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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
to
each
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
and
dazzling
for the
weak
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
without
end, 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--