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For what else is true happiness than the enjoyment of the chief good? And that God is the chief good, appears in this, that all the properties, which exalt goodness to the highest perfection, are in God only. For he is the most pure, John i. 5; perfect, universal, primary, unchangeable, communicative, desirable, and delightful good, Gen. i. 31; the efficient, pattern, and utmost end of all good, Gen. i. 27; without whom there is neither natural, moral, nor spiritual good in any creature, 1 Peter i. 16. Prov. xvi. 4. Matt. xix. 17. Our conformity to him, the apostle Peter expresses, when he says, that the saints are "made partakers of the divine nature," 2 Peter i. 4; that is, "they are renewed in the spirit of their mind, and have put on the new man, which after God, is created in righteousness, and true holiness," Eph. iv. 23, 24. So that they have, 1. A new light in their understanding, Col. iii. 10, that they know God, not only as Creator, but as Redeemer also of the world, John xvii. 3; and whilst they "behold, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, with open face, they are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord." This knowledge is begun in this life, in the knowledge of faith, Isa. liii. 11, and shall be perfected in the life to come, in the knowledge of sense, Rom. viii. 24. This is, in a glass; that shall be face to face, 1 Cor. xiii. 9, 12. Secondly, they have a new life in their will and affections; that is, they have dispositions and inclinations in their hearts, conformable to the directions of God's holy word. This the apostle Paul intended, when he said to the Romans, that they had obeyed from the heart, the form of doctrine, whereunto they were delivered, Rom. vi. 17; that is, the word is as a mould whereinto being cast, they are