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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 2: Quest. How may we Experience in our selves, and Evidence to others that serious Godline…
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3. The reward and happiness of an holy Soul can be nothing less than the greatest good, and therefore must needs be the enjoyment of God himself; this appears in that
1. Less than the greatest good cannot satisfy mans Soul, and then to be sure cannot make it happy, when its happiness consists in its being fully satisfied. All the riches and pleasures of this World, and delights of Sense can never be to the Soul instead of God, because they are unsuitable to its nature which is spiritual, to its duration which is immortal, and to those appetites God hath implanted in it. It's very capacity of enjoying God is attended with a secret Inclination to it, insomuch that many times when a man may not have an explicit and distinct knowledge of the good he wants, yet being unsatisfied with what he hath (though never so great) he finds a want of something else, and because he wants it, he desires it (though he know not clearly what it is) to make him happy.
1. Less than the greatest good cannot satisfie mans Soul, and then to be sure cannot make it happy, when its happiness consists in its being fully satisfied. All the riches and pleasures of this World, and delights of Sense can never be to the Soul instead of God, because they are unsuitable to its nature which is spiritual, to its duration which is immortal, and to those appetites God hath implanted in it. It's very capacity of enjoying God is attended with a secret Inclination to it, insomuch that many times when a man may not have an explicit and distinct knowledge of the good he wants, yet being unsatisfied with what he hath (though never so great) he finds a want of something else, and because he wants it, he desires it (though he know not clearly what it is) to make him happy.