Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

This blissful sight of God, being quite above our present capacities, we must needs be much in the dark about it. But it seems to be something else, than the fight of that glory, which we will see with our bodily eyes, in the saints and in the man Christ, or any other splendour or refulgence from the Godhead whatsoever▪ for no created thing can be our chief good and happiness, nor fully satisfy our souls; and it is plain, that these things are somewhat different from God himself. Therefore I conceive, that the souls of the saints shall see God himself: so the scriptures teach us, that we shall see face to face, and know even as we are known, 1 Cor xiii 12. And that we shall see him as he is, 1 John iii. 12. Howbeit the saints can never have an adequate conception of God; they cannot comprehend that which is infinite. They may touch the mountain, but cannot grasp it in their arms They cannot with one glance of their eye, behold what grows on every side: but the divine perfections will be an unbounded field, in which the glorified shall walk eternally, seeing more and more of God: since they can never come to the end of that which is infinite. They may bring their vessels to this ocean every moment, and fill them with new waters. What a ravishing sight would it be, to see all the perfections, and lovely qualities, that are scattered here and there among the creatures, gathered together into one! but even such a sight would be infinitely below this blissful sight the saints shall have in heaven. For they shall see God, in whom all these perfections shall eminently appear, with infinitely more; whereof there is no vestige to be found in the creature. In him shall they see every thing desirable, and nothing but what is desirable.

This blissful sight of God, being quite above our present capacities, we must needs be much in the dark about it. But it seems to be something else, than the fight of that glory, which we will see with our bodily eyes, in the saints and in the man Christ, or any other splendor or refulgence from the Godhead whatsoever▪ for no created thing can be our chief good and happiness, nor fully satisfy our souls; and it is plain, that these things are somewhat different from God himself. Therefore I conceive, that the souls of the saints shall see God himself: so the scriptures teach us, that we shall see face to face, and know even as we are known, 1 Cor xiii 12. And that we shall see him as he is,