A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

8. Labour to act to such an height of Holiness, and walk so closely with God, that ye may have some sensible Communion with him in Duties and Ordinances; that you may see his Power and his Glory in his Sanctuary, Psal. 63.2. May taste his Graciousness, 1 Pet. 2.3. David did taste sweetness in the Word, Psal. 19.10. and why may not you? Why may not the spiritual senses of a Believer, an enlightened Understanding, and renewed Conscience, take as real pleasure in spiritual Objects, as his natural Senses may in natural ones? God may beam in his Love into your Souls, shed it abroad in your Hearts^m, make you taste its Sweetness and feel its Power, cheering up your Spirits, and filling them with Joy unspeakable and gloriousⁿ; the Father may come, and the Son come, and manifest themselves to you, and take up their abode with you^o, so that you may say in the joy of your Hearts, This is the Lord and we have waited for him, this is our God and he will save us^p: And if you experience this in your selves, in your conversing with God in his Ordinances, find something you never found any where else, and can scarce express, or make others understand that have not felt the same, like the white stone with the new Name, which none knows but he that hath it. Rev. 2.17. You will find Gods Consolations carry their own Evidence along with them, and speak their own reality; they have something Divine in them, such a Stamp of God upon them, that they will satisfy your Hearts as to their being no delusions; and then let Scoffers scoff on, they shall never be able to laugh you out of those Comforts whereof you find such real effects, in reviving your Hearts, enlivening your Graces, breaking the Snares of worldly Temptations, abating the force of your Lusts, and adorning even your outward Conversations: I dare say, they may as soon persuade you that Honey is not sweet, when yet you taste it, Snow not white, when yet you see it is, or not cold when you feel it so, as persuade you, either that these Comforts are not real, or that holy Principle in you which is attended by them, is but Fantastical.