The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

1. None of the Devils know; it doth not appear to them what the Sons of God shall be: They may indeed give shrewd guesses, and understand that it shall be very great: For, being created in the third Heaven, and having seen the Glory of it, they must needs know that the People of God, in so far as they are appointed ⟨p. 61⟩for the place, will be wondrously glorious; and their knowing of so much of it, makes them so extremely envious at them and their happiness: But still, after what manner the Bride, the Lambs Wife, shall be entertained in the great day, when the marriage shall be consummate, & he shall carry her home to his own Palace, they cannot tell, the Angels of Glory cannot know it, but by relation, and we cannot suppose that God will make special discoveries now to the Devils: They may remember what the place was by Creation, but what it shall be when Christ hath further prepared it, is not for them to understand.

1. None of the Devils know; it doth not appear to them what the Sons of God shal be: They may indeed give shreud ghuesses, and understand that it shal be very great: For, being created in the third Heaven, and having seen the Glory of it, they must needs know that the People of God, in so far as they are appointed ⟨p. 61⟩for the place, will be wondrously glorious; and their knowing of so much of it, makes them so extreamly envious at them and their happiness: But still, after what manner the Bride, the Lambs Wife, shal be entertained in the great day, when the marriage shal be consummate, & he shal carry her home to his own Pallace, they cannot tell, the Angels of Glory cannot know it, but by relation, and we cannot suppose that God will make special discoveries now to the Devils: They may remember what the place was by Creation, but what it shal be when Christ hath further prepared it, is not for them to understand.

2. It doth not appear to wicked men, what the Sons of God shall be: The World are strangers, and intermeddle not with their joy: The truth is, the World are so far from knowing what they shall be, that they do not know what they are at present: There are Inchoate felicities which the Saints have in this life, which unregenerate men have no notice, or cognizance of they have their feasts, their joys, their consolations, their boastings, that are riddles to the ungodly: They know not what the country feast of a good Conscience means, how then should they understand what are the Provisions of the Kingdom of Glory? The Children of God have their joys and ravishments here, and these strangers have no acquaintance with them.