The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

The same person speaks almost the language of the Apostle, concerning his being rapt up into the third heaven, and tells of such an alienation of the soul from the body.

That when once it finds God (whom he had before been speaking of under the name of the [Greek or Hebrew] or the beauty) shining in upon it, it now no ⟨p. 419⟩longer feels its body, or takes notice of its being in the body, but even forgets its own being, that it is a man, or a living creature, or any thing else whatsoever, for it is not at leisure to mind any thing else, nor doth it desire to be: Yea, and having sought him out, he immediately meets it, presenting its self to him. It only views him instead of it self,—and would not now change its state for any thing, not if one could give it the whole heaven in exchange.

That when once it finds God (whom he had before been speaking of under the name of the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or the beauty) shining in upon it, it now no ⟨p. 419⟩longer feels its body, or takes notice of its being in the body, but even forgets its own being, that it is a man, or a living creature, or any thing else whatsoever, for it is not at leisure to mind any thing else, nor doth it desire to be: Yea, and having sought him out, he immediately meets it, presenting its self to him. It onely views him instead of it self,—and would not now change its state for any thing, not if one could give it the whole heaven in exchange.