Burroughes - Houston-Packer Collection BS1265.6.C43 B8 1649

Mofer hù Selfe-demiall. what an infinite dreadfull thing it were tobe feperated from this God, or to have the wrath of fuck an infinite Diety tobeprovoked againtf his creature.We know by reafon , that the world was madeby God : but Saint Paul faith in the third verle of this chapter, that by faith we underftand that the world wets made : fo that the fame thing may be knownebyrealn, and by faith too, but faithbeinga higher principle, difcovers it to the foule in a higher way then rea- foncan. It is madeoneofthe fpeciall fruits of 1tfofes faith ,that enabledhim to endure in all his fufferings,inthe i7.v.of thischa- ptcr, that be law himwhowas irtvifiole (of whichhereafter) oncly ()Verve for the prefcnt,that God is invitibleto anyeye, but to the eye ofFaithsnowwhere God is feene fo, as Faith prefents him to the foule, tis inipoffiblebut the feareof fuch a Deity mutt needs take mighty impref ffon in that foule ; andall thegloryof theworldmuff needes bedarkned to is and the leaft dimpleafure. of the grcat God more troubled at, then all themi- feries thatallcreatures under Heauenare able

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