4. 'Tis further to be inferred, that a soul §4wherein such a change is wrought, pursues this blessedness with restless supreme desire, till it attain to the fullness thereof. We have here a plainly-implied description of the posture and tendencies of such a soul (even of a sanctified, holy Soul; which had therefore undergone this blessed change) towards this state of blessedness. I shall (saith he) be satisfied with thy likeness, q. d. I cannot be satisfied otherwise. We have seen how great a change is necessary to dispose the Soul to this blessedness, which being once wrought, nothing else can now satisfy it. Such a thing is this blessedness ⟨p. 234⟩(I speak now of so much of it as is previous, and conducing to satisfaction, or of blessedness materially considered, the Divine Glory to be beheld, and participated.) 'Tis of that nature it makes the Soul restless, it lets it not be quiet, after it hath got some apprehension of it, till it attain the full enjoyment. The whole life of such a one, is a continual seeking Gods face. So attractive is this glory of a subject rightly disposed to it. While others crave Corn and Wine, this is the sum of the holy Souls desires,1 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance, &c. The same thing is the object of its present desires that shall be of its eternal satisfaction and enjoyment. 2This is now its one thing, the request insisted on, to behold the beauty of the Lord, &c. and while in any measure it doth so, yet 'tis still looking for this blessed hope, still hoping to be like him, see him as he is; the expectation of satisfaction in this state implies the restless working of desire till then, for what is this satisfaction, but the fulfilling of our desires; the perfecting of the souls motions, in a complacential rest. Motion, and rest do exactly correspond each to other. Nothing can naturally rest in any place, to which it was not before naturally inclined to move; and the rest is proportionably more composed, and steady, according as the motion was stronger, and more vigorous. By how much the heavier any body is, so much the stronger and less resistible is its motion downward, and then accordingly, it is less moveable, when it hath attained its resting place. ⟨p. 235⟩'Tis therefore a vanity, and contradiction to speak of the Souls being satisfied, in that which it was not before desirous of*.
4. 'TIs further to be inferr'd, that a soul §4wherein such a change is wrought, pursues this blessedness with restless supreme desire, till it attain to the fulness thereof. We have here a plainly-implyed description of the posture and tendencies of such a soul (even of a sanctified, holy Soul; which had therefore undergone this blessed change) towards this state of blessedness. I shall (saith he) be satisfied with thy likeness, q. d. I cannot be satisfied otherwise. We have seen how great a change is necessary to dispose the Soul to this blessedness, which being once wrought, nothing else can now satisfie it. Such a thing is this blessedness ⟨p. 234⟩(I speak now of so much of it as is previous, and conducing to satisfaction, or of blessedness materially considered, the Divine Glory to be beheld, and participated.) 'Tis of that nature it makes the Soul restless, it lets it not be quiet, after it hath got some apprehension of it, till it attain the full enjoyment. The whole life of such a one, is a continual seeking Gods face. So attractive is this glory of a subject rightly disposed to it. While others crave Corn and Wine, this is the summe of the holy Souls desires,1 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance, &c. The same thing is the object of its present desires that shall be of its eternal satisfaction and enjoyment. 2This is now its one thing, the request insisted on, to behold the beauty of the Lord, &c. and while in any measure it doth so, yet 'tis still looking for this blessed hope, still hoping to be like him, see him as he is; the expectation of satisfaction in this state implies the restless working of desire till then, for what is this satisfaction, but the fulfilling of our desires; the perfecting of the souls motions, in a complacential rest. Motion, and rest do exactly correspond each to other. Nothing can naturally rest in any place, to which it was not before naturally inclin'd to move; and the rest is proportionably more compos'd, and steady, according as the motion was stronger, and more vigorous. By how much the heavier any body is, so much the stronger and less resistible is its motion downward, and then accordingly, it is less moveable, when it hath attained its resting place. ⟨p. 235⟩'Tis therefore a vanity, and contradiction to speak of the Souls being satisfied, in that which it was not before desirous of*
- 1Psal. 4.
- 2Psal. 27.
- *Aptitudinally (I mean) and Exhypothesi, i. e. supposing the knowledge of the object: Otherwise, as to actual explicit desires God doth give us beyond what we can ask or think. But 'tis impossible the soul should rest satisfied in that which upon knowledge it is undesi•ous of, and d•th, or would reject.Aptitudinally (I mean) and Exhypothesi, i. e. supposing the knowledge of the object: Otherwise, as to actual explicite desires God doth give us beyond what we can ask or think. But 'tis impossible the soul should rest satisfied in that which upon knowledge it is undesi•ous of, and d•th, or would reject.
