17. God is a Soul-enriching Good, a Soul-suitable, a Soul-satisfying Good, and a Soul-fattening Good;2 Eat ye that which is good, and let your Soul delight it self in Fatness: Why will you spend your Money for that which is not Bread, and your Labour for that which satisfieth not? There is enough in God to satisfy the Holy Angels, much more smaller Vessels; this Good Satisfies and not Surfeits; it satisfies the Soul, the Precious and Immortal Soul; neither can any Thing, or Person do this but God himself alone;3 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fate things of thy House, and thou shalt make them drink of Rivers of thy Pleasure; for with thee is the Fountain of Life: God made the Soul for himself, it is fitted for him; therefore ⟨p. 233⟩Creatures cannot satisfy it, God alone is the Adequate Object to it; 'tis Spiritual, and its Constitution is such, if it enjoy not God, 'tis restless, disquieted, and like Noah's Dove, it finds no resting place till it returns to the true Ark; Return to thy Rest, O my Soul, (saith David) take up thy dwelling in God, trust in him.
17. God is a Soul-inriching Good, a Soul-suitable, a Soul-satisfying Good, and a Soul-fatening Good;2 Eat ye that which is good, and let your Soul delight it self in Fatness: Why will you spend your Money for that which is not Bread, and your Labour for that which satisfieth not? There is enough in God to satisfie the Holy Angels, much more smaller Vessels; this Good Satisfies and not Surfeits; it satisfies the Soul, the Precious and Immortal Soul; neither can any Thing, or Person do this but God himself alone;3 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fate things of thy House, and thou shalt make them drink of Rivers of thy Pleasure; for with thee is the Fountain of Life: God made the Soul for himself, it is fitted for him; therefore ⟨p. 233⟩Creatures cannot satisfie it, God alone is the Adequate Object to it; 'tis Spiritual, and its Constitution is such, if it injoy not God, 'tis restless, disquieted, and like Noah's Dove, it finds no resting place till it returns to the true Ark; Return to thy Rest, O my Soul, (saith David) take up thy dwelling in God, trust in him.
- 1God a Soul enriching good.God a Soul inriching good.
- 2Isa. 55.1, 2
- 3Ps. 36.8, 9.
