on the Glory of Chrift. i 59 GOD al~ne hath all 'being in him. Hence he gives himfelf that name, I AM, Exod. 3· 14& He was eternally <!All; when all thingselfe that ever were, or noyv are, or fhall be, were nothing. And when they are, they are no orherwife, but as they are of him, and from him, and to him, Rom. I 1. 36. Moreover his Being and Goodnefs ar~· the fame. The Goodnefs of God is the Meetnefs . of the Divine Being to be communicative of it felf 'in its effects. ffence this is the firft notion or' the Divine Nature, Infinite Being and Goodne{s in a nature intelligent a11d felf-fubfiHent. So the Apoftle declares it , He that cometh unto God muft be· lieve that he is, at~§ that he is a ·rewarder, Heb. 1 I. 6. 2. IN this ftate oi Infinite, Eternal Being and Goodnefs antecedent unto any aCt of Wifdom or Power without himfelf, to give fxiftence · unto other Things, God was, and is eternally in himfelf all that he will be, all that he can be, unto Eternity. For where there is Infinite Being and Infinite Goodnefs, there is Infinite l3Ieffednefs and Happinefs, whereunto nothing can be added. Go<i -is always the fame. That is his Name N1i1 iln~ Pfal. 102. 27. Thou art He, always the fame. All things that are, make no addition unto God, no change in his fi:are. His Bleffednefs , Happinefs, Self fatisfactior.t, as well as all other his Infinite Perfections, were abfolutely the fame before the Creation .of any thing~ whilefi: there was nonothing bur himfelf, as 'they . are fince he .hatlt maqe all things : For the Bleffednefs of God confifts in the meJJ:'zble mutual inbeing of tQe Three holy Perfons in the fame nature, with the irrima..- nent
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