A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

And these, with many other, are the rich and royal privileges, wherewith God in this world doth reward and crown a godly life: which though they be great and inestimable, yet are they all little, in comparison of that glorious happiness, which God hath reserved for those that love and serve him in the world to come, being all but short preludes to that heavenly harmony, and small earnest-pennies and first-fruits of that main bargain, and plentiful harvest. For there we shall, both in our souls and bodies, be perfectly freed from all miseries and evils both of sin and punishment, and all tears shall be clean wiped from our eyes; and ¹there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, as the holy Ghost speaketh. And contrariwise, we shall there in joy such honours, riches and joys, as neither the tongue can utter, nor the heart conceive. For we shall inherit ^aa Kingdom, an ^bheavenly Kingdom: yea, the Kingdom ^cof God, which like himself, because it chiefly consisteth in the fruition of himself, is most absolute and infinite in all perfection. There we shall be crowned with a ^dCrown of life, an ^euncorruptible Crown, a ^fCrown of glory. There we shall be perpetually feasted at the great feast and ^gmarriage Supper of the Kings Son, where there shall be nothing but mirth and gladness, plenty without want, and fullness without satiety. There we shall rest from all our labours, and sanctify unto God a perpetual Sabbath, continually singing praises unto him, who is the Author and Fountain of all our happiness. There we shall swim in a river and torrent of pleasure, and have fullness of joy at Gods ⁹