Of Godlinf. 303 with a prevailing inclination and purpofe to SERM. pleafe him in all things. VIII. How thefe excellent principles will exert` themfelves in the other world, in the per - feted "late of our nature, when we (hall no more fee God darkly through a glafs, by analogical obfcure reprefentations, by re- mote, cold, and unaffeâing reafonings, but face to face, and know even as we are known ; and what high pleafures will accompany the exercife of them when the glorious objeEI will be intimately prefent to the mind, and as immediately perceived as the objeéls of fenfe now are, or even our own powers and ad- ings, which we know by an inward con - fcioufnefs ; how this will be, we cannot at prefent comprehend. The exercife of love and refpe t, the fum of godlinefs, accom- modated to our Rate in this life feems efpe- cially to confift in refignation ; an entire acquiefcence in the order he has appointed, with confidence in his wifdom and goodnefs, and fubmiffion to his will. Such a temper as this is the natural, and indeed necef ary ex- prefhon of the higheft efteem and reverence in the relations we bear to him, as his crea- tures, dependents, and fubjefts; the molt proper refult of our acknowledging his high per -
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