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

Look to carnal self-love, a man may know what it is to love: the affection is all ⟨p. 165⟩one in both. Take a man when he makes himself his Idol, as till a man love God, he loves himself above all, he is the Idol, and the Idolater: he hath a high esteem of himself; and those that do not highly esteem him, he swells against them. Again self-love makes a man desire to enjoy himself, and to enjoy his content, to procure all things that may serve for his contentment.

Look to carnal self-love, a man may know what it is to love: the affection is all ⟨p. 165⟩one in both. Take a man when hee makes himselfe his Idoll, as till a man love God, hee loves himselfe above all, hee is the Idoll, and the Idolater: hee hath a high esteeme of himselfe; and those that doe not highly esteeme him, hee swels against them. Againe selfe-love makes a man desire to enjoy himselfe, and to enjoy his content, to procure all things that may serve for his contentment.

Now when the Spirit of God hath purged our hearts of this carnal Idolatry of self-love, and self-seeking, and sufficiency, & contentment; in himself; then a man puts God in stead of himself, grace, and the Spirit doth so; and ⟨p. 166⟩in stead of highly esteeming of himself,¹ he esteems highly of GOD, and of CHRIST, and religion: then in stead of placing a sufficiency in himself, and the things of this life, and resting in them, there is a placing of sufficiency in GOD All-sufficient: And in stead of seeking his own will, and content in all things. Mens mihi pro regno. My mind is to me a Kingdom: then a man seeks to give contentment to GOD in all things, and to be a fool, that he may be wise; and to have no will, and no delight in any thing that cannot stand with the pleasure of, and obedience to God. Thus a man by knowing