Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners

The true Believer was convinced in this life, that indeed there was no true blessedness, but this enjoyment of God in the Kingdom of heaven. The Lord revealed this to his heart by his Word and Spirit: And therefore he contemned the seeming happiness on earth and laid up for himself a Treasure in heaven, and made him friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, and ventured all his hope in this Vessel. And now he findeth the wisdom of that choice in a rich return. God made him so Wise a Merchant as to sell All for this Pearl of greatest price: and therefore now he shall find the gain. As there Is no other true Happiness, but God in glory; so is there nothing more suitable and welcome to the true Believer. O how welcome will the face of that God be, whom he loved, whom he sought, whom he ⟨p. 262⟩longed and waited for. How welcome will that Kingdom be which he lived in Hope of! which he parted with All for! and suffered for in the flesh! How glad will he be to see the Blessed face of his Redeemer, who by his manifold Grace hath brought him unto this! I leave the believing soul to think of it, and to make it the daily matter of his Delightful Meditation; What an unconceivable Joy in one moment, his Sentence of Christ will fill his soul with. Undoubtedly it is now quite past our comprehension: though our imperfect forethoughts of it may well make our lives a continual Feast.

The true Believer was convinced in this life, that indeed there was no true blessedness, but this enjoyment of God in the Kingdom of heaven. The Lord revealed this to his heart by his Word and Spirit: And therefore he contemned the seeming happiness on earth and laid up for himself a Treasure in heaven, and made him friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness, and ventured all his hope in this Vessel. And now he findeth the wisdom of that choice in a rich return. God made him so Wise a Merchant as to sell All for this Pearl of greatest price: and therefore now he shall find the gain. As there Is no other true Happiness, but God in glory; so is there nothing more suitable and welcom to the true Believer. O how welcome will the face of that God be, whom he loved, whom he sought, whom he ⟨p. 262⟩longed and waited for. How welcome will that Kingdom be which he lived in Hope of! which he parted with All for! and suffered for in the flesh! How glad will he be to see the Blessed face of his Redeemer, who by his manifold Grace hath brought him unto this! I leave the believing soul to think of it, and to make it the daily matter of his Delightful Meditation; What an unconceivable Ioy in one moment, his Sentence of Christ will fill his soul with. Undoubtedly it is now quite past our comprehension: though our imperfect forethoughts of it may well make our lives a continual Feast.