A27107:326
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. They shall be filled with all manner of divine pleasures. At thy right hand 1(saith David) there are pleasures for evermore; 2yea, They shall drink (saith he) out of the river of pleasures. For as soon as the Soul is admitted into the actual fruition of the beatifical Essence of God, she hath all the goodness, beauty, glory, and perfection of all Creatures (in all the World) united together, and at once presented unto her in the sight of God. If any be in love, there they shall enjoy that which is more amiable. If any delight in fairness, the fairest beauty is but a dusty shadow to that; he that delights in pleasures, shall there find infinite varieties, without either interruption of grief, or distraction of pain; he that loveth Honour, shall there enjoy it, without the disgrace of cankered envy; he that loveth treasure, shall there possess it, and never be beguiled of it. There they shall have knowledge void of all ignorance; health that no sickness shall impair; and life that no death can determine. In a word, look how far this wide world surpasseth for light, pleasures, and comforts, the dark and narrow womb wherein thou wast conceived a child, so much doth the World to come exceed in joys, solace, and consolation, this present World. How happy then shall we be, when this life is changed, and we translated thither?
4. They shall be replenished with an unspeakable joy;a In thy presence (saith David) is the fullness of joy; and this joy shall arise chiefly from the vision of God, and partly from the sight of all the holy Angels, and blessed Souls of just and perfect Men who are in bliss and glory with him.