(3) Nor is every immediate apprehension of God that seeing of him mentioned in the text, and that which is truly happifying to the soul. The wicked spirits in the other world, they doubtless [have] more immediate apprehensions of the being of God, and his power and wrath, than the wicked have in this world. They stand before God to be judged; they receive the sentence from him; they have a dreadful, amazing apprehension of his wrath and displeasure. But yet they are exceeding remote from seeing God
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