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Sixthly, the ways of godliness are ways of ¹pleasure, because in them the soul hath the presence of God, and walks with God, walks up and down in the light of his face: There is a blessed ⟨p. 177⟩shine of Gods countenance, and of his love upon the soul, and influences of his graces unto the soul in those ways; as the soul hath delight in the communication of its self unto God, so they are ways of pleasantness, because in them there is a communication of God unto the soul: That place in Psal. 89. 19. hath a notable expression of the sweetness of the ways of godliness, and the delight that Gods people have in those ways: Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound, they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. God is in them, and lets out himself unto them; now the quintessence of all good put together, is in every beam of Gods face, and therefore when God shall let out himself, and be thus the portion of a soul, it must needs be a great deal of delight.

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Seventhly, ways of godliness are the ways of pleasure, because the principles of them all is love: whatsoever ¹comes from love, hath much delight and pleasure, and the principle of every way of God is love: God would have nothing from us but out of love, and that may carry us unto love of God himself, and that love by which the heart is carried unto God, is the chariot of love: There is a sweet expression for this that we have in Cant. 3. 9, 10. the estate of the Church is set out by Solomons making himself a Chariot of the wood of Lebanon: He made the Pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love. A strange expression, that the midst of Chariot should be paved with love: the chariot whereby Christ does carry his people up and down in the world, and bring them to himself, is such a Chariot, as the