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Ninthly, Yet further, there is abundance of pleasantness ¹in the ways of God, in regard of the many encouraging delights that God hath provided for his people while they do live here, and walk with him in these ways, to make their lives to be sweet unto them; God provides his Paradise here for them, to encourage them, they walk in the garden of God; God hath his Eden, his garden, The Covenant of Grace, and the glorious things prepared, are as the Eden and Paradise of God, in which the souls of ⟨p. 179⟩his people walk, wherein they have delightful hills and dales. In the Scripture there are the high mysteries of godliness, and the plain and easy truths of Religion, as valleys and hills to delight them in their way. They have the sweet springs and rivers of Ordinances, that are appointed as sweet streams to refresh them; and the blessed promises, delightful trees to behold, The tree of life, Christ himself, and a feast of fat things in the Ordinances, wine upon the lees, making melody in their hearts, they go no further for that, and therefore sure their ways are ways of pleasantness, there being so many encouraging delightful things that God hath provided for them in their way.

Ninthly, Yet further, there is abundance of pleasantness ¹in the ways of God, in regard of the many encouraging delights that God hath provided for his people while they do live here, and walk with him in these ways, to make their lives to be sweet unto them; God provides his Paradise here for them, to encourage them, they walk in the garden of God; God hath his Eden, his garden, The Covenant of Grace, and the glorious things prepared, are as the Eden and Paradise of God, in which the souls of ⟨p. 179⟩his people walk, wherein they have delightful hills and dales. In the Scripture there are the high mysteries of godliness, and the plain and easie truths of Religion, as valleys and hills to delight them in their way. They have the sweet springs and rivers of Ordinances, that are appointed as sweet streams to refresh them; and the blessed promises, delightful trees to behold, The tree of life, Christ himself, and a feast of fat things in the Ordinances, wine upon the lees, making melody in their hearts, they go no further for that, and therefore sure their ways are ways of pleasantness, there being so many encouraging delightful things that God hath provided for them in their way.