The saints everlasting rest

Didst thou never look so long upon the Son of God, till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory? and did not the splendour of it make all things below seem black and dark to thee, when thou lookedst down again, especially in thy day of suffering for Christ (when he usually appears most manifestly to his people?) didst thou never see one wolfing in the midst of the fiery furnace with thee, like the Son of God? If thou know him, value him as thy life, and follow on to know him; and thou shalt know incomparably more than this. Or if I do but renew thy grief, to tell thee what thou once didst feel, but now hast lost; I counsel thee to remember whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works, and be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain; and I dare promise thee, (because GOD hath promised) thou shalt see and ⟨p. 22⟩know that which here thine eye could not see, nor thy understanding conceive. Believe me, christians, yea, believe GOD; you that have known most of GOD in Christ here, it is as nothing to that you shall, know; it scarce, in comparison of that, deserves to be called knowledge. The difference betwixt our knowledge now, and our knowledge then, will be as great as that between our fleshly bodies now, and our spiritual bodies then. For as these bodies, so that knowledge must cease, that a more perfect may succeed. Our silly childish thoughts of GOD, which now is the highest we can reach to, must give place to a more manly knowledge.

Didst thou never look so long upon the Son of God, till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory? and did not the splendor of it make all things below seem black and dark to thee, when thou lookedst down again, especially in thy day of suffering for Christ (when he usually appears most manifestly to his people?) didst thou never see one wol•ing in the midst of the fiery furnace with thee, like the Son of God? If thou know him, value him as thy life, and follow on to know him; and thou shalt know incomparably more than this. Or if I do but renew thy grief, to tell thee what thou once didst feel, but now hast lost; I counsel thee to remember whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works, and be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain; and I dare promise thee, (because GOD hath promised) thou shalt see and ⟨p. 22⟩know that which here thine eye could not see, nor thy understanding conceive. Believe me, christians, yea, believe GOD; you that have known most of GOD in Christ here, it is as nothing to that you shall, know; it scarce, in comparison of that, deserves to be called knowledge. The difference betwixt our knowledge now, and our knowledge then, will be as great as that between our fleshly bodies now, and our spiritual bodies then. For as these bodies, so that knowledge must cease, that a more perfect may succeed. Our silly childish thoughts of GOD, which now is the highest we can reach to, must give place to a more manly knowledge.