The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

To have the eternal Glory of God in Christ, with all the fruits of his Wisdom and Love, whilst we are our selves under the full participation of the effects of them, immediately, directly, revealed, proposed, made known unto us in a divine and glorious Light, our Souls being furnished with a Capacity to behold and perfectly comprehend them, this is the Heaven which according unto Gods Promise we look for. But as was said, these things shall be elsewhere more fully treated of.

To have the eternal Glory of God in Christ, with all the fruits of his Wisdom and Love, whilest we are our selves under the full participation of the effects of them, immediately, directly, revealed, proposed, made known unto us in a divine and glorious Light, our Souls being furnished with a Capacity to behold and perfectly comprehend them, this is the Heaven which according unto Gods Promise we look for. But as was said, these things shall be elsewere more fully treated of.

It is true, that there are sundry other things in particular that belong unto this State of Glory. But what we have mentioned is the Fountain and Spring of them all. We can never have an immediate enjoyment of God in the Immensity of his Nature, nor can any created understanding conceive any such things. Gods communications of himself unto us, and our enjoyment of ⟨p. 107⟩him, shall be in and by the manifestation of his Glory in Christ. He who can see no Glory, who is sensible of no Blessedness in these things, is a stranger unto that Heaven which the Scripture reveals, and which Faith leads unto.

It is true, that there are sundry other things in particular that belong unto this State of Glory. But what we have mentioned is the Fountain and Spring of them all. We can never have an immeditate enjoyment of God in the Immensity of his Nature, nor can any created understanding conceive any such things. Gods communications of himself unto us, and our enjoyment of ⟨p. 107⟩