see and find themselves to be Fools At his end sayes the Prophet concerning such an one he shall be a Fool Jer. 17.11 at his end he shall be a fool what was he a wise man in his beginning and progress No he was a Fool all along Yet though he was a Fool he thought himself wise but at last he shall see his folly he shall find that he was a very fool indeed and O how will the sight of such folly then vex and torment him O Sirs when you shall see your selves lanching forth into an unchangeable state as shortly you will how will you then condemn your selves of folly for preferring changeable Creatures before an unchangeable God Let me therefore speak to each of you as in Prov. 23.5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not Riches make to themselves wings c. Cease from thine own wisdom labour not to be rich Men think it to be their highest wisdom to get Riches but sirs know assuredly this is folly the onely wisdom is to make sure of God and get an interest in God Riches are not but God alwayes is and he is the same for ever 4. From God's Unchangeableness we infer the absolute necessity of a change in sinners if ever they be happy if ever they be saved My Beloved if ever sinners be saved and made eternally happy there must be a change either in God or them now in God there can be no change the change thereof must be in them 'T is a rational and undenyable way of arguing for a sinner to argue and say God is unchangeable and because God is unchangeable I must change or perish change or die change or be miserable for ever For pray mark God never did and he never will save any man in his sins he is in Christ infinitely willing ready and able to save men from their sins he sent and seal'd his Son on purpose to save men from their sins and accordingly gave him a Name sutable hereunto even Jesus which signisies a Saviour Thou shalt call his Name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Mar. 1.21 But he never did and unless he should change he never will save any in their sins without a change therefore in us and upon us we are undone for ever But a little further yet to let you see the force of this inference and the rationality of such an arguing that so it may fall with the greater weight and conviction upon all our Souls be pleased to consider that 't is utterly repugnant to and inconsistent with the Word Nature Counsel and Oath of God to save sinners without a change for all these are absolutely and expresly against the happiness and salvation of unchanged Souls Souls remaining still in their sins still in their natural state 1. The Word of God is against the happiness and Salvation of unchanged Souls the Word of God sayes expresly that without a change men may not shall not cannot be saved The Word of God says the wicked shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God Psal 9.17 The Word of God says that into the Holy City there shall in no wise enter any thing that defileth or worketh abomination Rev. 21.27 The Word of God sayes that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 The Word of God sayes that without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 12.14 And lest all this should be thought to concern onely profane and licentious ones let me add the Word of God sayes that flesh and blood that is men in their natural estate cannot enter into the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15.50 Yea the Word of God sayes and that with an emphasis that except a man be born again unless he be regenerated by the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Joh. 3.3.5 Verily verily sayes Christ except a man be born again c. and again Verily verily he asserts it over and over which notes among other things as the weight of the Truth asserted so our difficulty and aversness to believe it and bow to it Thus the Word of God is against this thing 2. The Nature of God is against the happiness and salvation of unchanged Souls the nature of God is infinitely pure and holy and will not admit of sinners to dwell with him Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness saith the Psalmist neither shall evil dwell with thee Psal 5.4 The foolish and such are all men by nature shall not stand in thy sight thou hatest all the workers of iniquity v. 5. So Heb. 1.13 Thou art of purer eyes then to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity that is without loathing and detestation God's Nature is holy yea 't is Holiness it self and he can as soon cease to be God as cease to be holy his Nature is infinitely contrary to all sin and he infinitely necessarily and eternally hates all sin sin indeed is strictly and properly the onely Object of God's hatred His love is et out upon many Objects but sin is the only Object of his hatred and is not the nature of this God against the salvation of unchanged sinners God must first cease to be infinitely holy and so to be God e're sinners remaining in their unchanged state can be saved 3. The Counsel of God is against the salvation of unchanged Souls the Law of the Counsel of God is That we must be holy if ever we will be happy that we must be called justified and sanctified if ever we be glorified so you find in that golden Chain as t is called Rom. 8.29 30. Whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed unto the Image of his Son Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified Mark the Counsel or as 't is here called the fore-knowledge of God tells us we must be changed called and justified if ever we be glorified So expresly 2 Thes 2.13 God hath chosen us to salvation But how is there no need of a change Yes he has so chosen us as calls for a change He hath chosen us to salvation through the sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth Yea the Counsel of God aims at holiness and designs us primarily unto holiness He hath chosen us that we should be holy Eph. 1.4 5. God must change all his Counsels which have been of old or sinners must be changed if ever they be saved 4. The Oath of God is against the salvation of unchanged sinners God's Oath is gone out of his mouth that no unbelieving unchanged ones shall ever enter into his Rest So I sware in my wrath they shall not enter into my Rest Heb. 3.11 Thus God's Word his Nature his Counsel his Oath are all against the happiness and Salvation of unchanged sinners and God must change in all if ever
they be saved without a change But God can change in neither the change must be in them God being unchangeable they must change or die change or perish and there must be a double change pass upon them or they cannot be saved a change of their estate and a change of their image a change of their state in justification by the Blood of Christ and a change of their Image in Regeneration and Sanctification by the Spirit of Christ and without both these they are undone for ever 1. There must be a change of their state in justification through Christ's Blood if ever they be saved When a poor Soul is justified freely by Grace through the redemption that is in Jesus as the Apostle expresses it Rom. 3.24 when his sins are once pardoned and his person accepted with God by the imputation of Christs perfect righteousness to him through believing then is his state changed and this change of state sinners must pass under or God being unchangeable they cannot be saved they must through the Blood and Righteousness of Christ applyed and appropriated in a way of believing get their sins pardoned and their persons accepted they must get all Guilt removed and all Debts paid or they cannot possibly be saved this is frequently mentioned in Scripture Rom. 5.1 Being justified by Faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Again v. 9. Being justified through his Blood we shall be saved from wrath by him Again vers 17 18 19. If by one mans offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Still you see justification through the Blood and Righteousness of Christ is necessary unto Life and Salvation So Eph. 1.6 7. God hath made us accepted in the Beloved in whom we have redemption through his Blood even the forgiveness sins The like is held forth 1 Cor. 6.10 Rom. 8.30 Oh without pardon and justification through the Blood of Christ there is no Life no Salvation to be expected for sinners Unpardoned sin will surely damn and no pardon is to be had for sinners but in and by Christ and union with Christ through believing When once a Soul is pardoned and justified by Christ through believing then he is passed from Death to Life as you have it Job 5.24 but till then he remains in Death and under Death and Condemnation 2. There must be a change of their Image in Regeneration and Sanctification by the Spirit of Christ When a sinner is new born born of Water and of the Spirit as Christ's expression is when he is made a new Creature old things being past away with him and all things being become new as the Apostle phrases it 2 Cor. 5.17 when he is created in Christ Jesus and has a sound Work of Grace wrought and carried on in him by the Spirit of Christ then is his Image changed and such a change of Image must sinners pass under or they cannot be saved God never did and never will save an unrenewed Soul his unchangeableness will not admit of the salvation of such an one And indeed the Scripture is full in it Job 3.3 5. Verily verily saies Christ to Nicodemus except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God And again vers 5. Verily verily sayes he except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God You see this is what Christ asserts and that over and over and with the highest asseverations imaginable Hence also Heaven is said to be the Inberitance of Saints Col. 1.12 and of sanctified Ones Acts 26.18 Hence the Corinthians are said to be sanctified as well as justified and so made capable of inheriting the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.10 11. and Tit. 3.5 God is said according to his mercy to save us by the washing of Regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost Thus there must a change of Image as well as State pass upon us or we cannot be saved and that because God is unchangeable Oh how should we all therefore look after this change Soul assure thy self 't is not thy civility and morality how much soever raised and refined 't is not thy external reformations 't is not thy conforming thy self to the outward Rules and Laws of Duty and the like that will save thee or avail thee any thing as to eternal Life unles thou comest under this double change of which thou hast heard Paul I am confident could compare with thee for morality external conformity to the Law when yet he was in a lost estate and afterwards coming to faith in Christ he sees cause to account all but as loss and dung Phil. 3. begin And he that came to Christ of whom we read in Mat. 19.16 17 18 19 20 21 22. had certainly attained to a great degree of morality and external conformity to the Law who yet was lacking and so far lacking as that for any thing we find he fell eternally short of Heaven and Salvation Oh there must a change a change of State and a change of Image pass upon us or our morality will leave us at last to perish Let us therefore mind this change Am I changed or no Changed I must be and that with a great change with a change of State and a change of person or I cannot be saved have I therefore any acquaintance with such a change O my Beloved let unchangeness in God ingage us all to look out after a change in us God will not change to save any of us all he is willing to change us that we may be saved but he himself will not change to save any of us 5. Again from what has been declared touching God's Unchangeableness we conclude and infer the infinite sweetness of his Love and the infinit bitterness of his Wrath and so the exceeding happiness of such as are interested in the one and the extream misery of such as fall under the other Sinners slight God's Love preferring Creature-love before it and they disregard his Wrath wilfully provoking it against themselves but if they will view the one and the other in the Glass of his Unchangeableness they will find that there is more sweetness in the one than that it should be slighted and more terribleness in the other than that it should be disregarded 1. From God's Unchangeableness we conclude and infer the infinite sweetness of his Love and so the happiness of them that are interested in it God has a people whom he loves and his Love to them is a free love a rich Love a peculiar Love a Love of singular eminency and perfection in all respects But that which indeed crowns all and puts an infinite sweetness into it is this
of humbling from the consideration of God's Unchangeableness as our unlikeness to him therein our charging him with change our living so little upon his Unchangeableness AS the Unchangeableness of God is very teaching and instructive so also very humbling if rightly weighed and improved by us there are several things which the consideration thereof do call aloud upon us to be humbled for and Oh that we would lay them to heart 1. Is God unchangeable Then how should we be humbled for our exceeding great changeableness and therein our unlikeness to God the chief good The more changeable we are in what is good the more unlike God we are and the more unlike God we are the more cause we have of humbling Oh how should we loath our selves and be abased at the foot of God in the sense of our great fickleness and changeableness Alas how changeable are we in all that is good how changeable are many of us in our Judgments and Opinions being like Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine as you have it Eph. 4.14 being apt to be soon removed from the Faith of the Gospel as the Galatians were at which Paul marvelled Gal. 1.6 How changeable are we in our affections to God and the things of God Now the heart flames with love to God and Christ anon 't is chill and cold Now we are full of holy longings and desires after God and Christ Grace and Glory we can say with the Church of old The desire of our Soul is unto thee O God and to the remembrance of thy Name Isa 26.8 yea our Soul thirsteth for God for the living God Yea as the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks so panteth our Soul after God as the Psalmist speaks Anon there is not any one holy breathing to be found within us No we are even made up of worldly sinful unclean desires we pant after the dust of the Earth as those Amos 2.7 we are athirst for the Creature and nothing but that will satisfie us Now we delight in God and his Wayes We rejoce in the Lord and our Soul is joyful in our God as 't was with the Church Isa 61.10 and his Wayes are sweet and pleasant to us his Law is our delight anon we relish no sweetness we take and excercise no joy no delight either in the one or in the other but we drive on heavily every duty being a burthen to us and the very thoughts of God a trouble Now we fear and stand in a we of God not daring to sin against him we stand in awe of his Presence we stand in awe of his Holiness we stand in awe of his Goodness we stand in awe of his Power and the like Anon we are fearless and regardless of him boldly venturing upon sinning against him Now we dread sin as Hell it self yea and worse too anon we imbrace it and delight in it Again how changeable are we in our holy purposes and resolutions We take up this and that holy resolution we purpose to walk so and so with God to keep such and such a watch over our spirits and wayes to live more in communion with God to drive a greater trade and design for Heaven and to hasten more to that better Countrey and the like but alas how do such resolutions fade and change and die within us not one of many of them ever proves firm and effectual yea many times no sooner are such resolutions taken up by us but presently we run Counter to them and break with God more than before the first temptation that comes turns us quite beside our purpose and we miserably miscarry in the very things we resolved about Our holy purposes are for the most part abortive We turn aside like a deceitful bow as God complains of those Psal 78.57 'T is a sad complaint which I have read in one of the Ancients Oftentimes says he have I promised refolved to amend Multoties permisi me emondare nunquam tenut sed semper ad peocatu redii prioribus seeleribus nova deterior a conjunxi nunquam ut debui mores meos in melius mutari c. Bern. de ascen Domini but I never made it good but alwayes I returned to sin and to my former wickednesses I added new and worse I never reformed as I ought And who of us may not in a great measure make the same complaint Yet once more How changeable are we in our ways and walkings How uneven and unconstant in our goings We have an heart that loveth to wander as God speaks of them of old Jer. 14.10 O the turnings aside and O the turnings back that we are guilty of in our walking with God! Oh the gaps and pauses and interruptions that are in our obedience we should go on in one even constant tenure of holy Obedience but alas we are in and out off and on often in the day yea in the hour yea many times sudden and great changes are found in our spirits and carriages God-ward and that for the worse I 'le give you one and but one instance of this and that in an eminently holy Man an instance that may well make all of us tremble and that is of Jeremiah Jer. 20.13 14 15. Sing unto the Lord praise ye the Lord for he hath delivered the Soul of the poor from the hand of evil doers Cursed be the day wherein I was horn let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed Cursed be the man that brought tidings to my Father saying A man-child is born unto thee making him very glad Pray mark what a great change there was wrought in this good man's spirit and that all of a sudden in vers 13. he looks like one dropt out of Heaven praising God for his Goodness and Salvation and calling upon others so to do but in vers 14 15. he looks rather like one broken loose out of Hell cursing himself and almost every one about him In the one he looks more like an Angel than an imperfect Saint in the other he looks more like a Devil than a Man so great was the change in his spirit and this suddenly made When he had in vers 13. been praising God and was as it were taken up to Heaven the very next news you hear of him is that he is full of cursing and truly thus changeable are we all here O how suddenly many times do we change and fall from the best into the worst of frames and carriages before God from love to hatred from faith to unbelief from holy fear to carnal security from obedience to rebellion from delight in God to a neglect of God and a weariedness of his wayes and presence O let us be humbled for this our exceeding changeableness and therein our unlikeness to God in his Unchangeableness 2. Is God unchangeable Then how should we be humbled that we do so often wrong God charging him with
hoped for But why is it called Hope For this among other Reasons because 't is the great Object of the Saints Hopes 't is what they hope and look and long for And as they hope to so assuredly they shall live at Rest in God and with God for ever 't is what remains to them and they shall in due time attain unto it Hence 't is said to be laid up for them in Heaven in that prequoted place Col. 1.5 which as Calvin also observes notes the certainty of it and of their injoying of it 't is what they cannot miss of Quum dieit spem nobis repositam esse in Caelo significat perinde certos debere esse fideles de promissione aeternae foelicitatis c. Calv. when the Apostle speaks of an Hope laid up in Heaven for us he signifies to us that the Saints ought therefore to Rest sure and certain of the Promise of eternal Life as if they had a treasure already bid and laid up in a most safe place Now do the Saints hope to and accordingly shall they live at Rest in God and with God for ever and should they not be at Rest in God here Surely this is a mighty Obligation upon them to be alwaies at Rest in him Thus you have seen some of those Obligations the Saints lie under to live at Rest in God which though but some of them yet are sufficient to evince the truth of our Position namely that they should alwaies be at Rest in him CHAP. IV. The Truth asserted further evidenced from the excellency of this frame of Soul the worth and excellency whereof is discovered in several particulars AS the Saints are under many great and weighty Obligations to be alwaies at Rest in God so to be alwaies at Rest in God is a choice and an excellent frame and posture of Soul for the Saints to live in 't is indeed the best and most becoming frame of Soul they can possibly be found in this World which may give further evidence to our Assertion Now I shall shew you a little of the worth and excellency of this frame and posture of Soul in a few Sripture-Propositions about it 1. To be at Rest in God is a very gracious frame and posture of Soul a frame and posture of Soul which carries much of the life and power of Grace and Godliness in it and O what an excellent frame and posture must this then be the more of the life and power of Grace and Godliness any frame or posture of Soul carries in it the more excellent it is now there is no frame or posture of Soul that I know of which carryes-more of the life and power of Grace and Godliness in it than this of being at Rest in God does Herein indeed does the main if not the whole of the life and power of Grace and Godliness consist for pray what is Grace and Godliness and wherein doth it consist but in an holy subjection to and acquiescence in the Blesed God To bow and submit to God as our Lord and to chuse and acquiesce in God as our Happiness this is Grace this is Godliness both which I take to be comprehended in Psal 6.2 where David puts his Soul in mind that he had both given up himself to God and also chosen him for his Happiness saying O my Soul thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my Lord my Ruler my Happiness This my Beloved is Grace or Godliness and the more of this there is found in us the more gracious we are and what is this but to be at Rest in God as we have opened it A restless and unquiet Spirit argues much of the power of fin and shews that Grace has gotten but little if any dominion in the Soul and therefore 't is made both the Character and the Judgement of wicked men that they cannot Rest The wicked saith the prophet are like the troubled Sea when it cannot Rest whose Waters cast up mire and dirt there is no peace to the wicked Isa 57.20 21. 'T is meant of their own inward unquietness anrestlessness of Spirit Calvin hereby understands perpetuas animae exagitationes atque perturbationes perpetual tossings and perturbations of mind and he speaks I remember thus This Similitude of a Sea Elegans est ista maris similitudo aptissima ad explicandam inquietudinem impiorum nam in seipso turbaturmare tametsi a vento non impellitur c. eodem modo impii turbantur intestino malo quod in ipsorum animis defixum est is an elegant Similitude and most apt to set forth the inquietude of wicked men for saies he the Sea is troubled in it self though it be not driven by Winds nor tossed with Storms and Tempests but it s own Waves fight own with another and break one another in like manner wicked men are troubled with intestine evil which is fixt and rooted in their own minds Thus a restless unquiet Spirit argues much of the power of sin in the Soul and shews that Grace has gotten but little if any Dominion there So on the other hand a Spirit at Rest in God must carry much of the life and power of Grace and Godliness in it This indeed is a great part of the Kingdom of God for the Kingdom of God the Apostle tells us consists not in Meats and Drinks but in Righteousness in Peace and in the Joys of the holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 In Peace that is as a learned Man expounds it in an holy Rest and quiet of Soul in God 2. To be at Rest in God is a ready frame and posture of Soul a frame and posture of Soul which renders a man ready and prepared for every Call of God to him and must not that be an excellent frame God my Beloved may call us to what he pleases to what services he pleases and to what conditions he pleases he may call us to what services he pleases besides the general duties of Christianity which are incumbent upon all he may call us to what special work and services he pleases he may call us to do and he may call us to suffer and 't is a blessed thing to be fitted and prepared for the Call of God and who more so than he that lives at Rest in him Alas to such an one no Work no Duty no Service is unseasonable such an one is fit to Pray and fit to Praise fit to Hear and fit to Meditate fit to search his own Heart and fit to enquire into the Counsels of God he is fit to do and fit to suffer the Will of God My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed or as you have it the margin of some of your Bibles my heart is prepared O God my heart is prepared Psal 57.7 If you look back upon the first verse you will find his Soul sweetly at Rest in God For saies he O God my Soul trusteth in thee in the shadow of thy wings
of these things will be who can tell In Jer. 16.5 we read that God had taken away his Peace from that People I have taken away my Peace from this People saith the Lord and truly now he seemes to have taken away his Peace from the World I 'le leave only two Scriptures with you one out of the Old and the other out of the New-Testament both which I am apt to think may have a great aspect to the present dayes and may in a great measure receive their accomplishment in them One is Zeph. 3.8 Wait ye upon me saith the Lord untill the day that I arise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the Nations that I may assemble the Kingdoms to pour out upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger for all the Earth shall be devoured with the fire of jealousy The other is that Luk. 21.25 26. There shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars and these we have had and upon the Earth distress of Nations with perplexity the Sea and the Waves roaring mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth for the powers of Heaven shall be shaken I say nothing only I fear I fear as we have seen some of these things accomplisht so there will be a more full accomplishment of them and that ere the present generation passes away Doubtless great stormes are a coming and happy they that have an Ark to hide themselves in God has now great Works to do he has the Kingdom of Antichrist utterly to destroy the Kingdom of his Son Christ to set up in its Lustre and Glory the final Redemption of his People to work out his ancient Ones to call in and his suffering Name Attributes and Glory fully to right and vindicate and these things are not like to be brought about without great Stormes Convulsions and Concussions in the World Well and what is the language of all this to us Verily this Souls retire into God take up your Rest in him make him your All both here and in eternity and Oh that we would do so Then should we Rest in the day of trouble When Noah fore-saw the Deluge a coming he prepared him an ark to the saving of both himself and Family Heb. 11.7 Surely he s blind indeed that does not see a Deluge coming upon the World a Deluge of outward Troubles and Calamities O why do we not enark in God by making him our Rest this God invites his People unto Isa 26.20 Come my People enter thou into thy Chambers and shut thy Doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until theindignation be overpast for behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their iniquity What is it for God's People to enter into their Chambers hide themselves but to retire more into him live at Rest and in Communion with him to put themselves under his protection and the like 't is for them to retire from the World and worldly Concernes and to make him all living and resting wholly in him and upon him O let this viz. the restlesness of the World you live in draw your Souls into an holy rest in God 5. Consider what enemies you are to your own Souls by not living at Rest in God He that sinneth 't is said wrongeth his own Soul he that lives not at Rest in God greatly sinneth and thereby greatly wrongeth his own Soul On the one hand you hereby deprive your Souls of much Good and on the other hand you expose your Souls to much Evil. 1. Hereby you deprive your Souls of much Good yea of much of the best Good Solomon found this in experience and tells us that pursuing Rest and Happiness in the Creature and not in God he did thereby bereave his Soul of Good Eccles 4.8 and what Good Verily the best Good the Good of Grace of Holiness of Communion with God of the Comforts of his Spirit and the like and Oh how much of this Good do you bereave your Souls of dayly This is that which hath bereaved you of much Grace much Love much Spiritual Comfort many Imbraces in the Armes and Bosome of Christ's Love This namely our pursueing Rest from the Creature and not living at Rest in God is that which hath made us so lean so dead so dry so barren in our Spirits as we are O my Beloved while we have been off our Rest in God and have taken up in other things what have we been doing but feeding upon Husks and Swill when we might have eaten Bread and drunk Wine in the Fathers Kingdom what have we been doing but following after lying vanities to the forsaking of our own mercies Oh did you know how sweet a Life it is to be at Rest in God you would then know what Good you have bereaved your Souls of by not living at Rest in him 2. Hereby you expose your Souls to much evil I remember a saying of Austin * In hoc peccabam quod non in Deo sed in creaturis ejus me atque caeteras voluptates quaerebam atque ita irruebam in dolores confusiones errores animae Aug. In this I sinned says he that I sought my Happiness not in God but in his Creatures and so I rusht upon all manner of Dolours Confusions and Errors of Soul and have not we done So O the wounds the Confusions the Errors of Soul which we have exposed our selves unto while we have been off our Rest in God! Sin and Satan have made great waste and desolation upon our Spirits and 't is what exposes us to nothing but sorrows snares and Death and as we would not wrong our Souls let us retire to and live at Rest in God 6. Consider that your living at Rest in God here will be a clear and unquestionable evidence to you that you shall live at Rest in God and with God for ever O how sweet is it to have any one clear evidence of living at Rest in God and with God in Heaven and what would some of our Souls at some times give for such a blessing yea how sweet is a small glimpse of Hope a secret whisper an inward hint or intimation of such a thing from the Spirit of God in our Souls O live at Rest in God here and this will be a broad evidence of it to you and truly unless you do live at Rest in him here I know not however you will make it out to your Souls that you shall live at Rest in him and with him in the other World In short my Beloved if we do indeed desire to live at Rest with God for ever in Heaven why should we not desire to live at Rest in God here Sure I am the thing is the same and we should desire the one as well as the other and the one as the