Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Ofthe'ioyer ofbeauea, 84! Aid to haueattainedvnto blcß'edneffe. The former of there, the Grecians fignified by that name which they gaue vnto it, as though he alone were blefì'ed, who was exempted fromtuflarbira the power of fate and death,and freed from all mi feries and 4 4"v` díEtwm calamities; the other the Hebrew name implieth, forbeingf °rrbn re a word in the plural! number,it fignifieth (as the learned He- bricians obferue) that there ()tidy is true bleffedneffe, where '1" there is a pluralitie and confluence of all good. Seeing therefore the Scriptures plainely teach vs , that whofoe- uer attaine veto thefe heauenfy ioyesfhall be truly and per - fe&ly bieffed; from hence it followeth by neceffarie confe= quence,that all thofe who fhall be partakers of there ioyes, !hall air() be perfeólly freed from all evils which might any way hurtor =left them,and alto fully replenifbed with all mannerofgood,which may benefit and delight them. For there (as one faith) is infinite toy, mirth without mourning, health without ficknelle, a pleafant way without labour, AuguR.Soli- Iight without darkeneffe, life without death,all good'with- loqu.hb. out any euill. Where youth neuer waxeth old, where lifeeap'Hi' knoweth no end, where beautie neuer decaieth, where the lireofloue neuer cooled,, where health neuer is enfeebled, where ioy neuer decreafeth,where griefe is neuerfelt, where groves and lamentations are neuer hard, where nothing for - rowfull is euerfeene,where ioy ßi11 aboundeth, where no e- nulliseuerfeared, becaufe there our chicle good is inioyed, which istó behold the face of our God,whois infinite ,in all vertue and perfeCion. Whofoeuer then is a citizen of this new lerufalem,and made partaker of this heaucnly happines, helhall beperfeélly freed from all thofe culls, with which this fraile life is fo much moleaed,andinducd with al good, and inriched with all hidings and benefits, of. which in this world; wearefo deflitute and naked. Now the 'culls vnto which in this life wee are fubiea;are either privatiue,confi- Bing in the abfe1tce.oçrho thingswhich are good orpo -,. fitiue,confifling in the pretence of thole things which are euill; and both thefe refpekeither the foule,orbody alone, or the whole perfon. The defectlsand wants in the foule in thìslife ate divers ; as firf},the want of knowledge in the vn- derilan-