Of the Blegednefs of the Pure in Mart. 373 There cannot he a more difmal view than that S E R M. of a fatherlefs world, where all things are guid- XIitI. ed by blind chance, or fatal neceflity, without counfel and without goodnefs ; or, upon the fuppofition, not of atheifm, but wickednefs. God cannot be feen otherwife than with ter- ror, a confciot fnefs of enmity againfi him in our minds, by wicked works, mull fill them with a dread of his vengeance. The true happinefs, therefore, only is affuring our heart before God on the foundation of fince- rity ; and bleffed are they even now in this prefent imperfeft fate, whofe hearts fprinkled from an evil confcience, and not reproaching them for impurity, can with confidence look to the Supreme Mind as friendly to them, and of edionately relying on his perfe ± wif- dom, equity, and goodnefs, behold him pre- fiding over their affairs, and the affairs of the whole world. Lafily, The pure in heart, fhall fee God more clearly and perfe by in the future hate, and be admitted into his immediate pre - fence and glory; we know now, faith the apoffle, t Cor. xiii. 9. in part, but when that which is perfec`l is come, then that which is in part (hall be done away. And at ver. 52. now we fee through a glafs darkly, but then face to face ; now I know in part, but then B b 3 fhcll
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