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Fourthly, a gracious heart cannot be satisfied with things that are but for a season, because God ¹hath loved such a heart with an eternal love, and there is the impression of the same love in the soul, that carries the soul to God in some measure with that love wherewith it is loved, that causes the soul to love God with an eternal love, and not to be satisfied with any work of love that it can work in time; and therefore grace must have eternity for to manifest the love again that it hath to God, or else it hath not a love proportionable in its measure to the love wherewith God hath loved it, but that is in every gracious heart.

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Fifthly, there is a kind of image of Gods infiniteness in the souls of men, and according to this ¹print of Gods infiniteness, the enjoyment of God is desired, where the heart is gracious: though it is true, our souls are not infinite creatures in themselves, yet having a print of Gods infiniteness upon them, they manifest this in their infinite desires; and because they cannot enjoy an actual infinite good in themselves, therefore they desire an infinite good in duration at least; let there be never so much good, ⟨p. 317⟩yea, as much as an infinite power can let out for present good, yet this does not satisfy the soul, unless it can have it infinitely for duration; for an enlightened soul knows that it is not capable to hold that good that an infinite God can, and hath a purpose to communicate to his creature, if it should come all together, therefore it desires to enjoy communication of what good it is capable of to all eternity. To receive good from God is not sufficient, except it be received in an infinite way; now it cannot receive any thing infinite for the present, and therefore it must have it in an infinite way in regard of duration.