ii4 A PERSUASIVE to 



nefs, they will enjoy the mods folid reft and 

 fatisfaftion. 



Do but conceive them in your Minds, 

 what a pleafure it is, here in this Life, to 

 love, and to be beloved ; and you will have 

 fome notion whereby to take a meafure of 

 the Life we are fpeaking of, which will con- 

 fift in fuch mutual Love, and delightful cor- 

 refpondencies. And they who have neither 

 Father nor Mother, Wife nor Children, 

 near Kindred, nor Relations', whereon to 

 place their AfFeftion, let them cqnfider, if 

 they have but a iingular Friend, what the 

 pleafure is that two perfons, who fmcere- 

 !y and purely love, take in the fweet Com- 

 pany and Converfation of each other. Or 

 if I muft fuppofe any Man to be fo unkind 

 and fo unhappy, as to have no love for any 

 body but his own felf, let him think what 

 contentment he hath, and how he is pteafed 

 if he can arrive any thing near to a quiet en- 

 joyment of his dear felf. And fuch a de- 

 lightful ftate may be a fmall Image of Hea- 

 ven, where holy Souls will love God with 

 a far geater flame than ever they did (or 

 ihallthen) love themfelves ; becaufe he will 

 appear infinitely more lovely, and to bear 

 alfo a far greater love to them, than it is 

 poffible for them to do to themfelves. 



Now 



