Of tbe Bleffednefs of the Pure in Mart. 365 There are things effentially different from S E x M. body, and all its properties, of which we XIII. have as clear and difl:in± perceptions as we "v"J have of fenfible objects, by the means dour corporeal organs ; we know our own thoughts, and our intelleth2al powers by an inward confcioufnefs, and moral qualities with their neceffary differences are as direäly perceived by an internal fenfe of the mind, as the figure and colour of extended bulk is by our ex- ternal fight; but none of our intuitive facul- ties can reach to the fupreme mind, and, as the apoftle faith, the invifible things of him, his eternal power and godhead, are only feen, being underftood by the things that are made; that is, we are left in the way of reafoning from effeds to their caufes, to coiled his exiftence and his attributes ; from the vifible beauty and order of the uni- verfe, we rationally infer the being and per- feaions of its great Author, which though it be convincing, and fo far fatisfying to atten- tive well difpofed minds, as to be a juft foun- dation of their homage to the Deity, and fufficient to render others inexcufable in their impiety and negleiting to worfhip him, yet it is far from being fo clear and affeting to the mind, as an immediate intuition would be. But yet fuch a knowledge of God may be attained,
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