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Consider, againe, what this Kingdome, or possession pre∣pared for vs may be; and we finde it is a state of life per∣fectly accomplished with the whole collection of all good thinges. Not a passage, but a state, a permanencie, without change, without end, without
irkesommesse. Perfectly accom∣plished: not by halues, and peecemeales. With the vvhole collection of all good thinges. Not with a few, as here below, and those, good and ill; paines and pleasures mixt togeither, but with the whole collection of all good thinges: so that what euer we desire, shall be present: and all thar we desire not shall be absent eternally.
AFFECTION and RESOL. We haue Gods word for it, my soule, and it cannot fayle vs, that he will shew vs all good; that is, all that is aduan∣tagious, gaynefull, and rich, in steede of the transitorie riches of this world: all that is be∣seeming, honorable, and illu∣strious; in lieu of the vaine and vadinge honours here be∣lowe:
all that conteynes in it selfe any cause of ioy, and iubilie, and and all that is deare and delightfull (to witt, that ineffable, vnmeasurable, eternall waight of glorie, ac∣cording to S. Paule) in place of those short, light, deluding, and euen painefull pleasures (as Salomon and S. Augustine experienced them) for which poore man looses himselfe. Thus, my soule, doth faith assure vs: let not then follie perswade vs the contrarie.