such a glory? This is the city of our God, where _the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. The glory of God shall lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. These sayings are faithful and true, and the things which must shortly be done._[20] And now we say, as Mephibosheth, _let_ the world _take all, forasmuch as our Lord will come in peace_.[21] _Rejoice_ therefore _in the Lord, O ye righteous_, and say with his servant David, _the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance: The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore._[22] What presumption would it have been, once to have thought or spoke of such a thing, if God had not spoken it before us? I durst not have thought of the saint's preferment in this life, as scripture sets it forth, had it not been the express truth of God. How indecent to talk of being _Sons of God—speaking to him—having fellowship with him—dwelling in him and he in us_;[23] if this had not been God's own language? How much less durst we have once thought of _shining forth as the sun_—of being _joint heirs with Christ_—of _judging the world_—of _sitting on Christ's throne_—of being _one in him and the Father_;[24] if we had not all this from the mouth, and under the hand, of God? _But hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?_[25] Yes, as the Lord God is true, _thus shall it be done to the man whom_ Christ _delighteth to honor_.[26] Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family. Is that enough? It is better to _be a door-keeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness_.[27] Thou shalt ever stand before him, about his throne, in the room with him, in his presence-chamber. Wouldst thou yet be nearer? Thou shalt be his child, and he thy Father; thou shalt be an heir of his kingdom; yea more, the spouse of his Son. And what more canst thou desire? Thou shalt be a member of the body of his Son; he shall be thy head; thou shalt be one with him, who is one with the Father, as he himself hath desired for thee of his Father, _that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they