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But as God puts forth omnipotence to cause the damned to subsist under their (otherwise) intolerable pains, for the glory of divine justice; so in Heaven he is pleased to exert the arm of his almighty power, to sustain the Saints under their unconceivable weight of glory, for the more illustrious manifestation of his everlasting love.

But as God puts forth omnipotence to cause the damned to subsist under their (otherwise) intollerable pains, for the glory of divine justice; so in Heaven he is pleased to exert the arm of his almighty power, to sustain the Saints under their unconceiveable weight of glory, for the more illustrious manifestation of his everlasting love.

But this is not all; as there is a weight of glory to make heaven as big as the Saints can (joyfully) bear, so that weight must also be eternal, that so the glory may not be too short for them, but every way commensurate to all the dimensions of their souls,

This, this is the witness and testimony which God himself hath given to the Saints inheritance in light, and to show the infallibility of this testimony, the Apostle gives that glorious character of God, ¹God that cannot lye; and that in the very same Scripture wherein he makes this glorious promise — Eternal life, which God that cannot lye hath promised before the world began. Observe it, as if the Apostle by the Spirit did foresee what atheism might object, or weakness of faith might call in question, viz. the eternity of heaven: How can that be? Oh yes, saith the Apostle, it must needs be so, God who cannot lye hath called it eternal life: cannot—he saith not will not, but cannot lye; whereas it might be objected, why the least Child in the world can lye, I but saith the Apostle, God cannot lye,