And in thee I am well pleased.' The other most
beautiful thing is the co-equal and co-eternal Son for ever saying
to the Father, 'Father, not my will, but thine be done. I come to
do thy will, O God. Thy law is written in my heart.'
Do you not see it? Oh, my dear friends, I see but a very little of
it. Who am I, that I should comprehend God? And who am I, that I
should be able to make you understand the glory of God, by any dull
words of mine? But God can make you understand it. The Spirit of
God can and will shew you the glory of God. Because he proceedeth
from the Father, he will shew you what the glory of the Father is
like. Because he proceedeth from the Son, he will shew you what the
glory of the Son is like. Because he is consubstantial, co-equal,
and co-eternal with the Father and the Son, he will shew you that
the glory of the Father and the Son is not the glory of mere power;
but a moral and spiritual glory, the glory of having a perfectly
glorious, noble, and beautiful character. And unless he shews you
that, you will never be thoroughly good men. For it is a strange
thing that men are always trying, more or less, to be like God. And
yet, not a strange thing; for it is a sign that we all came from
God, and can get no rest till we are come back to God, because God
calls us all to be his children and be like him.
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