Of the soules felicitie, being deliuered out of the prison of this earthly body. CHAPT. VI.
HAppy is that soule, which beinge freed from this earthlie prison, doth freely mounte vp into heauen, which be∣holdeth thee (o sweete Lord) apparantlie face to face, being now noe more affraied of deathe or of any worldlie miserie, but reioycinge throughe the immortalitie of euerlasting glory. It liueth in repose and securitie, fearing now neither deathe no•• ennimie. It enioyeth thee being a merci∣full Lord, whom it hath long sought, and alwaies loued, and being ioyned in felow∣ship with the quires of Angells, it singeth for euer mellifluous sonnets of perpetuall gladnes, in praise and commendation of thy glory, o Christ our King, o good Iesu. Verilie it becommeth as it were drunke throughe the aboundance of thy heauen∣lie habitation, because thou dost cause it to drinke of the riuer of thy vnspeakeable delectation.
O howe happy is the heauenlie com∣pany