The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

SECT. 13.

The thirteenth subject of meditation, is, §13¹Meditate on heaven: From the Mount of meditation, as from Mount Nebo, we may take a view and prospect of the Land of promise. Christ hath taken possession of heaven in the name of all believers, Heb. 6.20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus. Heaven must needs be a glorious City, which hath God both for its builder and inhabitant. Heaven is the extract & quintessence of all blessedness. There the Saints shall have their wish. Austin wished ⟨p. 140⟩that he might have seen three things before he died, Rome in its Glory, Paul in the Pulpit, and Christ in the Flesh. But the Saints shall see a better sight; they shall see, not Rome, but Heaven in its glory; they shall see Paul, not in the Pulpit, but on the Throne, and shall sit with him; they shall see Christs flesh, not veiled over with infirmities and disgraces, but in its spiritual embroidery; not a crucified, but a glorified body. They shall behold the King in his beauty, Isa. 33.17. What a glorious place will this be! In heaven God will be all in all, 1 Cor. 15.28. Beauty to the eye, music to the ears; joy to the heart, and this he will be to the poorest Saint, as well as the richest. O Christian, who art now at thy hard labour, perhaps following the plough, thou shalt sit on the Throne of glory^*. Quintus Curtius writes of one who was digging ⟨p. 141⟩in his garden, and on a sudden made King, and a purple garment richly embroidered with gold, put upon him; so shall it be done to the poorest believer, he shall be taken from his labouring work, and set at the right hand of God,