Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

2. The hearts of the righteous shall be joined to God, who is their chief good, by love. But who can utter the love which the Saints shall have unto God in Heaven? it will exceed our now conceptions, much more will it exceed the love which those of the most intimate acquaintance with God do here attain unto; that it will be heightened beyond what now it is, we may apprehend, if we consider,

2. The hearts of the righteous shall be joyned to God, who is their chief good, by love. But who can utter the love which the Saints shall have unto God in Heaven? it will exceed our now conceptions, much more will it exceed the love which those of the most intimate acquaintance with God do here at•ain unto; that it will be heightned beyond what now it is, we may apprehend, if we consider,

1. That the righteous will have an immediate vision of God, as hath been shown; now they live in a dark World, and have a Cloud upon their minds, and see but a little of God through the perspective Glass of his Ordinances, a little in the works of his hands, and in the works of his spirit upon the hearts of his Children; and if when they see and know him so little, they can love him so dearly above the whole World, how will they love him when they behold his face, when the Clouds shall be dispelled, and the Sun break forth? when they behold his beauty, and the transcendent excellencies which are in him, beyond whatever they could here imagine? how will their hearts be ravished with love to look God in the face▪ when they see him in himself, when they see him in his Son, when the Divinity of ⟨p. 164⟩Christ shall appear in him, and shine so gloriously before them, when they see the Angels so full of God, and the Saints so full of God, and every thing in Heaven represent the glorious Jehovah unto them?

1. That the righteous will have an immediate vision of God, as hath been shown; now they live in a dark World, and have a Cloud upon their mindes, and see but a little of God through the perspective Glass of his Ordinances, a little in the works of his hands, and in the works of his spirit upon the hearts of his Children; and if when they see and know him so little, they can love him so dearly above the whole World, how will they love him when they behold his face, when the Clouds shall be dispelled, and the Sun break sorth? when they behold his beauty, and the transcendent excellencies which are in him, beyond whatever they could here imagine? how will their hearts be ravished with love to look God in the face when they see him in himself, when they see him in his Son, when the Divinity of