I 2 Meditation.r and Difcourfe.r giving Reft, Complacency, and Satisfaction unto our own Sonls, we are to feek for them in the diligent difi::harge of this Dmy ; elfewhere they ·will not be found. Herein would I live ; Herein would I Dye; Hereo!l would I d weiJ in my Thoughts and Affections, to the withering and confl1mption of a1l the painted Beautie3 of this \iVorld ~ unto the Cmcifying all things here beJow; tintil they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate Embraces. FOR there, and the like Reafons, I lhall firft enqnire into our Beholding of the Glory of Chrift in this world by Faith; And therein endeavour to Jead the Sonls of them that Believe, into the more retired walk; of Faith, Love, ancl Hdly Meditation, 1vhere~y the KJ.>zg If held in his Galleries. Cant. 7· 5"· BUT becaufe there is no Benefit in, nor ad* vantage by the Contemplation of this Sacred Truth, but what confifts in an improvement of the practice of the dnry declared in it, namely, the con(fant beholding of the Glory of Chri/f by Faith: I fh11l for the promotion of it, premife fame few Advantages which we may have thereby. 1. WE fha11 hereby be made fit and meet for Heavm. Every man is not fo, who defires it, and hopes for it. For fame are not onely unwor- . thy of it, and excluded from it, by reafon of Sin; but they are unmeet for it, and incapable of any advantage by it. All men il'ldeed think themfelves fit eno.ugh for Glory ( what lhould hinder them ?) if they co'Jld attain it. But it is becaufe they know not what it .is. Men lhall not be c!ot/Jed · with
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