Sometimes I look upon myself and say, Where am I now? and do quickly
return answer to myself again, Why, I am in an evil world, a great
way from heaven, in a sinful body, among devils and wicked men;
sometimes benighted, sometimes beguiled, sometimes fearing,
sometimes hoping, sometimes breathing, sometimes dying. But then I
turn the tables, and say, But where shall I be shortly? Where shall
I see myself anon, after a few more times have passed over me? And
when I can but answer this question thus: I shall see myself with
Jesus Christ; this yields glory, even glory to one's spirit now.
Thirdly, I have a desire to be with Christ: there the spirits of the
just are perfected; there the spirits of the righteous are as full
as they can hold. A sight of Jesus in the word; some know how it
will change them from glory to glory. But how then shall we be
changed and filled, when we shall see him as he is? "When he shall
appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is."
Moses and Elias appeared to Peter and James and John, at the
transfiguration of Christ, "in glory." Hew so? Why, they had been in
the heavens, and came thence with some of the glories of heaven upon
them. Gild a bit of wood, yea, gild it seven times over, and it must
not be compared, in difference from wood which is not gilt, with the
soul that but a little while has been dipt in glory.
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