The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

As for God, love as one that loves, desire and desire, and when he hides himself, weep as if you wept, so the weeping be terminated upon God, not upon his dispensations, to quarrel at, and censure ⟨p. 265⟩his ways, but let the out-goings of the heart to God, and to Christ loved and longed for, be with fire, and full strength, Cant. 3.1, 2, 3, 4. Cant. 2.5. Ps. 42.1, 2, 3. Ps. 84.1, 2. Joh. 20.13. Luk. 7.38. Rev. 1.17. 4. Its mortification to have a heart closing with all providences. Phil. 1.21. To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: To live is good, to die is good,¹ because the Lord so wills, the Lords giving is to Job praising, and the Lords taking away is to Job praising. Phil. 4.12. I know both how to be abased, and how to abound: every where, and in all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. If I die, it is good; if I live, it is good; if I be full, and rich, it is good; if I be hungry, and poor, it is good; if David be on the Throne, it is good, and he sings Psalms; if he be chased barefooted, and ashes on his head, by the ascent of Mount Olivet, it is good; he also praises and sings Psalms, 2 Sam. 15.30. Ps. 3.1, 2, 3. If he be at home in his house, it is good, he praises,