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On
the
Nature
of
God.
ceive
a
being
that
bath all
thefe together in him,
this being
is an
excellent
being indeed
;
this would
.make us
to look
upon
God
above
the creature
when wee look upon
every
thing
that
is
good
in the creature
to
bee
in God
himfelf,
why
then what ever the creature bath
to draw the
heart,
why
that
the
foul
faith
is
in God;
and
indeed
this one
con
-
fideration
of
God
, and the
prefenting
of
God to the foul
in
this
manner,is
a
fpecial work
of
Gods converting
a
foul
to
himfelf
;
when
I
fay,
the Lord intends
to draw
a
foul
to
himfelf, to
have
the heart
that
was
let
our
after
creature-
comforts , now
to
clofe with
himfeif,
and choofe
himfelf
for
his
portion,
the
Lord
loth
thew
this
to the
foul
:
Soul
what
wouldefi
thou have, thou
wouldell
have this
comfort,
and
the
other comfort
to
delight and
content
thee
;
Know
there
can
bee
nothing in any
creature that
thou
feeft ,
but
thou mayeft have
it
in
mee.
Now
this
indeed
wee
cannot
by
fenfe
fee
,
the
comforts
of the creature
are fenfìbly
before us, and wee
fee
them
by our fenfes;
but
now
God
is
above our fenfe
,
God
bee
is
above
our reafon
,
and
there
mutt
bee
faith
to
dole
with
him;
but now when
God would
convert
a
foul
to
himfelf
, bee
doth
fhew
himfelf in
fuch
a
way
to the
foul,
as
the
foul doth
fee
that
there
is
all
good
in
him
that
there
is
in
the
creature
,
andthat
it
is
in God
in
a
more fatisfying and
eminent manner.
Certainly,
whatfoever
there
is
in
the
effete
it
mutt
needs be
in the
caufes;
now
as
all
effeas
are
to
be
refolved
into the
caufes
fo
all caufes
are
to
bee
refolved into this
excellent being
, that
is the
firft caufe
of
all
things
;
for
thefe
creaures
that
are
effeas
,
they
have
other
caufes
of
them
,
.
yet thofe caufes are effects
of
tome higher caufes,
at
length
we
muff
come
to
the
firft
caufe
,
and all mutt
bee refolved into
that
;
nay all excellencies
in
the
creature
are more
in
God
,
than the excellency of
the
effect
is
in
its
caufes; for
the
caufes
when an
effe6,1
is
refolved
into
them,
the
caufes
if
they
bee
not united to produce
fuch
an
effee
},
they cannot do immediately
that thing that the
effect
could
do
;
but
now
all
excellency
is fo
in God
,
as
look
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