The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

2. And as Efficiently, so Objectively a holy soul by this Unity of spirit hath a part in the blessings and Graces of all the world. He can know them and think of them▪ (so far as he is One with them) with such pleasure as he thinketh of his own. For what should hinder him? Do we not see that husband and wife are pleased by the Riches and honour of each ⟨p. 41⟩other, because their Union maketh all to be common to them? Are not Parents pleased to see their children prosper, and every one delighted in the welfare of his friend? what then if all the world were as near and dear to us as a husband, a child, or a bosom friend? would it not be our constant pleasure to think of Gods blessings to them, as if they were our own? A narrow spot of ground doth yield but little fruit, in comparison of a whole Kingdom, or all the earth: And he that fetcheth his content and pleasure from so little a clod of earth as his own body, must have but a poor and pitiful pleasure in comparison of him that can rejoice in the good of all the world. It is Uniting Love, which is the great enriching, contenting and felicitating art. (An Art I call it as it is a thing Learned and practised by Rule, but more than an Art, even a Nature as to its fixed inclination.)

2. And as Efficiently, so Objectively a holy soul by this Unity of spirit hath a part in the blessings and Graces of all the world. He can know them and think of them▪ (so far as he is One with them) with such pleasure as he thinketh of his own. For what should hinder him? Do we not see that husband and wife are pleased by the Riches and honour of each ⟨p. 41⟩other, because their Vnion maketh all to be common to them? Are not Parents pleased to see their children prosper, and every one delighted in the wellfare of his friend? what then if all the world were as near and dear to us as a husband, a child, or a bosome friend? would it not be our constant pleasure to think of Gods blessings to them, as if they were our own? A narrow spot of ground doth yield but little fruit, in comparison of a whole Kingdom, or all the earth: And he that fetcheth his content and pleasure from so little a clod of earth as his own body, must have but a poor and pitiful pleasure in comparison of him that can rejoice in the good of all the world. It is Vniting Love, which is the great enriching, contenting and felicitating art. (An Art I call it as it is a thing Learned and practised by Rule, but more than an Art, even a Nature as to its fixed inclination.)