"There are some of God's dear servants who walk in great maturity and they have a degree of clarity and divine knowledge 

more than we can discourse of, 

and it is even more certain than the demonstrations of geometry, 

they are brighter than the sun, 

and unfailing as the light of heaven.

But I shall say no more of this at this time, 

for this is to be felt, and not talked of; 

and they that never touched it with their finger, 

may secretly perhaps laugh at it in their heart, 

and be never the wiser. 

There is in the things of God, 

to them which practice them, 

a deliciousness that makes us love them, 

and that love admits us into God's cabinet, 

and strangely clarifies the understanding by the purification of the heart.

 

"In the mature Christian there is a higher degree of mediation, 

so exalted, 

it is a prayer of quietness and silence, 

and a mediation extraordinary, 

a discourse without distractions, 

a vision and intuition of divine excellencies, 

and a resolution of all our faculties into sweetness’s, affections, and staring’s upon the divine beauty; 

and is carried on to ecstasies, 

raptures, 

suspensions, 

elevations, 

abstractions 

and apprehensions beatifical.

They that experience these heights call them the secrets of the kingdom; 

but they are such which no one can describe; 

such which God hath not revealed in the publication of the gospel; 

such for the acquiring of which there are no means prescribed.

And a warning, let no man be hasty to eat of the fruits of paradise before his time 

or he runs the danger of losing all right sense of religion and prudence."

Jeremy Taylor 1600s.