1088 Book v. Looking nnto.:JefH-J. Cbap.1.SeCl: 10 take up your hearts; God may dwell and walke in your h~arr: without diil:urbance, give me neither poverty nor riches (1airh the wife manupon that account) a meane condition is more capable ofhappinefs than that.which ove~-loads us with outward .t!ur.gs ;. whil'£1: others are cail:mg up thC!r accounts, you may lay with David, how precious are thy thoughts unto me 0 God, how great is the fumme of them ? whil'ft others are following their fuits at courts of juftice, you may follow all you have at a throne of grace; whil'il: others are numbring their flocks and beards, aU your Arithmetick may be employed to number your dayes.; whil'£1: others cannot get out of the clutches of the world, you may get inco the embraces ofyour God; why, this is to prepare your felves for fuller and fuller enjoyments of God, it is God · will be all in all, and this is the very top of heavem ha ppi nefs; .furely the !efs you have ofthe world now, ifyou.can bu~ improve it, the more you may have of heavens happinefs even upon earth, · for what is the happinefs of heaven , but the fole enjoyment of God ? Chriil:ians .l if you ~ede any inclinations , panrings, breathings after thts world , gtl'e me leave to tell you, that you will never be happy till you have loft all, till you have no friends, nor eftates, no enjoyment but God alone ; when all is done, when this world is nothi ng , when means !ball ceafe, both for bodyes a·nd fouls, and when Chrift !ball ceafe his Mediatours office, and the Son of man be fubject to his Father, then God fhall be all in all, ~---__.-....... - j~--- S E C T, IO. Oj Chri/is (~otwithflanding this) being all in all to his blej[e ,Javed, redeemed Sttint s to all eternity. ro. por C rifts being all ina!! to his bleifed faved redeemed Saints to all eternity; we ihall dtlate in this Section. Some may objeCl:, ifGod be all rn all, what then be. co.mes of Chrift ? is not this derogatory to J efus ChriH:? i anfwern0,in no wife; for--- 1. It is not the Father perfonally and only, butthe Deity e{fentially ' ' ,
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