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., Neither is it enough for me to confider the divine nature in unity of effence, unless I go yet further and find a trinity of perfons; to be curious in this fearch is dangerous, to be carelefs, damnable; nothing may be here fafely seen, but what is graciously revealed: Lord, no man can fee thee as thou art in thyself, fuffer me therefore to see thee as thou art unto us, that may know thee, and love thee, and delight in thee, and be for ever known and loved of thee. 1. Cor. 1. 30, 31

If there were not an eternity of being, then it may be truly faid, that not being was before being, and fo that being had its rife from, not being, by causing itself to be when it was not: fo fhould privation which was eternally evil, produce that glorious being which is eternally good; seeing this cannot be, it will hence follow, that being was from all eternity, and that this being was eternally good; for that which was good in the effect, must needs be far more eminently good in the cause. That this eternal good being must be alfo infinite, because eternity itself is infinite; that this infinite eternal good being must be of infinite power, to continue infinitely; that this infinite power must also be of infinite understanding, to fupport and preferve this eternal infinite good being; and this infinite uuderftanding is God,

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Where there is an infinite understanding, there muft alfo be an infinite object to be understood, elfe could it not be infinitely active, and so should both eternity and infinity fuffer diminution and become defective, which were for them both to be, and not to be, which is impoffible; and feeing there can be no object infinite out of God; therefore this eternal infinite and ever bleffed object, muft of neceffity be God.

Where there is an infinite underftanding, and an infinite object to be understood, there cannot chuse but be an infinite and eternal love; for from this infinite understanding of this infinitely amiable and for ever bleffed object, there must needs proceed an infinite delight, whereby it infinitely enjoyeth its own excellency, and eternally reflecteth on the beauty of its own perfection; elfe this infinite eternal understanding should want power to enjoy this infinitely amiable object, and fo fhould be neither good, infinite, nor eternal; and this infinite and eternal love is God.

Now because this understanding, object and love are all infinite, and that what foever is infinite muft of neceffity be God; it will from thence truly and undoubtedly follow, that this understanding is God, this object God, and this love God. And because it is as equally impoffible that there can be any more than one infinite, therefore it will as affuredly fol

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low, that these three are one, three in existence, one in effence, three in order, one in eternity; three fons one eternal, infinite, glorious, incomprehenfible, wife God; to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

This is that bleffed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that ineffable, most mysterious trinity in unity, eternally enjoying blessedness in its own effence: this is that bleffed inter-union of that ever bleffed Spirit, that most unspeakable, immutable, incomprehensible fruition of eternal joy, at which the blessed Angels ftand amazed, in which the bleffed Saints fhall fweetly rest themselves for ever.

All this, and infinitely more than this, thou art Lord in thyself, thy wisdom, juftice, mercy, truth, power, holiness, and whatsoever other attributes thou art pleased to take unto thy divine effence, are unto thee one, although unto us divers; and thou art therefore pleased diverfly to manifest thyfelf unto us, because we cannot otherwise conceive thy being, than according to thine outward working; thy distin&t operations are unto us the divers indications of thine eternal, undivided, and for ever bleffed effence.

And now, Lord, who can see thee thus and live? I have hitherto feen nothing but deftruction to my body, amazement to my foul. In thine effence there is light inacceffible, unto which no mortal eye can approach; in thine attributes terror unutterable,

from which no mortal man can escape: thy wisdom trying my corrupt heart, and fearching my finful reins; thy juftice moft fevere, fearful in the pronunciation, dreadful in the execution; thy truth admitteth of no alteration; no judgment pronounced but precifely fulfilled; heaven and earth fhall pals away, but not one title of thy facred word; thy holiness is fuch that even the bleffed Angels are impure in thy fight; what then fhall become of me a miferable wretch, the thoughts of whofe heart are only evil, and that continually? were it not for thy rich mercy, I were loft for ever; by this alone I am for ever reconciled unto thee, and fhall eternally be bleffed with thee.

I can here with joy unspeakable and glorious, behold thee my loving Father affectionately embracing me in Christ from all eternity, by the sweet working of thy holy Spirit; this is that truly bleffed vifion of the lacred and myfterious trinity in this life of grace, that will for ever make me truly happy in that of glory. Lord, if I find thee not three in one to my foul's comfort in this life, I fhall never be found of thee to be blessed in thee in that to come.

Without thy power it had not been decreed, without thy wisdom it had never been acted, without thy love it had never been finifhed. Here in a fevere Judge I joyfully behold a merciful Redeemer ; in a glorious Divinity a true humanity,united to the