Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Take a flower, if a fly come to it, it cannot get out that good which a Bee can do: If we take a flower, we can get out the smell, but there is a honey dew, and if we had that principle a Bee hath, we might get out more then the smell: So carnal people have many sweet flowers, which are pleasant to the smell, but there is a honey dew that only the godly can get out: So that he hath not only the use of all lawful pleasure to the full that any other hath, but he can go and take them as his own, as those that are purchased by the blood of Christ, as those his Father allows him: If he see the glory of the creature, and delights in it, he looks upon it as Gods own delight that he gives him, and looks upon all creatures as his Fathers; he sees no ground, but he says it is his Fathers ground; and he sees springs and rivers, and delights in the creatures as they are his Fathers.

Take a flower, if a flie come to it, it cannot get out that good which a Bee can do: If we take a flower, we can get out the smell, but there is a honey dew, and if we had that principle a Bee hath, we might get out more then the smell: So carnal people have many sweet flowers, which are pleasant to the smell, but there is a honey dew that onely the godly can get out: So that he hath not onely the use of all lawful pleasure to the full that any other hath, but he can go and take them as his own, as those that are purchased by the blood of Christ, as those his Father allows him: If he see the glory of the creature, and delights in it, he looks upon it as Gods own delight that he gives him, and looks upon all creatures as his Fathers; he sees no ground, but he says it is his Fathers ground; and he sees springs and rivers, and delights in the creatures as they are his Fathers.

A wicked man that takes delight in the creature, he travels and walks up and down, and sees other creatures; but it is as if a man were walking in the Orchard and Garden of his deadly enemy: Suppose a man have a deadly enemy, and he hath a pleasant garden, that hath many fair walks and trees in his garden, and he walks in it as others do; ⟨p. 181⟩But where am I now? I am walking here, and compassed in the garden that is mine enemies, and what if he meet me here? it may cost me my life: And so it is with all carnal men in the world; but the people of God enjoy the outward delights of the world, and see the sweet walks, and delightful pleasures that are here, and it is their Fathers garden, the garden of him that is their God, that they have an interest in, so that they have more delight in the creatures then any else.