A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

And this blessed state is One, considered 1. Objectively: It is One God that we have to please, and to behold, and love, and praise for ever. 2. It is One formally: that is, It is only the souls fruition of this One God that is our End and Blessedness. And thus the End being principally meant, it is said that One thing is necessary; ⟨p. 12⟩though the Means may be more then One that are necessary to obtain it.

And yet even with respect unto the means, it may be said that One thing is necessary, by a General Comprehensive speech, as One containeth many parts: As to cure a sickness may be said to be the One thing needful to preserve a mans life; when yet that cure must be done by many acts and means: The means are but One thing as denominated from their End; even our everlasting happiness. And they are but One as denominated from their Original, they being all but the Will of God revealed in his Word for mans direction to salvation. And they are all One in the principal stock that proceedeth from this Original or root: and that is, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who is therefore eminently called the way; because there is no other way or means, but what standeth in a due subordination to the Redeemer as the chief means, as well as to the pure God-head as the End.

Also as all the means of Gods appointment, have a union of Nature or similitude with the End: And as Gods Image is One in all his children, so is it, in their kind and measure, in all his Ordinances and Means: They also in their kind and place are partakers of the Divine nature: The name of God is as it were written upon them, and his blessed nature legible in them.