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I Oftbeioyesafbeam ,. 871 home? Ifwehatiefo many canfcs .ofioy and .te ycì.nginthis valley of teares,and time of mourning for our fins; how That we triumph with ioy,andie euen rauifhed with delight,on our mariage day,whcn as al our fins being forgiuen,and we reconciledand refloredto the fauourof God, we fhal haue the Wedding betweene vs and our husband Chrifl foiemni- Lakc z: ;6.ßq. zed, when as girding himfelfe about, and making vs to fit downe at the table,hc will come forth in great mateftie and glorie, and minifler vnto vs at his feafl ; and afterwards carie vs into the btidall chamber of refi and happineffe, that we may eternally folace our felues with him in heauenly dc. lights ? Ittheworld,which is but as it were a prifon,wherein weare kept in fafecuftodie, tilwe be brought forth to ap- peare before Gods tribunal feat at the day o£iudgentetu, be fo excellently adorned, and fo richly furnifhed with varietie Iehn 14.3. ofdelights, that worldly men could find in their hearts to remain in itfor euer; how excellent and abfolute in al per - feion, is that kingdome which he bath prepared to be the countrie and citie of the Saints, and his ovine kingly palace which he bath built to be the feat of his Maieftie, and as it were the throne and theater .of his glorie? Finally,ifthere be fo great varietie ofproñts and pleafures in thisworld, where the Lord would haue his.eleé} afflieled and correétedfor their faults,that they might amendthem, what infinite and incomparable treafures, loyes and delights, hash he roui- ded for them in heauen,where he purpofeth to reward them, to communicate vnto them the feel ftreames of his bountie and goodnes, to fet vpon their heads crownes ofgloric, and toclothand compaffe them about with ioy and happineffe? Surely the ioyes of this place are fo infinit and incomprehen- fible,that the Apoflle Tod who had feene them in vifion only, was fo delighted and evenrauifhed with them, that it was needful that he fhould haue a pricke in the fleih,and the a. Cor.t 5.7. meffenger of Satan to buffet him, that he mightnot be exal- ted about meafure, through the excellencieand abundance ofreuelatiors.And therefore ifPaulfo triumphed in ioy,be- taufe he had for a fhort time beheld that heauenly happines in vifion only, what vnfpeakeable rauiflting delight (hai the K k k 4 e1céc