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AND SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND BY THE BOOKSELLERS.
1839.
In this Edition, the obsolete words are altered;
and some passages are omitted, to adapt the work to modern readers.
LONDON:
RICHARD CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
EXTRACT FROM THE PUBLISHERS' ADDRESS TO THE READER. Vii
THE PRELUDE
Of necessity we must search after another life, than this
evanishing vapour
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The small study of glory proves us, in a great part, carnal
Students of glory overlook the difficulties and vexations of
time
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The study of glory is so alluring, that the more we study,
the more we love to study it
Creatures are only to be esteemed more or less excellent,
according to their knowledge
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A clear view of such great rewards encourages to all duties.
The better we are versed in the study of heaven, the more we are fitted for it
Noble conceptions of glory, make us in part possessors of heaven and glory
Heaven is the proper place where all excellency dwells, should we not then dwell mentally there?
We are allowed to have our minds no where else but in hea-
ven, that only being free from the contagion of sin
According to the excellency of our knowledge, so is the
sphere of our activity; and consequently our fitness for
doing great things for our Lord's glory
What we know and affect, that we are; if earth, we are
earthly; if heaven, we are heavenly
It is dangerous to take a superficial view of glory, and no
inore: we are to search, and die searching; since earth
has so strange a power upon creatures composed of
earth
Scripture gives us a discovery of things beyond time
Glory is not to be considered after a philosophical manner,
being altogether supernatural
All creatures, from the highest to the lowest, are passively capable of supernatural elevation
Nothing leads us so excellently to the knowledge of glory,
as grace its forerunner
Saints get some discoveries more evident than through a glass, which may be termed glimpses of glory
All things invite to this excellent study; and there is no
argument against it...........
This skill is only from above, and to be begged of God
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SECTION
1. Invocation
2. Admiration
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3. The soul must be elevated on the wings of heavenly medi-
tation, before it get a sight of the promised land
4. Glory is rather to be admired by mortals, than understood
5. We may imagine, in this our childhood, childishly; and so
conceive of glory in a metaphoric way.....
6. We cannot be so high, in our own conceptions of glory, but
still we may be higher
7. Christ, the Desire of all nations, because he is God, most
fully manifested to finite capacities
8. No manifestation of God so full and sweet to creatures, as
through Emmanuel; so infinite is the distance
...
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9. One sight of Christ is enough to enrapture ever so many 30
10. All our enjoyment nothing, till we see him face to face 30
11. The soul is not perfectly happy until it rest, without inter-
ruption, in the Wellbeloved's love
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12. The mutual interest betwixt Christ and his chosen is an
eternally sweet consideration ....
13. The glorified soul, reflecting on former things, looks upon
all as childish
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14. Saints and angels shall be ever going forth into the match-
less excellences of their Wellbeloved
17. No knowledge, no evidence, equal unto the noon-day evi- dence of glory........
15. Even to stand beside the Chief of ten thousand is a dignity
inconceivably above the excellence of all creatures
16. The nearness of saints and angels to their Creator and Re-
deemer, astonishes them eternally
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18. To be witnesses of the glory of Jehovah and the Lamb, is
an inexpressible dignity
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19. What he manifests to us is a wonder; and the way of his
manifesting it is a wonder of wonders
20. To consider the change Christ has undergone, is an eter-
nally delightful consideration.......
21. God manifested in the flesh for ever a mystery ...............
22. That God should bring about the highest exaltation of human
nature, through man's horrid ingratitude, an ocean of
wonders
23. The relations betwixt God and us are subjects of everlast-
ing amazement
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24. Men and angels rejoice in an eternal circle of beholding
and admiring God visibly manifested
25. The glorified only capable of understanding glory fully:
mortality can conceive little
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26. The beholding of God, in his way of subsistence and out-
goings to creatures is endless delight
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27. Nothing but rivers, oceans of joy, overflow Emmanuel's
land
28. This land of joys is filled with undone debtors 29. The glorified, reflecting on the way to the kingdom, see it to be an inconceivable design of Divine wisdom
30. The fellowship betwixt Christ and every one of his, as
intimate and familiar as if he had but one..................
31. Visible things, a most imperfect representation of invisible.
32. All excellency, spiritual or corporeal, on earth, is aug-
mented in glory, by myriads of stages
33. The highest manifestations of God in time, are but mere
emblems of the noon-day manifestation
34. The saints are every way like their Wellbeloved: since full
love must have full similitude
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35. Complete blessedness is the complete enjoyment of God,
every way, mediately and immediately
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36. Christ is the everlasting King, Priest, and Prophet of his
people
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37. An astonishment, that the high and lofty One should look
on creatures....
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38. Earth and heaven quite opposite things.............
39. Songs to Jehovah and the Lamb, in glory
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40. The happiness of the saints superabundant, since they have
all manner of enjoyments...
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41. All the attributes of God contribute to our eternal blessed-
ness; but his unchangeableness is the crown of all
42. That we are altogether Christ's, and not our own, is our
only happiness
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43. The manifestation of God, in time, nothing to that of
eternity; and that of eternity, nothing to what dwells
hidden in Himself.
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44. All the promises are in part fulfilled in time, and fully in
eternity.
45. All the attributes of Jehovah, especially his justice and so-
vereignty, are seen evidently in the condemnation of the
wicked
46. The Divine Sovereignty
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47. A world of free redeeming grace, the most excellent world
possible......
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48. The work of salvation, a never enough admired design...... 121
49. Our blessedness one eternal triumph
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50. The full enjoyment of God consists in the nearest mutual
conjunction
131
51. The life of glory, the only life, that overtops all other lives,
and swallows them up
133
52. No necessity of creatures in heaven: Jehovah is eminently
all in all.....
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53. Glory is an eternally blooming thing
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54. Emmanuel's land is altogether of free redeeming grace, yet
it is given by way of reward
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55. All things are fully discovered in glory, which lay hid in
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56. The fellowship of men and angels in heaven
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57. The saints are eternally acquitted; and all their faculties are
filled up with his words
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58. Reprobates are already judged and condemned: and all their
faculties are filled with the dreadful roarings of the Lion
of the tribe of Judah
162
59. All the creatures are sharers of this eternal day of joy, ex-
cept reprobate men and fallen angels
60. All things are renewed, and glorified, nothing annihilated 172
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