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THE
SCALE
OF
BLESSEDNESS.
[SERM. X7f.
His
knowledge
of God
is
much more intimate;
more extensive,
and
more perfect,
than
any other
crew-
tare
can
attain:
for
as he
is
exalted
to
the highest sta-
tion
and
dignity
that
can belong
to
a creature,
so we
may be assured
.
the
all -wise
God
has furnished
him with
faculties
of
the
noblest capacity, answerable
to
so
exalt-
ed a
station;
and Christ
has
the
highest advantage
to
fill
all those
capacities with inconceivable treasures
of
knowledge,
by
dwelling
so
,near to God, and being
so
intimately united
to
Divine Wisdom.
The
sublime
fur-
niture of
his
understanding
is
vastly
superior
to all
that
we know,
or can know
;
for
our union td God
is
but
a
distant
copy,
his
is
the
bright, but inimitable
original.
Our
nearness to
God
bears
no
proportion
to
that of
the
man Jesus
;
for
his
union
to
the
godhead
is
of
a
superior
kind.
He
has
therefore a vaster comprehension
of
all
truth,
and a
sweeter
relish in the survey
of
it,
than any
created
spirit; angelic
or
human;
and
hereby this
part
of
his
blessedness becomes
far.
superior
to
theirs.
3,
All
the
outgoings
of
his
holy soul ,towards
God,
all
his desires, his love,
and delight,
are
more noble
in
their
kind,
and
more intense
in
their
degree,
than
those
of
any
other creature.
He'
who dwells
so
near
to
god-
head,
sees
vastly more beauty, excellency, and
.loveli-
ness
in
the Deity, than men or
angels can do
at their
dis-
tance;
and
therefore
his love
is,
raised
to
unknown
heights
and raptures.
All his
worship
of
the
Father
consists
of nobler
acts,
and
nearer
approaches, than
it
is
possible for
any
other,
creature
to
perform or
partake
of.
.Jesus, the
man,
worshipped here
on
earth,
and he worships above
in
glory: He
loves
the godhead,
as infinitely
more amiable
than
himself;
he
trusts
in
it
as
more powerful
;
acknow-
ledges
God
is
aboye
him
in
every
glory, in every
beauty
infinitely
superior
to
him
;
and
this
is
divine
worship;
for a creature
.
is
still
beneath God, and the
acknow-
ledgment
of it
is
the worship due from
him.
Now
Christ
pays
this
acknowledgment
with
greater
humility
than
the `meanest
worm
of
the race
of Adam;
for
the
nearer
he
is to God,
the better
he knows
the
true
dis-
tance
of
a
creature:
and
because
he
doth
it with
greater
humility,
therefore
with
sweeter
delight;
for the
lower
a
creature lies
before God;
the'
nearer doth God apr