A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

10. Lastly, the delights of Holiness are durable, even everlasting. The further we go, the greater cause we have of joy. It is not a mutable good that we rejoice in, but in the immutable God, the ancient of days, and in that Christ that loveth his spouse with an everlasting love; and in the sure and faithful promises; and in the hopes of the Kingdom that cannot be moved. The spring of our pleasures is in Heaven: and our rejoicing is but ⟨p. 320⟩the beginning of that which must there be perpetuated. Death cannot kill the joys of a believer: the grave shall not bury them: millions of ages shall not end them• Here they may be interrupted, because the pleased face of God may be eclipsed, and sin and Satan may cast malicious doubt into our minds; and the neighbourhood of the flesh will force the mind to participate of its sufferings. But still God will keep their comforts alive, at least in the root; and help them in the act, as we have need of them and are fit for them: And in the world of Joy for which he is preparing us, our Joy shall be perfected, and never have interruption or end. Holy-Festivals, and Ordinances, and sweetest Communion of Saints, and dearest Love of truest friends, and perfect health and prosperity in the world, and all other comforts set together, that this world affords, are but short emblems and small fore-tastes of the Joys which the face of God will afford us, and we shall have with Christ, his Saints and Angels, to all eternity.

10. Lastly, the delights of Holiness are durable, even everlasting. The further we goe, the greater cause we have of joy. It is not a mutable good that we rejoyce in, but in the immutable God, the antient of days, and in that Christ that loveth his spouse with an everlasting love; and in the sure and faithful promises; and in the hopes of the Kingdom that cannot be moved. The spring of our pleasures is in Heaven: and our rejoycing is but ⟨p. 320⟩the beginning of that which must there be perpetuated. Death cannot kill the joys of a believer: the grave shall not bury them: millions of ages shall not end them• Here they may be interrupted, because the pleased face of God may be ecclipsed, and sin and Satan may cast malicious doubt into our minds; and the neighbourhood of the flesh will force the mind to participate of its sufferings. But still God will keep their comforts alive, at least in the root; and help them in the act, as we have need of them and are fit for them: And in the world of Joy for which he is preparing us, our Joy shall be perfected, and never have interruption or end. Holy-Festivals, and Ordinances, and sweetest Communion of Saints, and dearest Love of truest friends, and perfect health and prosperity in the world, and all other comforts set together, that this world affords, are but short emblems and small fore-tastes of the Joyes which the face of God will afford us, and we shall have with Christ, his Saints and Angels, to all eternity.