A65285:1523
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. 1. What is comprehended in Glory?
Resp. Glory is Status omnium Bonorum aggregation perfectus, Boethius. It is a perfect State of Bliss, which consists in the Accumulation and heaping together all those good things which immortal Souls are capable of. And truly here I am at a loss; *all that I can say falls short of the Celestial Glory: Apelles Pencil cannot delineate it; Angels Tongues cannot express it: We shall never understand Glory fully, till we are in Heaven: Only let me give you the [Greek or Hebrew], or some dark views and some imperfect Lineaments of that State of Glory the Saints shall arrive at after Death.
Resp. Glory is Status omnium Bonorum aggregatione perfectus, Boetius. It is a perfect State of Bliss, which consists in the Accumulation and heaping together all those good things which immortal Souls are capable of. And truly here I am at a loss; *all that I can say falls short of the Celestial Glory: Appelles Pencil cannot delineate it; Angels Tongues cannot express it: We shall never understand Glory fully, till we are in Heaven: Only let me give you the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or some dark views and some imperfect Lineaments of that State of Glory the Saints shall arrive at after Death.
- *Vox faucibus haeret
1. The first and most sublime part of the Glory of Heaven is the full and sweet Fruition of God: Ipse Deus sufficit ad praemium, Aug. We are apt to think the Happiness of Heaven is in being free from Pain and Misery, but the very [Greek or Hebrew] and Quintessence of Happiness, is the Enjoyment and Fruition of God; this is the Diamond Ring of Glory God is an infinite inexhaustible Fountain of Joy; and to have him is to have all. Now the enjoying of God implies three things.