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

So when the soul shall see what need it hath of forgiving mercy, of pardoning mercy, and how many great debts GOD hath forgiven us in CHRIST, there will be a great deal of love because there is a great deal forgiven. And we must begin indeed with seeing the infinite mercy of GOD before any other attribute of God, and then we shall love him after. This is the first thing. There is no soul that ever loves God so, as the poor soul ⟨p. 30⟩that hath been abased with the sense of sin, and its emptiness ••at it is empty of all goodness, and then sees a supply in the mercy of GOD in Christ; those souls love GOD above all.

So when the soule shall see what need it hath of forgiving mercy, of pardoning mercy, and how many great debts GOD hath forgiven us in CHRIST, there will bee a great deal of love because there is a great deal forgiven. And we must begin indeed with seeing the infinite mercy of GOD before any other attribute of God, and then we shall love him after. This is the first thing. There is no soule that ever loves God so, as the poore soule ⟨p. 30⟩that hath been abased with the sense of sinne, and its emptinesse ••at it is empty of all goodnesse, and then sees a supply in the mercy of GOD in Christ; those soules love GOD above all.

Another way to love God, is to consider of his wonderful goodness, to meditate, and think of it, he is good, and doth good, it is a Communicative goodness. Let us think of his goodness, and the streaming of it our to the Creature. The whole Earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. What are all the Creatures, but Gods goodness? We can see nothing but the goodness of ⟨p. 31⟩God, what is all the Creatures but Deus explicatus, God unfolded to our senses? he offers himself to our bodies, and souls, all is Gods goodness.