Direct. 5. Live still by Faith; Let Faith lay Heaven and Earth as it were together: Look not at God as if he were far off: set him aways as before you, even as at your right hand; Psal. 16.8. Be still with him when you awake, Psal. 139.18. In the morning thank him for your rest; and deliver up your self to his conduct and service for that day▪ Go forth as with him, and to do his work: Do every action, with the Command of God, and the promise of Heaven before your eyes, ⟨p. 155⟩and upon your hearts: Live as those that have incomparably more to do with God and Heaven, than all this world; That you may say with David, Psal. 37.25, 26. (as aforecited) Whom have I in Heaven but thee! and there is none on Earth that I desire besides thee:] And with Paul, Phil. 1.21. [To me to Live is Christ, and to Dye is gain.] You must shut up the eye of sense (save as subordinate to Faith) and live by Faith upon a God, a Christ, and a World that is unseen, if you would know by experience what it is to be above the brutish life of sensualists, and to Converse with God. O Christian, if thou hadst rightly learned this blessed life, what a high and noble soul-conversation wouldst thou have! How easily wouldst thou spare, and how little wouldst thou miss the favour of the greatest, the presence of any worldly comfort! City or Solitude would be much alike to thee, saving that the place and state would be best to thee, where thou hast the greatest help and freedom to converse with God. Thou wouldst say of human society as Seneca [Unus pro populo mihi est, & populus pro uno: Mihi satis est unus, satis est nullus.] [One is instead of all the people to me, and ⟨p. 156⟩the people as one; One is enough for me, and none is enough.] Thus being taken up with God, thou mightest live in prison as at liberty, and in a wilderness as in a City, and in a place of banishment as in thy native Land: For the Earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof: and everywhere thou mayest find him, and converse with him, and lift up pure hands unto him: In every place thou art within the sight of home; and Heaven is in thine eye, and thou art conversing with that God, in whose converse the highest Angels do place their highest felicity and delight.
Direct. 5. Live still by Faith; Let Faith lay Heaven and Earth as it were together: Look not at God as if he were far off: set him aways as before you, even as at your right hand; Psal. 16.8. Be still with him when you awake, Psal. 139.18. In the morning thank him for your rest; and deliver up your self to his conduct and service for that day▪ Go forth as with him, and to do his work: Do every action, with the Command of God, and the promise of Heaven before your eyes, ⟨p. 155⟩and upon your hearts: Live as those that have incomparably more to do with God and Heaven, than all this world; That you may say with David, Psal. 37.25, 26. (as aforecited) Whom have I in Heaven but thee! and there is none on Earth that I desire besides thee:] And with Paul, Phil. 1.21. [To me to Live is Christ, and to Dye is gain.] You must shut up the eye of sense (save as subordinate to Faith) and live by Faith upon a God, a Christ, and a World that is unseen, if you would know by experience what it is to be above the brutish life of sensualists, and to Converse with God. O Christian, if thou hadst rightly learned this blessed life, what a high and noble soul-conversation wouldst thou have! How easily wouldst thou spare, and how little wouldst thou miss the favour of the greatest, the presence of any worldly comfort! City or Solitude would be much alike to thee, saving that the place and state would be best to thee, where thou hast the greatest help and freedom to converse with God. Thou wouldst say of human society as Seneca [Vnus pro populo mihi est, & populus pro uno: Mihi satis est unus, satis est nullus.] [One is instead of all the people to me, and ⟨p. 156⟩the people as one; One is enough for me, and none is enough.] Thus being taken up with God, thou mightest live in prison as at liberty, and in a wilderness as in a City, and in a place of banishment as in thy native Land: For the Earth is the Lords, and the fulness thereof: and everywhere thou mayest find him, and converse with him, and lift up pure hands unto him: In every place thou art within the sight of home; and Heaven is in thine eye, and thou art conversing with that God, in whose converse the highest Angels do place their highest felicity and delight.
