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4. Our communion with God shall be immediate, without so much as a Mediator: We shall go straight unto God, and immediately participate his Glory and Happiness. There can be no immediate communion between God and the Creature, while sin or any of the effects of it remain: but when sin shall be abolished, then God shall be all in all, as before Christ was all in all: Christ shall deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he shall have put all enemies under his feet, 1 Cor. 15.24. and onwards. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Christ as man constitutes a part of the Church (yet he is still the Head of the Church; as Adam is part of man-kind, yet still the head of man-kind,) but there will be no further need of a Mediator, e. g. Suppose you saw a company of Crystal Globes, placed in a parallel line, and a single Globe by the middle of them, to transmit the Sun-beams unto them, because their positure will not admit the Suns immediate beams; but when the Sun shall so come about, as that they may immediately receive its beams, there's no further use of the single Globe. So here, while we through our distance from God, are uncapable of immediate enjoyment, there's a necessity of Christs mediation; but when all things that cause that distance are removed, and we brought into the Presence-chamber, no such necessity of a Mediator.

4. Our communion with God shall be immediate, without so much as a Mediatour: We shall go streight unto God, and immediately participate his Glory and Happinesse. There can be no immediate communion between God and the Creature, while sin or any of the effects of it remain: but when sin shall be abolished, then God shall be all in all, as before Christ was all in all: Christ shall deliver up the Kingdome to God the Father, when he shall have put all enemies under his feet, 1 Cor. 15.24. and onwards. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Christ as man constitutes a part of the Church (yet he is still the Head of the Church; as Adam is part of man-kinde, yet still the head of man-kinde,) but there will be no further need of a Mediatour, e. g. Suppose you saw a company of Crystal Globes, placed in a parallel line, and a single Globe by the middle of them, to transmit the Sun-beames unto them, because their positure will not admit the Suns immediate beams; but when the Sun shall so come about, as that they may immediately receive its beams, there's no further use of the single Globe. So here, while we through our distance from God, are uncapable of immediate enjoyment, there's a necessity of Christs mediation; but when all things that cause that distance are removed, and we brought into the Presence-chamber, no such necessity of a Mediatour.