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6. Meditate on eternal life, 1 John 2. 25. This is his promise, even eternal ¹life. Life is sweet, and this word Eternal makes it sweeter. This, lies in the immediate vision and fruition of God. 1. This is a spiritual life: it is opposite to that animal life which we live now. Here we hunger and thirst; but there ⟨p. 50⟩we shall hunger no more, Rev. 7. 16. There is the marriage-supper of the Lamb, which will not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it. That blessed life to come doth not consist in sensual delights, meat, and drink, and music; nor in the comfort of Relations: but the Soul will be wholly swallowed up in God, and acquiesce in him with infinite complacency. As when the Sun appears, the Stars vanish: So when God shall appear in his glory, and fill the soul, then all earthly sensitive delights shall vanish. 2. It is a glorious life. The bodies of the Saints shall be enamelled with Glory: they shall be made like Christs glorious body, Phil. 3. 21. And if the Cabinet be of such curious needle-work, how rich shall the Jewel be that is put into it! how bespangled with glory shall the soul be! Every Saint shall wear his white Robe, and have his Throne to sit upon. Then God will put some of his own glory upon the Saints. Glory shall not only be revealed to them, but in them^*, Rom. 8. 18. And this life of glory shall be crowned with Eternity; what Angel can express it! O let us often meditate on this.

6. Meditate on eternal life, 1 John 2. 25. This is his promise, even eternal ¹life. Life is sweet, and this word Eternal makes it sweeter. This, lies in the immediate vision and fruition of God. 1. This is a spiritual life: it is opposite to that animal life which we live now. Here we hunger and thirst; but there