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god!
Eleáion.
glaffe:there
is
another
being before
him,when
we
fha11
be
now
withhim
in
the
place
of
his
glorious prefence,when we
full
walke by
fight,when
wee
(hall fee
him
as
he is,when
we (hall
follow the Lambe,and
fee
God,
with that
bleffed
vilon,
even
face
to face
as
it
were;and this
is
it
which
is
our chiefe bleffedneffe, even to be
with him,
and
fee
him,
in
whofe
prefence
is
the
faciety
ofeverlafting delights.
Thatperfe
&ion
of
quality
and
a
&ion
which we
(hall attaine,is
a
great bleffednes,as great
as
can
be
inherent
in
our
perfons;
for what can be
greater
then
to
know
God
as
we are knowne, to love him
with the whole heart, to
praife him
molt
conftantly
and joyfully.:
but
all
this
is
nothing
fo
good
to
us, as
to
have
our
God before
us, and
tafle the joy
of
his
prefence
:
All our
walking
in
light tendeth
to
this, that
we
may have communion with him.
Looke
as a
wife
who
found fometime much difficulty
in
pleafing her
husband,
and
doing things to
his
winde,
flic
taketh great
pleafure when
file
can
now
with
cafe fit
every
thing to
his
mind,
but nothing
fo
much pleafure
in
this,
as in
her husband himfelfe
:
And looke
as
there
is
no loving wife
which taketh halfe the pleafure
in
her bridall appareil,
that flee doth
in
her
husband
himfelfe
;
fo it
is
here
,
I dare fay, all that
glory
in
which
we fhall
be
in
that
day clothed upon,
(hall be as
nothing to
us in
com-
parifon
ofthat
bleffed
object
of
God
,
whom
then
we (hall
fee as
hee
is.
If
in
this life
God
is
fo good to
his
children, that they
can wifh
them.
felves a
curie
for
his fake
, what
will bee then be when we
fee
him
in
glorye
The
ufe
is
to
flirre
us up even
to delire with
Pasi to
be
difï'olved, and
to
be
with
Chrift:We
are chofen
to this manner ofprefence;and for
that
prefence
which then
we
Thal
have, when we
cone
to
fate
ofperfeCtion
in
love,
is
no other
:
we are
chofen to it,
ergo,
let
us
afpire
after
it.If
a
lo-
ving wives
husband
be
abfent
in
fomefar country,
though
Thee
have by
meffengers, and
byletters, tome communion with him, yet this
will
not
fatisfie,
there
is a
great delire to
fee
him, to be each
in
the embrace
of
other;fo
it
fhould be
with
us; thisletter
of
his
word,
this recourfe
of
his
meflengers,fhould rather
excite defires
fully
to enjoy ourGod,then
oc-
cafion us
to
ref
contented
in
this
prefent
condition.I remember
AI
when he
was
now
recalled from exile,but not admitted
to
feehis
fathers
face
at
Court,
he was
fo
impatient,
that
his
exile feemed
almoft
as
cafie
as
fuch
a
condition:Thus
it
is
with us,from what time God bath
brought
us
to beliefe,we
are called back againe from
our
exile fpirituall, to
the
Church
or City
of ourGod:but
alas
we are
not admittedinto the
Court,
into
the glorious
prefence
of
our great
God. Let
us (ergo)
if
we be rifen
with
Chrift,groane
after this
prerogative,to whichGod
hath chofen
us,
and take
no delight
to
dwell here, further
then the ferving God
in
his
Saints
doth
fweeten our abode.
This
fheweth
us
the Lords
exceeding grace
:
Iithe
King fhould par-
don
a
Traytor,and
give him competency
of
living in
the remotefi parts
of
his
Kingdome, with prohibition once
to
paffe
the
bounds
of
them,it
were
Prince
-like
favour
;
but
to enrich him
with
poffeflions, and take
him
to Court,yea
to
reckon him
in
middeft
of
his
deareft
favorites,what
clemencie
SS
G!oriorea
övregía.
°breviva
been.,
rudo.
í'foì,