The saints everlasting rest

First, The ungodly in their loss of heaven, lose all that glorious personal perfection, which the people of GOD there enjoy. They lose that shining lustre of the body, surpassing the brightness of the sun. Though even the bodies of the wicked will be raised incorruptible, yet that will be so far from being happiness to them, that it only makes them capable of the more exquisite torments. They would be glad then, if every member were a dead member, that it might not feel the punishment inflicted on it; and the whole body were a rotten carcass, or might again lie down in dust and darkness. Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions; that blessed conformity to the holiness of GOD; that cheerful readiness to do his will; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have their old ulcerous deformed souls, that perverseness of will, that disorder in their faculties, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth. It is true, their understandings will be much cleared, both by the ceasing of temptation and deluding objects, and by the sad experience which they will have in hell, of the falsehood of their former conceits and delusions. But the evil disposition is never the more changed; they have the same dispositions still, and fain would commit the same sins, if they could; they want but opportunity; certainly they shall have none of the glorious perfections of the faints, either in soul or body. There will be a greater difference between ⟨p. 89⟩these wretches and the glorified christians, than there is betwixt a toad and the sun in the firmament.

First, The ungodly in their loss of heaven, lose all that glorious personal perfection, which the people of GOD there enjoy. They lose that shining lustre of the body, surpassing the brightness of the sun. Though even the bodies of the wicked will be raised incorruptible, yet that will be so far from being happiness to them, that it only makes them capable of the more exquisite torments. They would be glad then, if every member were a dead member, that it might not feel the punishment inflicted on it; and the whole body were a rotten carcase, or might again lie down in dust and darkness. Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions; that blessed conformity to the holiness of GOD; that cheerful readiness to do his will; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have their old ulcerous deformed souls, that perverseness of will, that disorder in their faculties, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth. It is true, their understandings will be much cleared, both by the ceasing of temptation and deluding objects, and by the sad experience which they will have in hell, of the falsehood of their former conceits and delusions. But the evil disposition is never the more changed; they have the same dispositions still, and sain would commit the same sins, if they could; they want but opportunity; certainly they shall have none of the glorious perfections of the faints, either in soul or body. There will be a greater difference between