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CHAP. I.
[Chap 1] A short View of Gods All-sufficiency and condescension in revealing himself. The various ways of Manifestation; In the making of the World and Man; After the fall, in the moral Law; and in types and shadows: Lastly and above all, in and by Jesus Christ.
GOD All-sufficient must needs be his own happiness; he hath his Be∣ing from himself, and his happi∣ness is no other than his being ra∣diant with all Excellencies, and by intellectual and amatorious refle∣xions, turning back into the frui∣tion of it self. His Understanding hath prospect enough in his own infinite Perfecti∣ons: his Will hath rest enough in his own infinite Goodness; he needed not the pleasure of a World, who hath an eternal Son in his bosom to joy in; nor the breath of Angels or men, who hath an eternal Spirit of his own: he is the Great All, comprizing all within himself: nay, unless he were so, he could not be God. Had he let out no beams of his glory, or made no intelligent creatures to gather up and re∣turn them back to himself, his happiness would have suffered no eclipse or diminution at all: his Power would have been the same, if it had folded up all