870 Oftbe layes ofheauer,. whole:fome hearbes, and odoriferous flowers, no let c de lightfull tothe fight for their admirable colours andfigures, then to the finel for their picafant and fweetfent,and warred with fomany cryflal fprings, and cleare flreames, liners and brookes; if wehaue heerefuch muficke todelight the care, the natural melodie oflis;eet finging birds, and the artificial harmonic ofinflruments and voicesmade by men ; fitch de- lightful meatsanddrinkes topleafethe toile, and fuch loft andbeautiful rayment,goodlyhoufes, anddowne lodgings to delight the feeling; fuch orchards, fuch gardens, fitch walkes,fuch groves and(lades, fuch fields; fuch medowes, fuch jewels and fuch treafures, in al whichGods enemies and reprobate men hauefor themolt part a far larger (hare, then the deare feruants ofGod ; then how incomparably more excellent is thekingdom ofheauen,the place ofGods ownerefidence, appointed to continue for euer, and pur_ pofely prepared for the holy Saints,rheveffels of Gods mer- ele, ordained to life andglorie,whom God loueth as theap- pleofhis eye, and forwhole fake he made the world andal the fe creatures, and gaue his Sonneofinfinite more worth . then manyworlds, to worke the worke oftheir redemption and faluation? If this world, which in comparifon is but a cottage, prepared, not for falling habitation, but as it were forpreterit vie,like a{Tied to beare offaforme, be fo flately built and fo richlyfurnifhed,what Thal we think ofthe flare, beautie, and glorie which- is relented for vs in ourmanour and manfion houles, whichare thechiefe feates ofourhea- uènly inheritance ? ifthe out-borders of Gods kingdome be fó rich and beautiful,howmuch more excellent is the Kings. Court, the great Monarch ofheauen and earth, where he chiefelyfleweth his glorieand Ivfairfie?Ifthe Lord is his rich bountie,hath appointedvoto vs aplace offuchprofitand delightfor ourexile andbanifhment, howrich and ful ofal preafures ishis own countrie,which heteferueth for his own vtte,to Phew therinhis own gloriousprefence;and for the re- wardofthole whomhemoil graceth withhis fauour ? Ifthe place ofourpilgrimage haue fo many delights & comforts, what-pleafure and contentment Thal we find inour heauenly honk ?
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