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on
the Nature,
of
God.
with
Fraifng
God
only
for his
works,
but
rifer
higher
twat
fe
hips
and
c
fJecially
to
Frai
fe
him
for
himfelf
f6
r
that that it
fees
to
himfelf.
I
fay,
a
gracious
heart dots
not
hick
in the Works
of
God;
nor
rs
it
onely
inlarged
topraife
God for what
it
fees
in
Gods
works,
but
it
will
rife
higher
than
all
the
works
of
God
and pratfe him efpecially
for
that
it
fees
in
himfelf
;
Thy jiff*
Q Lord
is
excellent,
the
glory that
is to
thyfelfr
it
is
above
rk
earth
,
and
above the
heaven.
While
wee praife
God
for
what wee
fee
in
his
works, our
thoughts
and
hearts
are
limited
;.
for
Gods
rnanifeflations of himfelf
are finite,
and
fo
there
is
not
that
fpacioufnefs
that
a
gracious
heart
defires
to let
our its
felf
in:
but
when
it
can rife up
to
God
himfelf , and look
at the
ignite
excellency
that
there
is
in
himfelf
above
all
that
doth appear
in
his
works ,
then
the
heart
inlarged
with
grace can
expatiate it felf
to
the
utter-
moll,
and
that
is
that
which
doth delight
him,
then
is a
gra-
cious
heart
indeed
in
its
own element
,
when
it
is
expatta-
tìng
it
felf even in God himfelf.
And
further God in
fettsrdg
himfelf
before
the
foal in
way
of Canrenant,
bee
Both
not
only
tell
thole
that
hee
Jcr.3
1.33.
takés into Covenant,
that
hee will do fuch and fuch things
32.39.
for
them,
,
but
hee
would have them
to
clofe
with
himfelf
,
24.7.
I
will bee
your
God.
The
Lord
told
.Abraham
that
hee
Ezek.I
I.s.
would bee
his
exceeding
great
reward, but that
would
Gen.I
g.
I.
not
fatisfie Abraham
what
wilt
thatt
give
mee
?
having an
Vcrf
2,
eye.
to
Chrifl,
and the
enjoyment of God
in
him
;
fo
let
God
fay
that
hee wilt
do never
finch
things
for
a gracious
heart, that
is
not
enough, except
God himfelf
bee
the
por-
tion
of the
foul
,
the
.
foul
cannot
bee
fatisfed
with
any
thing
that
God
dorhç
if
God
fhoulci
fay
to
one
vhofe heart
he hash
inlarged with grace ,
I
will
give
thee
all
the world
to
pof
efs,
thou:
thalt
have all the
glory,
all
the pomp, all
the
fweetnefs, all the comforts in
the
world; nay more
than
that, }will make
ten,
thoufand worlds more, and
give
thee
them
all,
and they (hall have all
of
them
more excellency
than this prefent
wolldhath;
why
all
this would
not
fatisfie
8
a
heart