comfortable walking with God. 65 X. Let thy foule fulla often foare aloft upon the wings macarediæfra. of faith , unto the glory 'of the Empyrean Heaven , where quenter & currit God dwelleth, and bathe it felfe before hand-with many a familiariter per plateas coeleífis Tweet meditation in that everlailing bliffe above. Oh thinke Hierufalem, viG- with thy felfe, (though it farre pa%the reach of any mor- tardo&Pa nar- tall thought) what an infinite inexplicable fweeteneffe it tas, famtanao a- will bee, to looke for ever uponthe glorious Body of Iefus poRolos,admirar- Chrifl fhinin with incomprehenfible beautie and to con- do exercitus Mar- $ ; tyrum, & Con- lider,that even every veine of thatbleffed Body bled to bring feirorum, &c. thee to Heaven : and that it being with filch excefle of oo ° a1'"J` glory hypoflatically united unto the Second perfon in the 3^ Trinitie, hathhonored and advanced thy nature, in that re- fpeó, farre above the brightefl Cherub ! To fay nothingof the beautie and brightnefle of that ever-bleffed Place, that unapprochable Light, which befets Godsdreadful! Throne, the walking arme in arme with the Angels of God, that e- verlafting joyfull communion, and converfing with the dea- reft Chriftianfriends, and all the crowned Saints, and in- numerable felicities moe, which infinitely furpaffe in ex cellencie and fweetnef3e, thecomprehenlon of the largeft heart, and expreffion of any Angels tongue : contemplate principally the fountaine of all thy blifle; how the migh- tie I E H o V A H, God blefled for ever, will powre out ofhimfelfe; by theinfluence of Beatificall Vifion, as they call it, perpetual! rivers of unutterable joyes, and pleafures upon thy glorified Body and Soule, thorow all eternitie; even as the Sunne powres out his beames and lining every day afrefh upon the world, without emptineffe or end : and with fuch varietie, (forhee is infinite) that they !hall bee unto thee , as frefh , as new , as fweete, as ra- vifhing, millions of yeares after thou halt dwelt in thofe Manfions of reft, as they were, the very firfl moment thou enteredit that blif!efull Place. Such fixed confiderations as thofe, of things above, will ferve as notable helps to 'draw and keepe thy heart Heaven-ward, and may migh- t ly moove thee to delight in God,- and to hold it the fweetefl life upon earth , to walke withhim in the waies of E Purifie
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