“that celestiall beauties blaze,”
(l. 280.)
whose glory dazes the eye but illumines the spirit. And then, when this final stage of refinement is past, the ravished soul of the beholder shall have a sight not of
“his most sacred heavenly corse”
(l. 252.)
but of the very idea of his pure glory.
“Then shall thy ravisht soule inspired bee
With heavenly thoughts, farre above humane skill,
And thy bright radiant eyes shall plainely see
Th’ Idee of his pure glorie present still,