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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
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Resp. 1. We shall see him intellectually, with the Eyes of our mind. This Divines call the Beatifical Vision. We shall have a full knowledge of God, though not know him fully. If there were not such an intellectual sight of God, then how do the Spirits of just Men made perfect see him? This sight of God will be very glorious: As when a King on his Coronation-day, shows himself in all his Royalty and Magnificence.
Resp. 1. We shall see him intellectually, with the Eyes of our mind. This Divines call the Beatifical Vision. We shall have a full knowledge of God, though not know him fully. If there were not such an intellectual sight of God, then how do the Spirits of just Men made perfect see him? This sight of God will be very glorious: As when a King on his Coronation-day, shews himself in all his Royalty and Magnificence.
2. We shall corporeally behold the glorified Body of Jesus Christ: And if it be a pleasant thing to behold the Sun, Eccles. 11.7. then how blessed a sight will it be to behold the Sun of Righteousness; to see Christ clothed in our humane Nature, sitting in Glory above the Angels! Solomon saith, The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Eccles. 1.8. But sure the Eyes of the Saints will be satisfied with seeing that Orient Brightness which shall shine from the beautiful Body of Christ. It must needs be satisfying, because, through Christs Flesh some Rays and Beams of the God-head shall gloriously display themselves. Gods excellent Majesty would overwhelm us, but through the Veil of Christs Flesh, we shall behold the Divine Glory.
2. We shall corporeally behold the glorified Body of Jesus Christ: And if it be a pleasant thing to behold the Sun, Eccles. 11.7. then how blessed a sight will it be to behold the Sun of Righteousness; to see Christ clothed in our humane Nature, sitting in Glory above the Angels! Solomon saith, The eye is not satisfied with seeing,