The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgment: Or, The Truth of the Resurrection of the Bodies, Both of Good and Bad at the Last Day: Asserted, and Proved by God’s Word.

by John Bunyan

Glory is the sweetness, beauty, purity, and perfection of a thing.

If we consider how unique a creature man was made by God, it is astonishing to behold how much below, besides, and against that state and place man acts and does in this state of sin and degeneracy. Man in his creation was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), but man, by reason of his yielding to the Tempter, has made himself the very figure and image of the devil. Man by creation was made upright and sinless, but man by sin has made himself crooked and sinful (Ecclesiastes 7:29). Man by creation had all the powers of his soul at liberty to study God, his creator, and His glorious attributes and being, but man by sin has so bound up his own senses and reason, and has given way for blindness and ignorance of God to reign in his soul, that he is now captivated and held bound in alienation and separation both from God and from all things truly spiritually good.