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Fifthly, all the desires of all the souls of Gods ¹Saints in the world, they come infinitely short of that which shall be hereafter. We are straitened here in our spirits, in our desires; if we could enlarge our desires in a spiritual way, it would hereafter add much to our glory; our desires are not only straighter then that we shall have, but the straightness of our desires here hinders much the capacity of the good that hereafter is to be revealed and communicated; and therefore Christians should labour in a spiritual way to enlarge their desires to the utmost, to get their hearts to be working after great things here, so that they may by them engreaten their hearts, and extend their hearts, to prepare them for the great things that are to be revealed. I may say concerning ⟨p. 497⟩our straight desires, as the Prophet did to Joash, 2 Kings 13. 18, 19. where the Prophet bade him strike upon the earth, and he struck thrice; the Prophet was angry, and said, You should have struck five or six times, and so often shouldst thou have smitten thy enemies: So according to the truth and spiritual working of our desires here, shall we be made capable of glory hereafter; but now if we be straightened in our hearts, and we desire to be in heaven, and to have some good thing there, but our hearts are not after great things, not enlarged in our desires, it will be in some measure, in some proportion according to our desires, and therefore it is an evil thing for Christians to have their desires straitened here. There are glorious things to be had in God, and therefore our desires should be more enlarged then they are. It is an excellent expression of Basil, ^*It grieves, it irks, it is tedious to our most munificent, great, glorious King (he hath one word that expresses as much as all these) if we ask any thing little of him; he would have us ask great things of him.

Fifthly, all the desires of all the souls of Gods ¹Saints in the world, they come infinitely short of that which shall be hereafter. We are straightned here in our spirits, in our desires; if we could enlarge our desires in a spiritual way, it would hereafter adde much to our glory; our desires are not onely straighter then that we shall have, but the straightness of our desires here hinders much the capacity of the good that hereafter is to be revealed and communicated; and therefore Christians should labor in a spiritual way to enlarge their desires to the utmost, to get their hearts to be working after great things here, so that they may by them engreaten their hearts, and extend their hearts, to prepare them for the great things that are to be revealed. I may say concerning