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

4. The Knowledge of the Best and Joyfullest matters, must be the Best and Pleasantest Knowledge. And nothing can be Better then God and Glory. Nothing can be sweeter then salvation; and therefore this must be the sweetest Knowledge. I had rather have ⟨p. 274⟩the pleasure of one hours clear and lively Knowledge of my salvation, and of the special Love of God, then to be exalted above the greatest Prince, and to have all the Pleasures that my senses can desire. The Delights of the flesh are base and brutish, and nothing to the spiritual Heavenly Delights of the renewed mind.

5. The manner of our Holy Knowledge, maketh it more Delightful. 1: It is a Certain and Infallible Knowledge. It is not a [may be], or bare possibility: It is not, It is possible there may be a Heaven and Happiness hereafter: But it is as true as the Word of God is true: We have his own hand, and seal, and earnest for it: Even his precious promises, and oath, confirmed by miracles, and fulfilled-prophecy, and bearing his own image and superscription, and shining to us by its own light: We have in our hearts the spirit which is Gods earnest, by which we are sealed up to the day of our final full redemption. And if the soul yet stagger at the promise of God through the remnants of unbelief, that shall not make the promise of God of none effect; but his foundation shall still stand sure: His word shall not pass till all be fulfilled, though heaven and earth shall pass away. A message by one that were sent to us from the dead, were not more credible then the Word of God. And this Certainty of Holy Faith and Knowledge is a very great contentment to the soul. When the Glory of the Saints is a thing as sure as if we saw it with our eyes, and as sure as these things which we daily see; it is a great pleasure to the soul, when it can but apprehend this joyful Certainty.