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THE FORETASTE
OF HEAVEN.
537
itual dependence, and a frequent delightful acknow-
idgment
of
it. Such a
devout
frame
as
this
is
heaven,
nd
such scenes
now
and
then passing through the
soup,
e
glimpses
of
the
heavenly blessedness."
SECTION
III.
Though
the
eternityandimmensityof
God,
might,
per
-
Pps,
in
their
own
nature, and
in the reason
of
things,
be
st mentioned, yet
his
majesty,
his
power,
and
his
wis-
n,
in
their sovereign
excellency, strike
the souls
of
crea-
tes
more
immediately,
therefore
I have
put
these
first.
)
wever,
let
us now
consider the eternity
of
the
great
id
and
his
omnipresence, and think
how
the
spirits
in
Even
are
affected
therewith,
and
what kindred
medita-
Is
may
be
derived from these perfections
by
the saints
e
on
earth.
I
proceed therefore,
To
the
eternity
of
God
:
which,
though the most
lted spirit
in
heaven
cannot
comprehend, yet
it
is
table
they have some
nearer and clearer
discovery
of
-Ian
we
can have here
in
this
mortal state,
while
we
11
in
flesh
and blood. We have nothing
in
this visible
d
that
gives us so
much
as
an
example or similitude
The great God
who
is,
who
was,
and
who
is
to
through
all
ages,
he
is,
and
was,
and for ever
will
le same.
Let
us go
back
as
many ages as we
can,
r thoughts,. and still an
eternal God
was
before
:
a
being
that
had
no
beginning
of
his
existence,
vill
have any end
of
his life
or duration.
And
as
's
to Moses,
My name
is
I
AM
THAT
I AM,"
iii.
14.
so as
there
is
nothing
which
had any
in his
being,
but
all
the reasons of it are derived
its own
self
fulness,
therefore
we
may say
of
him
he
is,
because
he
is,"
and
because
"
he will be
:"
d
no spring
of
his first beginning,
nor
any
cause
continued existence, but what
is within
himself.
n
never set
ourselves
in
too mean
a
light
when
an
God
is
near
us;
and
every thing besides
God
but
little
in
our
eyes.
d,
O
my
thinking
powers,
are
ye
not
sweetly
lost
)ioly
rapture,
and overpowered
with divine plea
-
9
my soul, in
such
meditation
as this
?
Art
thou
I;htfully
surprised
with the
thoughts
of
such
self
-.
¢ce,
and
such
an
inconceivable perfection
?
Thy
tnsidered
as
here
in
this
life, is
not
so
much in