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inquire further, and you shall be informed if their experience be not too big for to be clothed in words. How oft have some of Christ favourites, after they have Dined with their Lord, been led forth into the Garden to walk; and oh the delightful shades that they have sat under! At another time, Christ, not Satan, hath carried them as it were in his Arms, and Bosom, and set them upon the Pinnacle of the Temple, not to make them giddy, and hazard their fall, but to let them understand how much he hath preferred them before others, and as long as they are upon that great Corner-Stone, no Storms can shake, in Christs Arms no fear of falling: At another time, the Soul hath been carried into the Mount of God, and there it hath seen Christ Transfigured, and beheld so much Brightness, Glory, and Majesty in him, that hath reflected a Glory upon it self, and even Transfigured the Soul, that its scarce like it self, and there it could say, its good being here; and then Christ hath bid the Soul lift up its Eyes and look up to the Heavens, look round from one side to the other, and look beyond the visible Heavens by Faith, to the Seat of the Blessed; well, all this is thine, to thee will I give it, I purchased it, I have paid for it, and 'tis thine, and live like one that is worth more than a world; live up to your Estate, expect that shortly I should set you in the Possession of all: And as for the World, look down upon that if it be worth thy accepting so ⟨p. 315⟩much of it as is good for thee thou shalt have also. O did weak Christians but know what strength, joy, and comfort this Ordinance doth afford, I believe they would not be so hardly persuaded to come when they are invited? Did they but understand how sweet, how wholesome, how dainty the Dishes are which Wisdom prepares; could they but conceive what satisfaction, and fullness there is for the empty, what joy, and solace for the Mourning, and Disconsolate, what strength and quickening for the Weak, I am ready to think that they would scarce be so long absent from the Lords Table: but think not that every one that sits down is made so welcome, nor that Christ gives his dainties to strangers, or enemies;

inquire further, and you shall be informed if their experience be not too big for to be clothed in words. How oft have some of Christ favourites, after they have Dined with their Lord, been led forth into the Garden to walk; and oh the delightful shades that they have sat under! At another time, Christ, not Satan, hath carried them as it were in his Arms, and Bosome, and set them upon the Pinacle of the Temple, not to make them giddy, and hazard their fall, but to let them understand how much he hath preferred them before others, and as long as they are upon that great Corner-Stone, no Storms can shake, in Christs Arms no fear of falling: At another time, the Soul hath been carried into the Mount of God, and there it hath seen Christ Transfigured, and beheld so much Brightness, Glory, and Majesty in him, that hath reflected a Glory upon it self, and even Transfigured the Soul, that its scarce like it self, and there it could say, its good being here; and then Christ hath bid the Soul lift up its Eyes and look up to the Heavens, look round from one side to the other, and look beyond the visible Heavens by Faith, to the Seat of the Blessed; well, all this is thine, to thee will I give it, I purchased it, I have paid for it, and 'tis thine, and live like one that is worth more than a world; live up to your Estate, expect that shortly I should set you in the Possession of all: And as for the World, look down upon that if it be worth thy accepting so