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CONSIDER yet further that the B. Trinitie doth not onely worke all, but is euen all in all. According to that of s. Paule, that God may be all in all. He is wisdome in Salomon, goodnesse in Da∣uid, patience in Iob, faith in Peter, zeale in Paule, Virginitie in Iohn, and all the rest of the vertues and blessings in the rest: life, saluation, vertue, glorie, honour,
peace, the beginning and end of all good thinges, and the full sacietie and accom∣plishment of all our desires; so that the soule that possesseth him, desires nothing but him, and in him, and for him, whom he confesses to be all in all.
[Affection.] O eternall veritie, and true charitie, and deare eternitie, who art all in all, grant me grace truly to esteeme my selfe, such as I am; nothing at all without thee: and that in thee, comforting, I can doe all thinges. Our hope, our saluation, our honour, ô Blessed Trinitie! we inuo∣ke thee, we prayse thee, we adore thee, ô Blessed Trinitie! Too greedie he is, whom sufficiencie, whom abundance whom all in all sufficeth not. Thou life, thou light, thou honour, thou glorie; thou plentie, thou peace, thou begining thou end, thou sacietie, thou all in all, ô Bles∣sed Trinitie! Grant that all my thoughtes words, and workes, may be done to thy glorie, and that I may be made all to all to gayne all.
[CONSIDERATION.] But what is yet that inaccessible beeing, which is who is? who is euery where? who sees all? who workes all who is all in all? What is he? He is immense, and therfor cannot be measured. He is eter¦nall, and therfor cannnot be reached to. He is infinite, and therfor cannot be com∣prehended. But yet what is he? He is an Abisse of goodnesse; by which all that is good, is good: an Ocean of beautie, by which all is faire, that is faire. He is not wise onely, but wisdome it selfe, nor mercifull onely; but mercy it selfe, nor holy and iust alone, but sanctitie and iustice it selfe. Goodnesse beautie, wisdome, mercy, san∣ctitie, iustice, not being diuers qualities in him, one sole, simple, pure, true God, Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost.
[Affection.] Dilate thy selfe, my soule, and with a greedie and inflamed desire breath after and striue to comprehend that, which neither eye hath seene, nor eare hath heard, nor hath entred into the hart of man. Howeuer he cannot be com∣prehended as he is, nor be worthily ex∣pressed in words, or be conceiued in myn∣de:
yet he can be desired, he can be ar∣dently coueted, he can be sighed, and sobbed after. He, all whole, so great, so immense, so infinite, so incomprehensi∣ble as he is, can be inioyed for an endlesse eternitie: and euen in tyme too (ô exces∣siue happinesse of a Christian hart!) he may be loued, praysed, adored, glorified, by vs poore wretches. All glorie, then, all prayse, all strength, all power all ma∣gnisicence, all beatitude, all mercy be ascribed to God the Father, and the Sonne and the holy Ghost for euer and euer. Amen.