SECT. I.
BUt all this is onely the outward Court, or at least not the holiest of all: Now we have ascended these steps, may we look within the vail? May we shew what this Rest containeth, as well as what it pre∣supposeth? But alass, how little know I of that, whereof I am about to speak! Shall I speak before I know? But if I stay till I clearly know, I shall not come again to speak. That glimpse which Paul saw,* 1.1 contained that which could not, or must not be uttered, or both. And if Paul had had a tongue to have ut∣tered it, it would have done no good, except his hearers had ears to hear it. If Paul had spoke the things of Heaven in the language of Heaven, and none understood that language, what the better? Therefore I'l speak, while I may, that little, very little which I do know of it, rather then be wholy silent: The Lord reveal it to me, that I may reveal it to you: and the Lord open some light, and shew both you and me his Inheritance; Not as to Balaam onely, whose eyes the vision of God opened, to see the goodliness of Jacobs tents, and Israels tabernacles, where he had no portion; but from whence must come his own destruction:* 1.2 Nor as to Mo∣ses, who had onely a discovery, in stead of possession, and saw the Land, which he never entered: But as the pearl was revealed to the Merchant in the Gospel, who rested not till he had sold all he had, and bought it: and as Heaven was opened to blessed Stephen, which he was shortly to enter, and the glory shewed him, which should be his own possession.