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When the Saints get to Heaven, they shall not merely see Christ, and have to do with him as Subjects and Servants with a glorious and gracious Lord and Sovereign, but Christ will entertain them as Friends and Brethren. This we may learn from the Manner of Christ's conversing with his Disciples here on Earth: Though he was their Sovereign Lord, and did not refuse, but required, their supreme Respect and Adoration, yet he did not treat them as earthly Sovereigns are wont to do their Subjects; he did not keep them at an awful Distance; but all along conversed with them with the most friendly Familiarity, as a Father amongst a Company of Children, yea, as with Brethren. So he did with the twelve, and so he did with Mary, Martha and Lazarus He told his Disciples, that he did not call them Servants, but Friends, and we read of one of them that leaned on his Bosom. And doubtless he will not treat his Disciples with less Freedom and Endearment in Heaven: He won't keep them at a greater Distance for his being in a State of Exaltation; but he will rather take them into a State of Exaltation with him. This will be the Improvement Christ will make of his own Glory, to make his beloved Friends Partakers with him, to glorify them in his Glory, as he says to his Father, Joh. 17 22, 23. And the Glory which thou hast given […], have I give them, that they may be one, even as we are one, I in them, &c. We are to consider, that though Christ is greatly exalted, yet he is exalted not as a private Person, for himself only, but as his People's Head; he […] exalted in their Name, and upon their Account, as the First-Fruits, and as representing the whole Harvest. […] not exalted that he may be at a greater Distance from them, but ⟨p. 283⟩that they may be exalted with him. The Exaltation and Honour of the Head is not to make a greater Distance between the Head and the Members; but the Members have the same Relation and Union with the Head they had before, and are honoured with the Head; and instead of the Distance being greater, the Union shall be nearer, and more perfect. When Believers get to Heaven, Christ will conform them to himself; as he is set down in his Father's Throne, so they shall sit down with him on his Throne, and shall in their Measure be made like him.

When the Saints get to Heaven, they shall not meerly see Christ, and have to do with him as Subjects and Servants with a glorious and gracious Lord and Sovereign, but Christ will entertain them as Friends and Brethren. This we may learn from the Manner of Christ's conversing with his Disciples here on Earth: Though he was their Sovereign Lord, and did not refuse, but required, their supreme Respect and Adoration, yet he did not treat them as earthly Sovereigns are wont to do their Subjects; he did not keep them at an awful Distance; but all along conversed with them with the most friendly Familiarity, as a Father amongst a Company of Children, yea, as with Brethren. So he did with the twelve, and so he did with Mary, Martha and Lazarus He told his Disciples, that he did not call them Servants, but Friends, and we read of one of them that leaned on his Bosom. And doubtless he will not treat his Disciples with less Freedom and Endearment in Heaven: He won't keep them at a greater Distance for his being in a State of Exaltation; but he will rather take them into a State of Exaltation with him. This will be the Improvement Christ will make of his own Glory, to make his beloved Friends Partakers with him, to glorify them in his Glory, as he says to his Father,