# “His eldest Son in the midst of them” by Thomas Goodwin

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“View and contemplate, with admiration and astonishment, the glory and splendour
of Christ and His universal Church, to move your hearts to seek to be one thereof
and not left out of this number and gathering up of all things.

Oh, but what will it be at the great day, when Christ will come in His own and His
Father’s glory, with all His holy angels, —when Christ, that hath all things in 
His person, shall appear in His fulness!

And all the holy angels, and saints of the sons of men that have been existent from
the beginning of the world to that day, and not one wanting, but that Christ will
raise it up at the last day.

And then when all these shall go to heaven, and be ever together, when God shall
have all His sons about Him, and His eldest Son in the midst of them, then He will
bring forth all His treasures of glory, that shall last, and not be spent to all
eternity.”

–Thomas Goodwin, [_**The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Volume 1**_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1601788487?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 1861/2006), 1: 197-198. Goodwin is commenting
on **Ephesians 1:10**.

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