God the Eternal Object.
To find Him in everything, and everything in Him, is to be at rest.
This is what He promises—
Not a life of outward success and ease—much nobler than if He did.
Take Abram's as a type.
In war He will be our Defence.
In absence of other joys He will be Enough.
Sphered and included in Him is all sweetness. He sustains all relations, and does for us what these other joys and goods partially do.
The possession of His love should put away all fear, since having Him we are not at the mercy of externals.
What, then, is Life as men ordinarily make it?—what a blunder!