SECT. II.
* 1.12. IN order of Good the last is still the Best: For all good tends to perfection: The end is still the last enjoyed, though first intended. Now this Rest is the Saints last estate: Their beginning was as a Grain of Mustard-seed, but their perfection will be an estate high and flourishing. They were taken with David from the sheep-fold, to reign as Kings for ever. Their first Day was a day of small things; but their last will be an everlasting perfection: They sowed in tears,* 1.2 but they reap in Joy. If their prosperity here, their res secundae, were desireable; much more their res ultimae, their final Blessedness. Rondeletius saw a Priest at Rome, who would fall down in an Extasie when ever he heard those words of Christ,* 1.3 Consummatum est, It is finished: but observing him careful in his fall ever to lay his head in a soft place, he suspected the dissimulati∣on, and by the threats of a cudgel quickly recovered him. But me∣thinks the fore-thoughts of that Consummation, and last estate we speak of, should bring a considering Christian into such an unfeign∣ed Extasie, that he should even forget the things of the flesh, and no care or fear should raise him out of it. Surely that is well, which ends well; and that's Good, which is Good at last; and there∣fore Heaven must needs be Good.