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2. The second period of our enjoyment of God, is between our dissolution and resurrection. And now we begin to launch out into the Deep. You know Peter speaks excellent things of Faith, 1 Pet. 1.8. by believing in him whom we never saw, We rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. But what's Faith to Fruition? what's hearing to vision? we must now go softly, least our feet stumble upon the dark mountains. Consider therefore particularly, what the body enjoys of God, while it lies in the grave, and then what the soul enjoys of him at the same time.

2. The second period of our enjoyment of God, is between our dissolution and resurrection. And now we begin to launch out into the Deep. You know Peter speaks excellent things of Faith, 1 Pet. 1.8. by believing in him whom we never saw, We rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory. But what's Faith to Fruition? what's hearing to vision? we must now go softly, least our feet stumble upon the dark mountains. Consider therefore particularly, what the body enjoyes of God, while it lies in the grave, and then what the soul enjoyes of him at the same time.

1. The body, the body? what's a dead body capable of? what should we speak of a piece of putrefying, rotten, stinking clay? though 'twas never so lovely while living, yet we say of it when dead, as Abraham of Sarah, Remove it out of my sight. Aye, but God will not say so: he counts ⟨p. 11⟩the dust of Jacob: he that loved us when we were nothing, doth not love us less for our rottenness.

1. The body, the body? what's a dead body capable of? what should we speak of a piece of putrifying, rotten, stinking clay? though 'twas never so lovely while living, yet we say of it when dead, as Abraham of Sarah, Remove it out of my sight. Aye, but God will not say so: he counts