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ject, naturally elevateth and tranfporteth us, and is the most delightful of all our Paffions. And it heighteneth this Delight, when it is an Object in which we ourselves have a particular Intereft and Concern. And what is there fo worthy of our Admi ration, as the felf-exiflent, the all-perfect Jehovah, who is from Everlasting to Everlafting infinitely happy in himself, and who of his free Grace and Goodness offers himfelf to us to be our eternal Felicity! Here all our Faculties are fwallowed up in a de vout Astonishment. Let other Things be never fo great and glorious, ftill they are but finite. It is poffible at length to come to an End of their Perfection, to find out all that is in them of Goodness and Excellence. But in God there is enough, to entertain and fatisfy the Soul to Eternity, new Beauties and Excellencies still rising to it's View, and furnishing it with perpetual Matter for Wonder, Love, and Joy. After we have raised our Conceptions to the higheft, ftill there is infinitely more that we do not know. Though our Faculties fhall be for ever enlarging, we shall never be able fully to comprehend his Glory. Here there fore we may fafely indulge our Joys, and give full Scope to our nobleft Affections,

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But befide this general View of God, as the abfolutely perfect Being, it may be ufeful more distinctly to confider fome of the principal of the Divine Attributes and Perfections known to us, whereby it will appear what a proper Object he is not only of our profoundest Reverence, but of our higheft Love, Admiration, and Delight.

VOL. III.

C DISCOURSĘ

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On the Delight a good Man has in the
Contemplation of God and his glorious
Perfections.

DISCOURSE II.

PSALM XXXvii. 4.

Delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the Defires of thine Heart.

F ever any Duty might be said to be it's

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own Reward, it is that to which we are here exhorted, Delight thyself in the Lord. To command us to do fo is to command us to confult our own trueft Happiness, and to direct us in the properest Way of obtaining it.

In our former Difcourfe on this Subject we confidered the Delight which ariseth to a good and religious Mind from the Belief and Contemplation of God as the abfolutely perfect Being, who hath an unlimited Fulnefs of Perfection in himself: And it was fhewn, that this general View of the Deity tendeth to fill the Heart of a good Man with a divine Joy. Let us now proceed to a more diftinct Confideration of those Attributes and Excellencies which render him the worthy Object of the highest Love, Admiration, and Delight of reafonable Beings.

And one of the first Divine Attributes which obviously prefenteth itself to the, Mind is almighty Power. This vast and ftupendous Fabric of the Universe, which he at firft created, and which he continually fuftaineth and upholdeth, is the glorious Monument of his Omnipotency : For the invifible Things of him from the Creation of the World are clearly feen, being underflood by the Things which are made, even bis eternal Power and Godhead. Rom. i. Hence that noble Address of the

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Prophet, Jer. xxxii. 17. Behold, thou haft made the Heaven and the Earth by thy great Power and outstretched Arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. What can be too

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