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SECT. I.
THere is Contained in this Rest.* 1.1
1. A Cessation from Motion or Action; not of all action, but of that which hath the nature of a Means, and implies the ab∣sence of the End. When we have obtained the Haven, we have done sailing. When the workman hath his wages, it is implyed, he hath done his work. When we are at our journeys end, we have done with the way. All Motion ends at the Center; and all Means cease, when we have the End. Therefore prophecying ceaseth, tongues fail, and knowledg shall be done away; that is, so far as it had the nature of a Means,* 1.2 and was imperfect: And so faith may be said to cease; not all faith, (for how shall we know all things past which we saw not but by beleeving? how shall we know the last Judgment, the resurrection of the body, before hand, but by beleeving? how shall we know the life everlasting, the Eter∣nity of the joys we possess, but by beleeving?) But all that faith which as a Means referred to the chief End,3 1.3 shall cease. There shall be no more prayer, because no more necessity, but the full enjoyment of what we pray'd for. Whether the soul pray for the bodies resurrecti∣on, for the last judgment, &c. or whether soul and body pray for the eternal continuance of their joys, is to me yet unknown: Otherwise we shall not need to pray for what we have; and we shall have all that is desirable.4 1.4 Neither shall we need to fast, and weep, and watch any more, being out of the reach of sin and temptations. Nor will there be use for Instructions and Exhortations: Preaching is done; The Ministry of man ceaseth; Sacraments useless; The Laborers called in, because the harvest is gathered; the tares burn∣ed, and the work is done; The Unregenerate past hope; the Saints past fear, for ever: Much less shall there be any need of laboring for inferior ends, as here we do; seeing they will all devolve them∣selves into the Ocean of the ultimate End, and the lesser good be wholy swallowed up of the Greatest.