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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 2: Quest. How may we Experience in our selves, and Evidence to others that serious Godline…
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1. It will scarce be denied but that the soul of Man is capable of enjoying God as its Sovereign good, i. e. of most intensely delighting, and entirely acquiescing in him as a good suitable to the spiritual Nature, and sufficient for the vast capacity of an immortal Soul. Some of the Heathen came near this, when they stated mans Happiness as consisting in the Contemplation of the highest being. And indeed the very Nature, and Operations of the Soul, and its apprehending spiritual Objects, amounts to little less than a demonstration of this.
1. It will scarce be denyed but that the soul of Man is capable of enjoying God as its Sovereign good, i. e. of most intensely delighting, and entirely acquiescing in him as a good suitable to the spiritual Nature, and sufficient for the vast capacity of an immortal Soul. Some of the Heathen came near this, when they stated mans Happiness as consisting in the Contemplation of the highest being. And indeed the very Nature, and Operations of the Soul, and its apprehending spiritual Objects, amounts to little less than a demonstration of this.
2. The enjoyment of God is the greatest good any Creature can be capable of. God is in himself absolutely the greatest good, because an infinite one, and comprehensive of all Perfection; and there can be no greater good than to be possessed of him that is the greatest.
3. The reward and happiness of an holy Soul can be nothing less than the greatest good, and therefore must needs be the enjoyment of God himself; this appears in that