Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

And certainly, though Heaven and the Glory of it be freely promised, and 'tis no contradiction to say, that it is fully purchased, and sufficiently paid for,¹ being the Apostle calls it a purchased possession; yet there must be a meetness and suitableness to it, in every one that shall be admitted to the fruition of it: We must be made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light. ²What should an unholy heart do in Heaven? Heaven would not be Heaven unto it; that is, it could not be a place of Bliss, and Joy unspeakable unto such. There are no carnal delights, not so much as the here lawful (because necessary) ones, of eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage: there is no Gold and Silver to fill the Bags of the covetous Earth-worms; no Delilah's for the Wantons; no Company to debauch and carouse with: If a Sermon or a Lord's day be so tedious, when will it be gone? How unhappy would an unchanged, unsanctified Soul think its self to hear perpetual Hallelujah's and Praises, to be confined amongst the Souls of just men, and Holy Angels! God certainly will not cast his Jewels before such Swine.³

And certainly, thô Heaven and the Glory of it be freely promised, and 'tis no contradiction to say, that it is fully purchas'd, and sufficiently paid for,¹ being the Apostle calls it a purchased possession; yet there must be a meetness and suitableness to it, in every one that shall be admitted to the fruition of it: We must be made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light. ²What should an unholy heart do in Heaven? Heaven would not be Heaven unto it; that is, it could not be a place of Bliss, and Joy unspeakable unto such. There are no carnal delights, not so much as the here lawfull (because necessary) ones, of eating and drinking, marrying and giving in mariage: there is no Gold and Silver to fill the Bags of the covetous Earth-worms; no Dalilah's for the Wantons; no Company to debauch and carouze with: If a Sermon or a Lord's day be so tedious, when will it be gone? How unhappy would an unchanged, unsanctified Soul think its self to hear perpetual Hallelujah's and Praises, to be confined amongst the Souls of just men, and Holy Angels! God certainly will not cast his Jewels before such Swine.