The happiness of the saints in gloryThe happinesse of the saints in glory

In the fourth place, let us consider the matter of this glory, both Materia in qua & circa quam, the obiect and subject of this glory. And first, the object of this happiness, why it is not any other creature, but God himself, no creature in Heaven and Earth is the matter of our happiness, but God himself will be made happiness to us, he will not only be the efficient cause, but the material cause of our happiness, Gen. 17. He sums up ⟨p. 38⟩all in himself, I will be an all-sufficient God unto thee, he promises himself, not heaven separated from himself, but he will give us his own glory, he doth not only promise us great and glorious things to be created by him, but he himself will be our Heaven, Psalm. 73. Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and there is none that I desire on earth, besides thee, mark the phrase, indeed there are all other things here on Earth which we may stand in need of, but saith David. though I have need of them, why yet none of them all I desire besides thee. God alone made David happy, for indeed God ⟨p. 39⟩himself makes Heaven, though there were neither Saint nor Angel: indeed they are all there, but we need nothing but God and Christ to make us happy of this glorious City which is the forerunner of Heaven if it be not Heaven it self, yet of that glorious condition which indeed is the immediate forerunner of Heaven, Revel. 21. 23. The City had no need of Sun or Moon to shine in it, for saith he, The glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof: why, my brethren, though there be many glorious things in Heaven, though there be the fruition of the company of Saints and Angels, yet that ⟨p. 40⟩is not it which makes us happy, but God is our happiness. Indeed the glorious societies of the glorified bodies of Saints is very delectable and ten thousand times excels all the delights of creatures here below, yet I say, we have no need of them to make us happy: it is but overplus, God himself and Christ Jesus make our Heaven & happiness. Think now my brethren with your selves what Heaven is, are you all able to consider what it is to have God to be our happiness? It is impossible for you to conceive it, and for me to express it, I can no more reveal what God will do to you, then this light can