One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

Here you have the true way to blessedness set down in Gods statutes, but in outward things there wants fullness, sincerity, eternity.

Here you have the true way to blessedness set down in Gods statutes, but in outward things there wants fulness, sincerity, eternity.

1. There wants fullness. That which makes us blessed, it must fill up the heart of man. As a vessel is never full until it have as much as it can hold; so we can never be said to have a full happiness and contentment until we have as much as we can hold. That which fills must be greater than the thing filled. Now mans heart is such a Chaos of desires, that it can never be filled up but in God, Psal. 16. 11. In thy presence is fullness of joy, at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. Therefore of the joy and happiness we have in God, 'tis said, Enter into thy Masters joy, Mat. 25. When we speak of a cup of water, that enters into the man, that is taken down into the man; but if we speak of a river of water, or tub of water, that is greater than the man is capable of, or can receive, the man enters into it; so this joy and happiness which is truly and genuinely so, it must exceed our capacity, greater than we can receive, that we may enter into it; it is the infinite God can only satisfy the heart of man. In temporal things there is no kind of fullness, you have not one worldly comfort, but you desire more of it. Ahab was a King, yet still he wants something, Naboth's Vineyard: A man is not satisfied with abundance, neither is his soul filled with increase of worldly things, yet we may desire more, Eccles. 5. And if we have one thing to the full, yet we shall need another. If a man be strong, he may need learning; it may be though he hath some kind of learning and knowledge, yet he hath not wisdom. Naaman was rich, wise, valiant, and honourable, but he was a Leper. There is a But upon all worldly happiness; therefore there is no fullness in these things.