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

The Rabbis have a note from the name Jehovah, that all the letters of that name are quiescentes, and they say, There is a mystery in it, to show that all our rest is in God. Some creatures God hath made so, as there is no other good they are capable of, but to continue in their beings; and therefore they only seek for their place, and no more, and there they rest; as the Fire, and Air, and the Earth, these creatures have no other good, but to continue in their beings: and you shall observe, if they be out of their places, with what violence will they move to their proper place: As if there be fire or air got into ⟨p. 573⟩the earth, it causeth earthquakes, it moves there with that violence, that it shakes the whole earth, that it may come to its proper place, because it hath no other good but that. Then I would reason thus; If those creatures that have no other good, but only to be in their proper place, if they be out, to get that good shall move with such violence; then considering what a good mans soul is capable of, if he have not obtained that good, with what violence should he move? how should the kingdom of heaven suffer violence? how should we work toward God, who is our proper place and centre, in whom is so much good? But there are other creatures that have an higher good then being in their place; as the plants have a Vegetative place, and therefore they grow to it, and if they have attained that there, they rest; then the sensitive creature hath an higher good, and that moves till it hath got its end; namely, to all things that are agreeable to sense, and they go no further. The rational creature looks to that which is suitable to reason. And where there is grace, grace looks to attain that which is the proper perfection of the life ¹of grace, and there it rests, and never else: Therefore it is the expression of an Ancient: O Lord, thou hast made us for thee, and our hearts are unquiet till they come to enjoy thee; and when the soul comes to rest in God, that is glorious, and that is the Saints happiness to attain the end of their motion, and the more glorious is the rest, when the end is attained: and the glory of the end may be discovered much, by the glory of the means that tend to it: As if a man will bestow a great deal of Cost and Charges to get his Health, ⟨p. 574⟩then he accounts health worth all those charges;