Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

I. The Objects of this Love, towards which it is to move, for which it is to act, wherewith it must converse, and wherein at last it is to rest, and to repose it self for ever; and these are the Name, the Things, the Children of God, the good of Men; or rather God as in himself, the essential source and abyss of perfection, bliss and glory. Of through, and to whom all things are; who is God blessed for evermore. Here study well these following Texts as shadowing forth that only holy One; of whom comparatively the Universe, (how vast in it's Expansions, how gloriously rich in Furniture and Treasures, how variously replenished with Inhabitants and how accurately framed and governed, who knows?) is but as one small hint. See I say, Exod. xv. 11. xxxiv. 6.7. i Chron. xxix. 10, — 13. Job xi. 7, — 9. Isa. vi. 3 i Tim. i. 17. and vi. 15, 16. i Joh. i. 5. To name no more, save only One that pertinently tells us, That God is love, i Joh. iv. 16. Here, Love and Goodness are essentially in their incomprehensible and immense perfection; from hence are all the Communications of derived goodness, and all the issuings forth thereof, that all the Creatures can any way receive; and of this boundless Ocean are they all swallowed up Eternally at last. 2. God in the sallyings forth of his communicative and endearing Name; and in all those Mirrors and Testimonies of himself, which he affords us, Rom. i. 20. Act. xvii. 24. — 29. i Tim. iii. 16. Heb. i. 3.