f this place in Holy scripture,
that this is one of the entertainments of it.

13. And if the soul of man can be so wonderfully affected with those
strains of music, which human art is capable of producing, how much more
will it be raised and elevated by those, in which is exerted the whole
power of harmony! The senses are faculties of the human soul, though
they cannot be employed, during this our vital union, without proper
instruments in the body.

14. Why therefore should we exclude the satisfaction of these faculties,
which we find by experience are inlets of great pleasure to the soul,
from among these entertainments which are to make our happiness
hereafter? Why should we suppose that our hearing and seeing will not be
gratified by those objects which are most agreeable to them, and which
they cannot meet with in those lower regions of nature; objects, _which
neither eye hath seen, nor ear heard, nor can it enter into the heart of
man to conceive_!

15. _I knew a man in Christ_ (says St. Paul, speaking of himself) _above
fourteen years ago_ (_whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out
of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth_) _such a one caught up to the
third heaven. And I knew such a man_ (_whether in the body or out of the
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth_) _how that he was caught up into
Paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not possible for a man
to utter_.

16. By this is meant that what he heard was so infinitely different from
any thing which he had heard in this world, that it was impossible to
express it in such words as might convey a notion of it to his hearers.

It is very natural for us to take delight in inquiries concerning any
foreign country, where we are some time or other to make our abode; and
as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place, it is both a
laudable and useful curiosity, to get what information we can of it,
while we make use of revelation for our guide.

17. When these everlasting doors shall be opened to us, we may be sure
that the pleasures and beauties of this place will infinitely transcend
our present hopes and expectations, and that the glorious appearance of
the throne of God will rise infinitely beyond whatever we are able to
conceive of it. We might here entertain ourselves with many other
speculations on this subject from those several hints which we find of
it in the holy scriptures: as whether there may not be different
mansions and