The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal

eauty and magnificence of this godly frame, the order
and harmony of the whole creation, let our thoughts
from thence take their flight towards that omnipotent
wisdom and goodness which did at first produce, and
doth still establish and uphold the same. When we
reflect upon ourselves, let us consider that we are not a
mere piece of organized matter, a curious and wellcontrived
engine; that there is more in us than flesh, and
blood, and bones, even a divine spark, capable to know,
and love, and enjoy our Maker; and though it be now
exceedingly clogged with its dull and lumpish
companion, yet ere long it shall be delivered, and can
subsist without the body, as well as that can do without
the clothes which we throw off at our pleasure. Let us
often withdraw our thoughts from this earth, this scene
of misery, and folly, and sin, and raise them towards
that more vast and glorious world, whose innocent and
blessed inhabitants solace themselves eternally in the
divine presence, and know no other passions, but an
unmixed joy and an unbounded love. And then consider
how the blessed Son of God came down to this lower
world to live among us, and die for us, that he might
bring us to a portion of the same felicity; and think how
he hath overcome the sharpness of death, and opened
the kingdom of heaven to all believers, and is now set
down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, and yet
is not the less mindful of us, but receives our prayers,
and presents them unto his Father, and is daily visiting
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