A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. It is most congruous to the Wisdom and goodness of God to appoint the greatest good to be the Happiness of the noblest of his Creatures; not that they deserve it, but because he may be most glorified by it, and because he hath given them a nature capable of it. As he suits the good of other Creatures to the capacities he hath given them, so he doth the good of man. None but Angels and men are capable of enjoying or actively glorifying him, and God having capacitated them for that, suits their good to their Capacity. It had not been agreeable to the Wisdom of God for man to have had only some inferior good in this Life assigned to him as his chief Happiness, when he had made him capable of an higher. Thus much hath been said (and more might) even from Reason it self to prove the reality of those things Believers look for in the other Life; How much might be said from Scripture with respect to which only they are the Objects of Faith, but this I refer to the next head, the ground of a Christian Faith,

2. It is most congruous to the Wisdom and goodness of God to appoint the greatest good to be the Happiness of the noblest of his Creatures; not that they deserve it, but because he may be most glorified by it, and because he hath given them a nature capable of it. As he suits the good of other Creatures to the capacities he hath given them, so he doth the good of man. None but Angels and men are capable of enjoying or actively glorifying him, and God having capacitated them for that, sutes their good to their Capacity. It had not been agreeable to the Wisdom of God for man to have had only some inferiour good in this Life assigned to him as his chief Happiness, when he had made him capable of an higher. Thus much hath been said (and more might) even from Reason it self to prove the reality of those things Believers look for in the other Life; How much might be said from Scripture with respect to which only they are the Objects of Faith, but this I referre to the next head, the ground of a Christian Faith,

2. That is certain. The same things sometimes may both be believed with a Divine Faith, and known too by natural Reason, but then the Medium whereby they are known, and the ground whereon they are believed are very different, the one is some rational argument, the other the Word of God. In the case before us, the being of Eternal Life (the present Object of Faith we speak of) may be proved by reason, but then so far it is not the Object of Faith, but of Knowledge; but withal it may be proved by Scripture, and so it is the Object of Faith; and as such I am now to speak of it, and so to show that the ground on which a Christian believes Eternal Life, is most certain; and that is no other than the Word of God, particularly the Promise of the Gospel. The Scripture therefore is the ground of the Faith of Eternal Life.