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SALVATION COMPLETE AT THE RESURRECTION.
"Now we shall see him," to wit, Christ in his glory. Not by
revelation only, as we do now, but then face to face; and he will
have us with him to this very end. Though John was in the Spirit
when he had the vision of Christ, yet it made him fall at his feet
as dead; and also turned Daniel's beauty into corruption, it was so
glorious and so overweighing a glory that he appeared in. But we
shall at the day of our resurrection be so furnished, that we shall
with the eagle be able to look upon the sun in his strength. We
shall then "see Him as he is," who now is in the light that no eye
hath seen, nor any man can see till that day.
Now we shall see into all things; there shall not be any thing hid
from us. For the Spirit, with which we shall in every cranny of soul
and body be filled, "searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God." We see what strange things have been known by the prophets and
saints of God; and that when they knew but in part. Abraham could by
it tell to a day how long his seed should be under persecution in
Egypt. Elisha by it could tell what was done in the king of
Assyria's bedchamber. Abijah by this could know Jeroboam's wife so
soon as, yea, before her feet entered within his door, though he saw
her not.
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