The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…

6. All the Saints of God have found it good for them to draw near to Him. So that Universal Experience proves the Truth▪ of my Doctrine▪ As tis said in Job. To which of the Saints wilt thou turn thee? So I say, ask any of them whether it be not so, and they will every one of them answer and say as the Psalmist hero does, It is good for me to draw near to God. Enquire of them, You have been at the Lord's Table, but did you ever find it good to be there? they'll say, we have met with God there, and we never met with him, but we found it good for us. Enquire again, Have you not found it good to draw near to God in the word and prayer? and they will give the same Answer. Some of them have spent many •hole days in secret prayer to God, and some of these have they found to be like days of Heaven. How has the great God condescended to reveal Himself to His servants after a wonderful manner, when drawing near to Him in that Duty! It is ⟨p. 142⟩related concerning that eminent Saint Mr. Brewer, that not long before his death, he had such enlargements in his Closet-Duty as made him wholly regardless of this lower world. Once when his near Relation told him she feared he had injured himself by his rising so early, he replied, If you had seen such glorious things as I saw this morning in private prayer with God, you would not have said so; for they were so wonderful and unspeakable, that whether I was in the body, or out of the body with Paul I cannot tell. This indeed was extraordinary: But where is there a godly man, but he can truly say, he hath found that of God in Secret Prayer which he would not be without for all this world? And if we could speak with the Saints in glory, They would every one of them say It is good for me to draw near to God. As Peter said when he saw Christ transfigured on the holy Mount, It is good for us to be here. So do the Saints in heaven say, Here we have our fill of Communion with God, It is good for us to be here. This is the Heaven of Heaven it self. A life of uninterrupted Communion with God, that's Heaven. Phil. 1.23. To be with Christ which is far b••ter. There's marvellous Rhetoric in that expression: [polo mallon kreist•r] It is