Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Again he bringeth a Kingdom, and that Kingdom consisteth of joy, in Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdom of God is not ¹meat, and drink, but Righteousness and Peace, and joy in the holy Ghost, Again where Christ dwelleth, you cannot have him but you must have much joy with him, because joy followeth him naturally; at his right hand are pleasures for evermore. Therefore in whomsoever he dwelleth that party must needs have joy. Look through the world, and what joy some ever a man hath, it is according ⟨p. 130⟩to the measure of his participation with God. Therefore those that have him fully, as in heaven, they have a fullness of joy: Those that have him not at all, as in hell, there is a fullness of grief: Indeed in heaven it is midday, and in hell, it is midnight, The one hath the sun always with them; the other darkness it self. Now those that are in the way to both, as the Saints which are in the spring of the day, They have some measure of joy, even as much as they participate of God, and the reprobate that shall be damned, and here dwell in the twi-light, they have some flashes of joy, according as God communicateth himself in common gifts and graces unto them. But in a word, so much of God so much of joy a man hath: Now when God himself dwelleth in a mans heart, and if joy thus naturally follow him, it must needs refresh the hearts of those in whom he dwelleth: so much for the third Benefit.

Again he bringeth a Kindom, and that Kingdom consisteth of joy, in Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdom of God is not ¹meat, and drink, but Righteousness and Peace, and joy in the holy Ghost, Again where Christ dwelleth, you cannot have him but you must have much joy with him, because joy followeth him naturally; at his right hand are pleasures for evermore. Therefore in whomsoever he dwelleth that partie must needs have joy. Look through the world, and what joy some ever a man hath, it is accordding ⟨p. 130⟩to the measure of his participation with God. Therefore those that have him fully, as in heaven, they have a fulness of joy: Those that have him not at all, as in hell, there is a fulness of grief: Indeed in heaven it is midday, and in hell, it is midnight, The one hath the sun alwayes with them; the other darkness it self. Now those that are in the way to both, as the Saints which are in the spring of the day, They have some measure of joy, even as much as they participate of God, and the reprobate that shall be damned, and here dwell in the twi-light, they have some flashes of joy, according as God communicateth himself in common gifts and graces unto them. But in a word, so much of God so much of joy a man hath: Now when God himself dwelleth in a mans heart, and if joy thus naturally follow him, it must needs refresh the hearts of those in whom he dwelleth: so much for the third Benefit.