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870 Oft be layes of heauer,. whole:fome hearbes, and odoriferous flowers, no let c de lightfull to the fight for their admirable colours and figures, then to the finel for their picafant and fweet fen t,and warred with fo many cryflal fprings, and cleare flreames, liners and brookes; if we haue heere fuch muficke to delight 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 and beautiful rayment ,goodlyhoufes, and downe 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 which Gods enemies and reprobate men haue for the molt part a far larger (hare, then the deare feruants of God ; 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,rhe veffels of Gods mer - ele, ordained to life and glorie,whom God loueth as the ap- ple ofhis eye, and forwhole fake he made the world and al the fe creatures, and gaue his Sonne of infinite more worth . then many worlds, 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 for preterit vie,like a {Tied to beare off a forme, be fo flately built and fo richly furnifhed,what Thal we think of the flare, beautie, and glorie which- is relented for vs in ourmanour and manfion houles, which are the chiefe feates ofour hea- uènly inheritance ? if the out - borders of Gods kingdome be fó rich and beautiful,how much more excellent is the Kings. Court, the great Monarch ofheauen and earth, where he chiefely flew eth his glorie and Ivfairfie? If the Lord is his rich bountie,hath appointed voto vs a place offuchprofit and delight for our exile andbanifhment, how rich and ful ofal preafures is his own countrie,which heteferueth for his own vtte,to Phew therin his own glorious prefence;and for the re- ward of thole whomhe moil graceth with his fauour ? If the place of ourpilgrimage haue fo many delights & comforts, what- pleafure and contentment Thal we find in our heauenly honk ?