A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

and ye, O my Friends, whether blessed Angels, or gracious Souls, do you cheer your selves with the same spiritual dainties, wherewith I am refreshed. This is much, but there is more in the next expression I shall name^(w). Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me, q. d. I am ravished and vanquished by thy fixed eye of faith; in short, see the Spouse's closing request^(y): Make hast my beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or a young Hart upon the mountains of Spices; q. d. as I began this Song my dearest Saviour, with passionate desires of thy first coming by the Preaching of the Gospel; so though I thankfully praise thee for all the communion I have had with thee, yet I cannot (my Lord) but more passionately long for thy glorious coming, to take me with thee from these bottoms of death, and valleys of tears, to those eternal heights where nothing springs but life and glory; that instead of this Song I may sing a new one to the Lamb, and to him that sits upon the Throne unto all eternity. Thus (but in a far more Seraphic manner than I am able to express) the Soul-loving God, as the God-loving Soul^(z) are rejoicing in each other with joy, till they rest in each other's love. In short, the Soul that loves God is never so well, as when most immediately with him, and while there's any distance, many a love-glance passeth between God and the Soul, even in the greatest crowd of business and diversions.

and ye, O my Friends, whether blessed Angels, or gracious Souls, do you chear your selves with the same spiritual dainties, wherewith I am refreshed. This is much, but there is more in the next expression I shall name^(w). Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me, q. d. I am ravish'd and vanquish'd by thy fixed eye of faith; in short, see the Spouse's closing request^(y): Make hast my beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or a young Hart upon the mountains of Spices; q. d. as I began this Song my dearest Saviour, with passionate desires of thy first coming by the Preaching of the Gospel; so though I thankfully praise thee for all the communion I have had with thee, yet I cannot (my Lord) but more passionately long for thy glorious coming, to take me with thee from these bottoms of death, and valleys of tears, to those eternal heights where nothing springs but life and glory; that instead of this Song I may sing a new one to the Lamb, and to him that sits upon the Throne unto all eternity. Thus (but in a far more Seraphick manner than I am able to express) the Soul-loving God, as the God-loving Soul