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Our flesh, even in the resurrection, cannot be a spectacle, a telescope to our soul.
Our flesh, even in the resurrection, cannot be a spectacle, a telescope to our soul. We shall see the humanity of Christ with our bodily eyes, then glorified: but, that flesh, though glorified, cannot make us see God better, nor clearer, than the soul alone hath done, all the time, from our death, to our resurrection. But, as an indulgent father, or as a tender mother, when they go to see the king in any solemnity, or any other thing of observation, and curiosity, delights to carry their child, which is flesh of their flesh, and bone of their bone, with them, and though the child cannot comprehend it as well as they, they are as glad that the child sees it, as that they see it themselves; such a gladness shall my soul have, that this flesh shall see God.
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