Twenty Reafont for denying Life. 213 entertain a familiarity with you and infinite: diftatice might not leave you too grange to God ? -Know you not that Spirit that hathmade fo many a motion to your foul ? that bath, fantlified you, and formed the image of God uponyou, and hath dwelt in you fo long ? and made your hearts his ve- ry work-houfe,where he bathbeen daily doing- fomewhat for God ? It is not poflible that you fhould be utterly flrange to him that you Live-to,,and Live from, and Live in and not know him by whom you know your feives and all things, nor fee that Light by which you fee whatever you fee. 0-but, you fay, yott never jaw him, andhave no diflina ap-;. prehenjion of his *fence. "hive. What I Would you make a Creature of him, that can be limited, comprehended: or feen with &filly mortal eyes ? Take heed of fuch imaginations. It is- the underftanding that muff fee. him : You . know that he is -moil Wife,and Good,and Great ; and that be is the Creator, and Suflainer and Ruler of the world, and that he is your Reconciled Father in Chrift ; and is this no know- ledgeof him ? And then, the Heaven that you-are togo to,is it that you are an Heir of, where you have laid up-your trea- fure, and where -your hearts and. converfation hath fo long been, andyet do you not know .it You have had many a thoughtof it, and bellowedmany a dayes . labour for it, and yet do you not know it ? 0 but jog neverfaw itfor all dote ? Anfw. It is -a fpiritual bleffednefs that flefil and blood can neither enjoy nor fee : But by theeye of the mind you have often feen,, at leafy forne glirnpfe of it ; .You.know that it is The -pref-ent intuition and full fruition of God- himfelf and, your glorified, Redeemer with his ,bleffed Angels andaints in perfect Love and Joy and.Praife. And if .yowknow this,- you are not altogether firangers to heaven. And for the Saints and heavenly Inhabitants you are not wholly {hangers to them.. Some of them-you have known in the flefli , and others of therm} you have known in the fpirit You- are fellow-Citizens with the Saints, andof the itoonlholol of god, and therefore cannot be Httterly unacquaintedwith them., But me thinks the {hanger you are to,God and to Heaven, and to. the Saints, the -more you fhould defire to be there Ee 3 where
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