[ 1316] The Godly Man rejoycing in Death.
IT is storied of Godfrey Duke of Boloigne,* 1.1 that when in that his expedition to the Holy Land, he came within view of Ierusalem, his Army seeing the high Turrets, goodly Buildings, and fair fronts (though but, as it were, as so many Skeletons of far more glorious bodies) being even transported with the joy∣fulnesse of such a sight, gave a mighty showt, that the Earth was verily thought to ring with the noyse thereof. Such is the rejoycing of a Godly Man in death, when he doth not see the Turrets and Towers of an Earthly, but the spirituall building of an Heavenly Ierusalem, and his Soul ready to take possession of them, How doth he delight in his dissolution? Especially, when he sees Grace chan∣ging into Glory, Hope in••o fruition, Faith into vision, and Love into perfect comprehension; such and so great are the exultations of his Spirit, such mighty workings and shoutings of the Heart, as cannot be expressed.