Spiritual Perfec9ion. fweetnefs. In divine Woríhip the Soul afcends to God, by holy thoughts and ardent delires, and God defcends into the Soul, by the communication of Grace and Comfort. 'Tis true, the Carnal Man cannot fee nor tafle the divine delight, that a Saint has real Experience of ; for a lower Na- ture is incapable of the perceptions and enjoyments of an higher : A Plant can- not apprehend the pleafure of Senfe, nor a Beam the pleafures of Reafon ; and Reafon muff be prepared and elevated to enjoy the pleafures of Holinefs, which makes all the charming Contents of this World infipid and naufeous : For accor- ding to the excellency of the Objeas , and the capacity and vigour of the Fa- culdes exercifed upon them, fuch is the delight that refults from their union. The holy Soul is a Heaven inlightened with the Beams of the Sun of Righte- oufnefs ; a Paradife planted with immor- tal Fruits, the Graces of the finaifying Spirit ; and God walks in it, communi- cating the fente of his Love. Are not Life, and Light, and Liberty,, produaive and prefervative of Joy ? And confequently, as the natural Life, the more lively and vigorous, the more plea, fant is is, fo the fpiritual. The more we are likeGod, the more we are lived Bb 3 373
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