Chapter XXXVII.—Of Rest in God
Who Ever Worketh, and Yet is Ever at Rest.
52. For even then shalt Thou so rest in us, as
now Thou dost work in us; and thus shall that be Thy rest through
us, as these are Thy works through us.
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But Thou, O Lord, ever workest,
and art ever at rest. Nor seest Thou in time, nor movest Thou in
time, nor restest Thou in time; and yet Thou makest the scenes of
time, and the times themselves, and the rest which results from
time.
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Compare his
De Gen. ad Lit.
iv. 9: “For
as God is properly said to do what we do when He works in us, so is
God properly said to rest when by His gift we rest.”