PROP. IX. The Pleasures and Delights of the separate Spirits of the just, are incomparably greater and sweeter, than those they did, or at any time could experience in their bodily state.
WIth what a pleasant face would death smile upon Be∣lievers, what Roses would it raise in its pale cheeks, if this Proposition were but well setled in our hearts by faith! And if we will not be wanting to our selves, it may be firmly settled there, by these four Considerations, which demonstrate it.
Whatsoever Pleasure any man receives in this World, he receives it by means of his Soul. Even all corporeal and sensitive delights have no other relish and sweetness, but what the Soul gives them; which is demonstrable by this, that if a man be pla∣ced amidst all the pleasing Objects and Circumstances in the World, if he were in that Centre where he might have the confluence of all the delights of this World; yet if the Spi∣rit be wounded, there is no more relish or savour in them, than in the White of an Egg. What pleasure had Spira in his Liberty, Estate, Wife and Children? These things were indeed proposed and urged again and again to relieve him; but instead of pleasure, they became his horrour: let but the mind be wounded, and all the mirth is marr'd; one touch from God upon the Spirit, destroys all the joy of this World. Nay,