The Practice of Piety

2 They shall love God with as perfect and absolute love, as possibly a creature can do. The manner of loving God, is to love him for himself: the measure, is to love him without measure. For in this life (knowing God but in part) we love him but in part: ¹but when the Elect in heaven shall fully know God, then they will perfectly love God. And (for the infinite causes of love, which thy shall know to be in him) they shall be infinitely ravished with the love of him.

2 They shall loue God with as perfect and absolute loue, as possibly a creature can doe. The manner of louing God, is to loue him for himselfe: the measure, is to loue him without measure. For in this life (knowing God but in part) we loue him but in part: ¹but when the Elect in heauen shall fully know God, then they will perfectly loue God. And (for the infinite causes of loue, which thy shall know to be in him) they shall be infinitly rauish't with the loue of him.

1. 11 Cor. 13.12.

3 They shall be filled with all manner of divine pleasures. At thy right hand (saith David) there are pleasures for evermore: ¹Yea, they ⟨p. 207⟩shall drink (saith he) out of the river of pleasures. ²For as soon as the soul is admitted into the actual fruition of the beatifical presence of God: she hath all the goodness, beauty, glory, and perfection of all creatures (in all the world) united together, and at once presented unto her in the sight of God. If any be in love, there they shall enjoy that which is more amiable: if any delight in fairness, the fairest beauty is but a dusty shadow to that: he that delights in Pleasures shall there find infinite varieties, without either interruption of grief, or distraction of pain: He that loveth honour, shall there enjoy it, without the disgrace of cankered