made in mercy the performance thereof dependeth upon the fidelity of the promiser not upon the merit of the worker the promise is sure not according to our merits but according to his mercy therefore go to God and say Lord thou hast promised to bestow the Crown of glory upon all that come unto thee Lord we have thy word there is a promise wherein thou hast caused me to hope Be it to thy servant according to thy Word CHAP. XXXIII SECT I. Sheweth how a man may know whether he hath a title to Heaven Quest BVt here peradventure thou may'st demand how shall I know whether the promise of eternal life belongeth to me or not Sol. I answer first dost thou love God the promise of giving the crown of life is made to them that love him Jam. 1.12 He that is the best lover is the best and most accomplished Christian it is not so much what thou doest or what thou sufferest what thy actions or what thy sufferings are as what thy love to God is so then the greatest Saint is not barely he that hath done most or suffered most but he that loveth most as it was said of Mary Magdalen Luk 7.47 that many sins were forgiven her because she loved much If thou hast true saith it will be the fountain of thy love to God who believing God to be such and so merciful to to thee it swalloweth up thy affections and draweth out thy love and devotion toward him which is not unfelt in us but by the feeling thereof in our selves we gather a further confirmation and assurance to our selves that we are beloved of God both which S. Bernard well declareth saying that the love of God breedeth in the soul love toward God and by feeling it self to love it is also out of doubt that it self is beloved now if thou art one that lovest God thou maist conclude thou art beloved of him for we love him because he loved us first and therefore thou hast an interest in the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him True it is sometimes it is said it shall be given to such as the Lord loveth his love to us that is it that shall set this glorious crown upon our heads The Apostle Eph. 2.4 speaking both of our Sanctification and Salvation makes God the Author of them both and in God the cause of both the riches of his mercy and the greatness of his love God who is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he hath loved us hath raised us up together and made us to fit together in Heavenly places So S. John saith it was God's love to us that he sent his onely Son to us in him to give us life and salvation herein was the great love of God manifested towards us in that God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4.9 Yet S. James tells us the crown of life shall be given to them that love the Lord as if it were not so much his love to us as did graciously vouchsafe it as our love to him that did deservedly merit it But these may both stand together the promise of eternal life may be said to belong both to those whom the Lord loveth and to those that love the Lord for first this love of God to us and our love to him do alwayes go together like fountain and stream seed and fruit fire and light cause and effect whensoever his love takes hold upon us it generates and begets in us love toward him again We read of Solomon that he was named Jedidjah because he was the beloved of the Lord 2 Sam. 12.25 and we likewise read of him 1 Kings 3.3 that he loved the Lord he was the beloved of the Lord and he loved the Lord God's love working upon him it wrought in him again love toward God now they that are beloved of God and they that love God they have both of them the promise of eternal life God's love to them is properly the cause of it their love to him that 's onely the Seal of it What S. John saith of the love of our Brethren the same may we say of the love of God We know by it that we are translated from death to life 1 Joh. 3.14 which life is a token of assurance by which we know we shall be saved The cause of our salvation is in God's loving us our loving of God is a token only by which we know we are sealed up unto salvation SECT II. 2. ARt thou Holy thou hast hence good ground and reason to expect whatsoever reward God hath promised unto holiness Being made free from sin and become servants unto God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Rom. 6.22 Are ye pure in heart they onely shall see God Math. 5.8 Are ye holy in life then shall you see the Lord Hebr. 12.14 Beware how thou dost go on in any sin answer thy lusts thy temptations thy wicked company that seduce and entice thee to sin as Solomon answered Bathsheba when she desired Abishag for Adonijah let him take my Kingdom too so say thou to thy lusts to thy temptations to thy wicked company if you beg my company then take away my Kingdom too take away my glory take away my happiness too take heed of laying down thy head in the lap of any lust as Sampson did in the lap of Dalilah What said she to him The Philistines be upon thee Sampson So if thou sufferest thy self to be deceived by thy lusts by thy sinful pleasures I will not say the Philistines be upon thee but all the Devils in Hell be upon thee it may be thou expectest Angels to carry thee like Lazarus into Abraham's bosome and the evil Angels will take thee and hurry thee into Belzebub's bosome nothing but sin will make thee uncapable of glory it is only Christ and interest in Christ by saving faith and grace and holiness that can fit thee for glory that can make thee capable of glory and happiness we must be gracious here otherwise we shall never be glorious hereafter consider the nature of this glory which God will communicate to his Saints it is pure glory therefore it is necessary that the subjects which must receive it be pure also God will put pure glory into pure vessels What ado had Queen Esther before she was brought to the King Est 2.12 She was to purifie her self a whole year before she could attain to be Queen six months with oyl of Myrrh and six moneths with sweet Odours then she was brought to the King shall an earthly Prince expect such exact purification before he will bestow his honours and shall not God expect our purifying our selves before we come and sit upon thrones of glory can we think that God will cloath our Bodies of sin with Robes of glory and that God will put the pure white
cleerly discerned But God is a good of infinite excellency containing all things which the Saints can desire and is cleerly discerned by them therefore he most strongly draws their affections to himself They shall in Heaven see so much excellency in God and be so fill'd with his love that their hearts shall be full of holy flames of love toward him there shall be nothing either within them or without them to draw away their love from God or lessen or cool their affections toward him all things that they shall see or hear or understand shall serve to fill them with his love and keep up and confirm their love in the height of it for ever they shall be so fully like to God that it shall be impossible for them not to love him perfectly God shall dwell in them and they shall wholly possess him and they shall dwell in God and he shall wholly possess them they shall be knit to each other in mutual love to all eternity The principal employment of the Saints in Heaven is to love God and all the vertues in Heaven are useless except charity and enjoyment which is the rest of love and is also its recompence saith S. Augustine for as desires do disquiet lovers when they possess not what they long for so being now in the possession of him whom they love they are satisfied The love of the Saints in Heaven is much perfecter than ours upon the earth whatever pains we take to love God on earth our love is never without some notable defect to enfeeble it iâ— is blind because faith that enlightens it is as one saith a candle whose lamp is alwayes surrounded with a cloud or smoak it is faint and drooping because we possess not the supream good we passionately affect and being separated from him we are as well his Martyrs as his Lovers Here our love is also divided because self-love is not yet extinguished and the greatest Saints if they mannage not their intentions well do rob God of all the love wherewith they indulge themselves In brief it is almost ever interested we love not God so purely as not to seek our own pleasure with it when we seek his glory and we are more earnest with God for riches and honours than for heavenly graces but the Saints in glory have not one of these imperfections in their love their love is not blind because they love him whom they see and the brightness of glory that illuminates them is a ray dispelling all the darkness of their understandings it languisheth not as ours doth nor spends it self in its longings because they possess what they love and being intimately united to God are eternally inseparable from him their love is not divided because self-love enters not into the celestial Jerusalem but is quenched by the flames of true charity finally it is not interested because God's glory is the end of their desires yea in Heaven it self they seek not so much their own happiness as his glory SECT II. 11. AS the Saints shall love God entirely so they shall love each other in the Lord they shall see the Image of God shining cleerly and gloriously in each other and so shall love God in each other and each other in God Peter shall admire Christ in the glory conferred on Paul and Paul shall admire Christ in the glory conferred on Peter The Saints shall find themselves all agreeing in God and so among themselves they shall see nothing in any of their brethren but what shall be most lovely nothing to estrange their hearts or damp their affections they shall not be capable of any touch of envy for every one of them shall be full of glory and blessedness And albeit some have higher degrees of glory than others yet this causeth no emulation or jealousie among them The variety of the world as one observeth is one of its rarest ornaments the flowers which checker a walk do embellish it the Stars which make an hundred several figures in the firmament do set a lustre upon its beauty neither doth any thing make a Countrey more pleasant than the diversity of the parts that compose it the riches and glory of a state dependeth upon its diversity if all subjects were of the same condition there would neither be diversion for strangers nor accommodation for the naturals The ornament and profit of the body politique appeareth in this agreeable mixture of rich and poor Artists and Husbandmen Souldiers and Merchants Magistrates and Ministers but here is the mischief that attends it that this variety of conditions which begets its beauty breeds envy and jealousie among the subjects for as their goods are not common because their conditions are different one is jealous of what another possesseth Great men are apt to be proud and to despise their inferiours Men of low degree are envious and murmure at those that are above them But in Heaven the difference of degrees produceth their beauty and giveth no occasion of envy or jealousie the Crowns of glorified Saints are proportionable to their labours and sufferings for Christ They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the Sun Dan. 12. Peace bears rule among all the Inhabitants of Heaven love which uniteth them renders their contentment common though the justice that rewardeth them maketh their condition gradually different Every one is glad of anothers happiness and without interesting in any one they find that the felicity of particulars contributeth to that of the publique In Heaven love is in its full perfection Ludovic granat Meditat. the property whereof is to cause all things to be common there all the elect shall be more straitly united to one another than the Members of one and the same Body because all shall participate of the same spirit which gives unto all one and the same being one and the same blessed life What is the cause why the members of one and the same body have so great an unity and love one to another is it not because they are all partakers of one and the same form one and the same Soul giveth the same being and life to them all Now if the spirit of a man hath power to cause so great an unity between the members that are so different in Offices and Natures is it any wonder if the Spirit of God Almighty by whom all the Elect do live which Spirit is as it were the common soul to them all should cause a greater and more perfect unity among them especially considering that the Spirit of God is a more noble cause and of a more excellent vertue and power and gives also a more noble being now if this manner of unity and love do cause all things to be common as we see in the members of one body who rejoyce every one at each others felicity as its own what delight then shall each one of the Elect take in the glory of all the rest considering that he shall entirely
great glory when you shall see him with trumpets sounding before him and see him with his glorious train with all his glorious Angels as himself speaks Matth. 16.27 to see him sitting upon his Throne of Majesty and the World round about him his Friends the Sheep on his right hand the Goats his Enemies on his left hand what a sight will this be especially if you have then so much interest in Christ as to be placed among the Sheep at his right hand how will it affect you when he shall be always in your eye and never out of your sight If the Queen of Sheba was so stricken with amazement when she beheld the glory of Solomon that there was no more spirit in her 1 Kings 10.5 how will all the Saints be filled with admiration when they shall behold the glory of Christ how did that astonished Queen bless the Attendants of Solomon Happy are thy Men happy are these thy Servants that stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom Alas what happiness is this in regard of the Angels and Saints who stand continually in the presence of Christ in whose presence there is fulness of joy fulness of glory was it such an happiness to hear the wisdom of Solomon what a transcendent happiness is it then to hear the wisdom of Christ who is greater then Solomon I conceive that the glory which three of Christ's Disciples saw upon the holy Mount was but a glimpse of that fulness of glory wherewith he is now silled in Heaven yet that little drop was so affecting that Peter cried out Master it is good for us to be here He was so ravished with extraordinary joy conceived at the heavenly vision that he even lost and forgat himself and wist not what they said Luke 9.33 34. but being overjoyed it appears his wish was inconsiderate and his counsel rash and unadvised Let us build three Tabernacles one for Thee another for Moses another for Elias for these Reasons 1. Because he thought earthly Tabernacles fit habitations for heavenly Bodies 2. Because he conceived not aright of the end of the vision viz. to comfort them in letting them to see as in a glass what Christ's glory and their glory should be which he would have had continued when it must of necessity be intermitted for had Christ continued in this estate he could not have suffered and so our salvation had not been accomplished But while Peter was thus speaking behold a bright Cloud overshadowed them and they feared when they were entering into the Cloud had not this Cloud somewhat abated the glory of the Apparition it had not been possible for these Disciples in the state of mortality to have beheld the countenance of their Master Now if Christ in his Transfiguration while he was on Mount Tabor was so delightful to behold when his Humanity appeared in a glorious form only but for a short time how pleasant will the sight of him be to the godly when they shall see him by perfect vision and enjoy him by full fruition With abundant satisfaction shall the Saints behold the face of Christ in fulness of glory Oh how will it ravish their hearts when they shall see him who gave himself for them who loved them and washed their sins in his blood who being the Prince and Captain of our salvation was content to be perfected by sufferings that he might bring them into glory when they shall see him who died for them and rose again for their justification ascended up into Heaven took possession thereof and prepared a place for them and came again and took them to himself they shall then be even transported with joy to behold their Saviour whom they loved so dearly all their lives but never had the happiness to see before for whose appearance they longed thirsted sighed prayed Come Lord Jesus Oh how will their hearts melt toward him think you when they shall see him Oh this is he that died for me that shed his precious blood for me they will then look thorow him if it were possible and then to think they shall always see him and enjoy him and never be divided from him any more they will then be even ravished into an extasie of joy their sight of him shall be laeta familiaris perpetua joyful familiar and perpetual which is a special part of the beatitude peculiar to the Saints from which the Wicked are excluded Oh happy yea thrice happy are those eyes which shall see the face of Christ whom they shall love perfectly and of whom they are infinitely and eternally beloved What a ravishing sight will it be to behold that Body which was so foully disfigured upon the Cross for our sakes It shall be undoubtedly as St. Bernard saith a thing full of all sweetness and delight when men shall there see and behold a Man the Creator of men and Lord of all things created We are wont to esteem it a singular great honour to our Family to see one of our Kindred advanced to a Crown or dignified with some Princely honour but how far greater honour shall this be to us to see that Lord who is our God our near Kinsman of our flesh and blood sitting at the right hand of God the Father and made King both of Heaven and Earth And if the Members do account that an honour to them which is done to their Head by reason of that strict union that is between the Head and its Members what else shall it be but that every faithful Christian shall account the glory of Jesus Christ their Head as their peculiar glory How should the consideration hereof make every one of us cry out O my dearest Saviour and blessed Redeemer when shall this joyful day come Oh when shall I appear before thy face and be ravished by beholding thy excellent beauty when shall I see that countenance of thine which the Angels are desirous to behold How true concerning the things of the World is that which Solomon saith the eye is not satisfied with seeing Eccles 1.8 and it is as true that in Heaven the eye shall be fully satisfied but not satiated at all with seeing they shall see such glory that they shall desire no greater If Philip on Earth said to Christ Shew us the Father and it shall suffice how much more when we shall see the King of Kings in his glory shall glorified Saints say We have enough Satis Domine satis they shall desire no greater glory yet never be weary of seeing SECT VIII 3. HEreunto I may also add that blessed and glorious spectacle of the general Assembly and Church of the first-born whose names are written in Heaven those many thousands of Patriarchs and Saints of the old and new World Prophets of the Old Testament Apostles of the New Martyrs faithful Preachers and sincere Professors of the Gospel Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Samuel David Daniel Joh Peter Paul the great Doctor of
the Gentiles and the rest What a ravishing sight will it be to see the glorious company of the Apostles to behold the goodly fellowship of the Prophets to set your eyes on that noble Army of Martyrs and Confessors that have shed their blood for the cause of Christ What a joyful sight will it be to see those holy Prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel and the rest above the reach of their cruel Persecutors cloathed with long white garments with Palms in their hands and with the glorious ensigns of their victorious triumphs Will it not be a goodly sight to behold that glorious fore-runner of Christ who chose rather to lose his head then to dissemble the filthiness of an incestuous King and no less delightful will it be to see St. Stephen who was stoned to death for Christ and that holy Apostle St. James who was slain with the sword of Herod that cruel Tyrant now reigning with Christ in glory What an excellent sight shall it be to see those famous Lights of the Church of Christ Peter and Paul shining there very gloriously with the Trophies of their Martyrdom wherewith they were Crowned and this shall add to the perfection of this sight that the Saints shall all enjoy the glories of each other as if they were properly their own If the sight of the Saints in communion here be so sweet even an Heaven upon Earth what will it be when all the blessed Souls that have been from the beginning of the World and shall be to the end shall meet all together and they wholly freed from all corruptions and imperfections what a blessed sight will that be If there be such great pleasure in the sight of Flowers and Jewels what great delight will there be in the sight of the innumerable company of the Blessed who shall all shine as the Sun especially when all shall be dearer to their Parents Children Relations then now they are to behold multitude the beauty and excellency of the inhabitants of Heaven and their sweet familiarity with one another will be a most pleasant spectacle Their multitude will be innumerable God hath many Sons and Daughters that must be brought to glory Heb. 2.10 there are a numberless number that are to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes Rev. 14.1 there shall be no empty places in Heaven nor any void of inhabitants Likewise the beauty of all shall be admirable they shall be like unto the Angels of God and be the most excellent images of their heavenly Father and how pleasant a thing will this be to behold In dignity all shall be the Citizens of Heaven and the Children of God all shall be triumphant Kings having had the victory over the World the Flesh and the Devil We count it an admirable sight if we could see one King among an hundred thousand persons in his glory Oh then what a sight shall this be when we shall see millions of glorious Kings and Christ the King of infinite glory in the midst of them All shall be Priests unto God offering the sacrifice of praise perpetually to him In brief the least Saint in Heaven shall be greater in dignity and glory then all the Kings of this World Moreover they shall be most delighted to behold that sweet converse they shall have together If it be a delightful thing in the Court of some great Prince to obtain the favour and good will of all what pleasure will it be to enjoy the friendship and familiarity of such an innumerable company of noble Persons Oh what a royal Feast and most magnificent Banquet will the Lord make for his Children when they shall all meet together in his holy Mountain let Worldlings get them to their gluttonous and carnal feasts let them even burst themselves with their superfluous excesses such a Feast as this where the choicest dainties are served in by the holy Angels where even Christ himself the Master and maker of the Feast will as it were gâ—rd himself and serve is convenient only for God and his chosen People SECT IX ANd as the eyes shall be freed from all dimness so the ears shall be freed from all defects of deafness the ears shall always hear that ravishing Musick sounding forth from the heavenly Quire where a consort of innumerable Angels and glorified Saints are singing Hallelujahs to their God and magnifying their glorious Redeemer for ever for the high praises of God shall be in the mouthes of all his Saints Psal 149.6 by reason of their ardent love to God who hath heaped so many good things upon them they shall break forth into praises and thanksgivings They shall praise him out of all his works and benefits from his works of Creation and Providence from his works of Redemption and Justification Adoption and Sanctification from his works of Mercy and Justice from the Rewards he bestoweth on the Righteous and the Punishments he inflicteth on the Wicked and from all his secret and revealed Judgements They shall have all these things before the eyes of their minds and shall clearly understand the counsel of God in them all and shall be filled with incredible consolation and by reason of the greatness of their joy shall praise him for all peculiarly blessing him and giving him immortal thanks they shall not want matter for everlasting praise and they shall not only praise him with their heart but also in their body with their tongues there shall be a most excellent harmony of voices incomparably surpassing the musick in the World this will be exceeding sweet and pleasant that one only sound of it were able to bring the whole World asleep Now as the Saints shall incessantly with vocal praises magnifie the Lord so without doubt their vocal Hallelujahs shall be heard and understood of one another what ravishing expressions of love shall they then hear from Christ and from each other what Songs of joy and triumph Upon the consideration whereof devout St. Augustine breaks forth into this meditation Omne opus sanctâ—rum leus Dei sine fiâ—e sine defectione sine labore faelix ergo vero in perpe tuum faelix si post resolutionem hujus corpusculi audivero iila cantica caelestis enelodiae quae cantantur ad laudem Regis aeterni ab illis superâ—ae petriae civibus beatorumque spirituum agminibus c. August medâ—t cap. 25. The whole work of the Saints in Heaven shall be to praise God without end without failing without labour happy therefore and truly happy am I for ever if after the resolution of my body I shall be counted worthy to hear those Songs of heavenly melody which are sung in praising the everlasting King by those Citizens of the Country that is above and by the Troops of those blessed Spirits which are there Oh how happy shall I account my self to be if I may be admitted to sing those songs and stand by my King my God the Captain of my salvation and behold
love every one of them as well as himself CHAP. XXV SECT I. Of the joy of glorified Saints what it is and to what it extendeth it self OUt of love floweth joy which openeth and enlargeth the heart upon the enjoyment of God and Glory the beatifick joy is as sublime supernatural and wonderful as the beatisick Vision of God and Love it self is for these are altogether equal and commensurate among themselves as well by intensive perfection as by eminency of nature or specifical perfection so much do the Saints love as they see and so much do they rejoyce as they love The chief object which delighteth the Saints is of infinite goodness beauty and sweetness comprehending in it self the goodness beauty and sweetness of all things and this joy of the Saints doth so far surpass all worldly joys which are taken in either by the sense or understanding as the Vision of God in Heaven doth excell all the knowledge we have here upon earth and as much as an infinite good doth exceed a finite good for that joy is infinitely greater and sweeter than all the joyes of this life I say infinitely so that although all the joyes of the world and all the delights of the senses which may be had in this life should be gathered together in one and should be augmented never so much yet could they never be equalled with the joyes of glorified Saints because this joy is of an higher kind viz. Divine and the sweetness of it is of a far other nature than the sweetness of earthly joyes This will the more evidently appear if we consider the eminency variety and stability of the good things in which the Saints in glory do rejoyce 1. First and above all things they do rejoyce in the intrinsecal good things of God which are infinitely abundant in him viz. because they see him to be of infinite power wisdom and goodness they see him to be eternal and incomprehensible they see him to be the Author of all things the end of all things the preserver of all things they see all good sweetness and blessedness most abundantly contained in him and their joy is the greater because they see him possess all these things after a most eminent manner for as they love God incomparably more than themselves so do they rejoyce more in those eminencies that are in him than in all their own blessedness If the joyes that the Saints have here in this vale of tears be many times unspeakable and far greater than all worldly joyes how incomparably greater then shall their joy be when it shall be said to every faithful Soul Enter thou into thy Masters joy Math. 25. Then they shall as it were enter into an ocean and abysse of joyes and therewith shall be compassed about on every side and dwell eternally in it 2. They shall rejoyce in all the extrinsecal good things of God They shall rejoyce in that glory which God hath from the perpetual praises benedictions and thanksgivings of all his Saints they shall rejoyce in that glory which accrueth to him from the salvation of his elect Children and from the torments of the wicked which they do and shall suffer in the Prison of Divine Justice to all eternity and all this joy of theirs ariseth from their love to God as when a Kings Son rejoyceth in the wisdom power riches and glory of his Father without having any respect at all to his own profit or honour but meerly out of love to his Father and for his Father's sake Of this joy Anselm thus speaketh so much as any one loveth another Quoniam quantum quisque diligit alterum tantum de bono ejus gaudet Anselm Proso log Ca. 25. so much he rejoyceth in his good and as in Heaven every one will incomparably love God more than himself and all others with himself so he will rejoyce more in the blessedness of God than in his own happiness and of all others with him As for their joy it shall be most full and abound a perpetual feast of marrow and fatness in God's presence is fullness of joy and at his right hand pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 S. John saith That which we have seen and heard that we declare unto you that you also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ and these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 1 Joh. 1.3 4. This seems to assure us that Christians in this life may have a fulness of joy through communion and fellowship with God the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ viz. a fulness of eminency not of perfection such a fulness of joy as surpasseth all sinful and worldly joyes such as overcometh all worldly losses and sorrows how much more in the life to come shall their full enjoyment of God cause in them an absolute and most perfect fulness of joy as much joy as their hearts can hold their hearts also being enlarged and made capable of abundance of joy unspeakable and full of glory they shall have joy then not that shall overcome all sorrow onely but they shall be altogether free from all mixtures of sorrow never a cloud of sadness or discontent shall ever in the least measure eclipse or darken their joy what are all our terrene joyes they are but as a dream to this fulness of joy that is in the presence of God in Heaven SECT II. MOreover besides this which is also unspeakable although inferiour to those beforementioned 1. They do rejoyce in their own happiness which as it is very great so shall their joyes be multiplied accordingly and first of all and above all they shall rejoyce in this that they are come to the sight and possession of God and are made partakers of his glory and blessedness for if mortal men in this life having found a great treasure or coming to possess a rich inheritance or having obtained a Kingdom they looked not for or some earthly and frail good which yet draweth a thousand cares with it and lasteth but a short time are so exceedingly affected with joy that they are not able to contain themselves and are even transported beyond themselves with an extasie of joy with what joy then think you shall the Saints be affected when they shall come to the possession of an infinite good which excludeth all sollicitude and wherein all riches all honours all dignities all beauty all sweetness and whatsoever the mind of man can desire is most abundantly contained and that which addeth to this joy is that they shall see the possession of this good to be most firm and sure and to abide for ever without any change or alteration therefore upon a double account their joy shall be incomparably greater than all the joyes of this world viz. because the good which they shall possess shall be infinitely greater and more sublime than all the good things of