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

1. The Word of God hath said a great deal concerning their future Glory. There are many high and towering expressions, to our apprehension, used in the Scripture, worthy descriptions of that great City and the Inhabitants of it, and if we would study the Scripture more we might know more of it: But yet when we arrive at the Kingdom and come once to see, and view, and experience it, we shall say as the Queen Sheba to Solomon, 1 King. 10. 6, 7.

1. The Word of God hath said a great deal concerning their future Glory. There are many high and towring expressions, to our apprehension, used in the Scripture, worthy descriptions of that great City and the Inhabitants of it, and if we would study the Scripture more we might know more of it: But yet when we arrive at the Kingdom and come once to see, and view, and experience it, we shal say as the Queen Sheba to Solomon, 1 King. 10. 6, 7.

2. The People of God have their sips and foretastes, ⟨p. 63⟩and first fruits of this Glory here: They are made to taste of those Grapes of which the Wine is made in Canaan: They have not only their assurances, but also sometimes their ecstasies: They are taken into the Mount, rapt up into the third Heaven, their souls are lifted up above the world, and all that is in it. God is pleased at some times to carry them out so far in their meditations, and reveal so much of himself and his infinite love to their contemplation, that they are loth to come down, or to have any thing more to do with the sink and puddle of this world: They know so much of that after state,, that when they are under these precious discoveries, and the irradiations of the spirit of God upon their souls, they cry out, Who will give me the wings of a Dove, that I might mount up and be▪ gone: And with Paul their hearts are carried forth with a longing desire to depart and be with him in full possession of all this Glory: But,