The divine life in three treatises

Herein he hath sometime a sweet foretaste of the everlasting pleasures, which though it be but little, as Jonathans honey on the end of his rod, or as the clusters of grapes which were brought from Canaan into the wilderness, yet are they more excellent then all the delights of sinners. And in the beholding of this celestial Glory, some beams do penetrate his breast, and so irradiate his longing soul, that he is changed thereby into the same image from Glory to Glory; the spirit of Glory and of God doth rest upon him; And O what an excellent holy frame doth this converse with God possess his soul of! How reverently ⟨p. 251⟩doth he think of him! what life is there in every Name and Attribute of God which he heareth or thinketh on! The mention of his Power, his Wisdom, his Goodness, his Love, his Holiness, his Truth, how powerful and how pleasant are they to him! when to those that know him but by the hearing of the ear, all these are but like common names and notions; and even to the weaker sort of Christians, whose Walking with God is more uneven, and low, interrupted by their sins and doubts and fears, this life and glory of a Christian course is less perceived.

Herein he hath sometime a sweet foretast of the everlasting pleasures, which though it be but little, as Jonathans honey on the end of his rod, or as the clusters of grapes which were brought from Canaan into the wilderness, yet are they more excellent then all the delights of sinners. And in the beholding of this celestial Glory, some beams do penetrate his breast, and so irradiate his longing soul, that he is changed thereby into the same image from Glory to Glory; the spirit of Glory and of God doth rest upon him; And O what an excellent holy frame doth this converse with God possess his soul of! How reverently ⟨p. 251⟩doth he think of him! what life is there in every Name and Attribute of God which he heareth or thinketh on! The mention of his Power, his Wisdome, his Goodness, his Love, his Holinesse, his Truth, how powerful and how pleasant are they to him! when to those that know him but by the hearing of the ear, all these are but like common names and notions; and even to the weaker sort of Christians, whose Walking with God is more uneven, and low, interrupted by their sins and doubts and fears, this life and glory of a Christian course is lesse perceived.