A glance of Heaven, or, A precious taste of a glorious feastA glance of Heaven, or, A pretious taste of a glorious feast

And so by way of contraries for ills, what are the greatest ills? those that the eye can see, that we can feel, and hear of, and conceive? Oh! no, the greatest ills are those torments that never eye saw, that ear never heard of, it is to be in hell to know these things; they are beyond our conceit, the worm that dies not, fire unquenchable, the things above our apprehension are the most terrible things. It is not the gout, or the stone; men feel these things, ⟨p. 108⟩and yet suffer them with some patience: these are not the greatest ills, but those of another world that are reserved for Gods enemies, as the best things are those that are reserved for his friends.

And so by way of contraries for ills, what are the greatest ills? those that the eye can see, that wee can feele, and heare of, and conceive? Oh! no, the greatest ills are those torments that never eye saw, that eare never heard of, it is to be in hell to know these things; they are beyond our conceit, the worme that dies not, fire unquenchable, the things above our apprehension are the most terrible things. It is not the gout, or the stone; men feel these things, ⟨p. 108⟩and yet suffer them with some patience: these are not the greatest ills, but those of another world that are reserved for Gods enemies, as the best things are those that are reserved for his friends.

Therefore let us make use of our understandings in laying things together, and make use of Gods discovery of the state of Christianity, the excellencies of religion. Why doth God reveal these things in the word? that we should oft meditate of them, and study them, that we may be heavenly minded: for there are none that come to heaven, but they must have a taste of these before hand; there are none ever enjoy ⟨p. 109⟩them in perfection; when the day of revelation shall come (the Gospel now is the time of revelation, but) the day of revelation is the time of judgement, then we shall we be revealed what we are. But in the mean time there is a revelation by the spirit in some beginnings of these things, or else we shall never come to have the perfection of them in heaven. If we know not what peace, and joy, and comfort, and the communion of the Saints, and the change of nature is here in sanctification, we shall never know in heaven the fulfilling of it.