Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

2. IN this State of Infinite, Eternal Being and Goodness antecedent unto any Act of Wisdom or Power without himself, to give Existence unto other Things, God was, and is eternally in himself all that he will be, all that he can be, unto Eternity. For where there is Infinite Being and Infinite Goodness, there is Infinite Blessedness and Happiness, whereunto nothing can be added. God is always the same. That is his Name [Greek or Hebrew] Psal. 102. 27. Thou art he, always the same. All things that are, make no addition unto God, no change in his State. His Blessedness, Happiness, Self-satisfaction, as well as all other his Infinite Perfections, were absolutely the same before the Creation of any thing, whilst there was nothing but himself, as they are since he hath made all things: For the Blessedness of God consists in the ineffable mutual Inbeing of the Three holy Persons in the same Nature, with the immanent reciprocal Actings of the Father and the Son in the eternal Love and Complacency of the Spirit. Hereunto nothing can be added, herein no Change can be made by any external Work or Effect of Power. Herein doth God act in the perfect Knowledge, and perfect Love of his own Perfections unto an infinite Acquiescence therein, which is the Divine Blessedness. This gives us the true Notion of the Divine Nature antecedent unto the Manifestation of it made by any outward Effects. Infinite Being and Goodness eternally blessed in the Knowledge and Enjoyment of it self by inconceivable, ineffable, internal Actings answering the manner of its Subsistence, which is in three distinct Persons.

2. IN this State of Infinite, Eternal Being and Goodness antecedent unto any Act of Wisdom or Power without himself, to give Existence unto other Things, God was, and is eternally in himself all that he will be, all that he can be, unto Eternity. For where there is Infinite Being and Infinite Goodness, there is Infinite Blessedness and Happiness, whereunto nothing can be added. God is always the same. That is his Name 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Psal. 102. 27. Thou art he, always the same. All things that are, make no addition unto God, no change in his State. His Blessedness, Happiness, Self-satisfaction, as well as all other his Infinite Perfections, were absolutely the same before the Creation of any thing, whilst there was nothing but himself, as they are since he hath made all things: For the Blessedness of God consists in the ineffable mutual Inbeing of the Three holy Persons in the same Nature, with the immanent reciprocal Actings of the Father and the Son in the eternal Love and Complacency of the Spirit. Hereunto nothing can be added, herein no Change can be made by any external Work or Effect of Power. Herein doth God act in the perfect Knowledge, and perfect Love of his own Perfections unto an infinite Acquiescency therein, which is the Divine Blessedness. This gives us the true Notion of the Divine Nature antecedent unto the Manifestation of it made by any outward Effects. Infinite Being and Goodness eternally blessed in the Knowledge and Enjoyment of it self by inconceivable, ineffable, internal Actings answering the manner of its Subsistence, which is in three distinct Persons.