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

3. That being so manifested and exercised, they are fit and powerful to bring us to the everlasting fruition of himself, which is our Blessedness. Now all these three lie hid in Christ, and the least glimpse of them out of him, is not to be attained.

3. That being so manifested and exercised, they are fit and powerfull to bring us to the everlasting fruition of himselfe, which is our Blessednesse. Now all these three ly hid in Christ, and the least glimpse of them out of him, is not to be attained.

1. This is to be received, that God hath Actually manifested §. 19 the Glory of all his Attributes in a way of doing us good. What will it avail our souls; what comfort will it bring unto us, what endearment will it put upon our hearts unto God, to know that he is infinitely Righteous, Just, and Holy, unchangeably true, and faithful, if we know not how he may preserve the glory of his Justice, and Faithfulness in his Comminations and threatenings, but only in our ruin and destruction? If we can from thence only say it is a Righteous thing with him to recompense tribulation unto us for our iniquities? What fruit of this consideration had Adam in the Garden? Gen. 3. What sweetness, what encouragement is there in knowing that he i• ⟨p. 102⟩Patient and full of forbearance, if the Glory of these is to be exalted in enduring the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction? nay what will it avail us to hear him proclaim himself the Lord, the Lord God ^aMerciful and Gracious, Abundant in Goodness and Truth, yet withal, that he will by no means clear the guilty; so shutting up the exercise of all his other Properties towards us upon the account of our iniquity? Doubtless not at all. Under this naked consideration of the Properties of God; Justice will make men fly and hide,