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2.5a
On
the Excellency
of
the
Sotel.
lam
this
is
the
happinefs4
the
fouls
Of
the Saints,
that
they
(hall
have
fuch
a
fruition
of
God,,
that they
¡hall
have all
the
ufe of
God that
they
will,
and when they will.
And further
, Fruition
bath this
in
it,
it hath
a
rei
e&
aa;
A
man,
though bee bath
a
great
deal of
riches given him
,
yet if bee
Both
not
know
this
,
or
if
fo
bee
that.
bee
Both
know
it,
and
yet
have
not
the comfort
of
it,
bee
Both
not
enjoy
it;
fuch
a
man,
though
bee
bee
born to
a
great deal
,
yet if
bee
have.nos
the
refle.3
as
to
know,
that
hee
hath it,
hee
Both
not
enjoy
it
:
So
wee enj
®y
but
little
of
God
now,
becaufe
God,,
though
bee bee
the
portion of
a
gracious
heart, yet
the heart
doth not
know
this fully
:
But
know-
ledge,
when
it
11141
bee
perfect,
then
the foul
(hall
perfeEl-
ly
know
what
good
there
is
in God, and
how
far
my
foul
may
and
is
happy
in the enjoyment of
this
God; I
ihail
know
how
to
make ufe
of God to the
full,
and (hall
have
continually the comfort of all
that
good
there
is
in
Cod.
And
yet further , the prefence and
communion
with
Je
-.
fus
Chrill that the
foul
(hall
have,
betides
that
of God
the
Father, it
shall bee with him, where
hee is
:
his
a
bleffed
thing here
to
fo
ow
the
Lamb
whitherfoever
hee
goes,
but
to
bee
alivaies with
him,ro
have alwaies
fruition
of him, and
to
have communion likewife with
all the
Saints
and Angels ,
and,
all
thebleflèd
fpirits,
that
is
a
bleffed
thing indeed.
I
remember
I
have read of
Cato,
when bee
was
about to
dye,
Oh
bleffed
day
,
faith
hee,=
for
now
I
(hall go
to
the fouls of
wife
ren,atndPhilofophers;and fo
upon
that
ground
he
did
ac-
comic
the
day
of
his
death
a
bleffed
day,
becaufe
bee Mould
go
tó have
comet
iion
with the fouls of Philofophers
and
wife
men
:
But
how
bleffed
is
it
then
for
our fouls
to
have
communion
eternally
with Angels and bleffed
(pinks
?
Tom
1leP
.
z.2' a3
ore
come
to an innumerable
company
of Angela,
and
the
fp;-
rits
of
tuft men made
perfeE2.
When
a
foul
is converted it
comes
to
have
fome kind
of
communion with innumerable
company
of
Angels, and
with the
fpirits
of
*it
seen
made
perfe6
It
hash
the
affurance
of
it
hero,
and