A Body of Practical Divinity

2. Believers at Death shall gain the glorious Sight of God. They shall see him First, Intellectually with the Eyes of their Mind, which Divines call the Beatifical Vision: If there were not such an Intellectual sight of God, how do the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect see him? Secondly, They shall behold the Glorified Body of Jesus Christ; and if it be pleasant to behold the Sun, then how blessed a sight will it be to see Christ the Son of Righteousness clothed with our Human Nature shining in Glory above the Angels? Through Christ's Flesh as through a Transparent Glass, some bright Rays and Beams of the God head shall display themselves to glorified Eyes: The sight of God through Christ will be very complacential and delightful: The terror of God's Essence will be taken away: Gods Majesty will be mixed with Beauty, and sweetened with Clemency; it will be infinitely delightful to the Saints to see the amiable aspects and smiles of Gods Face: Which brings me to the third thing.

2. Believers at Death shall gain the glorious Sight of God. They shall see him First, Intellectually with the Eyes of their Mind, which Divines call the Beatifical Vision: If there were not such an Intellectual sight of God, how do the Spirits of Iust Men made Perfect see him? Secondly, They shall behold the Glorified Body of Jesus Christ; and if it be pleasant to behold the Sun, then how blessed a sight will it be to see Christ the Son of Righteousness cloathed with our Human Nature shining in Glory above the Angels? Through Christ's Flesh as through a Transparent Glass, some bright Rays and Beams of the God head shall display themselves to glorified Eyes: The sight of God through Christ will be very complacential and delightful: The terrour of God's Essence will be taken away: Gods Majesty will be mixed with Beauty, and sweetned with Clemency; it will be infinitely delightful to the Saints to see the amiable aspects and smiles of Gods Face: Which brings me to the third thing.

3. The Saints at Death shall not only have a Sight of God, but shall enjoy the Love of God; there shall be no more Veil on Gods Face, nor his Smiles chequered with Frowns, but Gods love shall discover it self in all its Orient Beauty and fragrant Sweetness. Here the Saints pray for Gods Love, and they have a few drops, but there they shall have as much as their Vessel can receive. To know this love passeth Knowledge: This will cause a Jubilation of Spirits, and create such Holy Raptures of Joy in the Saints as are Superlative, and would soon overwhelm them if God did not make them able to bear.