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3. Query. What is it to enjoy God? A tempting, sinking, cheering Query. What is it to enjoy God? a desirable tempting Query. Who doth not itch with desire to hear it answered? A sinking Query: whosoever thinks I shall not fall infinitely short in this discovery: I must speak it to their reproach, They have lower thoughts of the enjoyment of God, then are fit, (I had almost said, then are possible) to be harboured in a gracious heart. But yet, it is a cheering Query, we may possibly climb by a winding stair, to have a comfortable glimpse of this enjoyment. It is counted a princely sport to see a Falcon ⟨p. 9⟩mount after a Heron; his towering flight deserves an ecce. But oh then! what is it for a poor soul, that hath lien among the pots, in the scullery of the world, to be winged by that Dove that lighted upon Christ; and to be enabled to say, Return unto thy rest, O my soul? Well then, what is it to enjoy God?

3. Query. What is it to enjoy God? A tempting, sinking, chearing Query. What is it to enjoy God? a desireable tempting Query. Who doth not itch with desire to hear it answered? A sinking Query: whosoever thinks I shall not fall infinitly short in this discovery: I must speak it to their reproach, They have lower thoughts of the enjoyment of God, then are fit, (I had almost said, then are possible) to be harbour'd in a gracious heart. But yet, it is a chearing Query, we may possibly climbe by a winding staire, to have a comfortable glimpse of this enjoyment. It is counted a princely sport to see a Faulcon ⟨p. 9⟩mount after a Heron; his towring flight deserves an ecce. But oh then! what is it for a poor soul, that hath lyen among the pots, in the sculleonry of the world, to be winged by that Dove that lighted upon Christ; and to be enabled to say, Return unto thy rest, O my soul? Well then, what is it to enjoy God?

I answer, The enjoyment of God, it is the restless turning, and the constant resting of the soul God-ward: You may perceive the description refers to the Load-stone, you know the Needle of the Compass is still trembling towards the North. And why so? here we must betake our selves to the refuge of our ignorance, in saying no more, but 'tis from an occult quality. Just so 'tis here, the soul once touched with a peculiar taste of Gods distinguishing love, is still working, and trembling God-ward, and cannot rest any where else. And why so? From an occult quality, insensibly conveyed by the communication of the Divine Nature. I call it a restless turning, for heavenly rest is still in motion. And a constant resting, because all the rest the soul hath, it is in God. And then I term it rather God-ward, then, in God: to meet our distance, before we arrive at a full enjoyment; and though the distance will be less afterward, yet 'twill in a sense be infinite for ever. But this short description is too long, and unwieldy. Let's therefore take it in pieces, and consider the enjoyment of God in four Periods of Duration. Time I cannot call them, because the last of them is Eternity.