Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Secondly, it is a full delight that God takes in his people: It is said of his people in this world, in Zeph. 17. 3. ¹he will rejoice over them with joy and with singing; the delight that God hath with his people in Heaven must needs be full: First, in regard of the near relation that his people have to his Son, and because he takes such infinite delight in the Son; and they being one with him, thence flows that full delight. Secondly, because he shall see so much of his own Image; now that is infinitely delightful: ⟨p. 557⟩that is the reason why the father or mother does delight in their children, because they see themselves in them: so God shall see himself in his people, and that will cause full delight. Thirdly, because of the glorious works of God upon the souls of his people, because he shall see his own handy-work to be so glorious and full in them. As a man that makes a work that is very curious and glorious, he takes abundance of delight to look upon it; and if the work be full and perfect, then his delight is full and perfect. Now the great work of God is in the glory of the Saints: God loves to look back to the creatures, therefore when he had made the world, he looked upon what he had made, and saw it was good: As a workman when he hath brought his work to some perfection, he will look upon it: Now when God shall see what he hath done, in raising such a poor worm to such high excellency, God will take full delight in viewing this full work he hath done. And this is more then all the former; for besides the delight in the act of communication and delight, because of the love to those to whom good is communicated: This is the delight in his own work, done in the beholding the beauty and glory of it. Fourthly, the delight of God must be full, because in them God attains his highest end, the ²highest end of his greatest design, the highest end of his deepest counsels, the highest end of his most glorious work: It is a great delight to a man when he goes about a work, if he have his end; though a man have some benefit by his work, yet if he be crossed in his last end, all his joy is taken away; and this is the evil of sin, sin seeks to ⟨p. 558⟩cross God in his highest end that he aims at, but the Saints in heaven shall give God his full end: God shall have the highest end that he did aim at, he shall see it accomplished and fulfilled in them;