“Heaven is the native country of the church; they are born from above. Their Father of whom they are begotten is in heaven. The new nature and those principles that are infused, they are, as it were, sent down form heaven in that the Holy Ghost, whose immediate fruits those principles are, is from heaven…The saints here in this world be’nt in their native country, but are pilgrims and strangers in the earth. They are near akin to the inhabitants of the heavenly worlds are properly of that society…Heaven is a country that much better suits their natures than this earth because ‘tis their native climate; when they are in heaven, they breath their native air. In heaven is their inheritance.”
Worldly Saints 