The divine life in three treatises

for if you do, you will wish you had known the privileges of his presence, and had kept nearer to him! Be not so unnatural, so unthankful, so unkind, as to be weary of your Fathers presence (and such a Father's too) and to take more delight in any others.

for if you do, you will wish you had known the priviledges of his presence, and had kept nearer to him! Be not so unnatural, so unthankful, so unkind, as to be weary of your Fathers presence (and such a Father's too) and to take more delight in any others.

Moreover, you are related to God in Christ, as a Wife unto a Husband, as to Covenant union, and nearness and dearness of affection, and as to his tender care of you for your good: And is it seemly, is it wisely or gratefully done of you, to desire rather the company of others, and delight in creatures more than him? Isa. 54. 5, 6. How affectionately doth thy Maker call himself the Husband of his people? And can thy heart commit adultery. and forsake him: [My Covenant they brake, though I was an Husband to thee, saith the Lord, Jer. 31. 32. O put not God to exercise his jealousy. It is one of his terrible attributes, to be [a jealous God.] And can he be otherwise to thee, when thou lovest not his converse or company, and carest not how long thou art from him in the world? Woe to thee if he once say as Hos. 2. 2. [She is not my Wife, neither am I her Husband.]

Moreover, you are related to God in Christ, as a Wife unto a Husband, as to Covenant union, and nearness and dearness of affection, and as to his tender care of you for your good: And is it seemly, is it wisely or gratefully done of you, to desire rather the company of others, and delight in creatures more than him? Isa. 54. 5, 6. How affectionately doth thy Maker call himself the Husband of his people? And can thy heart commit adultery. and forsake him: [My Covenant they brake, though I was an Husband to thee, saith the Lord,