Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

they do not only hear outwardly, but inwardly too; there are such Illuminations, as are more precious ⟨p. 260⟩than all the lights in nature: The word, like a beam of Omniscience, penetrates into the very inward parts; the savours of Christ, are as if there were a box of heavenly Spikenard broken in their hearts; the divine Spirit breathes life and power into them, to quicken them to all Obedience; in every Ordinance they have a practical and experimental proof, that God is in the Ordinance. This is the second correspondence; both evidence a sweet communion with God, in which stands much of our happiness here below; it being certain, that there is no greater good to be enjoyed than himself.

they do not only hear outwardly, but inwardly too; there are such Illuminations, as are more precious ⟨p. 260⟩than all the lights in nature: The word, like a beam of Omniscience, penetrates into the very inward parts; the savours of Christ, are as if there were a box of heavenly Spikenard broken in their hearts; the divine Spirit breathes life and power into them, to quicken them to all Obediende; in every Ordinance they have a practical and experimental proof, that God is in the Ordinance. This is the second correspondence; both evidence a sweet communion with God, in which stands much of our happiness here below; it being certain, that there is no greater good to be enjoyed than himself.

The last privilege I shall name, is this: They that are in Christ, are happy in every conditio;¹ a virtuous man in Aristotle, is [Greek or Hebrew], a foursquare man; cast him which way you will, still he is upon his bottom. I may much more say so of men in Christ; their happiness is so internal and divine, that it doth not wheel or roll about with the mutable world, but stands unmovable in every condition; whether the times be prosperous or adverse, still they are happy.