Bosom all the treasures Of God Angels and Men Make all the enjoyments of Kingdoms ours Teach us to enjoy all thy Works and Holy Ways In the best of manners In the fulness of their service To Angels and Men Direct us to the End for which we were Created Are answerable to the Nature and Powers Of our Souls Shew that thou lovest us infinitely Since thou hast given us all things Among those in those by those thyself Are Laws sit for the Bride of God Articles of Marriage between us and thee The Copy of thy Bosom The Commentaries of Heaven and Earth Teaching us how they are all to be enjoyed Ordinances of thy House for the Sons of God Consonant to thy Nature Suitable to thy Works The very Laws which Angels keep in Heaven Requiring duties that are the Works of Glory Fixing us to thee Making us to live here in Heaven Even thou O Lord By Goodness inheritest thy Self and all Things Is it not my Joy Is it not a part of the beatifical Vision To see how perfectly thy Goodness loveth us How it enjoyeth all things for our sakes O God I love thy Goodness Delight in thy Nature Rejoyce in this that thou takest perfect pleasure In glorifying thy Wisdom And Power infinitely So to exalt us Who will not delight in being beloved of thee Yet that is all which thy Laws require When we are commanded to love thee To love thy Goodness To rejoyce in thy Favour To prize thy loving Kindness according to the Value And Glory of it Who being infinite Love Love unto us Exaltest thy Sovereignty Exaltest thy Wisdom Exaltest thy Power In all places of thy Dominion To Magnifie thy Sons To Adorn thy Bride To Enrich thy Servants Thy Laws O God Are the perfect Laws of Right Reason Nature speaks them Eternity rewards them Reason asserts them Wisdom suggests them Interest and self love doth prompt them Thy Benefits oblige us to them The Beauty of Holiness is exceeding Wonderful In one act all Gratitude Obedience together Goodness Blessedness together Wisdom Glory together To prize all things according to their value being The Perfect Work of Right Reason The Fulfilling of all Laws The Answer of all Obligations The Payment of all Gratitude The Way to all Rewards The Fruition of them Whereby we are in one Thy Servants Sons Thy Bride Image Objects of Delight to Almighty God The Joy of Angels The beautiful Possessors of Heaven and Earth Advanced to thy Throne Crowned with thy Glory By prizing we receive all thy Treasure By feeling we enjoy it By valuing we feel it By enjoying it We Glorisie thee Acknowledge thy Goodness Admire thy Power Fullfil the Work for which we were made Satisfie thy Design Accomplish the End of the whole Creation Therefore I love thy Commandments above Gold yea above fine Gold I esteem all thy Precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way How marvellous is thy loving Kindness O Lord How great is thy Goodness whichthou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thouhast wrought for them that put their trust in thee before the Sons of Men Having laid infinite Obligations upon us Thou commandest us to be Happy And With infinite Rewards recompencest Those That keep thy Commandments How excellent are thy Laws to me in particular They Require all Angels Cherubim and Men to delight in and promote my Happiness They command Kings Emperours To take care of and love me Wise Men Apostles To take care of and love me Patriarchs Prophets To take care of and love me Saints and Martyrs To take care of and love me Among Cherubim and Angels Command them to love and delight in all those whom I love and whom as my Friends and Brethren I love to see beloved delighted in and honored Command me those Duties which make me a Sovereign a supreme Blessing a Delight an inestimable Joy to the whole World Require me to do no other things than those only whereby I enjoy my supreme Happiness Make me a Delight to God himself who rejoyceth to see me enjoy his Happiness Command Cherubim Angels and Men to do me those services every one of which is More Sweet More Profitable More Amiable More Delightful More Satisfactory Than Seas of Amber Mountains of Pearls Thousands of Gold and Silver Which Works are To Love each other To Praise God To Behold his Works To Enjoy his Blessedness Ordaining them each to live perpetually in the Similitude of his HOLY LIFE Which is an endless Sphere of beautiful Delights Prepared for the enjoyment of me his servant O my God! Thy Laws are so convenient for every Soul As if they were prepared for him alone So perfectly promote the happiness of all As if nothing were regarded But the Publick Peace of the whole World They banish all things Evil from the Earth Anger Malice Injustice Oppression Covetousness Ambition Cruelty Pride Disorder War Those bitter Roots of Gall and Wormwood That would spoyl even Heaven being there They introduce all things good And profitable to Men Order Humility Love Wisdom Knowledge 〈◊〉 Justice Contentation Peace Security Joy Glory Establish the Happiness of all the Earth Make all things conspire for each others felicity Create a Benevolence in every Soul to all the World Make all the Sons of Men In their Actions Thoughts and Persons Like the holy Angels All A Blessing to each other All Like God the enricher of our happiness The world a Paradice Every one in it the heir of it They interpret and enrich the Works of God Which by serving all are serviceable to each While we like God Above the Sun the Stars the Skies Are a mutual Joy in all Generations And Thee Which is the greatest Benefit of all Being faithfully kept they allure to dwell Well pleased among us O make me to understand the way of thy Precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works Disguised Duties Real Joys Having prepared for us such inestimable Treasures Nature it self requires us To See the Beauty that is in them To Love their Goodness To Rejoyce in their Glory Thy Laws are exceeding Righteous because they require what Right requires Infinitely Righteous and strangely so Because they command what Reason Wills What Wisdom it self Nature urges Thy Goodness by commanding us to live happily having shut up in one all Perfections It is Right O Lord That we should Understand thy Love Be sensible of thy Benefits we receive from Thee Answer the Obligations that lie upon us Live in thine Image towards all thy Creatures Prize every thing according to its Value Satisfie the Powers of our immortal Souls By sixing them on their proper Objects in a Blessed manner Do that which leadeth us to Bliss Accomplish the End for which we came into the World Be Delights like Thee To thine Eternal Majesty All these in one Work do thy Laws command How sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than honey to my mouth
Beneath which it was necessary that we should be made To the 〈◊〉 we might be governed In a righteous Kingdom But couldst thou not have remitted our Knowledge and established to thy self a righteous Kingdom without composing our Bodies or the World By the Fall of some we know O Lord That the Angels were tried Which are invisible Spirits Needing not the World Nor clothed in Bodies Nor endued with Senses For our Bodies therefore O Lord for our earthly Bodies hast thou made the World Which thou so lovest that thou hast supremely magnified them by the works of thy hands And made them Lords of the whole Creation Higher than the Heavens Because served by them More glorious than the Sun Because it ministreth to them Greater in Dignity than the material World Because the end of its Creation Revived by the Air Served by the Seas Fed by the Beasts and Fowls and Fishes Our pleasure Which fall as Sacrifices to Thy glory Being made to minister and attend upon us O Miracle Of divine Goodness O Fire O flame of Zeal and Love and Joy Even for our earthly bodies hast thou created all things All things Visible All things Material All things Sensible Animals Vegetables Minerals Bodies celestial Bodies terrestrial The four Elements Volatile Spirits Trees Herbs and Flowers The Influences of Heaven Clouds Vapors Wind Dew Rain Hail and Snow Light and Darkness Night and Day The Seasons of the Year Springs Rivers Fountains Oceans Gold Silver and precious Stones Corn Wine and Oyl The Sun Moon and Stars Cities Nations Kingdoms And the Bodies of Men the greatest Treasures of all For each other What then O Lord hast thou intended for our Souls who givest to our Bodies such glorious things Every thing in thy Kingdom O Lord Conspireth to mine Exaltation In every thing I see thy Wisdom and Goodness And I praise the Power by which I see it My Body is but the Cabinet or Case of my Soul What then O Lord shall the Jewel be Thou makest it the heir of all the profitable trades and occupations in the World And the Heavens and the Earth More freely mine More profitably More gloriously More comfortably Than if no man were alive but I alone Yea though I am a Sinner thou lovest me more than if thou hadst given all things to me alone The sons of men thou hast made my treasures Those Lords Incarnate Cherubims Angels of the World The Cream of all things And the sons of God Hast thou given to me and made them mine For endless Causes ever to be enjoyed Were I alone Briars and thorns would devour me Wild beasts annoy me My Guilt terrifie me The World it self be a Desart to me The Skies a Dungeon But mine Ignorance more The Earth a Wilderness All things desolate And I in solitude Naked and hungry Blind and brutish Without house or harbour Subject unto storms Lying upon the ground Feeding upon roots But more upon melancholy Because void of thee Therefore thou providest for me and for me they build and get and provide for me My Bread Drink Clothes Bed My Houshold stuff Books My Houshold stuff Utensils My Houshold stuff Furniture The use of Meats Fire Fuel c. They teach unto me provide for me While I O Lord exalted by thy hand Above the Skies in Glory seem to stand The Skies being made to serve me as they do While I thy Glories in thy Goodness view To be in Glory higher than the Skies Is greater bliss than 't is in place to rise Above the Stars More blessed and divine To live and see than like the Sun to shine O what Profoundness in my Body lies For whom the Earth was made the Sea the Skies So greatly high our humane Bodies are That Angels scarcely may with these compare In all the heights of Glory seated they Above the Sun in thine eternal day Are seen to shine with greater gifts adorn'd Than Gold with Light or Flesh with Life suborn'd Suns are but Servants Skies beneath their feet The Stars but Stones Moons but to serve them meet Beyond all heights above the World they reign In thy great Throne ordained to remain All Tropes are Clouds Truth doth it self excel Whatever Heights Hyperboles can tell O that I were as David the sweet Singer of Israel In meeter Psalms to set forth thy Praises Thy Raptures ravish me and turn my soul all into melody Whose Kingdom is so glorious that nothing in it shall at all be unprofitable mean or idle So constituted That every one's Glory is benesicial unto all and every one magnified in his place by Service What is man O Lord that thon art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Kings in all their Glory minister to us while we repose in peace and safety Priests and Bishops serve at thine Altar guiding our Bodies to eternal Glory Physicians heal us Courts of Judicature stand open for our preservation The Outgoings of the morning and evening rejoyce to do us service The holy Angels minister unto us Architects and Masons build us Temples The Sons of Harmony fill thy Quires Where even our sensible bodies are entertained by thee with great magnificence and solaced with Joys Jesus Christ hath washed our feet He ministred to us by dying for us And now in our humane body fitteth at thy right hand in the throne of Glory As our Head For our Sakes Being there adored by Angels and Cherubims What is it Lord That thou so esteemest us Thou passed'st by the Angels Pure Spirits And didst send thy Son to die for us That are made of both Soul and Body Are we drawn unto thee O why dost thou make us So thy treasures Are Eyes and Hands such Jewels unto thee What O Lord are Tongues and Sounds And Nostrils unto thee Strange Materials are visible bodies Things strange even compared to thy Nature Which is wholly spiritual For our sakes do the Angels enjoy the visible Heavens The Sun and Stars Thy terrestrial Glories And all thy Wisdom In the Ordinances of Heaven In the Seasons of the Year Wondering to see thee by another way So highly exalting dust and ashes Thou makest us treasures And joys unto them Objects of Delight and spiritual Lamps Whereby they discern visible things They see thy Paradise among the sons of men Thy Wine and Oyl thy Gold and Silver By our Eyes They smell thy Perfumes And taste thy Honey Milk and Butter By our Senses Thy Angels have neither ears nor eyes Nor tongues nor hands Yet feel the Delights of all the World And hear the Harmonies not only which Earth but Heaven maketh The melody of Kingdoms The joys of Ages Are Objects of their joy They sing thy Praises for our sakes While we upon Earth are highly exalted By being made thy Gifts And Blessings unto them Never their contempt More their amazement And did they not love us Their Envy hereafter But now their Joy When our Glory being understood We shall
to 〈◊〉 That Nature never gave to any thing a power in vain To what end therefore am I endned with these eternal Powers The similitude of thy Greatness in my Soul Infinity in my Soul Eternity in my Soul Is it not that I might live In the simili tude of thy Wisdom towards all thy Creatures Goodness towards all thy Creatures Holiness towards all thy Creatures For to nothing that is without the reach of my Comprehension Can my Thoughts extend To nothing without the sphere of my Knowledge Can I behave my self Amiably Can I behave my self Beautifully Can I behave my self Wisely To the intent therefore that being wise like thee I might be just and good to all thy Creatures And be holy towards them in all my Ways And be holy towards them in all my Thoughts And be holy towards them in all my Affections Hast thou made me thus in thy great similitude That being wise and holy towards thee and all things as I ought to be I might evermore be gloriously blessed In thy diviner Likeness To which I am created O my God! In the contemplation of my Soul I see the Truth of all Religion Behold all the Mysteries of Blessedness Admire thy Greatness Rejoyce in thy Goodness Praise thy Power Adore thy Love Am ravished with thy Wisdom Transported Pleased with the beauty of thy 〈◊〉 Who hast made me 〈◊〉 best and greatest Like thee Thine Image Friend Son Bride More than thy Throne Thy 〈◊〉 Treasure Such wonderful Power hast thou created in me That I am able to do more than my Soul durst once attempt to imagine A greater Power have I received of thee Than that of creating Worlds Could I create Worlds and not enjoy them It would be to no purpose Could I create millions of Worlds and enjoy them all I could only enjoy created things In receiving a Power To enjoy all things I am made able to enjoy even thee Who art infinitely greater Thee in every thing Every thing in thee My self in all things for evermore I have received a Power infinitely greater Than that both of Creating and Enjoying Worlds Infinitely more Blessed Infinitely more Profitable Infinitely more Divine Infinitely more Glorious O Lord I am contented with my Being I rejoyce in thine infinite Bounty And praise thy Goodness I see plainly that thy love is infinite And having made me such a Creature I will put my Trust in Thee Could I have chosen what power soever I pleased I would have chosen this A Power to Please thee A Power to Enjoy thee In all the Varieties of Works and In all the Varieties of Creatures Compared unto these A Power To Divide the Sea Turn Mountains into Gold Command the Sun Trample upon Divels Raise up the Dead With whatsoever all the fancy of man can imagine or desire Is Very feebleness Is Unprofitable Vanity Is Foolish Childishness Blessed be thy Name that thou hast given me Power to Praise thee A Power not only to Comprehend The Magnanitude Being Nature Order Place of Things Bat to love their Goodness Prize their value Delight in their Beauty Rejoyce in the Benefits which I receive from them Which is Wholly to enjoy them These things thou commandest my Soul to do That I might be Wise and Holy Yet givest me Liberty To do what I please Not that thou art careless or indifferent what I chuse But because thou wouldest make me Blessed and Glorious An Object of Delight to thine Eternal Godhead And like unto thee the Joy and Blessing of all thy Creatures Who by Loving them freely As Thou dost Delighting in their Beauty And prizing their Goodness Shall my self be Beautiful in all their eyes Thine IMAGE O Lord To thee and them a peculiar Treasure The Works thou commandest thou infinitely desirest and tellest us plainly They are better than Wine More precious than Fruits More pleasant than Spices Living Waters Even to thee our God Which satisfy the fire of thine eternal Love Being desired of thee because they are necessary To our happiness My soul O Lord doth magnify thee Because out of nothing thou hast exalted thy Servant Requiring that I should do the works which thy soul commandeth And not another That the glory of such Deeds might shine in me And the pleasure of the goodness whereby I do them That being honoured in the eyes of Angels and Men I might be enlarged by them Acknowledged Received into their bosoms Delighted in Embraced Crowned Thou makest thy Bride All Glorious within And her own Works Shall praise her in the Gates While chiefly she is beautiful To thee her God Shineth in thine Image Reigneth in thy Throne Most in thy bosom They all delight to look upon her And in every work thou requirest of her Rivers of Oyl and Wine are hidden Yea living Streams of Divine Affection Which thou more prizest then Thousands of Rams and tens of thousands of Rivers of Oyl Then Worlds though Millions of Gold and Silver The Work of Love Is the Soveraign Delight Of all the Angels The Cream and Crown of all Operations The Cause Efficient and the end of all Things The Navil Which conveys all the Joys of Heaven and Earth Into the Soul of Man The Oyl wherewith We anoint The Gold wherewith We Crown Thy Holy Angels Thy Saints Thy Son Our selves in them And thee in all A Power in this have we received O Lord To please thee more And to enrich thy Kingdom with Greater Treasure Than if Creating Worlds We presented them at thy feet At the feet of thy Saints Of every Angel They all like Thee More Desire our Good Works Than Crowns and Scepters Which are Holy Treasures In communion with Thee For ever to be enjoyed By doing them our selves we are made thine Image That we should have the Glory Of being Crowned with the Beauty Of our own Works Is not 〈◊〉 but more thy Glory Infinitely more thy Glory and Joy Most Holy Lord How infinite is thy Thirst That we should perform the thing thou desirest O Lord Thou so loved'st us That for our perfect Glory Thou didst adventure into our hands A Power of displeasing thee Which very confidence of thine ought more to oblige me than all the things in Heaven and Earth faithfully to love thee But wo is me I have sinned against thee I have sinned O Lord And put an Object before thee Which thou infinitely hatest An ugly Object Of infinite 〈◊〉 From which it is impossible Thou should'st turn away thine eyes And hadst thou not loved me With a greater Love Than all this I must like Lucifer Have 〈◊〉 into the Pit Of eternal Perdition But thou hast redeemed me And therefore with Hallelujahs Do I praise thy Name Recourting the ancient Glories Which thou 〈◊〉 in my Soul And 〈◊〉 That infinitely more is left unsaid O my God Sanctify me by thy Spirit Make me a Temple of the Holy Ghost A willing Person in the day of thy Power Let my Saviour's Incarnation be
Goodness Nothing can discourage them Of Beauty and delight They are amiable in the Eye of God and Angels and ravished with security in the heights of Triumph Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of his LAWS GIve unto the Lord O ye Mighty give unto the Lord Glory and Strength Give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Ps. 29. 1 2. O that my Ways were directed to keep thy Statutes Ps 119. 5. I will praise thee with uprightness of Heart when I shall have learned thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 7. I will delight my self in thy Statutes I will not forget thy Word Ps. 119. 16. Thy Testimonies O God are my Delight and my Counsellors Ps. 119. 24. O my God! Teach thy Servant to walk upon Earth In thy Similitude Open mine Eyes that I may behold wonderous Things out of thy Law Ps. 119. 18. Thy Laws O God Are greater Tokens of thy Love to me Than Heaven and Earth In them I see the Mirrour of the Mind In them I see the Beauty of the Love In them I see My Crown of Glory O how hast thou Magnified me thy Servant In thine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Lord thou Tenderest my Happiness As the apple of thine Eye Commanding all others to love me As they love themselves Thou makest my Person sacred in the world Hedgest in my safety By thy holy Laws Wilt have no man to approach me But with Love and Reverence My Life My Honor My Estate and Goods My Soul My Body My dear Relations And dearest Friends My Ease My Peace My Joy Thy Laws Those Bulwarks of my Repose and Pleasure So wholly dignisie and exalt thy servant As if they had been made for me alone Should thy Goodness design to make a Creature The greatest imaginable The highest above the Cherubim The most Glorious among the Angels Thy Son thy Friend Thy Bride thine Image What greater Laws in favour of it could thy Wasdom provide than that upon pain of eternal 〈◊〉 all Angels Cherubim and Men should love that Creature as they love themselves What can he withhold that 〈◊〉 as himself With that Love thou hast given me Persons Honors Riches Houses Arts Hearts Abilities Their Beauty Strength Authority Vineyards Fields Gold and Silver And which is more than all hast compassed me about With all the Powers in Heaven and Earth Angels and Men For my Preservation Yea For my Delight Enlargement Honor Glory Nor can any thing but the intervening Rebellion of Men eclipse or hinder thine Eternal Bounty Thou hast made me to live In the Temple of their Soul To reign with thee In the Throne of their Minds Encompassed not with skies But blessed Affections I thank thee O Lord and praise thy Name for all the Consolation of thy holy Laws As if I alone Were the only Person for whom All things were made They are all commanded Angels and Men to love and take Care of me All other things to minister unto me All to magnisie please and delight me While I see thy Goodness Laying all the obligations In Heaven and Earth Upon Angels and Men to be kind to me And crowning their Obedience with the Same Rewards Where with thou rewardest their love to thee It is impossible they should proceed from any other than the infinite Ocean of eternal Love I bless thee more For commanding me to love all others Than for commanding them to love me In this O my God Thy Laws are not only The hedge of my Repose And steps unto my Throne But the Light of mine Eyes And the Crown of my Glory The Physick of my Soul And Rules of my Transformation To the Image of thy Blessedness Thy Laws are a Light to my feet and a Lamp to my 〈◊〉 Ps. 119. 105. The SUN is a glorious Light Whose Beams are most Welcom Whose Beams are most Necessary Whose Beams are most Useful To me and all the Sons of Men But thy Laws surpass the light of the Sun As much as that of a Gloe-worm Being the Light of Glory Teaching us to live On Earth in Heaven O how I love thy Law It is my Meditation all the Day Thou through thy Commandments hast made me wiser than my Enemies for they are ever with me I have more Understanding than all my Teachers for my Testimonies are my Meditation I understand more than the Ancients because I keep thy Precepts Ps. 119. 97 c. And I must confess O Lord to the honor of thy great Name that Thy Laws in commanding others to love me have made all things mine that commend their love Their Oyl and Wine their Jewels Palaces Gold and Silver Heaven and Earth yea all the things that magnifie them are mine O Lord because the Ornaments of those Persons whom thy Laws command to love me as themselves Thy Laws are my Purveyors And in shewing me the sincerity of thine Eternal Love The Right of my Joys All things in Heaven and Earth they 〈◊〉 To be mine Even Thee my God The Fountain of them all The Soveraignty and Authority Whereby thou makest Laws They shew to be mine And ravish me both here And in Heaven for ever But in commanding me to love Angels and Men They teach me to live In the Similitude of God And are the inward Health And Beauty of my Soul Marrow Wine and Oyl WITHIN They teach me to live in the Similitude of thy Glory Shew me thine inward Goodness Make me a Joy and Blessing unto all THINE INWARD GOODNESS Is among all thy Treasures Thy best Delight While I possess that I am made The Tabret and the Song of thy chosen People The Jewel of thy Saints Joy of the Cherubim The Crown of Glory and a Royal Diadem To thy Holy Angels To thee my God a peculiar Treasure I marvel at the Divinity of thine eternal WISDOM Who environest me with Glory In the midst of all Fruitions Making me a Joy to all others While they are so to me There is an end of all Perfection but thy Commandments is exceeding broad Ps. 119. 96. The World which thou hast made Is the City of our God The Streets are Ages And every Soul a Temple in it In which thou O my God rakest delight to Dwell Thy Laws are the Statutes enjoyning My Affections to all the Citizens The Inhabitants of the World So glorious are thy Laws They are the Canons of thy Bounty The Rule of Life The enlargement of my Soul My Peace and Liberty I will run the ways of thy Commandments when thou saith enlarge my heart Ps. 119. 32. O Lord they be The best of Laws Command the best of all possible Works Lead us to the highest of all possible Rewards Teach us to live in the Similitude of God Advance us to thy Throne Guide us in the paths of Blessedness Make us the sovereign End of all Things More than the Sole final and comprehensive Teaching us to love Thee more than our selves Derive into our
Ps. 119. 103. I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy Commandments Ps. 119. 131. Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy Statutes Ps 119. 12. They make us blessed By teaching our Souls to imitate thee At midnight will I rise up to give thanks unto thee for thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 62. I will delight in thy Law I will speak of thy Testimony before Kings I will meditare in thy Statures They satiate the Powers of our immortal Soul Ambition with the Honor of all the Angels Coveroushess with the Riches of Heaven and Earth Love with the goodness of God all things Make us fit for the Throne of Glory By making us a Joy to all Angels Kingdoms Ages O give me Understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart Ps. 119. 34. O Lord I beseech thee give me love unto thy Laws Delight in thy Laws Meditation on thy Laws Right Understanding of thy Laws And entire obedience unto thy Laws If my delight had not been in thy Law I had perished in my Trouble Hallelujab Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence THY Mercy O Lord is in the Heavens and thy Faithfulness reacheth unto the Clouds Thy Righteoushess is like the great Mountains thy Judgments are a great Deep O Lord thou preservest Man and Beast How excellent is thy loving Kindness O God therefor the Children of Men put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings They shall abundantly be satisfied with the fatness of thy House and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures For with thee is the Fountain of Life and and in thy Light shall we see Light O continue thy loving Kindness to them that kdow thee and thy Righteousness to the upright in heart Let not the foot of Pride come against me and let not the hand of the Wicked remove me There are the workers of Iniquity faln they are cast down and shall not be able to arise Ps. 36. Let us with all the Saints in the Church Triumphant Sing The Song of Moses the servant of God And The Song of the Lamb Saying Great and Marvelous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and true are thy Ways thou King of Saints Let their Beauty ravish us Let their Farness delight us Let their Goodness enrich us Let their Wisdom please us Let their Abundance transport us Let them ever be such in our Eyes as they are in thine Whose Delights have been in the habitable Parts of the Earth among the Children of Men. O Lord I delight in thee For making my Soul so wholly Active So prone to Imployment So apt to Love That it can never rest nor cease from thinking I praise thee with Joy For making it so wide that it can measure Ages See thine Eternity And walk with thee in all thy Ways It must be busie And it is happy for me Thou hast made it a LIFE like thine O God All Activity Its Rest is Imployment and its Ease is Business Teach me the best and fairest Business Teach my Soul to walk with thee By thinking Wisely Upon all thy Doings Let me never rust in 〈◊〉 or Sloth Nor sleep in Death Nor 〈◊〉 my self with Vanity Nor 〈◊〉 my self thorow with needless Fears or Sorrows We are always Desolate while our Souls are Idle But when our Thoughts are employed far and near upon then glorious Objects then are we encompassed with Festivals of Joy Solemnities and 〈◊〉 Blessed be thou O Lord And for ever Blessed be thy glorious Name For preparing for us in all Ages Perfect Treasures THE WORKS OF THY RIGHTEOVSNESS Are more pleasant to Angels Than apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver O Lord let me be in all my Solitudes As a Jeweller among thy Jewels As a Perfumer among thy Odors As a Servant among thy Treasures As a Son among thy Servants Thine Image and thine Heir Among all thy Works in all Kingdoms and Nations In the dead time of the Night In my greatest Retirements Let all thy Works be neer unto me All thy Ways Thy Wonders Thy Revelations from Heaven Thy MERCIES Thy JUDGMENTS My familiar Joys Let them fill me with Company when I am most alone Fill me with Delights Surround me with Beauty Turn my Retirements into Songs My Days into Sabbaths My Darkness into Day Or into a Night of Joy as in the solemn Assemblies For enflaming my Soul with the Thirst of Happiness For shewing me its Objects and the manner of Enjoying them For causing me to prefer Wisdom above hidden Treasure and to search for her as for Gold and Silver I Bless and Praise thy H. Name The Desire satisfied is a Tree of Life Had I never thirsted I should never 〈◊〉 valued nor enjoy'd WISDOM I know by experience that she is better that Rubies And all the things I can desire are not to be Compared with her She putteth on my head an ornament Of Grace A crown of Glory she giveth to 〈◊〉 Prov. 4 9. Maketh me a possessor of all thy Joys Bringeth me to the Store-house of thine everlasting Riches 〈◊〉 me in Paradice Surroundeth me with Flowers Yea with all the Delights in the Garden of God May Lillies compare with the Souls of Men Perfumes with Virtues Gold with Affections Crowns with Ages Temples Cities Kingdoms are in my ways Coronations Triumphs Victories surround my Feet No ways strewed with Lillies Pearls and Diamonds can equal these I. These sweeter far Lillies are No Roses may with these compare How these excel No Tongue can tell Which he that well and truly knows With praise and joy he goes How great and happy 's he that knows his Ways To be divine and heavenly Joys To whom each City is more brave Than Walls of Pearl and Streets which Gold doth pave Whose open Eyes Behold the Skies Who loves their Wealth and Beauty more Than Kings love golden Ore II. Who sees the heavenly antient Ways Of GOD the Lord with Joy and Praise More than the Skies With open Eyes Doth prize them all yea more than Gems And Regal Diadems That more esteemeth Mountains as they are Than if they Gold and Silver were To whom the SUN more pleasure brings Than Crowns and Thrones and Palaces to Kings That knows his Ways To be the Joys And Way of God These things who knows With Joy and Praise he goes The Souls of Men and Holy Angels are my delights How endless are thy Treasuries How wide thy Mansions How delectable my Joys Many millions of Miles from hence The Sun doth serve me The Stars many thousand Leagues beyond the Sun The morning Stars and Sons of God Abundantly beyond them all Nor is there any Bounds of my Habitarion The inestimable Presence of Almighty God Endlesly extendeth protracting my Joys And with an Eye from Infinity Beholdeth my Soul The Sun of Righteousness is my perfect Joy Mine Understanding seeth him In the highest Heavens In every moment I see Eternity Conceived