2. Then why do we Mourn on Earth for those that are Rejoicing in Heaven? Do we weep for their Joy? Is that our Love unto them, to have such Sorrow for them? What if there be one, or two, or ten fewer in our Family ⟨p. 155⟩on Earth, if there be so many the more in Heaven? What mean these bleared Eyes, this pale and macerated Face, what means this washing of your Cheeks with Tears, these sighs, and sobs, and groans? Are they got safe into the place they prayed, hoped, longed for? and do we grieve they have their Prayers answered, their Hopes obtained, and their Longing Souls are fully and for ever satisfied? What if as they went to Heaven they took Death in their way? could they have gotten thither without dying? Is dying a greater Evil, than all the Joys and Happiness they are possessed of, is good? Would they leave that State above, to choose to be here below, as they were before? Conceive if it be not beyond all your Conceptions, what Joy, and Praise, and heavenly Delight and holy Triumph the separated Soul of your dear holy Relation was filled with at its first beholding the Lord Jesus Christ in his Majesty and Glory in the other World. Who can tell its ravishing Pleasures, its transporting Delights, its fullness of Joy at the first view of its blessed Lord and Saviour? Is this the Jesus that was buffeted, and scourged, and spit upon, that is thus Beautiful as now I behold him? Is this that Blessed Lord that was falsely Accused, unjustly Condemned, and cruelly Crucified, that I now do see sat down upon his Glorious Throne? Is this he that was ⟨p. 156⟩vilified more than any Man, that I see thus exalted above all these Glorious Angels round about? I heard of his Majesty, and Beauty, and Glory from Ministers in their Sermons, but what they said was not equal to what I see: O the Love, the Love, the Love that I do feel to him that dyed for me, that Redeemed me by his Blood to bring me to this glorious •lace, this glorious place! I never before was in, I never saw such a glorious place, such Glorious Company. I heard of it, but before I never saw the like; the like there is not to be seen. Christ in Heaven, and I with him! all these Angels in Heaven, and I with them! all these Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, and happy, holy Souls in Heaven, and I with them! I see such things I never saw, I hear such things I never heard!
2. Then why do we Mourn on Earth for those that are Rejoycing in Heaven? Do we weep for their Joy? Is that our Love unto them, to have such Sorrow for them? What if there be one, or two, or ten fewer in our Family ⟨p. 155⟩on Earth, if there be so many the more in Heaven? What mean these bleared Eyes, this pale and macerated Face, what means this washing of your Cheeks with Tears, these sighs, and sobs, and groans? Are they got safe into the place they prayed, hoped, longed for? and do we grieve they have their Prayers answered, their Hopes obtained, and their Longing Souls are fully and for ever sa•isfied? What if as they went to Heaven they took Death in their way? could they have gotten thither without dying? Is dying a greater Evil, than all the Joys and Happiness they are possessed of, is good? Would they leave that State above, to choose to be here below, as they were before? Conceive if it be not beyond all your Conceptions, what Joy, and Praise, and heavenly Delight and holy Triumph the separated Soul of your dear holy Relation was filled with at its first beholding the Lord Jesus Christ in his Majesty and Glory in the other World. Who can tell its ravishing Pleasures, its transporting Delights, its fullness of Joy at the first view of its blessed Lord and Saviour? Is this the Jesus that was buf•eted, and scourged, and spit upon, that is thus Beautiful as now I behold him? Is this that Blessed Lord that was falsly Accused, unjustly Condemned, and cruelly Crucified, that I now do see sat down upon his Glorious Throne? Is this he that was ⟨p. 156⟩vilified more than any Man, that I see thus exalted above all these Glorious Angels round about? I heard of his Majesty, and Beauty, and Glory from Ministers in their Sermons, but what they said was not equal to what I see: O the Love, the Love, the Love that I do feel to him that dyed for me, that Redeemed me by his Blood to bring me to this glorious •lace, this glorious place! I never before was in, I never saw such a glorious place, such Glorious Company. I heard of it, but before I never saw the like; the like there is not to be seen. Christ in Heaven, and I with him! all these Angels in Heaven, and I with them! all these Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, and happy, holy Souls in Heaven, and I with them! I see such things I never saw, I hear such things I never heard!
