Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

874 Of the ioyes of heauen. thy image. Vpon the occafion ofwhichwords one obie&etb, Gregor.bforal. that glutting and loathing followerh fatietie: and then an- L .t8.cap.z ?. fwereth,rhat it is not fo in this heauenly fulnes;for that there may be no griefe and vexation in the minde, defiring, they are fatisfied ; and lea there fhould bee any loathing in this fulnes, they delire this fatietie. And therefore they delire without any trouble,becaufefatietie accompanieth their de- fires, and they are fatiate without cloying, becaufe their fa- tietie is (till kindled andfharpned by their reuued defiring. And this (hall be our eftate and difpolition when wee haue Satietaseritix- this fruition of this fountaine oflife; for at the fame time we Jauab:1is,nt 1- (hall haue a fatisfied thirft, and a thiriling fatietie, hauing in lamJà/üdiam ourxhirft not the lealinecefitie, nor in our Iatietie, any loa- sempereJurie thinebccaufe being fatisfied v eflail thirft,andthirllingwe tarie imu ,fa '(hallbe fatisfied. So that wee (hall haue in theft heauenly Auguft.dc tom- ioyes an infatiable fatietie,fitlnes without loathing, and al- pore. leima .in w_aies hungring, wee (ball alwaies be fatisfied. The which - 7o.Tom.1o. though it may feeme a riddle,yetwee may rally refolue it, if we confider that we haue this thirfling fulnes of ioy fr6 the fruition ofGod himfelf,whobeing infinite in all perfe&ion, mutt needs £ullyfatisfie all thofe who enioy him; & becaufe he is thus infinite there can benotedious cloying,orloath- fomeglutting;feeingthey haue in him continualland end- leffe varietie of ioyesand delights; and'beingfatisficd with the fruition of force, they fee others afteruthich they thirfi and hunger. Neither mull we thinke that they are a earic of the old, when they affe& new, for this. is only incident to tvorldtrioyes, .which being imperfedt doe not -bring con- tentment; but men the fame heauenly ioyes, at 'the fame .time,worke both fatietie and thir(t, becaufe being abfolute in all perfeffion,they glue full contentment, and contenting vs they inflame our loue, and becaufe wee loue them, they .kindle (till in vs a thirtting de re,to haue RilI the fruition of that which wee lone no leffe dearely then deferuedly. Now futthermorehauing this pleating fatietie not only in our ap- petites ,affe6lions, and defires,butalfo in our wits, and vn- derfiandings,and in al Other powers and faculties ofour bo- dicsandfoules,being perfeótly ioyned in a bond of felicitie one