debasing, and in a manner, brutifying themselves, as if they had not rational and Immortal Souls capable of enjoying God the chief good, the only Object suited Completely to satisfy their most enlarged desires) Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon us, for thou hast caused more joy of heart to me, (to wit, thereby) Then when their Corn and Wine abound: And Psal. 89.16. those who walk in the light of His Countenance are said to Rejoice in his name all the day: Thus, when he Prays, Psal. 43. For admission to fellowship with God in his public ordinances (to which he had gone with others of his people, with the voice of joy and gladness, as they that kept Holy days, as he telleth us in the Preceding Psalm) he promiseth in that case, that he will go unto the altar of God, unto God his exceeding joy, the gladness or joy of his joy, the very heart and Soul of his joy, or the Cream of it, as some translations render the word; there is reality, Solidity, strength and Efficacy, in that joy; it is heart-joy, while as in the very midst of the carnal joy, jollity and mirth of natural men arising from the greatest affluence of worldly pleasures and enjoyments, their heart is sorrowful, as Solomon saith: there is no solidity in it, it hath not a bottom: if they would but a little retire within themselves and ask for a reason of their laughter, mirth, and jollity, it would instantly evanish, and their hearts would die within them as stones; it's kept up to their delusion and ruin, by their abstracting from, and non-reflecting upon the unsolidity and irrelevancy of the Grounds thereof: but the more the grounds of this joy of the Godly be reflected on, considered and searched into, they are found to be the more ⟨image 9⟩able to bear the Highest Superstructures of their joy. Tenthly, It is such a fellowship, that whatever measure of it be attained by sojourning Saints, It wakeneth desires, sharpeneth appetite, and stirreth up kindly longings for more, and yet more of it, even till it be completed: Thus Moses the man of God, and his great favourite, whom he knew face to face, when admitted to very much familiar fellowship with him, and is told, that he had found Grace in his sight, that he knew him by name, And that at his earnest desire his presence should go with him, Exod. 33.12, 13, 14. Yet saith he to the Lord, vers. 18. I beseech thee show me thy Glory:
debasing, and in a manner, brutifieing themselves, as if they had not rational and Immortal Souls capable of enjoying God the chief good, the only Object suited Compleatly to satisfie their most inlarged desires) Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon us, for thou hast caused more joy of heart to me, (to wit, thereby) Then when their Corn and Wine abound: And Psal. 89.16. those who walk in the light of His Countenance are said to Rejoice in his name all the day: Thus, when he Prays, Psal. 43. For admission to fellowship with God in his publick ordinances (to which he had gone with others of his people, with the voice of joy and gladness, as they that kept Holy days, as he telleth us in the Preceeding Psalm) he promiseth in that case, that he will go unto the altar of God, unto God his exceeding joy, the gladness or joy of his joy, the very heart and Soul of his joy, or the Cream of it, as some translations render the word; there is reality, Solidity, strength and Efficacy, in that joy; it is heart-joy, while as in the very midst of the carnal joy, jollity and mirth of natural men arising from the greatest affluence of worldly pleasures and enjoyments, their heart is sorrowfull, as Solomon saith: there is no solidity in it, it hath not a bottom: if they would but a little retire within themselves and ask for a reason of their laughter, mirth, and jollity, it would instantly evanish, and their hearts would die within them as stones; it's kept up to their delusion and ruine, by their abstracting from, and non-reflecting upon the unsolidity and irrelevancy of the Grounds thereof: but the more the grounds of this joy of the Godly be reflected on, considered and searched into, they are found to be the more ⟨image 9⟩able to bear the Highest Superstructures of their joy. Tenthly, It is such a fellowship, that whatever measure of it be attained by sojourning Saints, It wakeneth desires, sharpeneth appetite, and stirreth up kindly longings for more, and yet more of it, even till it be compleated: Thus Moses the man of God, and his great favourite, whom he knew face to face, when admitted to very much familiar fellowship with him, and is told, that he had found Grace in his sight, that he knew him by name, And that at his earnest desire his presence should go with him, Exod. 33.12, 13, 14. Yet saith he to the Lord, vers. 18. I beseech thee shew me thy Glory:
