Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Thirdly, it is free, as free as the Sun lets out its ¹beams: It is natural to a good thing to communicate, much more for goodness it self: certainly, God being goodness in the abstract, his communication must needs be free.

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Fourthly, it is everlasting; the letting out of himself ¹to the Saints, shall preserve their strength, that he may let out himself unto them; as if there were that power in some excellent liquor that is let out into a vessel, not only to sweeten it, but perpetually to preserve it, that it may be letting out it self into it; so God does everlastingly in communicating himself unto his people, preserve them that he may communicate himself. And then the Saints of God do communicate to God in the same way that God does to them. They are always worshipping God immediately, not through ordinances; as they shall not receive any thing of God through ordinances, so they shall not worship God through ordinances; but as they receive immediately, so they shall worship God immediately, and their communication shall be full: but as they cannot will any essential good to God, so they cannot communicate any essential good, but they shall communicate themselves, and all that they are ⟨p. 564⟩or have to God; or if they were able to make a thousand worlds, they would make them all for the glory of God; but because that is beyond the power of any creature, therefore they communicate themselves, and all that they are, or have, or can do to God: as a drop of water is let out into an infinite Ocean, so they are let out unto God, as into an infinite Ocean: And then the communication is free, having the divine nature made perfect in them, that do flow to God, when they see his divine nature: and this communication shall be everlasting, God letting out himself to them, and they letting out themselves to God: This is the reward of the Righteous, and this is that which Moses had an eye unto, and all Gods people that have an eye beyond the veil, behold it with infinite soul-satisfaction.