r 574 flow are we compleat in Chri,ft ? Senn. 25. and therefore Heaven would be fo farce from being a Heaven unto fuch, that it would. be a kind of hell to them ;for as delight arifes from an harmony betwixt the perfon and the objea, fo all kind of torment from an unfuitablenefs and contrariety : hence is ir, that although God vouchfafes us fomething of Heaven here on earth, viz, in his Ordinances, vet to unheavenly hearts cv.ry thing of this nature is a radium a burden : When will the new Moen be gone that we may felt Corn ? and the Sabbath that we may f et forth wheat, &c. Amos 8.5. t./Elian reports of one Niccflratto, who b. ing a skilfull Artificer and finding a curious piece cf At t, was fo much taken there- with, that a fpaator beholding him fo invent in viewirg the work - maníhip, asked him what pleaiufe be could tt-ke in gazing fo long upon fuch an objd? he anfwers, ban thou my eyes thou wouldfl be as much ravifhed as I arn. So may we fay of carnal( perfons, had they the hearts and 4ifpofitions of believers, they would be as much delighted with all means of communion with God as they are, and account that their priviledge which now they efleem their vexation :. the Greeks tell us, that )(A r good, is derived anr6 6.1 4 ' r, from cal. ling, . bccaufe all good is of an attraaive and magnetick nature, to. draw forth and call our affec`lions after it; but yet "¡is not the intrin- .fecall excellency of any objea that renders is taking with us, but our affeäions are accordingly exercifed upon all kind of óbjeds, as reprefentations are of thofe objeas from the under11andirg, for'tis the underflanding which fits at the flcrn of the foul, that is the pri- _ mum mobile, the mailer -wheel that puts the affec4ions as fo many leffer wheeles upon motion ; therefore unlefs our judgements be both enlightned and fanailled, we can never approve the things that are excellent. Naturali{ls obferve, that though the,Loadflone bath an attraaive virtue to draw Iron to it, yet it cannot exercife that virtue upon Iron that's rufly. Ignorance is the ruil of the foul, that blunts the edge of our affedions to whatfoever is fpiritually good : there mull be therefore force kind of fuitablenefs and har -, mony betwixt our fouls and heavenly mercies, before we are ca- pable of tailing the fweetnefs of them. Now Chrift u all to belie- vers in this.refpe& alfo, 'cis from his f oilnefs they receive and grace for grace, Joh. r. i 6. That we have any thing of grace it is from him, and that we have fuch a degree or meafure of grace it is from him : /am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abxndantly, Joh. ro.io. the effence and the aboundance are both from him. All thofe miracles which Chritl wroughtin the d *yeshof
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