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ox
the
Nature
of
God.
God
?
for
God made man
at
firth
able
to
know him
;
cer-
tainly
Adam did
know all
there things perfectly
:
it
was
the
happineis
of
.441hm
in his
fill}
creation
CO
bee able
to
look upon the
face
Of
God,
and know what
fuch
things
as
there
meant;
but
now
liince
our
fall,
wee
are
faid
not
onely
to
bee
in
the
dark,
bur.darknefs
it
felf;
and therefore
it
is
Epi,.s
but
very
little
that
wee can
know
of
God
;
wee
have fuch
a
fight
of
God,
as
a
poor
man
that
lives all
his
dayes
in
a
Dungeon
,
if
bee
íhould
have
one day
a
little
crevife
opened,
where
a
little
beam
of
the
Sun
Ihould
(hint,
cer-
tainly
hee would Rand
and admire at
it,
if
bee never faw
it
before, but
how
little
would
that
man know
of
the
nature
of
the
Sun
that
had
but
a
little
crevife opened for
a
beam
to
fbine
in
a
little
time
?
Truly
all
that
ever the
Miniffers
of
God can
tell
you,
or
if God
Ihould fend
his Angels
to
preach
to open
the
Nature of
God
to
you
,
it
can bee
no
other but
a
little
glimmering.
But I
hope
if
you
bend your
mindes
you may know
fo
much
as
to
make you
delve after
the
knowledge of
him; for
if
there
bee no other
effe6
than
this,
yet
it
will
bee worth
the
while
to
make
you
to
fee
that
you
do
not
know
God
;
and therefore
your thoughts
not
being thus
of
God,
as
I
have
fpoken,
the
truth
is,
you
have
made
God unto your
felves
but
as
an
Idol
(
for
if
wee
con-
ceive otherwife
of
God
than
bee
is
, wee do
but
make him
an
Idol
to
our (elves)
now, Oh
that it
might
have
but this
efte;ì at
leaf$
(this
that
I
have
faid , with fome few
other
things
that
are
to
bee
fpoken)
to
caufe
men and women
to
humble themfelves
before
God
for
want
of
the knowledge
of
God,
and
to
bee crying
to God
,
that
bee would
bee
pleafed to
make
himfelf known unto rhem in another way
than
they
have known
him,
that
fo
when
they
come
to
worthy
God
,
they
may
bee able
to
look upon him in
ano-
ther
way than
they have
done
:
And
therefore
I
befeech
you, bee
not
difcouraged,
to
think,
I
íhall
never know
there things,
if
God
be
thus,
I
(hall never
know what
God
is
bee
not
difcouraged, for
this God bee
is
able
to com-
itìunicate
himfelf beyond
that
way
that
any
creature
is
able
to