., 1o84 Book V. !'ooking unto :je[ttS. Chap.I .Seet. 9 l Co•·. q.tl. :o joh.3.~. ------------------------------- any Mediatour at all he himfelfe may be infiead ofall; or all in all. · In profccution ofchis, I iliall difcuffe. r. The meaning, whatis it for qod to be all in.>~!!. 2. The particulars, wherein more efpecially is God all in all. 1. For the meaning ; it is a periphrafis of our compleate en. joyment ofGod: that God may b~ tt!l in all, is as much as to fay, that we n:ay enjoy ~od alone co all purpofes, neither wanting nor wtlhng any thtng befides htmfelfe ; for a perfon to be <'Ill in all to me, it is to have an enjoyment of that perfon to all purpo~es, fo that I nei~her. do, nor nee~ J to enjoy any thing befides htmfelfe; thus God ts to the Satnts m glory, he ts their exceeding great reward; they need no rhing elfe befides himfelf, their very draughts of happineffe is taken in immediately from the fountaine, and they have as much oftbe fountaine ascheir fouls in their widefi capacity can pofiibly hold. 2. For the particulars, wherein more efpecially is Godour all in all? I anfwer,- I. In our enjoying God immediately; here we enjoy God by meanes; either he communicates himfelfe unto us through his creatures, or through his ordinances, and hence it is that we know him but in part, we fee him but in a glaffe darkly; bnc when he {hall be our all in all, we iliall fee him face to [Pee, we fhall then fee God as he is clearly and immediately. Oh how · excellent is this enjoyment above all prefent enjoyments here below ? as the enjoyment of a friend in his piCture, letters, i:okens, isfhort of what we enjoy when we have his perfonal prefence; or as the heat and light of the Sun through a cloud is beneath chat h.eat and light when the glorious body of it is. open to us without any ir.Jterpofltion ; even fo all the enjoyments ofGod in the ufe of me<~n~s, graces; bkffings, ordinances are infinitely inferiour to that enJoyment ofGod which fhall be _ without all meanes; all the ravi!hments of vur fpirit in prayer, hearing, reading, meditating, is but a Cip of thofe rivers which we !hall have in heaven. I know the remembra nee ofGod in a private meditation is fweet, Pfal. I 04. H· and communion with God in any ordinance is o'Z fe4J offweetnef[e, t~r.d marrow, 11nd fatnejfe, .Pfal. 63. 5,6 .. bu~ when the foul thai! i~mediately poih::!fe God, when thts K1ngdorne of grace ihall exp1re, ~nd all the
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