DISCOURSE IL 407 3. This argumentwill bemuch strengthened, ifwe dobut take a short view of the vast and incomprehensible variety of objects that may be proposed to our minds in the future state, and may feast our contemplation, and improve our joy. Theblessed God himself is an infinite being : His perfections and gloriesare unbounded : IIis wisdom, his holiness, his good- ness, his faithfulness, his power and justice, his all sufficiency, his self - origination, and his unfathomable eternity, have such a num- ber ofrich ideas belonging to each of them, that nocreature shall -ever fully understand. Yet it is but reasonable to believe, that he will communicate so much of himself to us by degress, as he sees necessary for our business and blessedness in that upper world. Can it be supposed that we should know every thing that belongs to God all at once, which he may discover to us gra- dually as our capacities improve ? Can we think that an infant- soul that had no time for improvement here, when it enters into heaven shall know 'every thing concerning God, that it can ever attain to through all the ages of its immortality ? When a bless- ed spirit has dwelt in heaven a thousand years, and conversed withGod and Christ, angels and fellow-spirits during all that season; shallit know nothing more of the nature and wondrous properties of God than it knew the first moment of its arrival there ?e But I add further, the works of God shall doubtless be the matter of our search and delightful survey, as well as the nature and properties of God himself: His works are honourable and glorious, and sought out ofallthat havepleasure in them ; Ps. exi. 2, 3. In his works we shall read his name, his properties, and his glories, whether we fix our throughts on creation or pro- vidence. The works of Godand his wonders of creation'in the known and unknown worlds, both as to the number, the variety, and vastness of them, are almost infinite ; that is, they transcend all the limits ofour ideas, and all our present capacities to conceive, Now there is none ofthese works of wonder, but mayadminister some entertainment to the mind of man, and may richly furnish himwith new matter for the praise of God in the long successions of eternity. There is scarce an animal of the more complete kind, but would entertain an angel with rich curiosities, and feed his con- templation for an age. What a rich and artful structure of flesh upon the solid and well compacted foundation of bones ! What curiousjoints and hinges, on which the limbs are moved to and fro ! What an inconceivable variety of nerves, veins, arteries, * God himself bath infinite goodness inhim, which the creature cannot take in at once ; they are taking of it in eternally. The saints see in God still things "fresh, which they sawnet in the beginning of their blessedness. Dr. T. Goodwin.
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