A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2dly. The greatness of your Engagement to all the Persons of the God-head.

(1.) To God the Father. Admire the Love of God, that poor Worms should be so exalted; that a Clod of Earth should shine as the Sun; that those dark and impure Souls of ours should be purified and glorified. God could not satisfy himself with temporal Kindness, with loving us for a while, but he must love us for ever; Psal. 103.17. The Mercy of the Lord is from Everlasting to Everlasting, to them that fear him. From Eternity to Eternity, God is God, and our God. Nay, and small things would not content him, but we must be interested in a complete Blessedness. 1 John 3.1, 2. Behold, what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God! Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know, that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. O we should often work this upon our Hearts, the great Love of God in predestinating us to such a Glory. There is a great deal of Mercy laid out upon us during our Pilgrimage, but more laid up for us: Psal. 31.19. O how great is thy Goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! O the greatness of Love! Infinite Mercy sets it self a-work, to see what it can do for Man, a poor wretched Creature, a thing of Yesterday, a Rebel, an Enemy to God: think of it we may, but we cannot express it to the full. The least of God's Mercies is more than we can acknowledge, and deserves praise; much more this full Portion, for here God sets himself to make a Creature as happy as it is capable. The Lord hath gone to the utmost in nothing but his Love; he never showed so much of his Wisdom and Power, but he could show more; but he hath no greater thing to give us than Himself, and his Christ, he cannot love us more; there can be no more done, there can be no higher Happiness, than the eternal enjoyment of Himself: All the Promises of the Word comes short of what you shall enjoy. That which Paul saw and heard in Heaven in his Ecstasy, were [Greek or Hebrew], Words that could not be uttered,