of earthly good things, than an earthly-minded man can have. He hath that sweet savour of the love of God upon his spirit, that imparts a sweetness to all the enjoyments of this world, beyond what such things in their own nature have with them. This makes the righteous man's little, better than the great revenues of many wicked.a

Upon the whole, therefore, this is, if duly weighed, a mighty and most persuasive argument to delight in God. For it imports thus much, which I add for a close to this discourse.

If you place your delight here, you are most certainly delivered from the vexation and torment of unsatisfied desire. The motions of your souls are sure to end in a pleasant rest. Your lesser desires will be swallowed up in greater, and all in the divine fulness; so that you will now say, "Whom have I in heaven but thee?" and "There is none on earth I desire beside thee." If you

take no delight in God, your own souls will be a present hell to you. It may be, it is not enough considered, how much the future hell stands in unsatisfied desire; which desire-all suitable objects being for ever cut off from it-turns wholly to despair, rage, and torture. And that ravenous appetite, which would be preying upon external objects that now fail, turns inward, and, as an insatiable vulture, gnaws everlastingly the wretched soul itself.

a Ps. xxxvii. 16.

b Ps. lxxiii. 25.

The beginnings of this hell you will now have within you, while you refuse to delight in God. The sapless earthly vanities, upon which your hearts are set, give you some present content, which allays your misery for a little while, and renders it less sensible to you: but they have nothing in them to answer the vast desires of a reasonable immortal spirit. Whereby you certainly doom yourselves to perpetual distress. For in these false vanishing shadows of goodness you cannot have satisfaction, and in the blessed God you will not.

THE END.

J. Dennett, Printer,

Union Buildings, Leather Lane.