God Dwells in His People.
By John Foster
God has an all-pervading power; can interpose, as it were, his very essence through the being of his creatures; can cause himself to be apprehended and felt as absolutely in the soul—such an intercommunion as is, by the nature of things, impossible between created beings. And thus the interior, central loneliness, the solitude of the soul, is banished by a perfectly intimate presence, which imparts the most affecting sense of society—a society, a communion, which imparts life and joy, and may continue in perpetuity. To men completely immersed in the world, this might appear a very abstracted and enthusiastic notion of felicity; but to those who have, in any measure, attained it, the idea of its loss would give the most emphatic sense of the expression, “Without God in the world.” —John Foster.