The child's portion

Touching the evidence of the Doctrine, that this Vision is truly beatifical, or that thus to see Christ is a great part of the happiness of glorified Saints needs not many words to evince: happiness consists in the perfect closure of the faculty with the Object; God in Christ is the proper ultimate Object of all our faculties, and so of the understanding: when therefore the understanding is filled full of the knowledge of Christ it shall be blessed: happiness requires the full attainment of the Creatures end: Man as to his understanding was made for light or knowledge; hence Truth must happily the understanding, and when it is full of Christ, it is full of truth it self. Happiness is a privilege which none but a reasonable being is capable of: irrational Agents attain their ends, but they are not happy in so doing, because they are irrational: the satisfaction of the understanding must therefore be a main and principal part of happiness, because it is a faculty without which no Being can be conceived to be happy: needs then must the Children of God be very blessed in this Vision, when they come to see Christ as he is, for all necessary and desirable knowledge, whether speculative or practical shall be comprehended in it: and if David could account of a little glimmering light, a day-break faint beam of it, to be more wo•th than gold, Psal. 19.10. what complete satisfaction then must that full knowledge ⟨p. 139⟩of him yield, when this Sun shall shine upon them in his noon-day brightness: if it be life eternal to know God and Christ as he is here known, Joh. 17.3. we cannot then conceive, much less, express what it shall be when a perfected understanding shall receive a perfect intimate and immediate irradiation of this Knowledge.

Touching the evidence of the Doctrine, that this Vision is truly beatifical, or that thus to see Christ is a great part of the happiness of glorified Saints needs not many words to evince: happiness consists in the perfect closure of the faculty with the Object; God in Christ is the proper ultimate Object of all our faculties, and so of the understanding: when therefore the understanding is filled full of the knowledge of Christ it shall be blessed: happiness requires the full attainment of the Creatures end: Man as to his understanding was made for light or knowledge; hence Truth must happiie the understanding, and when it is full of Christ, it is full of truth it self. Happiness is a priviledge which none but a reasonable being is capable of: irrational Agents attain their ends, but they are not happy in so doing, because they are irrational: the satisfaction of the understanding must therefore be a main and principal part of happiness, because it is a faculty without which no Being can be conceived to be happy: needs then must the Children of God be very blessed in this Vision, when they come to see Christ as he is, for all necessary and desirable knowledge, whether speculative or practical shall be comprehended in it: and if David could account of a little glimmering light, a day-break faint beam of it, to be more woth than gold,