A treatise of delighting in God from Psal. xxxvij. 4. Delight thy self also…

And we see how the temper of the Primitive Christians was, as to this, and the other world, in those days when the Spirit was plentifully poured out.¹ They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves, ⟨p. 92⟩they had in Heaven a far better and an enduring substance. Heaven signified much with them, and this world very little. They looked not to the things that were seen and temporal, but to the things unseen and eternal. ²As those former Worthies did, whose minds and hearts, being set right by that faith, which is the substance of the things hoped for, ³and the evidence of things not seen. They lived as pilgrims and strangers on earth, despised the pleasures, riches and honours of it. Endured all manner of hardships and tortures in it, not accepting deliverance, because they were taken up in the pursuit of the better Country; had respect to the recompense of reward; and expected a part in the better Resurrection.

And we see how the temper of the Primitive Christians was, as to this, and the other world, in those days when the Spirit was plentifully poured out.¹ They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves, ⟨p. 92⟩they had in Heaven a far better and an enduring substance. Heaven signified much with them, and this world very little. They looked not to the things that were seen and temporal, but to the things unseen and eternal. ²As those former Worthies did, whose minds and hearts, being set right by that faith, which is the substance of the things hoped for, ³and the evidence of things not seen. They lived as pilgrims and strangers on earth, despised the pleasures, riches and honours of it. Endured all manner of hardships and tortures in it, not accepting deliverance, because they were taken up in the pursuit of the better Country; had respect to the recompence of reward; and expected a part in the better Resurrection.