“God has bridged the gap between heaven and earth. Joys of heaven and joys of earth come from the same Creator and are sufficiently similar that one can be used to describe the other. Indeed Steere reversed the usual metaphoric equation by asserting not that heaven would be a garden of earthly delights but that earthly joys were in source and nature of heaven. The speaker accepts these gifts and ridicules the ‘Stoicks’ to whom he imputes the simple-minded brand of contemptus mundi usually imputed to Puritans” (Daly, p. 14).
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