The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

2. The loss of dear friends: a friend imparts secrets; friendship is the marriage of affections, it makes two become one spirit. David and Jonathan took sweet counsel together, their heart was knit in one: now here is the grief, when this precious knot must be untied: but be of good cheer, if thy friend belong to the election, after thou hast parted with thy sins, thou shalt meet with him and never part. If thy friend be wicked, though he were thy friend on earth, thou wilt cease to be ⟨p. 108⟩his friend in heaven. The pious wife shall not complain she hath lost her husband, nor the religious Parent, that he hath lost his child; all relations are infinitely made up in Christ, as the whole constellation in the Sun, that great Lamp of Heaven. When a man comes to the sea, he doth not complain that he wants his Cistern of water: Though thou didst suck some comfort from thy relations; yet when thou comest to the Ocean, and art with Christ, thou shalt never complain, that thou hast left thy cistern behind: There will be nothing to breed sorrow in heaven; there shall be joy, and nothing but joy: Heaven is set out by that phrase, Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord^*. Here joy enters into us, there we enter into joy: the joys we have here, are [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ those are [Greek or Hebrew]. These are from heaven, those are in heaven: the joys that we shall have ⟨p. 109⟩with Christ, are without measure, and without mixture:^* In thy presence is fullness of joy.

2. The losse of deare friends: a friend imparts secrets; friendship is the marriage of affections, it makes two become one spirit. David and Ionathan tooke sweete counsel together, their heart was knit in one: now here is the grief, when this precious knot must be untyed: but be of good cheare, if thy friend belong to the election, after thou hast parted with thy sinnes, thou shalt meet with him and never part. If thy friend be wicked, though he were thy friend on earth, thou wilt cease to be ⟨p. 108⟩