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First, they shall be exercised in the highest employments ¹that any creature can be exercised in, or that they are capable to be exercised in: The happiness of a creature consists much in that which it is exercised in; as there is a great deal of difference ⟨p. 592⟩between the happiness of a Noble-man in Court, and the happiness of one that is employed only in cleansing channels, and the meanest employment that is, because their exercise is different; the one is exercised about business that concerns a King, and a State, and the other is employed about mean things; therefore according as the exercise is, that any creature is raised to, so is the dignity and excellency of that creature: Now we are exercised in mean things here, in comparison of what we shall be hereafter, and yet our business here in making provision for the flesh, in getting meat, and drink, and clothes, and money, is sweet; but though out of obedience to God, we ought to go on comfortably in our callings and places wherein God hath set us, because God calls us to these low mean things, yet we are to account them a mean condition, in regard of that which our natures are capable of, it is but a sore travel that is laid upon man, and this shall not satisfy us, as if we were capable of no higher things; but when we shall be raised to be busied about the highest employments that a created substance is capable to be busied about, that must be comfortable; as the Psalmist speaks, The high ²praises of God shall be in their mouths: They shall be always busied in the high contemplations of God, and of the Trinity; and they shall be always singing praises to God, and to him that sits upon the throne, and to every Verse of the Song that they shall sing to the Lamb, there shall be a Selah put to it; it must be glorious, because this is the highest glory that God hath, not only from his works here, but from all the counsels of his wisdom about the great mystery of ⟨p. 593⟩redemption, from all his works in Heaven, and the highest glory, that he hath from all the communications of himself to the Saints in Heaven, in his praises that they shall be exercised in: all the happiness that we have from God here, is a way of subserviency unto the actual praising of God;