2dly, God is the fountain of all goodness, from which all goodness flows unto the creatures, and by which it is continued in them, and to them. Whatever goodness or perfection, natural as well as moral, is in any creature, it is from God, and depends upon him, as the light is from, and depends on the sun: for every created being, as such, is a dependent one. Wherefore a total separation from God, wherein all comfortable communication betwixt God and a rational creature is absolutely blocked up, must of necessity bring along with it a total eclipse of all light of comfort and ease whatsoever. If there is but one window, or open place, in a house, and that be quite shut up; it is evident ⟨p. 326⟩there can be ••thing but darkness in that house. Our Lord tells us, (Matth. xix. […] is none good but one, that is God. Nothing good or comfortable is originally from the creature: whatever good or comfortable thing one finds in one's self, as health of body, peace of mind; whatever sweetness, rest, pleasure, or delight, one finds in other creatures, as in meat, drink, a• and sciences; all these are but some faint rays of the divine perfections, communicate from God unto the creature, and depending on a constant influence from him, for their conversation, which failing they would immediately be gone; for it is impossible that any created thing can be to us more or better than what God make it to be. All the rivulets of comfort we drink of, within or without ourselves, come from God as their spring head: the course of which toward us being stopped, of necessity they must all dry up. So that when God goes, all that is g• and comfortable goes with him: all ease and quiet of body or mind, Hos ix. 12. We also to them, when I depart from them When the wicked are totally and finally separated from him, all that is comfortable in them, or about them, returns to us fountain, as the light goes away with the sun, and darkness succeeds in the room thereof Thus, in their separation from God, all peace is removed far away from them, and pain in body and anguish of soul succeed to […] all joy goes, and unmixed sorrow settles in them: all quiet and rest separate from them, and they are filled with horror and rage: hope flees away, and despair seizeth them, common operations of the Spirit, which […] restrain them, are withdrawn for ever, and sin comes to its ••most height.
2dly, God is the fountain of all goodness, from which all goodness flows unto the creatures, and by which it is continued in them, and to them. Whatever goodness or perfection, natural as well as moral, is in any creature, it is from God, and depends upon him, as the light is from, and depends on the sun: for every created being, as such, is a dependent one. Wherefore a total separation from God, wherein all comfortable communication betwixt God and a rational creature is absolutely blocked up, must of necessity bring along with it a total eclipse of all light of comfort and ease whatsoever. If there is but one window, or open place, in a house, and that be quite shut up; it is evident ⟨p. 326⟩there can be ••thing but darkness in that house. Our Lord tells us, (Matth. xix. 〈…〉 is none good but one, that is God. Nothing good or comfortable is originally from the creature: whatever good or comfortable thing one finds in one's self, as health of body, peace of mind; whatever sweetness, rest, pleasure, or delight, one finds in other creatures, as in meat, drink, a• and sciences; all these are but some faint rays of the divine perfections, communicate from God unto the creature, and depending on a constant influence from him, for their conversation, which failing they would immediately be gone; for it is impossible that any created thing can be to us more or better than what God make it to be. All the rivulets of comfort we drink of, within or without ourselves, come from God as their spring head: the course of which toward us being stopt, of necessity they must all dry up. So that when God goes, all that is g• and comfortable goes with him: all ease and quiet of body or mind, Hos ix. 12. We also to them, when I depart from them When the wicked are totally and finally separated from him, all that is comfortable in them, or about them, returns to us fountain, as the light goes away with the sun, and darkness succeeds in the room thereof Thus, in their separation from God, all peace is removed far away from them, and pain in body and anguish of soul succeed to 〈…〉 all joy goes, and unmixed sorrow settles in them: all quiet and rest separate from them, and they are filled with horror and rage: hope flees away, and despair seizeth them, common operations of the Spirit, which 〈…〉 restrain them, are withdrawn for ever, and sin comes to its ••most heighth.
