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Dir. 6. Daily live in the exercise of faith, upon the everlasting pleasures: Dwell as at the gates of Heaven; as men that are waiting every hour when they are called in, and when death will draw aside the veil, and show them the blessed face of God. And take heed that the enmity of interposing Death, prevail not against the Joys of faith. But look to Christ that hath conquered it, and will conquer it for you; And if thus you could live as strangers here, and as the Citizens of Heaven, that are ready to step into the immortal pleasures, you would then taste the Pleasures of a holy life, in the first fruits and foretasts thereof. It is your Treasure that must Delight you; As your Heart must be there, so your pleasure must be derived thence. Strangers to Heaven will be strangers to the Believers Joys; As the pleasure of the Carnal world, consisteth in the sense of what they have in hand; so the pleasure of Believers consisteth in the fore-apprehensions of what they shall enjoy with God for ever. If ⟨p. 380⟩therefore you exercise not those apprehensions; if you look not frequently, seriously, and believingly into the world that you must live in for ever, how can the comforts of that world illustrate and refresh you in this present world? The Light and Heat, which is the Beauty and Life of this lower world, proceedeth not from any thing in this world, but from the Sun which is so far above us, and sends down hither its quickening influence and rays. They are not the genuine comforts of Christianity, which are not fetched from the world above.

Dir. 6. Daily live in the exercise of faith, upon the everlasting pleasures: Dwell as at the gates of Heaven; as men that are waiting every hour when they are called in, and when death will draw aside the vaile, and shew them the blessed face of God. And take heed that the enmity of interposing Death, prevail not against the Joys of faith. But look to Christ that hath conquered it, and will conquer it for you; And if thus you could live as strangers here, and as the Citizens of Heaven, that are ready to step into the immortal pleasures, you would then taste the Pleasures of a holy life, in the first fruits and foretasts thereof. It is your Treasure that must Delight you; As your Heart must be there, so your pleasure must be derived thence. Strangers to Heaven will be strangers to the Believers Joys; As the pleasure of the Carnal world, consisteth in the sense of what they have in hand; so the pleasure of Believers consisteth in the foreapprehensions of what they shall enjoy with God for ever. If