being. “Happiness cannot perish as long as God lives,” says Charnock. “He is the first and the last; the first of all delights, nothing before him; the last of all pleasures, nothing beyond him.” But will our delight in this God grow stale? “The enjoyment of God will be as fresh and glorious after many ages, as it was at first. God is eternal, and eternity knows no change; there will then be the fullest possession without any decay in the object enjoyed.”61
