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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 10
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2. Objectively, The object of the happiness of the righteous in Heaven, or the chief good which will make them perfectly and completely happy, will be GOD; who is in, ⟨p. 129⟩finitely good in himself, and infinitely blessed in the enjoyment of himself, and in him will the happiness of the righteous consist; that which fills an Ocean, surely will fill a Bucket, or but-shell; God will be the happiness of the righteous for ever; it is but a thin and subordinate happiness which is to be found in the creature; it is but an imperfect happiness which is here to be found in God, because of our blindness and sin, and incapacity; but in Heaven God will be a perfect happiness unto the Saints▪ It is said, 1 Cor. 15. 28. That God shall be all in all God will be the whole happiness of the righteous, God in himself, God in his Son God in the Angels, God in other Saints, God in themselves, God will be all in all, the only object of their happiness.
2. Objectively, The object of the happiness of the righteous in Heaven, or the chief good which will make them perfectly and compleatly happy, will be GOD; who is in, ⟨p. 129⟩finitely good in himself, and infinitely blessed in the enjoyment of himself, and in him will the happiness of the righteous consist; that which fills an Ocean, surely will fill a Bucket, or but-shell; God will be the happiness of the righteous for ever; it is but a thin and subordinate happiness which is to be found in the creature; it is but an imperfect happiness which is here to be found in God, because of our blindness and sin, and incapacity; but in Heaven God will be a perfect happiness unto the Saints▪ It is said, 1 Cor. 15. 28. That God shall be all in all God will be the whole happiness of the righteous, God in himself, God in his Son God in the Angels, God in other Saints, God in themselves, God will be all in all, the only object of their happinesse.