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2. They hall move with great agility and nimbleneffe. We shall not be clogg'd as now, but shall be able (as the Learned think) to move upwards and downwards freely, like a bird in the aire.

3. Or Laftly, Our bodies after the refurredion may be termed spiritual, because they will then be more fitted and difpofed for spiritual uses for the enjoyments and employments of Grace.

4. Our bodies fhall be made powerful. They are fown in weakness, but shall rise in power. The power and ftrength that glorified bodies fhall have, will be wonderful. In this life the eye is da zeled at the brightneffe of the Sun; but then ic fhall be strengthened to behold glorious fights and not be dazeled at them. The body thall be enabled and strengthened by God, to bear that exceeding and eternal weight of Glory that shall be allotted to it.

5. Unto all thefe glorious perfections, and endowments, we may add this one more, the great priviledge and happineß we shall have to be1 hld with our bodily eyes our bleffedSaviour as man. That we shall fee our Redeemer with these eyes, Fob plainly teftifies, Fob 19.25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the Later day upon the earth.V.26. And though after my skin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I fee God.V.27. Whom I shall fee for my felf and mine

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Chap, 20. eyes fhall behold, and not another, &c. And thar this fight will add much to our happinesse, we need not doubt. The fight of Chrift as man is the Mpalamy in his next object (as one faith well) te Serm at D Bolthe beatifical Vifion. For the fulneffe of the God head dwells in him bodily, and doth as it were radiate through his bpdy. Hence there must needs arife much joy to the beholder, both from the eminency of, and our intereft in this abject Christ in Glory, and Chrift in Glory ours As much of the Creator, as is pos fibly visible in the Nature of man, will be to be feen in Chrift. As much contentation as the Creature can be made partaker of by the fight of any visible object, will be the portion of the beholders of Christ as he is man. See Mr. Nortons orthodox EvangelifeTh

So much for the bleßedness of the Body. coll. The Saints in Heaven shall be bleffers their Souls. Let us enquire wherein this blef fédneffe confifts. ambula de la dir

5. The understanding being enlarg'd and widenedsball have a right knowledge wa clear fight and vision of God. Now we see through a glaffe darkly, 1 Cor. 13,12%, but then face to face, now n know but in part, but then we shall know even as mi are known, our knowledge of God now is very imperfect, but then we ball fer hins as he is, 1 John 30 2. in

2. The will shall be perfected with abfolute and

indefective holineffe, with exact conformity to the will of God, and perfect freedom from all fervitude to fin.

T 3. The affection's fhall be fet right by an unaltez rable regularity. There fhall be a conftant clea ving of heart to God, a conftant loving of him, without fatiety or wearinesse. Here are many ftartings afide to the creature, but in Heaven there will be an eternal fixed delight and complacency in God.

4. The Soul will enjoy a full, immediate, uninterrupted communion with God, and fruition of him. Whilst we are here at home in the body we are abfent from the Lord, faies the Apostle, 2 Cor 5.6 Here our comforts come in by the miniftry of Ordinances, but there God will be all in all to us immediatly, 1 Cor. 15.28.

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III. The Saints in Heaven fhall be blessed in their Company Oh what blessed company is there in the new Ferufalem! There is God, and Christ'and Angels, and Saints. How will God the Father welcome use Well done good and faithful fervants, enter into your Masters joy. How will our Redeemer welcome us? How joyful will he be to receive us, who shed his blood to bring us thither? How will the Holy An gels welcome us? They delight in the good of men. When man was created, thofe Morning Stars fung together, and thofe Sons of God fhouted for joy, Fob 38.7. When Chrift came to

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Chap.20; redeem man, an Heavenly host of them pray/ed God, Luke 2. 13. When man is converted, there is joy in Heaven among those bleffed Spirits, Luke 15.10. How much morerejoycing will there be when we come to be glorified? Laftly, How will the bleffed Saints welcome us? Our old acquaintance, with whom we have prayed, fuffered, familiarly converfed, Memory is not Mr. Manton in his abolished in Heaven (as one obSermon at Mrs. ferves) but perfected. ThereBlackwels Funeral. fore those whom we knew here, we shall know again. A Minifter shall fee his Crown, and the fruit of his labours, 1 Thef. 2.19. Thofe that have been relieved by us, fhall welcome us into Heaven, who therefore we faid (according to fome Interpreters) tort ceive us into everlasting habitations,‹ Luke 16.9. Yea, we fhall know thefe whom we never saw. Why elfe is it made a part of our priviledg fit down with Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacobs Mat. 8.11. In the transfiguration, Peter knew MoYes and Elias, dead many hundred years before. So fhall we (as 'tis more than probable ) know one another. O what bleled company thall we converfe with in the City that is e bove.

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prived of it. The Saints fhall never put off their glorious robes, after they have once put them on. Their ftate is a fure eternal ftate of actual delights. Though there be feveral degrees of glory in Heaven, yet he that enjoyes the least degree, is fully fatisfied with what he enjoyes. He defires not one degree of Glory above what he poffeffes.

What now remaines, but that we preffe this duty upon our felves, frequently to meditate on this cæleftial Glory. Many great benefits will accrue to us thereby.

1. This will abate our thirst after earthly things. One houres Jerious mufing, on the glory that is bove, would cause the foul to be as a weaned hild to the glory that is here below.

2. It will make fufferings light, Rom. 8.18. For Ireckon (faies the Apoftle) that the fufferngs of this prefent time, are not worthy to be com ared, with the Glory which shall be revealed

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3. It will make us ferious in Duties. It will nake us pray earnestly, hear attentively, walk ircumspectly. Serious thoughts of Heaven will nake us fhake off lazineffe, and floth, and with ervency of Spirit to ferve the Lord.

4. It will stirre us up to an earnest defire of hat righteoufneffe to which fuch a Glory apperaines, and to a careful and conftant performance of thefe commands to which fuch a reward is fo