940 Oftheioyet of :Yeomen. frogs which our hearts can delire, and farreaboue all which wecan conceive ; for whether it be glory, riches, pleafures, beautie,lotte,wildome,orwhatloeuer other excellencies we canconceiue, we (hail find them infinitelycontained in the fountaine andtreafur'reofall goodneffe. Againe, being voi- ced 'intoGod, and communicating withhim in the venue and powerofI*holy fpirir, we (hall be quickned thereby, and liue the life of God, in puritie,eternitie,and all perfcéti- on,not in the quantitie,for God is itûinit in all good, but in qualifie andfimilitude, according to our meafure andpro- AuguiLde cog- portion. To whichpurpofe one faith, that,as the foule is the nit. vcravi'a: lice of the bodie; foGod is the life of the foule; and as the Lb.cap.3t, bodie isdead,when it hath not the foule,fo the foule isdead vt visa ta,nis when tt wanteth God. And as theblind man is faid to haue a,r'maeR. deadeies when the aredc riued ofli htandfr ht fo the vita beatsho }' R g "windows ea. foule isdead, ifit doe not inioy God,the life ofblefledneffe. Pfalm.14415. Furthermore by vertue of this communion it commethco Auguft.deci- p thatGod al-fufhcient isvntovtall inall, as the Apoflle uir.dethb.59. keth,that is,doth freevs fromall euill,and replenifh and cap.16. r.Cor.11.a8. furnifh vs with all good, which our hearts can delire, and that immediately by himfelfe, and notby fecondariehelpes, and inferiour meanes,ashe doth in this life. Towhich pur- pofe elsewherehedefireth,thafthe Ephefians might knoll she Ephd3.19. lone o fChrifÈ,wbschpai(ètballknowledQe;rbat they m: h' beeFl- led with all fulneffeofGod.In this life,God isnor thusal in all, ashe will be in the life to come, partly becaufc he vfeth for the procuring ofour good,manymeancs and inflruments by which heworketh s and partly becaufe he doth not give vn- to vs all things inany excellencie andperfeblion; in which Hicron:epiff. refpe& it is truly faid,that Gods giftsarenot nosy all inall, but 37 :od Ad- fame in curryman,as Wifdome in Salomon, pietie inDavid, snand.presbye patience in lob,and fo in the refl; but in ourheavenly havi- .neffe,when God,íhalibeallinall,we (hail excel in all goodnes, vertue,gloricand perfelion. Neither (hall wee thenneed any thing,becaufewe (hall inioyGod al-fufficient,who will by himfelfe fhpplie all our wants, and grantvnto vs all our wifhcs. So the Apofilefaith,that in theheavenly Ierulalem, Apoc.11. rberefhall beeno temple, for the Lord god .al-mghtie, amI the na3. Lamb
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