•. The souls of the righteous will be the subjects, and ⟨p. 126⟩the chief subjects of the glory and happiness of Heaven; in their bodies shall be glorious, their souls shall be must more glorious; as being their more excellent part, and capable of more glory than their bodies, will be; We read, Rom. 8. 18. Of the glory which shall be revealed in us, that is, in the soul; and the Apostle tells us, tha• The sufferings of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with this glory; the greatest sufferings and calamities in this World have not that evil and misery in the least shadow of comparison, with the happiness of the glory which shall be put into the souls of the Saints; indeed the Apostle doth compare them, and see how he makes this future glory to ou•-balance, 2 Cor. 4. 17. These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, do work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. The afflictions are light, but the glory will be weighty; the afflictions are but for a moment, but the glory w•ll be eternal; the weight of glory will be exceeding, more exceeding, fat more exceeding; here the Apostle lays one high expression upon the back of another, and another upon that, like so many great Mountains upon the back one of another, and when he hath got upon the top of the highest of them, yet he is too low to look into the glory of Heaven, and his expressions and apprehensions fall short of the glory which shall be revealed in the soul, when it shall be received into the new Jerusalem, for it is yet to be revealed: and therefore as the Apostle John saith, 1 John 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when Christ shall appear, we shall be made like him; not only the body shall be made like his glorious body, but also the soul shall be made like his glorious soul, for we shall see him as he is; as the eye doth receive the image of the object, which it look upon, so the soul in its vision of Christ shall receive their Image of Christ, and have a perfect similitude and likeness unto him; the soul will be made most beautiful, the perfect lineaments of Christ will be drawn upon it: if grace make the soul to shine here, how much more will glory, which is grace in the perfection of it, make the soul to shine is Heaven? & therefore grace is called glory, it is lory begun ⟨p. 127⟩2 Cor. 3. 18.
•. The souls of the righteous will be the subjects, and ⟨p. 126⟩the chief subjects of the glory and happiness of Heaven; in their bodies shall be glorious, their souls shall be must more glorious; as being their more excellent part, and capable of more glory than their bodies, will be; We read, Rom. 8. 18. Of the glory which shall be revealed in us, that is, in the soul; and the Apostle tells us, tha• The sufferings of this present time, are not worthy to be compared with this glory; the greatest sufferings and calamities in this World have not that evil and misery in the least shaddow of comparison, with the happiness of the glory which shall be put into the souls of the Saints; indeed the Apostle doth compare them, and see how he makes this future glory to ou•-b•llance, 2 Cor. 4. 17. These light afflictions, which are but for a moment, do work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. The afflictions are light, but the glory will be weighty; the afflictions are but for a moment, but the glory w•ll be eternal; the weight of glory will be exceeding, more exceeding, fat more exceeding; here the Apostle layes one high expression upon the back of another, and another upon that, like so many great Mountains upon the back one of another, and when he hath got upon the top of the highest of them, yet he is too low to look into the glory of Heaven, and his expressions and apprehensions fall short of the glory which shall be revealed in the soul, when it shall be received into the new Jerusalem, for it is yet to be revealed: and therefore as the Apostle John saith, 1 John 3. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when Christ shall appear, we shall be made like him; not only the body shall be made like his glorious body, but also the soul shall be made like his glorious soul, for we shall see him as he is; as the eye doth receive the image of the object, which it look upon, so the soul in its vision of Christ shall receive their Image of Christ, and have a perfect similitude and likeness unto him; the soul will be made most beautiful, the perfect lineaments of Christ will be drawn upon it: if grace make the soul to shine here, how much more will glory, which is grace in the perfection of it, make the soul to shine is Heaven? & therefore grace is called glory, it is lory begun ⟨p. 127⟩
