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Fourthly, it is such an enjoyment, as the having of it does perfect that which does enjoy it, and by ¹that we shall understand the difference between other creatures attaining to their end, and the rational creature attaining his end; the other creatures, when they attain their end they perish, so as they cannot be said to enjoy their end; the plants and beasts that God hath made for the use of man, when man comes to have the use of them, then they come to have their end, but they do not enjoy their end, because in having their end, they are destroyed; but the rational creature, when he comes to have his end, ⟨p. 571⟩then he comes to have the highest perfection; and so he may be said to enjoy it, because when he comes to have his end, he is made the more perfect; so take these four together, and you may know what I mean by fruition of God: and that is the fifth particular.

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6. The sixth particular, in having God to be their ¹portion, is the Rest that the foul hath in God: The term of all motion is rest, every thing that moves, moves that it may have rest: Now here in this world the creature is altogether in motion, and especially man, because he is not here in his proper place; every thing moves to its centre, till it comes to its place, Psal. 38. 10. My heart panteth; the word in the Original signifies, such a kind of motion, running up and down, as Merchants run up and down, from one Country to another; and it is observable, there is the two last radical letters double; and that is to ²note, That it is more then an ordinary stirring and motion of the spirit, because it is not come to its rest; but when the foul comes to the term unto which it moves, then it comes to have rest. God hath let out good things to other creatures, and they never return back again directly to him; but the good that God lets out to mankind, and to his people, it returns back again to God: The Saints are made by God, and they come and return to the first fountain from whence they came, whereas other creatures do not: As the wicked, they come from God, but do not return to God again as their rest: And therefore it is an expression of Jeremiah, Those that seek only after the satisfying of their senses, they go out from God like unto rivers that run from