can he be dependent on the creature for it, yet something seems to be supposed in the objection that is not true. And that is that God is not happy in anything that he sees in the creature, in what he sees of the creature’s qualifications, dispositions, state and action, or that no part of God’s happiness (to speak of God according to our manner of conception) consists in what he sees of those things in the creature. God may have a true, proper and real delight, and so a part of his happiness, in