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On

the

Nature

of

Gad.

s6

wee

fee, wee may

gather,

that

there

is

infinitely

more in

God,

and

God

is

infinitely higher than

ever

wee thought

of

(I

fay)

then

upon

the very

hearing of

fuch

things

as

thefe

are, and eîpecially

wee being confcious

to

our

(elves

how

little

wee

are

able

to

underhand

of

them,

wee

may

fee

caufe

to

bee

afhamed

of

the poor and low

thoughts

that

wee have had of this infinite Ma-efly;

the

unworthy

thoughts

that

wee have had

of him,

when wee

have come

into the

prefence

of God

;

you

have

come

to prayer to

God,

have you come

CO

prayer

as

unto

fuch

a

God

?

have

you

had

fuch

kind

of

thoughts

as

thefe are,

that

hee

is

that

high

Majefly

?

Certainly

you

cannot

fanaitie

Gods Name

but

you

mutt have

high

thoughts

of God

;

and

though

I

will

not

fay,

that

thofe do

not

fan6tifie

Gods

Name, that

have

not

every

one of thefe thoughts

of God, yet

thus

much

I

will fay,

that

thofe

that

have

not

apprehended eve-

ry

one

of thefe things

of God,

have

not

fanaified

Gods

Name

as

much

as

they

fhould,

for wee are

to

apprehend

what

it

is pofhible

for

us

to

apprehend here

in

this world ,

or otherwife wee do

not fanaifie

Gods Name

fo as

wee

ought; when wee come

to

God

in prayer,

or

to

worship

him in

any

other duty of

his

worfhip,

if

wee

do

not

appre-

hend of

God

as

much

as

wee poüìbly

can

in this

world

,

wee do

not

fangtifie

Gods

Name

as

much

as

wee ought

to

do,

and wee

are to bee afhamed

that

wee have

not

fuch

apprehenfions

of God

as

wee

might

poffibly

have;

if

God

bee

fuch

a

God

as

this, what

poor

thoughts

of God are

thefe

,

that

hee

is

as

an old

man

in Heaven

?

fome have

fuch poor

apprehenfions

of God, and

when

they

hear

the

Scripture

fpeak

of Gods

eyes,

and ears, and hands, they

think

that

God hath

a

body, when as

the

Scripture

doth

but

fpeak

to

our

capacities,

that

is;what

a

man can do with

his

eyes, or

hands,

or

ears,

that

God

is

able

to

do by

hips

infinite

power.

I

appeal

to

you,

'have

you

apprehenfions

of

the

majefly and

glory

of

God,

beyond all majefly

and

glory

that

any Creature

is

capable

of

in

this

world?

wee do

nor

fanaifie Gods Name,

except,

I

fay

,

wee apprehend

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God