CHRISTIAN READER,

THE design of the following treatise is thy spiritual advantage, that by displaying the heavenly glory to the eyes of thy mind, thou mayest have thy affections and desires stirred up to choose it as thy chiefest treasure. and then where thy treasure is. thy heart will soon be also: And perhaps here is as much said to engage thy affections as has been any where written upon this subject; and which, through the divine blessing, may beget in thee those breathings after the happiness here described, which may issue in thy eternas fruition of it. It does not indeed pretend to give a graphical description thereof (for it does not yet appear what we shall be) but it gives. such a description of it as the divine oracles will warrant; showing wherein the nature of our happiness doth chiefly consist, and resolving the most abstruse and curious questions about it according to the word of truth.

And seeing love and desire are the wings of the soul, by which it flies to