A05817:311
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 208⟩envy; he that loveth treasure, shall there possess it▪ and never be beguiled of it. There they shall have knowledge, void of all ignorance: health, that no sickness shall impair: and life, that no death can determine. In a word look how far this wide world, surpasseth for light, pleasures, & comfort, the dark and narrow womb wherein thou wast conceived a child: so much doth the world to come exceed in joys, solace, & consolation, this present world. Now happy then shall we be, when this life is changed, & we thither translated
3 They shall be filled with all manner of diuine pleasures. At thy right hand (saith Dauid) there are pleasures for euermore: 1Yea, they ⟨p. 207⟩shall drinke (saith he) out of the riuer of pleasures. 2For assoone as the soule is admitted into the actuall fruition of the beatificall presence of God: shee hath all the goodnesse, beauty, glory, and perfection of all creatures (in all the world) vnited together, and at once presented vnto her in the sight of God. If any be in loue, there they shall enioy that which is more amiable: if any delight in fairenesse, the fairest beauty is but a dusty shadow to that: he that delights in Pleasures shall there finde infinite varieties, without either interruption of griefe, or distraction of paine: Hee that loueth honour, shal there enioy it, without the disgrace of cankred