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And now because God would have further delight, though there be nothing that he can infinitely communicate himself unto but his Son, yet that he may have such delight as his creature may understand, he makes a world; and the special end why God made the world, is, that he might have creatures to communicate himself unto, in his wisdom, and goodness and glory; and therefore those creatures that are most capable of Gods communicating himself unto, are called Gods delight; God rejoices in the habitable parts of the earth, because there are creatures that he can communicate himself unto, and especially his pleasure is among his people, because there are creatures that are capable of communicating ⟨p. 176⟩of himself: Thus you see that the delight of Gods is communicating himself.

And now because God would have further delight, though there be nothing that he can infinitely communicate himself unto but his Son, yet that he may have such delight as his creature may understand, he makes a world; and the special end why God made the world, is, that he might have creatures to communicate himself unto, in his wisdom, and goodness and glory; and therefore those creatures that are most capable of Gods communicating himself unto, are called Gods delight; God rejoyces in the habitable parts of the earth, because there are creatures that he can communicate himself unto, and especially his pleasure is among his people, because there are creatures that are capable of communicating ⟨p. 176⟩of himself: Thus you see that the delight of Gods is communicating himself.

And so the delight of the creature is in communicating themselves; and therefore of all natural delights, that of marriage is the most, because there is the greatest communication of one creature to another: Now when as Gods delight is in communication, and our delight is in natural communication, then much more when we come to communicate our selves spiritually to God. There is a delight in the life of friendship, because one friend communicates himself to another, but in marriage greater, because that communication is greater; and according to the degrees of communication, the degrees of delight are; then the delight in the ways of God must be the greatest, because there is the greatest, and highest, and most glorious communication of a creature, it communicates it self, and lets out it self fully into the infinite Ocean of all good: If there were nothing but a letting out of it self into an ordinary good, it were delight, but to let out it self into an infinite Ocean of all delight, this is pleasure, and this is a mystery; this is a ground why no hypocrite hath the delight of the ways of godliness, because he does not communicate himself fully unto God; but when the heart comes off fully to communicate it self to God, there is infinite delight in them: The ways of godliness surely are ways of pleasure, if this be in them, as it is.