When I Saw those Objects Celebrated in his Psalms which God and Nature had Proposed to Me
When I saw those objects celebrated in his psalms which God and Nature had proposed to me, and which I thought chance only presented to my view, you cannot imagine how unspeakably I was delighted, to see so glorious a person, so great a prince, so divine a sage, that was a man after God's own heart, by the testimony of God Himself, rejoicing in the same things, meditating on the same, and praising God for the same. For by this I perceived we were led by one Spirit, and that following the clue of Nature into this labyrinth, I was brought into the midst of celestial joys: and that to be retired from earthly cares and fears and distractions that we might in sweet and heavenly peace contemplate all the Works of God, was to live in Heaven, and the only way to become what David was, a man after God's own heart. There we might be enflamed with those causes for which we ought to love Him: there we might see those viands which feed the Soul with Angels' food: there we might bathe in those streams of pleasure that flow at His right hand for evermore.
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