The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…

There be four ordinary ways by which men come to the knowledge of good things; either by ⟨p. 359⟩hearing them immediately themselves, or by hearsay from others, or by the sight of the eyes, or by discourse of Reason: But from the beginning of the World, men have not seen, nor heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, what God hath provided for them that love him, 1 Cor. 2.9. Isa. 64.4. The love discovered there, is an unknown love; the joy bestowed there, is unspeakable joy: All the costliest dainties prepared for Heavens Table, the fullness of joy and pleasures for ever at Gods right hand, are expressed by this one word Goodness, Psal. 31.19. So that the quality of the provision is beyond all exception, it is Goodness. For its quantity, it is to satisfaction: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy Holy Temple: The Saint shall have enough of this luscious fare to content him: Indeed the Christians full meal is reserved for him, till he comes to eat bread in the Kingdom of Heaven; but here he hath enough to stay his stomach: He is very well satisfied, that his allowance in this World is sufficient. God calls him in the other World to greater work, and so will give him a greater allowance for suitable strength; but God doth not in this World underkeep him. He feeds proportionable to their employments, nay to their satisfaction and contentment, all that are in his inferior family: His children have till they leave.

There be four ordinary ways by which men come to the knowledge of good things; either by ⟨p. 359⟩hearing them immediately themselves, or by hearsay from others, or by the sight of the eyes, or by discourse of Reason: But from the beginning of the World, men have not seen, nor heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive, what God hath provided for them that love him, 1 Cor. 2.9.