Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…

To the soul Evangelically Contrite,¹ the light of Gods Countenance, and the sense of his love in Christ, is more worth than all the treasures, and pleasures in the world, Lord, lift thou up the Light of thy Countenance upon me; thy love is better than wine, ²(better then Corn and Wine,) it strengthens more, it comforts more, it puts gladness in my heart, more then Corn and Wine, more than the choicest Creatures in the world, saith the Contrite ⟨p. 62⟩soul. When once this contrition had seized on Davids heart,³ his soul did thirst for God, as the thirsty land for rain, and as the chased Hart for the water-brooks. And not after God only in his immediate dispensations, but in his mediate also, after God in his Ordinances, in his Sanctuary, as appears, Psal. 63.2. & 84.10. & 27.4. and thus did Mary Magdalen, and Paul, and other Saints, under the New Testament, when once this contrition had seized on their hearts, they were very industrious seekers of God in his Ordinances; By which it is eminently evident, that it is the nature of Evangelical Contrition, of hearts Evangelically contrite, to prize highly communion with God, in his Ordinances.

To the soul Evangelically Contrite,¹ the light of Gods Countenance, and the sense of his love in Christ, is more worth than all the treasures, and pleasures in the world, Lord, lift thou up the Light of thy Countenance upon me; thy love is better than wine, ²(better then Corn and Wine,) it strengthens more, it comforts more, it puts gladness in my heart, more then Corn and Wine, more than the choicest Creatures in the world, saith the Contrite ⟨p. 62⟩