The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

For this satisfaction is the souls rest in God. Its perfect enjoyment of the most perfect good. The expletion of the whole capacity of its will; the total filling up of that vast enlarged appetite; the perfecting of all its desires in delight and joy. Now delight or joy (for they differ not, save that the latter word is thought something more appropriate to reasonable nature) is more fitly defined the rest of the desiring faculty in the thing desired^*. Desire, and Delight are but two acts of Love, diversified, only, by the distance, or presence of the same Object; which, when 'tis distant, the soul, acted and prompted by love, desires, moves towards it, pursues it; when present, and attained, delights in it, enjoys it, stays upon it, satisfies it self in it (according to the measure of goodness it finds there) Desire, is therefore, love in motion; Delight, is love in rest: and of this latter delight or joy, Scripture evidently gives us this Notion, He will rejoice over thee with joy, ²(unto which is presently added as exegetical) he will rest in his love: Which, resting can be but the same thing with being satisfied.

For this satisfaction is the souls rest in God. Its perfect enjoyment of the most perfect good. The expletion of the whole capacity of its will; the total filling up of that vast enlarged appetite; the perfecting of all its desires in delight and joy. Now delight or joy (for they differ not, save that the latter word is thought something more appropriate to reasonable nature) is more fitly defined the rest of the desiring faculty in the thing desired^*. Desire, and Delight are but two acts of Love, diversified, only, by the distance, or presence of the same Object; which, when 'tis distant, the soul, acted and prompted by love, desires, moves towards it, pursues it; when present, and attained, delights in it, enjoyes it, staies upon it, satisfies it self in it (according to the measure of goodness it finds there) Desire, is therefore, love in motion; Delight, is love in rest: and of this latter delight or joy, Scripture evidently gives us this Notion, He will rejoyce over thee with joy, ²