2-7 ~ '.A SAint orll Brut(' ~ Part l'f.' dejiu of Knowwg: Why then !h01ald not the ferva-nts of Chrifr moreDelight, in the reading and bearing the words of Chrif:t, tlut came from rhe bofor.ne of the Father) that hath feen God find i.s with God, ~nd i.s God him(elf, that tcl!eth them more cer~ r~it:ly of the Invifible things then any Saints or Angels can te-ll h1em? \Vhy fhould not this, I fay be fweeter to them,then all the · fldhly pleal~1res in the world·?Othat I could:know more of God a?d more of the my.fl:cry ofRedemption,even ofan obediem,cm~ ctfied, gloritied.Chri.fl:; and more of the invifible world, and of the bleffed fiate of fouls, on,condirion I left all the Pleafures of this world, to fenfual men ! 0 Lhat I had more_dear and firm ap– prehenfions of thefe tranfcendent glorious things! How eafiiy <onld I fpare the Pleafures of the fleili., and leave thofe husks ta ~wine ro feed on? 0 could my Soul get nearer God, and be more Irradiated with his hea~·enly beams, my mind would need no other recreation, and I fhould as litrle relifh carnal Pleafures, as carnal.minds do relifh the heavenly delighcs .As.earthly.· thingsare poor and low, fo is the knowledge of them. As things fpiritual and heavenly are High and Glorious, myfi~rious and ·profound~ t he knowledge o£ them is accordingly Delighful [And ~ithont controverjie gretlt u the myft-eryof Godtinefs; God "WIU m~tnifef/ in t he flefo, juftifitd i?J the JPirit, [een 1/ Angels, pruzched to tke Gmti/es, believed on in the worU, recei'Cied up into glory, I Tim. 3.16. F~tith is rhe E'CiideNce ef things mt feen, Heb. .r L 1. It is•far pleafanter h)' Jt~ith to fee the L9rA, then to fee any Crea~ ture by the: eye of flelh :· and fweeter by faith to fee Hea– ven opened, and there behold oer Glorified Lord, t~en ro fee a horfe-race, or !l:age-pla·;y, or any of the · fo<!>lenes, of the world . . 2. Tlie k._1wr~ledge of things to·Come · is fpecially .defired, and God/inefs.containeth·tbat Faith which knowerh thmgs to come. How glad would men be to be told what !hall befall them to~the Jafi hour of [heir lives.? The woman of SamariA ]oh. 4· called out her neighboms with admiration to fe5~ Chrifr, as one that· had told .her all . tb.a fhee h~~td d&ne : ·Bat tf he had tol·d her all that ever !he would do, for the time to come, and all that ever · ihouid befall her, it might have afionifhed her mu~h more. Believers know what hathbeen even before the world was made, and how it wt:u made,ana what hath been jince thm,and they know · \\'h;lt will be, to ~/l .eternity. . A true Believer knows. from Scri-· p.ture, .
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