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“Imagine this Life as an Island, surrounded by a Sea of Darkness, beyond which lies the main Land of Eternity. Blessed is he who can raise himself to such a Pitch as to look off this Island, beyond that Darkness to the utmost bound of things. He thus sees his way before and behind him. What shall trouble him on his Twig of Life, on which he is like a bird but now alighted, from a far Region, from whence again he shall immediately take his flight. Thou cam'st through a Darkness hither but yesterday when thou wert born. Why then shouldst thou not readily and cheerfully return through the same Darkness back again to those everlasting Hills?”
― The rise, race, and royalty of the kingdom of God in the soul of man opened in several sermons upon Matthew 18.3: as also the loveliness & love of ... other sermons upon Psal. 45. v. 1, 2
― The rise, race, and royalty of the kingdom of God in the soul of man opened in several sermons upon Matthew 18.3: as also the loveliness & love of ... other sermons upon Psal. 45. v. 1, 2
“Say thus to thy Heart: My Heart! Canst thou tell a way to possess all Things in one point, in a Unity of Life?
Hast thou lookt on all Things at once, and seen them in a Harmony of Beauty?
Hast thou taken in the Tunes and Motions of all Things Created and Uncreated in a Concent of Pleasures?
Didst thou ever yet descry a glorious Eternity in each winged Moment of Time; a Bright Infiniteness in the narrow points of every dark Object?
Then thou knowest what the Spirit means, that Spire-top of Things, whither all ascend harmoniously, where they meet, and sit together recollected, and concentred in an Unfathom'd Depth of Glorious Life.
From hence thou lookest down, and seest all Flesh, as a heap of Single Dusts; Dark, though falling from the midst of a bright Flame; Divided, though laid together”
― The rise, race, and royalty of the kingdom of God in the soul of man opened in several sermons upon Matthew 18.3: as also the loveliness & love of ... other sermons upon Psal. 45. v. 1, 2
Hast thou lookt on all Things at once, and seen them in a Harmony of Beauty?
Hast thou taken in the Tunes and Motions of all Things Created and Uncreated in a Concent of Pleasures?
Didst thou ever yet descry a glorious Eternity in each winged Moment of Time; a Bright Infiniteness in the narrow points of every dark Object?
Then thou knowest what the Spirit means, that Spire-top of Things, whither all ascend harmoniously, where they meet, and sit together recollected, and concentred in an Unfathom'd Depth of Glorious Life.
From hence thou lookest down, and seest all Flesh, as a heap of Single Dusts; Dark, though falling from the midst of a bright Flame; Divided, though laid together”
― The rise, race, and royalty of the kingdom of God in the soul of man opened in several sermons upon Matthew 18.3: as also the loveliness & love of ... other sermons upon Psal. 45. v. 1, 2
