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cheer me up at the last Gasp. Said I, If it please God I be alive, and with you, I shall do it: But what do ye think of eternal Life, and of the Joys ye shall get in Heaven? Said she, That is the only Life, in respect of this Life; for this Life, which we live in the World, is but a living Death: But that Life in Heaven is a lively everlasting, honourable, immortal, easy, happy and comfortable Life: In his Presence in Fulness of Joy, and at his right Hand are pleasures for evermore.
Next, I asked, How do ye like Death? Said she; very well, I think it a welcome Guest, it will do me the best Office that can be, it will take me to Life eternal, it is a Passage to bring me into, and to plunge me in that Ocean of Love; it is the Mean whereby I shall be brought to the Fruition of God for evermore, that I may enjoy his immediate Presence: Glory to Him, who has sweetned my Death and Grave by his own Death; I may say, O Death! where is thy Sting? O Grace where is thy Victory? If I could win out of this House, I do think, I would be content to go and see my own Grave made. Said I, Madam, What do ye think of the spiritual Marriage betwixt Chriſt and a believing Soul? Said she, No Body can conceive the unspeakable Love of the Bridegroom to his dear Spouse, the Lamb's Wife: She shall be clothed with the garment of Salvation, and arrayed and compassed about with the Robes of his Righteousness, and adorned with Jewels and Bracelets: The Spouse may rejoice in the Honour of her Bridegroom, for He is a glorious Lord, and she is a base sinful Worm: She may rejoice in his Love, which found us when we were loft, and did cloth us (when naked) with the Garments of Salvation: His Love washed us in his own Blood, when we were wallowing in our own Filthiness and Pollution. The Spouse may rejoice in the Beauty of the Bridegroom; for he is beautiful among, and above all the Sons of Men, being the only begotten of the Father, and his Face shining the Noon-day-Sun in a cloudless Firmament, His Garments being white as the Snow. Must not then the Joy of her Marriage with him be incomprehensible!
At last she left off speaking, and was observed thro' the following Night, by the Motion of her Lips andEyes
