...here below, shall then and there be transformed, in the twinkling of an eye, into his perfect image. " We shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." This sight will be perfectly satisfying. There is no satisfaction, everybody knows, to be gathered...

...God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be ; we know, however, that when he shall be revealed, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And whoso hath this hope in him, purifieth hirn* 1 John ii. 3, 4; iii. 14, 18, 19. Not a single instance...

...full conformity to Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, in soul and body; (to whom we shall be made like, because we shall see him as he is, 1 John iii. 2 ;) also the glorious society of saints and angels, and a glorious world, the place of our eternal abode....

...supernatural sense, and not in the sense in which we naturally partake of it, in being made to the image nnd likeness of God, is evident from the fact that the...But this we do know, that when he shall appear we shall be like him. But this likeness is supernatural, not that to which we were created ; otherwise...

...are already the sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall^be, but to be assured that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is ; how powerfully must every man who hath this hope in him, be excited to purify himself even as he...

...happiness, that when Christ shall appear — and he will appear again — then we shall be like him ; and we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. In other words, there is a transforming power in the sight of Christ. You recollect when Moses went...

...that this virtue will never be perfectly felt, till this glory be perfectly beheld in heaven, where " we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." And therefore, since you cannot judge and try yourself by a perfect sanctification, try it by the beginnings...

...him with a perfect fidelity: having always before our eyes, that as in heaven we shall be like God, because we shall see him as he is (1 John iii. 2) ; so we shall also become like Jesus Christ, when we behold him often such as he is upon the cross....

...children of God, and it was never yet manifested what we shall be. We know that if it shall be manifested, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And every one, 3 that has this hope on him, purifies himself even as he is pure. Whoever commits sin...

...them while they shall dwell before Him. And so it is, according to the conclusion of inspiration, that '•we shall be like Him" because "we shall see Him as He is;" and we shall be like Him forever, because we shall see Him for ever. Again : we would further observe,...