A Body of Practical Divinity

1. God is Bonum Sufficiens, a sufficient Good. He who hath God hath enough: If a Man be thirsty, bring him to the Ocean, and he is satisfied; in God there is enough to fill the Heaven-born Soul▪ He gives Grace and Glory, Psal. 84 11. There is in God not only a sufficiency, but a redundancy: He is not only full as a Vessel, but as a Spring. Other things can no more fill the Soul, than a Mariners Breath can fill the Sails of a Ship. But in God is a Cornu-Copia, an infinite fullness. He hath enough to fill the Angels, therefore enough to fill us. The Heart is a Triangle, which only the Trinity can fill.

1. God is Bonum Sufficiens, a sufficient Good. He who hath God hath enough: If a Man be thirsty, bring him to the Ocean, and he is satisfied; in God there is enough to fill the Heaven-born Soul▪ He gives Grace and Glory, Psal. 84 11. There is in God not only a sufficiency, but a redundancy: He is not only full as a Vessel, but as a Spring. Other things can no more fill the Soul, than a Mariners Breath can fill the Sails of a Ship. But in God is a Cornu-Copia, an infinite fulness. He hath enough to fill the Angels, therefore enough to fill us. The Heart is a Triangle, which only the Trinity can fill.

2. God is bonum Sanctificans, a Sanctifying Good. First, He sanctifies all our Comforts, and turns them into Blessings. Health is blessed, Estate is blessed, he gives with the Venison a Blessing, Psal. 132.15. I will abundantly bless her Provision. He gives us that Life we have, •anquam ar•abo, as an Earnest of more. He gives the little Meal in the Barrel, as an Earnest of the Royal Feast in Paradise. Secondly, He sanctifies all our Crosses. They shall not be destructive Punishments but Medicines; they shall corrode and eat out the Venom of Sin, they shall Polish and Refine our Grace. The more the Diamond is cut, it sparkles the more Gods stretching the Strings of his Viol, is to make the Music better.