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On
the
Excellency
of
the soul.
249
and God
letting
-of
himfelf
forth- to
it again.
Again
,
the
good
that
the
foul
is
capable
of
with
God,
it
is
to have an
union
with
God
,
for
the
foul
to
be
made
one
with
God, to
be
united
fo
to be
made
one
with him
:
Hee
that
is
japed
to
the
Lord,
is
one
Spirit,
faith
the
Apoíile; and
faith
Chrili, in Joh.
i
7.
Father,
I
will
that
thofe
that
thou
h4
given
mee,
may
beé
one
with mee, as
thou
and
I
are
one.
Spi-
ritual
things
do
moll
unite
one
to another;
there
may
bee
a
thoufand beams ofthe
Sun
united,
and almoll
into one
point,
becaufe
it
is
óf
a
more fpiritual
nature
:
fo
when
the
foul
hhall
bee made
one Spirit
with
God,
it
being
a
Spirit
and
God
likewife
a
Spirit,
there
will bee an
exael
union
one
with
another
:
And
fo
the
more
fpiritual
things are ,
the more
they
communicate one
to
another
;
as in
nature,
the more corporeal
a
thing
is
the
lefs
it
communicates its
felf
;
the earth
doth not communicate its
felf
with any
crea-
ture;
the
water communicates its
felf
more
than that
,
and
the
air
more
than
that,
and the
fire more
than
that;
the
Sun,
that
is
lefs corporeal
than
any
of there elements
that
wee
have
here,
and therefore
that
communicates
its felf
more
than the
element
doth
:
Now God being
a
Spirit,
and the
fouls
of men fpiritual , Oh what
a
communion
will there
bee
ofeach to other
l
And
then further,
the
foul
is
capable
of
fruition
ofGod;
union,
and communion, and
fruition
,
what
is
that
you
will
fay
?
that
is
to have
God not onely
to
bee united
to it,
but
to
have
a
kind
of
poffe(lion
of him,
to
have the ufe
of
all that there
is
in God
that
can
make
mee happy,
to
have
the
full
ufe
of
it
when
I
will; then
a
man doth injoy
a
thing,
when
bee can
hive the
ufe of
fuch
a
thing when
hee will
:
Now the
fouls
ofthe
Saints {hall enjoy
God, that
is,
(hall
have the ufe of
all
that glory and good there
is
in God that
can
make
them
happy,when
they
will,&
{hall have
as
much
ufe
of God
as
they will
;
furely
they mull needs bee
happy
that
{hall
thus enjoy God
:
If
a
man had the
fruition of
the
world,
that
hee could have the ufe
of
all the good
things
in
the world, when
hee
would,
you
would think
him happy
;
I
i
but