The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

Dependence gives God his power glory. 'Tis the peculiar honour and prerogative of a Deity, to have a world of Creatures hanging upon it, staying themselves upon it: to be the fulcrum, the centre of a lapsing Creation. When this dependence is voluntary and intelligent, it carries in it a more explicit owning acknowledgement of God. By how much more this is the distinct and actual sense of my soul: Lord, I cannot live but by thee, So much the more openly and plainly do I speak it out, Lord, thou art God alone, thou art the fullness of life and being, the only root and spring of life, The Everlasting I Am. The being of beings.

Dependence gives God his power glory. 'Tis the peculiar honour and prerogative of a Deity, to have a world of Creatures hanging upon it, staying themselves upon it: to be the fulcrum, the centre of a lapsing Creation. When this dependence is voluntary and intelligent, it carries in it a more explicite owning acknowledgment of God. By how much more this is the distinct and actual sense of my soul: Lord, I cannot live but by thee, So much the more openly and plainly do I speak it out, Lord, thou art God alone, thou art the fulness of life and being, the only root and spring of life, The Everlasting I Am. The being of beings.

How unspeakably pleasant to a holy soul will such a perpetual agnition or acknowledgement of God be, when the perpetuation of its being, shall be nothing else than a perpetuation of this acknowledgement; when every renewed ⟨p. 126⟩aspiration, every motion, every pulse of the glorified soul, shall be but a repetition of it, when it shall find it self in the eternity of life, that everlasting state of life, which it now possesses, to be nothing else than an everlasting testimony that God is God: He is so, for I am, I live, I act, I have the power to love him; none of which could otherwise •e. When amongst the innumerable myriads of the heavenly host, this shall be the mutual alternate testimony of each to all the rest, throughout eternity will not this be pleasant? When each shall feel continually, the fresh illapses, and incomes of God, the power, and sweetness of divine influences, the enlivening vigour of that vital breath, and find in themselves, thus we live and are sustained: and are yet as secure, touching the continuance of this state of life, as if every one were a God to himself; and did each one possess an entire God-head. When their sensible dependence on him, in their glorified state, shall be his perpetual triumph over all the imaginary Deities, the fancied Numina, wherewith he was heretofore provoked to jealousy: And he shall now have no rival left, but be acknowledged and known to be all in all. How pleasant will it then be, as it were to loose themselves in him! and to be swallowed up, in the overcoming sense of his boundless, all-sufficient, every where flowing fullness!