The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

4. Consider the Glory of the Company and Fellowship you shall have here; 1. Angels, Heb. 12.23, 24. they will love you and comfort you, and rejoice with you, and speak of the great Things the Lord hath done for you, as they did on Earth to the Shepherds, Luke 2.10. Be not afraid, saith the Angel; Mat. 28.5. I know you seek Jesus: So will they say then, be ever comforted, you blessed Servants of the Lord, for we know you are loved of the Lord Jesus. 2. Saints, you shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of God, be taken into the Bosom of Abraham, into the Bosom of all the Children of Abraham, and there we shall speak with them of the Lord's Wonders, of his Christ and Kingdom, Psal. 145.11. and every Sentence and Word shall be Milk & Honey, sweeter than thy Life now can be unto thee; we shall know, and love, and honour one another exceedingly. 3. The Man Christ Jesus: when Mary clasped about him, John 20.17. Let me alone, said he, touch me not, I am not yet ascended o my Father. As if he had said, (saith Austin) the• shall be the Place and Time wherein we shall embrace one another for evermore. Never was Husband and loving Wife so familiar one with another, as the Lord Jesus will be (not carnally, and in an earthly Manner) but, in a most heavenly, glorious, yet gracious Manner with all his Saints; Come, ye Blessed, will he then say to them; we shall then ever be, not only in the Lord, ⟨p. 241⟩but with the Lord, saith Paul, 1 Thes. 4. ult. & 5.10. Just as Moses and Elijah in his Transfiguration, that talked with him, (which was a Glimpse of our future Glory) so shall we then, Luke 12.37. and you shall then see that Love of his, that blessed Bosom of Love opened fully, which the Apostle saith passeth Knowledge,