The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

3. To be still with God is the most comfortable life: what sweet harmony and music is in that soul? The Bird, the higher it takes its flight, the sweeter it sings: so the higher the soul is raised above the World, the sweeter joy it hath. How is the heart inflamed in Prayer? How is it ravished in Holy Meditation? What joy and peace in believing? Rom. 15.13. and these joys are those mellea flumina, those honey-streams which flow out of the Rock Christ. Tell me, is it not comfortable being in Heaven? He that is still with God, carries ⟨p. 318⟩Heaven about him: he hath those prelibations and tastes of Gods love, which are the beginnings of Heaven^*. So sweet is this kind of Life, that it can drop sweetness into the troubles and disquiets of the World, that we shall be scarce sensible of them^*. It can turn the Prison into a Paradise; the Furnace into a Festival; it can sweeten death. A soul elevated by grace, can rejoice to think of dying: Death will but cut the string, and the Soul, that Bird of Paradise, shall fly away and be at rest.

3. To be still with God is the most comfortable life: what sweet harmony and musick is in that soul? The Bird, the higher it takes its flight, the sweeter it sings: so the higher the soul is raised above the World, the sweeter joy it hath. How is the heart inflamed in Prayer? How is it ravished in Holy Meditation? What joy and peace in believing? Rom. 15.13. and these joys are those mellea flumina, those honey-streams which flow out of the Rock Christ. Tell me, is it not comfortable being in Heaven? He that is still with God, carries ⟨p. 318⟩Heaven about him: he hath those praelibations and tasts of Gods love, which are the beginnings of Heaven^*. So sweet is this kinde of Life, that it can drop sweetness into the troubles and disquiets of the World, that we shall be scarce sensible of them