This is considerable, that when Christ shall put the Crown of incomparable glory on the head of the glorified soul there shall be thousand millions of moe Diamonds, Rubies, and Jewels of glory on that Diadem, then ever your thoughts or imaginations, could reach, and more weight of sweetness, delight, joy, and glory in a sight of God, then the seeing eye, the hearing ear, yea the vast understanding and heart, which can multiply and add to former thoughts can be able to fathom 1 Cor. 2.9. When ye seek and ask Christ from the Father, you know not his weight and worth, when you shall enjoy Christ immediately up at the well head, this shall much fill the soul with admiration, I believed to see much in Christ, having some twilight & afternoon, or Moonlight glances of him down in the earth: But O blind I, narrow I could never have Faith, opinion, thought, or imagination to fathom the thousand thousand part of the worth, and incomparable excellency I now see in him. 1You may over-think, and over-praise Paradise, Rome, Naples, the Isles where there be two Summers in one year, but you cannot over-think, or in your thoughts reach Christ, and the invisible things of God; only glorified thoughts, not thoughts ⟨p. 458⟩graced only are comprehensive, in any due measure of God, of heaven. The glorified soul shall be a far wider & more capacious circle, the Diameter of it in length, many thousand cubits larger in mind, thoughts, glorified reason, will, heart, desires, love, joy, reverence, &c, then it is now: We would in seeking, asking, praying, in adoring God in Christ, enlarge our own desires, heart, will, and affections, broad and deep, that we may take in more of Christ: broad prayers flow from broad desires, narrow prayers from niggard and narrow hearts; we may collect the bigness of a ship from the proportion and quantity of its bottom, in its new framing: If the bottom draw but to the proportion of a small vessel, which can endure no more but a pair of oars, the vessel cannot be five hundred Tun, or be able to bear 60. pieces of Ordnance: Prayer bottomed on deep and broad hunger, and extreme pain of love-sickness for Christ, and great pinching poverty of spirit, must be in proportion wide and deep:
This is considerable, that when Christ shall put the Crown of incomparable glory on the head of the glorified soul there shall be thousand millions of moe Diamonds, Rubies, and Jewels of glory on that Diadem, then ever your thoughts or imaginations, could reach, and more weight of sweetness, delight, joy, and glory in a sight of God, then the seeing eye, the hearing ear, yea the vast understanding and heart, which can multiply and adde to former thoughts can be able to fathom 1 Cor. 2.9. When ye seek and ask Christ from the Father, you know not his weight and worth, when you shal injoy Christ immediately up at the wel head, this shal much fill the soul with admiration, I believed to see much in Christ, having some twilight & afternoon, or Moonlight glances of him down in the earth: But O blind I, narrow I could never have Faith, opinion, thought, or imagination to fathom the thousand thousand part of the worth, and incomparable excellencie I now see in him. 1You may over-think, and over-praise Paradice, Rome, Naples, the Isles where there be two Summers in one year, but you cannot over-think, or in your thoughts reach Christ, and the invisible things of God; only glorified thoughts, not thoughts ⟨p. 458⟩graced only are comprehensive, in any due measure of God, of heaven. The glorified soul shal be a far wider & more capacious circle, the Diameter of it in length, many thousand cubits larger in mind, thoughts, glorified reason, will, heart, desires, love, joy, reverence, &c, then it is now: We would in seeking, asking, praying, in adoring God in Christ, inlarge our own desires, heart, will, and affections, broad and deep, that we may take in more of Christ: broad prayers flow from broad desires, narrow prayers from niggard and narrow hearts; we may collect the bignesse of a ship from the proportion and quantity of its bottom, in its new framing: If the bottom draw but to the proportion of a small vessell, which can indure no more but a pair of oares, the vessel cannot be five hundred Tun, or be able to bear 60. peeces of Ordnance: Prayer bottomed on deep and broad hunger, and extreame pain of love-sicknesse for Christ, and great pinching poverty of spirit, must be in proportion wide and deep:
- 1More in Christ and heaven then our faith in this life can reach.
