clear and evident.

2ly; THE body as glorified, with its senses, shall have its use and place herein. After we are clothed again with our flesh, we shall see our Redeemer with our Eyes.

2ly; THE body as glorified, with its senses, shall have its use and place herein. After we are cloathed again with our flesh, we shall see our Redeemer with our Eyes.

We know not here what power and spirituality there will be in the acts of our glorified Bodies. Such they will be, as shall bear a part in eternal Blessedness. Holy Stephen, the first Martyr, took up somewhat of Glory by Anticipation before he died. For when he was brought to his Trial before the Council, all that sate therein looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as the face of an Angel,