Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1. The Endless, Bottomless, boundless Grace and Compassion §. 5 that is in him, who is thus our husband as he is the God of Zion. It is not the grace of a Creature, nor all the Grace that can possibly at once dwell in a created nature, that will serve our turn. We are too indigent to be suited with such a supply. There was a Fullness of Grace in the Humane Nature of Christ: He received not the Spirit by Measure. Joh. chap. 3. v. 34. A fullness like that of Light, in the Sun, or of Water in the Sea; I speak not in respect of Communication, but sufficiency. A fullness incomparably above the measure of Angels, Yet it was not properly an infinite Fullness; it was a created, and therefore a limited fullness. If it could be conceived as separated from the Deity, surely so many thirsty guilty souls, as every day drink deep and large draughts of Grace and Mercy from him, would (if I may so speak)! sink him to the very bottom: nay, it could afford no supply at all, but only in a moral way. But when the Conduit of his Humanity, is inseparably united to the infinite inexhaustible Fountain of the Deity, who can look into the depths thereof? If now there be Grace enough for sinners in an All-sufficient God, it is in Christ And indeed in any other there cannot be enough. The Lord gives this Reason for the Peace and confidence of sinners Isa. 54. 4, 5. Thou shalt not be afraid, nor confounded, thou shalt not be put to shame: but how shall this be? So much Sin & not ashamed? So much guilt & not confounded? Thy Master (saith he) is thine Husband, the Lord of Hosts is his Name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy one of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called; This is the bottom of all peace, Confidence and consolation: ⟨p. 67⟩the Grace and mercy of our Maker, of the God of the whole Earth. So are kindness and power tempered in him! he makes us and mars us! he is our God, and our Goel, our Redeemer. Look unto me (saith he) and be saved, I am God and none else. Isa. 45. 22. Surely one shall say, in JEHOVAH have I Strength and Righteousness v. 24.

1. The Endlesse, Bottomelesse, boundlesse Grace and Compassion §. 5 that is in him, who is thus our husband as he is the God of Syon. It is not the grace of a Creature, nor all the Grace that can possibly at once dwell in a created nature, that will serve our turne. We are too indigent to be suited with such a supply. There was a Fullnesse of Grace in the Humane Nature of Christ: He received not the Spirit by Measure.