CbECalm= of peace OpcnlrD. 233 Creatures cannot fatisfie it, God alone is the Adequate Object to it ; 'cis Spiritual, -and its Conftitution is fuch, if it injoy not God, 'tis reftlefs, difquieted, and like Noah's Dove, it finds no refting place till it returns to the true Ark ; Return to thy Re t-, O my Soul, (faith David) take up thydwelling in God, truft in him. 8. God is a Delicious Goad, a Soul-ravi/hing God4 de- Good, he is an eternal Spring of Joy and De- licious light, and in this Covenant he difplays his tranfcendent Glory and Perfeions to his Creatures, who by the Spirit difcern the Heavenly Beauty, and are made Partakers of the Divine Nature, which fo indears them to the Divine Being, that they are at times tran -- fported with Joy, his Glory fh ining in them ; there is nothit' Fquifite to intire Bleffe a nefs, but it is in Go,a, which Goodness powerfully alures and ingage the Affe&ions of every true Believer, who is in the exercife of Faith and Love ; fo that they at force Seafons are filled with unfpeakable Comfort. God, it appears from hence, is a Super- lative Good, he is far better than any thing we Godsuper- can conceive of, he is Man's only 1immum bo- lati 'ey 4¡um ;, Who would weigh a Feather againft a good. Mountain. i o. God is a Communicative Good, this God d Crowns all ; Why did he enter into a Cove- commuri- nant of Peace, and provide fuch a Mediator, `ablegoodp but to Iet out, as through a Conduit Pipe, his Infinite Goodnefs to us ? Herein we fee how his Heart wrought from Eternity ; it is an opening
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