Of EleEJion. • 1 J 1 --------~--~~--~~~------~---excelling theirs. And ~ly hei> throttghalt ; in relpetl: of the lmmenlity of~ hisbeing, ihat exrenderh to, and p1erceth through all. Or 1f you look .rhat Chap. 1· . other Parallel place, l fa. 66. t, 2 . ThtU fmt h the L ord, The Heave;, wmy ·~ thro 1 u, and the Eartbu my joot-~ool: Where,., the Hott(cth,Jt ,.e buildtmt 0 vze 'I And where i4 theplua of my rej/? For ,,1/ tho(e thtngs hatb mute hmtd made, rmd all thoje thmgs have been, faith the Lo>·d: !Jut to thu M,mwtlt ]look evm to him that M poor, and of a corztrlle fptnt , and tr<mbtetb at my w;rd. Where <:Jod, comparing himfelf in like monner with his Crea~ tures fpeaks rhus fl•ghtly of them, and thetr Exrftence. T hefe! Why , thrfe have 'my hmul made; a11d madt out of 11otbing : Which exprelfeth their utter difference in kind from him, as well as his efficiency : For, what are the artificial works of any Mans hands, unto what himfelf is. rhat made them? And he fpeaks of their Exifrence. Thofe words [all thefe b,tve bem ] P areus renders, per etlm exif/unt. , Now fiand agall, my Brethren, to think, that infinite pure Being of his (which runs through all immixed with his Creatures; and that, in the kind of it, doth tranfccnd and differ, as a Man doth from a Pic:ture he hath drawn: Or as the Rational Soul, or an Intelligent Spirit doth from the Body of aMan, or the Senfitive Soul in him, or in a Brute; ) lhould contraGl: fo near an Onenefs with us his poor Saints. When Adamwas to have a Compa– nion, God brought all forts of Earthly Creatures to him , for him to choo(e. one out of; but they being none of them , of his kind, he refufed them all : And thall God vouchfafe ta mingle himfelfwith us, and dwell in us, as the Soul doth in the Body , be one with us, and make us Companions wi<h him– fel t' ; yea, and reckon us as himfelf! It is fpoken of as a debafementof out Souls, that their condition lhould be, to dwell i11 Ho11jes of Clay, J ob. 4 I 9and their foundation to be in the dull:; and will he that is the Potter dwell in his earthen Pots he makes, and becomeone with them , for him that is tthove a/J, and throttgb a/J, (as you have it in Eph. 4• 6 ) lt is iheImmenlity of hi·s being, that he fills Heaven_and Earth; and he were nor God if he were not fo immcnfe: For this God to be;, yott all , ( which is fpoken of the Saints with adifcriminating difference from all elfe, and to enhauncc the Grace of' which, he had rehearfed thofe other, ) is Grace indeeed i and a prefence in– finitely beyond that Common to them with all things , of being through them. Put together thefe two, That he that is above all, in the Eminency of his Being, and but throttgh all things elfe , lhould further be i1l ) 'Oil all: And there's the Grace. . 2. The lofty Ont, which imp.9rts, 1. What, according unto that height of his Being, he might in a Grandeur anfwerable thereunto, carry it towards, his Creature, loftily and aloof; and might, out of a due andjufl valuation of himfelf, fo keep off Ji·om any Communion with them; Sure1am, the Scrip– ture fpeaks at this rate of him, as of what he might do, and that out of lof-. tine{$; when it fays , that it is an h11m61it1g of him ij to call an eye ; or fa much as a tboughr, upon any of his Creatures; not on Earth only, but il'l Heaven: This is exprefly fpoken of him, Pfal. 11 >· 'i, G. Who iJ like 111110 the Lordour God, who dwelleth on high; who h11mbleth him{elf to behold the thiugs that are ilt Ffeavm and i11 the Earth 'I It as as if he had faiJ, It is :t condefcenfion or fiooping, acoming down from his loftineis, to eafi • thought or loo!< upon any of them, under any confideration; to take them fo much as to be the ObjeGl: of his CogitatioR: And in th is fenfe we uie the Ph't'afe of one whokno~ing his own worth and height, and rating himielf proportionably; That he ts too lofty to deign to do fuch or fuch a thing; that is far below himo ~ there_fore! how far mu[\ h~ be from deigning to have any fuch a thought or mcltnauon, as To be One wuh us, and to dwell in us,and exchange thoughts, affections, and joys with us, in fo Aear a manner! yea, bellow even him!elf upon us! I had almoll faid, To caft himfelf away upon fuch worr'hlefs thing;~ I will make this fuppofition (if it could be fuppofcd) That if any Creature lhould ever have fa prcium'd and afpired, •• to have made fucl1 a but far-off Motion to him, How would he, out of his loftincfs, have With indignation Q_ re)eClocf
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