Thus the incomparable George Herbert writes of our glorification in his poem “The Star”:
Bright spark, shot from a brighter place,
Where beams surround my Saviour’s face,
Canst thou be any where
So well as there?
Yet if thou wilt from thence depart,
Take a bad lodging in my heart. . . .
First with thy fire-work burn to dust Folly,
and worse than folly, lust:
Then with thy light refine,
And make it shine.
So disengaged from sin and sickness,
Touch it with thy celestial quickness,
That it may hang…
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