The Fountain of Life Opened

a new thing for him to cry, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Matth. 27.46. (7.) There were never any impressions of his Fathers wrath upon him, as there were afterwards: God never delivered such a bitter cup of wrath into his hands before, as that was, Matth. 26.39. Lastly, There was no death, to which he was subject in that bosom, all these things were new things to Christ, he was above them all, till for our sakes he voluntarily subjected himself unto them: thus you see what that state was not.

Let us consider it positively, what it was, and guess by some §2particular considerations (for indeed we can but guess) […] the glory of it: as (1.) We cannot but conceive it to be a state of matchless happiness, if we consider the persons enjoying; and delighting each in other: he was with God, Joh. 1.1. God you know is the Fountain, Ocean, and Centre of all delights and joys, Psal. 16.11. in thy presence is fullness of joy. To be wrapped up in the soul; and bosom of all delights as Christ was, must needs be a state transcending apprehension: to have the Fountain of love, and delight, letting out it self so immediately and fully, and everlastingly upon this only begotten darling of his soul, so as it never did communicate it self to any; judge what a state of transcendent felicity this must be? great persons have great delights. (2.) Or if we consider the intimacy, dearness, yea oneness of those great persons one with another: the nearer the union the sweeter the communion: now Jesus Christ was not only near, and dear to God, but one with him, I and my Father are one, Joh. 10.30. one in nature, will, love, and delight; there is indeed a Moral union of souls, among men by love, but this was a natural oneness; no Child is so one with his Father, no Husband so one with the Wife of his bosom,