The Saints' Everlasting Rest

SECT. I.

There is Contained in this Rest.¹

THere is Contained in this Rest.¹

1. 1§. 1. 1. Cessation from all that action which hath the nature of means:

1. A Cessation from Motion or Action; not of all action, but of that which hath the nature of a Means, and implies the absence of the End. When we have obtained the Haven, we have done sailing. When the workman hath his wages, it is implied, he hath done his work. When we are at our journeys end, we have done with the way. All Motion ends at the Centre; and all Means cease, when we have the End. Therefore prophesying ceaseth, tongues fail, and knowledge shall be done away; that is, so far as it had the nature of a Means,¹ and was imperfect: And so faith may be said to cease; not all faith, (for how shall we know all things past which we saw not but by believing? how shall we know the last Judgment, the resurrection of the body, before hand, but by believing? how shall we know the life everlasting, the Eternity of the joys we possess, but by believing?) But all that faith which as a Means referred to the chief End,³