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

2. The Delights of Holiness are the most rational, well-grounded, sure delights. They are not delusory, nor grounded on mistakes or fancies. They are warranted by the truth and All-sufficiency of God, and the certainty of his promise, and the immutability of his counsels, and the sure Reward prepared for his Saints. None but a lying malicious Devil, or his instruments that participate of his nature, or a blind, corrupted, partial flesh, will ever go about to question the foundations of our faith and comforts. The hopes and comforts that are built upon this Rock, will never fall, nor make us ashamed.

But the ungodly rejoice in their own delusions: It is ignorance and error that they are beholden to for their mirth. They laugh in their sleep, or as mad men in their distraction. Did they know that Satan rejoiceth in their joys; and that an offended God is always present, and how poor a matter it is that they rejoice in, it would mar their mirth. If they saw the Hell that they are near, or well-considered where they stand, and what a case their souls are in, they would have little list to play or laugh. If they knew aright the shortness of their pleasures, and the length of their sorrows, and in what a doleful case their wealth and fleshly delights will leave them, it would turn their laughter into mourning and lamentation. So that they rejoice but (as a sick man in a frenzy, or as a fool upon some good news to him that is false;) upon mere mistake.

But the ungodly rejoyce in their own delusions: It is ignorance and errour that they are beholden to for their mirth. They laugh in their sleep, or as mad men in their distraction. Did they know that Satan rejoyceth in their joyes; and that an offended God is alwayes present, and how poor a matter it is that they rejoyce in, it would marr their mirth. If they saw the Hell that they are near, or well-considered where they stand, and what a case their souls are in, they would have little list to play or laugh. If they knew aright the shortness of their pleasures, and the length of their sorrows, and in what a doleful case their wealth and fleshly delights will leave them, it would turn their laughter into mourning and lamentation. So that they rejoyce but (as a sick man in a phrensie, or as a fool upon some good news to him that is false;) upon meer mistake.