Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

¹It is true, the Object of desire qua tale, is something absent, yet not always absent in the whole, but in the parts and degrees of it; the very presence of a good thing, doth in some sort quicken the desires towards the same thing, so far forth as it is capable of improvements or augmentation: As we see in external Riches of the Body, none desire them more eagerly than those that possess them; and the more gracious the Soul is, the more is the heart enlarged in the appetition of a greater measure of Grace; as the putting in of some water into a Pump, doth draw forth more: no man is so importunate in praying, Lord help my unbelief, as he that can say, Lord, I believe: things may be desired in order to improvement and further degrees of them. Again, things present may be the Object of our desires unto continuance; as he that delighteth in a good thing that he hath, he desireth the continuance of that delight; so the soul of a man having a reach as far as immortality, it may justly desire as well the perpetuity, as the presence of those good things it enjoyeth. —

¹It is true, the Object of desire qua tale, is something absent, yet not alwayes absent in the whole, but in the parts and degrees of it; the very presence of a good thing, doth in some sort quicken the desires towards the same thing, so far forth as it is capable of improvements or augmentation: As we see in external Riches of the Body, none desire them more eagerly than those that possess them; and the more gracious the Soul is, the more is the heart enlarged in the appetition of a greater measure of Grace; as the putting in of some water into a Pump, doth draw forth more: no man is so importunate in praying, Lord help my unbelief, as he that can say, Lord, I believe: things may be desired in order to improvement and further degrees of them. Again, things present may be the Object of our desires unto continuance; as he that delighteth in a good thing that he hath, he desireth the continuance of that delight; so the soul of a man having a reach as far as immortality, it may justly desire as well the perpetuity, as the presence of those good things it enjoyeth. —

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