Pi•l. Sl· '7' 1 Jobo. 3· 2, 1 Joho '3· feveral attributes, as the manifdl:ation of the infinite firnple · his being 1·n one - · · 11 d b · ' way we call power, m another way we ea mercy an ounty, m another way jutlice . d ~ we apprehend God according unto the feveral attributes that God bath manifcne~nhim~ felf in: whereas there arc not many thmgs m God, but all thofc fevcral attr;bmes that we apprehend diverlly, arc but one excellency in God; as one beam of th. S "fhining through a red glalfe caufe~ a red reflection, and the fame Sun 01ining throeuo~~ blew Glafs, caufcs a blew rcflechon; and fo the fame excellency of God fhining~one way we call by one name, and_th~ fame e~cellency of God working another way we call by another name, and yet 1t 1s all one mGod; and though we cannot appreh d it now, yet we ihall fee God in his unity afterward. en 3. To fee God in the Trinity; though there be but one God, yet there arc divers perfons; to fee how the Father begot the Son, and how the Spirit did proceed f the Father and the Son, and the difference between the procdlion of the Spirit ro~ the generation of the Son ; the fight of God in the myfl:cry of the Ttinity is ; ;~il glonous thmg. 4· To fee God in his glory_: there i:; a promife that they jl>allfee the King in his Beau– f)', ?r rn hiS Glory.- There ts_a great dcaiof d1ffcrence between feeing the King at an ordmary tunc, and fecmg_ h1m when he IS m h1s Robes, With hi~ Crown upon his Head, and h1s Septcr m h1s Hand, and fet upon h1s Throne, with all his Nobles a– bout him in all his Glory. So God cloth manifefl: himfclf a little now,but this is not all that he_doth intcnd,he :Vill n;anifcfl: himfelf inhis Glory:and oh what a happinefs is that! 5· 1o fee God m hts emmency: the Samts ihall fee how all excellencies that are in the Creatures, are eminently contained in the abfolute pcrfe<'lion of the Divine Nature: all the good that is in the ctfrel,is in the caufes,and the good of thofe caufcs in their caufcs, oand fo at length they come to the firfl: principle: fo all the good that we can fee in all objcC1s that give content, we may fee all eminently in God, & fee God in all. 6. To fee God as he is: Now there is a great deal in that, tofee God as hr is. and for explication of that, there are thefe three branches. ' 1. Not to fee him only ncgatively,for that is not to fee him as he is: the mofl: that we fee of God now is by way of negation, rather than any pofitive fight : when we fay of God, he- is incomprchenfible, that is, he is fuch a God as cannot be comprehended that is, but negation; when we fay of God, he is infinite, that is, he is iurh a (; 0 da; hath no bounds of his being; this is fl:ill a negation, to fay what God is not: but now in Heaven, we fhall not fee God only by way of negation, but we lhall fee that pofi– tive excellency of God, We f/"a/1 fee him as he u. 2. Not to fee him only in his effeC1s in the Creature: the greatelt part that we fee of God now is in his effects, and not as he is in himfclf; we do not fee the face of God, but his back-parts; we look upon the Sun, and there Vf.e fee fomewharof the powe.r of God, but it is but the cffcel of Gods power, and not Go:'s FOwer it felf: but .then We jl>nf/ fee hi!Jt as he is. 3 Not to fee him undifl:inguifhed from the Creatures. Here now we fee almoi! nothi~>g of God difl:inguiihcd from created things: Say what you will of God, that /;e il~t Spirtt, that IS, acrcat~d thing; that I e is 1vt[c, or hoLy, er j11ft, or merciful, there is fomc"hat of all thefe in the creature; onely he is infinitely above all, and this is by way of negation: but we do not fee him in that pofitivc excellency which does diffe– rence hion from all created things; onely in Heaven we ihall thus fee him, We jl>niifee him as he is~ 7 . To fee God by a transforrr~ing fight. The light that fhaH COI\le from God upon the 1 1ind, it !hall perfect the mmd, and transform the mmd mto the fame ltkenefs \1"ith GoJ . lt !hall not be a meer notional fight, asmen may fpeak much of God, and have a notional vifion of God; but there is a great deal of difference between the no– tional vifion of God, and Deifical vifion of God: it is not only beatifical, but Deifi- . -ea!· for it doth transform a man into the likenefs of God. Adeformed man may fee a ~autiful obje{!; and that fight !halt not make him like that beautiful objed; but the 1 fight of God ihall make the foul glorious as God is glorious: We jha/1 be f,~e hi"'· 2 • 8. To fee God fo as never to lofe llim: This adds much to the happinefs of .the Saints. To have but one glimpfc of the face of God, though it were gon prefently, it were a great happincfs beyond all that the v:orld affords; but God fhall not only pafs by, but fl:and fl:ill, fo as the fo~l 01all never lofe the f.ght of God, but tt ihall have it to all eternity, and the eyes 9f tbc foul !hall be eternally opcncJ to fee Gotr
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