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The seventh and last thing in having God to be their portion, is the enjoyment of themselves in God: ¹as they shall enjoy God, and God in themselves; so they shall enjoy themselves in God, living in God continually: the fish does not more truly live in the water, and move in the water, then the souls of the Saints shall live in God, and move in God: Col. 3. 3. Your life is hid with Christ in God: the life of Saints here is an hidden life, and it is hidden in God, but then it shall be a revealed life, and revealed in God, and enjoyed in God. Hence is that Phrase, Enter into your masters joy; that enters not into you, but you must enter into it: it is your masters joy, not only that joy that your master gives, but the same joy ⟨p. 575⟩your master hath, that you shall enter into and live in. It is said of Saint John, in Rev. 1. that he was on the Lords day in the Spirit; it is not said that the Spirit was in him, but it is said, he was in the Spirit; that was as a beginning of the glorious condition of the Saints of God, that they shall be in the Spirit of God, not only God in them, but they in God, as a drop of water in the Sea, swallowed up in it. Put a drop of wine into the Sea, it is changed into the nature of the Sea; and so though we cannot be changed into the Divine Nature, yet we shall be swallowed up in God, so as we shall not any further mind our selves, our own good as a created thing, nor our selves as creatures, but altogether God: our minds shall be so wholly upon God, as if they were wholly emptied of any created good, and had nothing to do but with an increated good; it shall not will any thing to it self, nor to any other creature, but all to God, and so wholly taken upon with God, and upon that ground, because they have that likeness unto God, and partake of the Divine Nature: Here we do good to others, because of their likeness to our selves; But the Saints shall will all good to God, not because God is like them, but because they are like to God, so that they shall love themselves for God.

The seventh and last thing in having God to be their portion, is the enjoyment of themselves in God: ¹