memorie, the remembrance whereof may bring vnto vs any ioy and contentment? how happie and blessed shal we be, when our consciences shal leaue off to accuse and terrifie vs; and be only exercised in iustifying vs, and in giuing ap∣probation to al our actions?
And these are the defects of our soules, which shal then be supplied, and the euils from which they shal be deliuered: which being vnderstood, we shal not need to speake much of those good things, and of the excellent parts and quali∣ties, wherewith they shal be beautified and adorned, seeing there is the same reason of contraries, and the one being knowne, doth by direct opposition shew the nature and qualities of the other. In a word therefore, as our soules shal be freed from ignorance, so they shal be endued with hea∣uenly wisdome, whereby they shal know God in that perfe∣ction, that the creature is capable of, the high mysterie of the Trinitie, and of the vnion of Christs humanitie to the diuine nature, and of the faithful vnto Christ: and this knowledge shal not then be darke, and as in a glasse, like our dim know∣ledge in this life, but cleare and perspicuous, and as it were face to face, it shal not then be in part only, but whole and perfect; for then shall we know, euen as we are knowne. In this life we lie as it were in a dungeon of darknesse; and al the comfort that we haue is, that the light of Gods truth, where∣by the eyes of our minds are illightned, with some smal and dim knowledge of God, shineth vnto vs, as thorow a little chinke or hole: but when we attaine to heauenly happinesse, and enioy the glorious libertie of the sons of God, then shal we be compassed about with light, as with a garment, and our minds shal receiue perfect illumination, and fulnesse of knowledge. Finally, we shal not attaine vnto this diuine knowledge, as in this life, with paines and excessiue labour, whereby we consume the bodie to enrich the soule; neither yet by secondarie and inferiour meanes, as namely, the hea∣ring, reading, and meditation of the Word, and the vse of the Sacraments, through which we see after al our studie and industrie but darkly, and as it were thorow some dim glasse; but we shal haue it with all ease and facilitie by the imme∣diate