finitely sweet, as well as infinitely full ; if a conduit be filled with wine here is a sweet fulness, but still it is finite ; but God is a sweet fulness, and it is also infinite. He is infinitely full of beauty,— of love; his riches are called ' unsearchal)le,' Eph. iii. 8., be- cause they are infinite. Stretch your thoughts as much :is you can, there's that in God exceeds; it is an infinite fulness. He is said " to do abundantly for us, above all that we can ask," Eph. iii. 20. What can an ambitious spirit ask? He can ask crowns and kingdoms, — millions of worlds ; but God can give more than we can ask, nay, or think, because he is infinite. — We can think, what if all the dust were turned to silver, if every flower were a ruby, every sand in the sea a diamond : yet God can irive more than we can thiak, because he is infinite ! O how rich are they who have the infinite God for their portion ! Well might David say, " The Lord is the por- tion of mine inheritance," " the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, and I have a goodly heritage !" Ps. xvi. 5, 6. ^Ve may go with the bee from flower to flower, but we shall never have full satis- faction till we come to the infinite God. Jacob said, " I hn\ce}iouu;/i"—\n the Hebrew, " I have a//," Gen. xxxiii. 11 — because he had the infinite God for his portion. God being an infinite fulness, there is no fear of want for any of the heirs of heaven ; though there be millions of saints and angels which hath a share in God's riches, yet he hath enough for them all, because he is infinite. Thouoh a thousand men behold the sun, there is light enough in the sun for them all ; put ever so many buckets into the sea, there is water enough in the sea to fill thcni. Though an innumerable company of saints and angels are to be filled out of God's ful- ness, yet God, being infinite, he hath abundantly enough to satisfy them. God hath land enough to give to all his heirs, there can be no want in that which is in- finite.
If God be infinite, he fills all places, is every where present: this is sad to the wicked, God is their enemy, and they can- not escape him, nor flee from him, for he is every where present : they are never out
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of his eye, nor out of his reach : Ps. xxi. 8., " Thy Iiuncl shall find out all thy ene- mies." What caves or thickets can men hide in, that God cannot find them ? Go where they Avill, he is present, Ps. cxxxix. 7., " Whither shall I flee from thy pre- sence ?" If a man owes a debt to another he may make his escape, and flee into ano- ther land, where the creditor cannot find him. " But whither shall I flee from thy presence ?" God is infinite ? he is in all places : so that he will find out his enemies, and punish them.
Obj. But is it not said, ' Cain ivent out from the presence of the Lord?' Gen. iv. 16.
A. The meaning is, he went out from the church of God, where were the visible signs of God's presence, and where God did in a special manner manifest his sweet presence to his people : but Cain could not go out of God's sight, for God being infinite, is every where present. Sinners can neither go from an accusing conscience, nor a reveng- ing God.
If God be every where present, then for a Christian to walk with God is not impos- sible. God is not only in heaven, but he is in earth too, Isa. Ixvi. 1. Heaven is his throne, there he sits ; the earth is his foot- stool, there he stands. He is every where present, therefore we may come to walk with God: "Enoch walked with God," Gen. v. 22. If God was confined to heaven, a trembling soul might think, " How can I converse with God, — how can I walk with him who lives in ezcelsis, above the upper region ?" but God is not confined to heaven, he is omnipresent ; he is above us, yet he is about us, he is near to us. Acts xvii. 27. Though he be not far from the assembly of the saints. He stands in the congrega- tion of the mighty, Ps. Ixxxii. I. He is present with us, God is in every one of us : so that here on earth we may walk with God. In heaven the saints rest with him, — on earth they walk with him. To walk with God, is to walk by faith ; we are said * to draw nigh' to Gotl, II eb. x. 22. ; and to see him, Heb. xi. 27., *' As seeing him who is invisible ;" and to have fellowship witlj him, 1 John i. 3., " Our fellowship is with the Father." Thus we may take a
turn with him every day by faith. It is & slighting of God not to walk with him : i:. a king be in presence, it is a slighting him, to neglect him and walk with the page. There is no walk in the world so sweet ar
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