Otsthe Excellency of the soul. a4g. 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 as to be made one with him : Hee that is joyned to the Lord, is one Spirit, faith the Apollle; and faith Chrifi, in 'oh. i 7. Father, I will that thofe that thorn haft given mee, may béé one with mee, as thou and 1 are one. Spi- ritual things do molt unite one to another; there may bee a thoufand beams of the Sun united, and almof} into one point, becaufe it is of a more fpiritual nature : fo when the foul shall bee made one Spiritwith God, it being a Spirit ,- and God likewife a Spirit, there will bee an exae} 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 thefe 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 of each to other ! And then further, the foul is capable of fruition of God; 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 beecan hive the ufe of fuch a thing when hee will : Now the fouls of the 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 mutt needs bee happy that (hall thus enjoy God : If a man had the fruition of the world, that bee could have the ufe of all the good things its the world, when hee Would, you would think him happy ; I t but
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