ave in hell.

Therefore in the meantime, for lack of such experimental taste as
God giveth here sometimes to some of his special servants, to the
intent that we may draw toward the spiritual exercise too--for
which spiritual exercise God with that gift, as with an
earnest-penny of their whole reward afterward in heaven, comforteth
them here in earth--let us labour by prayer to conceive in our
hearts such a fervent longing for them that we may, for attaining
to them, utterly set at naught all fleshly delight, all worldly
pleasures, all earthly losses, all bodily torment and pain. And let
us do this, not so much with looking to have described what manner
of joys they shall be, as with hearing what our Lord telleth us in
holy scripture how marvellous great they shall be. Howbeit, some
things are there in scripture expressed of the manner of the
pleasures and joys that we shall have in heaven, as, "Righteous men
shall shine as the sun and shall run about like sparkles of fire
among reeds."

Now, tell some carnal-minded man of this manner of pleasure, and he
shall take little pleasure in it, and say he careth not to have his
flesh shine, he, nor like a spark of fire to skip about in the sky.
Tell him that his body shall be impassible and never feel harm, and
he will think then that he shall never be ahungered or athirst, and
shall thereby forbear all his pleasure of eating and drinking, and
that he shall never wish for sleep, and shall thereby lose the
pleasure that he was wont to take in lying slug-abed. Tell him that
men and women shall there live together as angels without any
manner of mind or motion unto the carnal act of generation, and he
will think that he shall thereby not use there his old filthy
voluptuous fashion. He will say then that he is better at ease
already, and would not give this world for that. For, as St. Paul
saith, "A carnal man feeleth not the things that be of the spirit
of God, for it is foolishness to him."

But the time shall come when these foul filthy pleasures shall be
so taken from him that it shall abhor his heart once to think on
them. Every man hath a certain shadow of this experience in the
fervent grief of a sore painful sickness, when his stomach can
scant abide to look upon any meat, and as for the acts of the other
foul filthy lust, he is ready to vomit if he hap to think thereon.
When a man shall after this life feel in his heart that horrible
abomination, of which sickness hat