220 THE SCALE OF BLESSEDNESS. tSEE,r. Xit. as absolutely necessary as his blessedness, as his beïng, or any of his perfections. And then we may return to the words of my text, and boldly infer, that if the man is blessed who is chosen by the free and sovereign grace of God, and caused to ap- proach, or draw near him, what immense and unknown blessedness belongs toeach divine person, to all the sa- cred Three, who are by nature, and unchangeable ne- cessity, so near, so united, so much one, that the least moment's separation seems to be infinitely impossible, and, then we may venture to say, it is not to be con- ceived ; and the blessedness is conceivable by none but God ? This is a nobler union and a more intense pleasure than the man Christ Jesus knows or feels, or can con- ceive ; for he is a creature. These are glories too divine anddazzling for theweak eye of our understandings, too bright for the eye of angels, those morning-stars; and they, and we, must fall down together, alike over- whelmed with them, and alike confounded. These are flights that tire souls of the strongest wing, and finite minds faint in the infinite pursuit: These are depths where our tallest thoughts sink and drown : We are lost in this ocean of being and blessedness, that has no limit, on ever a side, no surface, no bottom, no shore. The nearness of the divine persons to each other, and the unspeakable relish of their unbounded pleasures, are too vast ideas for our bounded minds to entertain. It is one infinite transport that runs through Father, Son, and Spirit, without beginning, and withoutend, with bound- less variety, yet ever perfect, and ever present without change, and without degree ; and all this, because they are so near to one another, and so much one with God. But when we have fatigued our spirits, and put them to the utmost stretch, we must lie down and rest, and confess the great incomprehensible. How far this sub- lime transport of,joy is varied in each subsistence ; how far their mutual knowledge of each others properties, or their mutual delight in each others love, is distinct in each divine person, is a secret too high for the present determination of our languageand our thoughts, it coin--
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