Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

One being asked, what God was; answered, that he must be God himself, before he could know God fully. I am sure it is requisite, that that Christian should be in heaven first, who would know heaven fully. Fame, which in other things is too free and prodigal, in this is too sparing and penurious, and that in so great a degree; that ⟨p. 18⟩Reader, after thou hast heard it set forth by the holiest heavenliest man alive, though of the greatest capacity and oratory, yet if ever thou gettest thither, thou wilt find cause to speak, as the Queen of Sheba did in another case, 1 Kings 10, 6, 7. It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy glory and thine excellency. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and behold the half was not told me: the delight and happiness exceedeth the same which I heard. There it is indeed that God doth more for the believer then he is able to ask or think. As the loss of the damned will be beyond the most melancholy mans fear: so the gain of the saved will be above the strongest christians faith. The eye of a man may see much good, the ear of a man may hear more, the heart of a man may conceive most of all; but yet neither hath eye seen, nor ear heard, nor can it enter into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them that love him, 1 Cor. 2.9. They which have written most of this subject, might have added at the end of their books (as in other Treatises some have done) Desiderantur nonnulla, or plurima desunt; ⟨p. 19⟩More is desired, or more is wanting.¹

One being asked, what God was; answered, that he must be God himself, before he could know God fully. I am sure it is requisite, that that Christian should be in heaven first, who would know heaven fully. Fame, which in other things is too free and prodigal, in this is too sparing and penurious, and that in so great a degree; that ⟨p. 18⟩Reader, after thou hast heard it set forth by the holiest heavenliest man alive, though of the greatest capacity and oratory, yet if ever thou gettest thither, thou wilt finde cause to speak, as the Queen of Sheba did in another case,