up all the vacant corners
doth flow from that blessed fellowship of the Father and the Son. Now,
though these two be only mentioned yet the Holy Ghost must not be
excluded, for the apostolic prayer doth attribute chiefly our fellowship
with God to the Spirit, so that it is the Spirit unites our hearts, and
associates them to God, and that seems to correspond between him and us.
So then there is such a fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
that leaves no vacuity in the heart, that fills all the dimensions and
corners of it with peace and joy.

But add unto this in the third place that these things have not only a
fulness, but, withal a durableness, not only plenty, but besides, eternity
and perpetuity, to correspond to the immortality of the soul. And this,
certainly, is a great congruity, and so makes up much beauty and harmony,
for what more incongruous and unsuitable than for an immortal spirit to
spend itself, and give up itself to that which is not which must leave it,
which is mortal, and fading in its own nature, without which it must
continue infinitely longer than it can enjoy it? And what more comely than
for an immortal thing to associate with eternal things, and to derive its
joy from an eternal spring? For, when all things visible are done away,
and things mortal abolished, then its joy none can take from it, because
it takes its joy from that which must survive all these changes. Suppose
any thing could for the present give a fulness of joy, and absolute
content to the heart, yet, if we imagine that that thing may be separated
and disjoined from the heart, and cease to be, certainly the very
expectation of such an eternal separation would almost extinguish all the
joy, and make it dry up of the fulness, for, may a soul think, what shall
I do for ever when this well dries? Whence shall I draw water of joy? Out
of what well? But now, that fear is removed, and the soul needs not lose
its sweetness of the present enjoyment of God through anxious foresight of
the future, because he may know that the perfect fulness that shall never
ebb is but coming, and the sun is but ascending yet towards the meridian,
from whence he shall never go down, but stand fixed, to be the eternal
wonder and delight of angels and men.

Now, though it be true that Christians here have neither that plenty nor
that perpetuity of this joy that the object of it gives ground for, though
their hearts be often filled with griefs