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

And it shall be full: How full must it needs be, ¹they shall enter into their joy, because the joy cannot enter into them: We rejoice in believing with joy unspeakable and glorious: If the seed time be so glorious, how glorious will the harvest be? says Cyprian, ²They shall not taste, but they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: The fatness of Gods house in the world does abundantly satisfy the souls of Gods people, but the fatness of Gods house hereafter, how will that satisfy them? The people of God shall have such objects to rejoice in, as is the essential glory of God, and all the glory that is put upon him by all his creatures, and all the good they have by Gods communication of himself to them, and all the glory of one another: Look how many Saints shall be in heaven, they shall rejoice in every ones happiness as in their own; their own happiness will cause joy, but so many Saints as shall be happy, so many times shall their joy be double, and ⟨p. 599⟩therefore it must be full joy: Comfort proceeds from the suitableness between the faculty and the object; now here is the greatest suitableness between the faculty and the object that can be, because here is not only good in the Concrete, but goodness in the Abstract; and union with goodness it self, is more then union with a good thing. Surely the joys of heaven must needs be great, because a little taste of them here that the Martyrs have had, hath made exquisite tortures, grievous and dreadful pains, not only tolerable, but comfortable.

And it shall be full: How full must it needs be, ¹they shall enter into their joy, because the joy cannot enter into them: We rejoyce in believing with joy unspeakable and glorious: If the seed time be so glorious, how glorious will the harvest be? says Cyprian, ²They shall not taste, but they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: The fatness of Gods house in the world does abundantly satisfie the souls of Gods people, but the fatness of Gods house hereafter, how will that satisfie them? The people of God shall have such objects to rejoyce in, as is the essential glory of God, and all the glory that is put upon him by all his creatures, and all the good they have by Gods communication of himself to them, and all the glory of one another: Look how many Saints shall be in heaven, they shall rejoyce in every ones happiness as in their own; their own happiness will cause joy, but so many Saints as shall be happy, so many times shall their joy be double, and