Much of our felicity here ariseth from a contemplation of the works of creation and providence.  In these we see divine wisdom and goodness; learn to know God; to fear and love him.  The good man carries this disposition with him when he exchangeth worlds; his desire of knowledge, and especially the knowledge of God, and the works and ways of God.  And is there not reason to believe that glorified saints have power and liberty to range among the works of the all perfect Sovereign; trace the evidences of the divine perfections, and witness their effects, and that this is one source of their happiness?

A relish for knowledge is a quality of the mind, natural to it, and inseparable from it.  We observe it in children, who at an early period discover a desire of information, and perpetually seek it by questioning those more advanced.  The same disposition is resident in adults, and productive of the attainments in science which both delight the mind and dignify the man.  In heaven, the glorified spirit, hath doubtless advantages for attaining the knowledge of God and divine things, and opportunity to satisfy his desire after it, if it can be satisfied; for it is itself a happiness.  It gives a zest to information, and will probably continue, and be an endless source of enjoyment.  The creature may never know so much of god as to desire no farther knowledge of him; or so much of the works and ways of god, as to with no increase of that knowledge.  Acquisitions in knowledge and enjoyment may progress together in the world of spirits.  And who can fix their limits?  They may be as boundless as eternity!

Turn now your thoughts on Sir Isaac Newton that renowned philosopher and Christian.  Was his enlarged and inquisitive mind satisfied at death?  Did not he carry with him a desire to visit every planet, not only of our own but of other systems, and pry into the arcana of nature to be found in them all?  If enabled and permitted, he may still be ranging among the works of God, to learn yet more of his wisdom, power and goodness, in his works and ways, which are unsearchable, and past the comprehension of created beings!  Probably other glorified Spirits have a Share; it, may be a large share of the same temper.

And if they are capable of bearing the message of their divine Sovereign, or doing aught for his honor, it must be a pleasure to glorified spirits to be so employed.  Here the good man delights to serve the Lord.  Will this cease to be his disposition when the remains of depravity shall be done away?  Will not this disposition be increased and strengthened?  Or is there reason to think that those will have no power to serve God, who are freed from sluggish bodies?

Of certain glorified spirits it was declared to the apostle, as we have seen, that they “serve God day and night”—­They have no need of rest—­they never grow weary.  How they serve God without the use of bodily organs, is to us unknown.  But it doth not follow that they are incapable of it.  God can give them power, and teach them to accomplish all his pleasure.