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On
the
Nature
of
God.
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fee
God in
his
glory
,
and
to hearthe
Lord
fpeak thus
to
him,
that
God in
whole
hand
is
the
breath
of thy
noftrils;
and all thy
wayes ,
that
is
the God
that
thou haft
not glo-
rified,
thou
doeft
not
think with
whom
it
is
that
thou
haft
to deal; but that
is
the God
that
you
have heard preached
of
thus
Woofe
Name
alone
is excellent
,
fuch
an infinite
and glorious
Deity
is
that Deity
that
thou
haft
neglected
and defpifed,
and
preferred thy
lufts
before
:
Oh
if
God
would but
give commiflion
unto
your confciences
to
fpeak
this with power
to
you,
that
God
that
is
thus glorious
and
excellent
you
have
finned againft,
oh
it
would bee
of
won
-
derful
force
to
break
the hardeft heart of men. And in
Pfal.1o4.1,2.
Do but fee there
how
David had
his heart,
pral.04.,,
.
riling againft
fin
and
firrners
upon
the confideration
of
the
excellency
of God, there
hee
(peaks
of
the
fame
argument
that
wee haite here
in
the
Text
,
Beefs
the
Lord
,
Ch
my
foul:
my
God,thos
art
beery
great
,
thou
art
cloathed
with
he-
now and
majefty
(and
fo
hee
goes
on)
who
covereft
thy
felf
with
light
as with
agarment. Hee
proceeds in
the Pfalm
defcribing
the
greatnefs and excellency of
God
:
But
then
when hee had
done defcribing Gods excellency, and found
his
heart
warmed and
inlarged
,
and railed
with
the medi-
tation of the
excellency
of God Mark
how
bee breaks
forth in the
laft
words
of the Pfalm,
Let
the
inners
bee eon
-
famed
out
of
the
earth
,
and
let the wicked
bee no
more;
beefs Verf.3
5%
thou the
Lord,
Oh
my
foul
:
As
if
holy
David fhould
have
faid
thus, Oh
Lord,
I
fee
thee
to
bee
very
great, and thou
art
cloathed with honour
and
Majefty
and thy
Name is
excellent
above
all things
::What
?
And
are
there
any
wretched creatures
that will dare
to
prefume
to
rebel a-
gainft
thee
who
art
fo
great
,
that
will
dare yet
to
fet their
will againft
thy
will, and to
prefer their
lufts
before
thee
?
Oh
turfed
bee thofe
fanners
,
Let
the
(inners
bee
confirmed
from
the
earth,
and let the
wicked
bee
n,
more.
There
is
in-
finite
reafon
that
wicked
wretched creatures fhould bee
for ever confirmed,
that
fin again(} fuch a
God
as
thou
art,
who
art
fo
great
as
thou
art.
My
brethren,
it
is
no
marvel
F
though