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Secondly, in communion there is a mutual wishing ¹and willing of good to one another; now God shall will all good to the Saints, and they wish all good to God: It is true, that God from all eternity did will all good unto his people, but here his people are not of a capacity to receive much; there is a great deal of difference in willing and determining good to them, before they were in being, or before they were capable of receiving this good, and willing good to them when they shall be made vessels fit to receive good; the bodies and souls either of the Saints or the wicked being united after the resurrection, they shall be vessels infinitely enlarged, capable of abundantly more then they are here, and then to have God will good to them, is far better then to have good willed to them here: The men of the world would fain have good here, while their hearts are narrow, and they cannot receive much from God; but the Saints look for good hereafter, when their hearts shall be enlarged; when as the wicked, when their souls shall be enlarged, they shall have nothing but misery. There is a twofold love, when one ²shall will only good to himself by another, or will good to another; now the love of good will is most glorious in God, and it is mutual; God shall will his good to the creature, and the Saints shall will all good to God: What good can they will to God? ⟨p. 562⟩It is true, there can be no addition to the essential goodness of God, but they can will that this his goodness be honoured and praised; and this shall be in the blessed communion between God and his Saints in the mutual working of their wills.

Secondly, in communion there is a mutual wishing ¹and willing of good to one another; now God shall will all good to the Saints, and they wish all good to God: It is true, that God from all eternity did will all good unto his people, but here his people are not of a capacity to receive much; there is a great deal of difference in willing and determining good to them, before they were in being, or before they were capable of receiving this good, and willing good to them when they shall be made vessels fit to receive good; the bodies and souls either of the Saints or the wicked being united after the resurrection, they shall be vessels infinitely enlarged, capable of abundantly more then they are here, and then to have God will good to them, is far better then to have good willed to them here: The men of the world would fain have good here, while their hearts are narrow, and they cannot receive much from God; but the Saints look for good hereafter, when their hearts shall be enlarged; when as the wicked, when their souls shall be enlarged, they shall have nothing but misery. There is a twofold love, when one