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SECT. VIII. The third Use, of Exhortation.
LEaving then out of our hearts those vain things that cannot profit us, let us be exhorted to fill them up with that which can, scorning to waste our spirits about the enjoyments of the world where happinesse is not, let us employ all our strengthin labouring after the enjoyment of God, where it is, the more we can possesse of this, the more we have of heaven. 'Tis doubtlesse our sin as well as misery, that we should need any motives to such a duty, indeed to such a priviledge as this is; but because we doe, I shall lay down this one, viZ.
The transcendent excellency of this en∣joyment above all others, and that both in regard of
- 1. The Object, God.
- 2. The Act, Fruition.
First, in regard of the Object, God. In whom