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Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ...…
Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.
London: printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689
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We shall be taken by God, when we are taken by Death. But unto what shall we be taken? A New Sight will chiefly constitute the New State which God will take us to. In short, we shall be taken to a Full, Refreshing, Transforming sight of God in Christ, among the Righteous for ever. I shall give but a touch at these things; we do but stammer and stumble when we attempt a Description of them. Indeed, I know not whether I had best offer at any Description of this glorious Estate; or instead thereof, only say as he said unto Nathanael once, Go and see. Yet however, ⟨p. 32⟩this little Cluster of Notions we may carry with us to the heavenly Country, from whence they were brought unto us.
We shall be taken by God, when we are taken by Death. But unto what shall we be taken? A New Sight will chiefly constitute the New State vvhich God will take us to. In short, we shall be taken to a Full, Refreshing, Transforming sight of God in Christ, among the Righteous for ever. I shall give but a touch at these things; we do but stammer and stumble vvhen we attempt a Description of them. Indeed, I know not vvhether I had best offer at any Description of this glorious Estate; or instead thereof, only say as he said unto Nathanael once, Go and see. Yet however, ⟨p. 32⟩this little Cluster of Notions we may carry with us to the heavenly Countrey, from vvhence they were brought unto us.
First, God will take the Believer unto a state wherein he shall be immediately beholding of himself in Christ Jesus. We shall come into the Presence of our Lord, and behold our Joseph, our Jesus, in all his glory. There shall then be fulfilled that part of our Lord's Intercession, in Joh. 17. 24. Let them be with me, where I am, that they may behold my glory. God will take us, where we shall see the Countenance, and hear the Conference too of that Man, in whom dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily. God will take us into the Embraces of him who has loved us, and washed us away from our sins in his own blood. And when we see him, we shall see God in him. I suppose that he is the large Golden Vessel full of God, from which the heavenly Visions of God are to be derived for evermore. Our Felicity shall be that in