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

and more of the invisible world, and of the blessed state of souls, on condition I left all the Pleasures of this world, to sensual men! O that I had more clear and firm apprehensions of these transcendent glorious things! How easily could I spare the Pleasures of the flesh, and leave those husks to swine to feed on? O could my Soul get nearer God, and be more irradiated with his heavenly beams, my mind would need no other recreation, and I should as little relish carnal Pleasures, as carnal minds do relish the heavenly delights. As earthly things are poor and low, so is the knowledge of them. As things spiritual and heavenly are High and Glorious, mysterious and profound, the knowledge of them is accordingly Delightful [And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness; God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of Angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory, 1 Tim. 3. 16. Faith is the Evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11. 1. It is far pleasanter by faith to see the Lord, th• to see any Creature by the eye of flesh: and sweeter •y faith to see Heaven opened, and there behold our Glorified Lord, then to see a horse-race, or stage-play, or any of the folleries of the world.

and more of the invisible world, and of the blessed state of souls, on condition I left all the Pleasures of this world, to sensual men! O that I had more clear and firm apprehensions of these transcendent glorious things! How easily could I spare the Pleasures of the flesh, and leave those husks to swine to feed on? O could my Soul get nearer God, and be more irradiated with his heavenly beams, my mind would need no other recreation, and I should as little relish carnal Pleasures, as carnal minds do relish the heavenly delights. As earthly things are poor and low, so is the knowledge of them. As things spiritual and heavenly are High and Glorious, mysterious and profound, the knowledge of them is accordingly Delighful [And without controversie great is the mystery of Godliness; God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of Angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory, 1 Tim. 3. 16. Faith is the Evidence of things not seen,