no Friend so one with his Friend, no Soul so one with its body, as Jesus Christ and his Father were one. O, what matchless delights must necessarily flow, from such a blessed Union! (3.) Consider again the purity of that delight, with which the blessed Father and Son embraced each other; the best Creature-delights one in another, are mixed, debased, and allayed: if there be something ravishing, and ingaging, there is also some∣thing cloying and distasting: the purer any delight is, the more excellent.
Now there are no Christal streams flowing so purely from the Fountain, no beams of light so unmixed from the Sun; as the loves and delights, of these holy and glorious persons were: the holy, holy, holy Father, embraced the thrice holy Son; with a most holy delight, and love.
(4.) Consider, the constancy of this delight: it was from everlasting as in ver. 23. and from Eternity, it never suffered one moments interruption: the ever-flowing Fountain of Gods delight and love, never stopt its course, never ebbed, but as he speaks in the Text, I was daily his delight, rejoycing always be∣fore him: once more, consider the fulness of that delight, the perfection of that pleasure. I was delights: so the word is in its original: not only plural delights, all delights, but also in the abstract delight it self; as afterwards from the abundance of his sorrows, he was stiled, a man of sorrows, so here, from the fulness of his delights: as who should say, even constituted, and made up of pleasure, and delight.
[ 3] Once more, let us consider it comparitively, and this state will yet appear more glorious, comparing it with, either the choicest delights that one Creature takes in another, or that God takes in the creature, or that the creature takes in God: measure these immense delights betwixt the Father, and his Son, by either of these lines, and you shall find them all infinitely short: For, (1.) Though the delights that creatures take in each other, be sometimes a great delight; such was Iacobs delight in Benjamin, whose life is said to be bound up in the lads life: a dear and high expression, Gen. 44.30. such was that of Iona∣than in David, whose soul was knit with his soul, and he loved him, as his own soul, 1 Sam. 13.1. and such is the delight of one friend in another, there is a friend that is as a mans own soul, Deut. 13.6. yet all this is but Creature-delight, and can in no