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On
the
Nature
of
God.
37
gory
of God,
it
is
infinitely
more powerful
todifcover
the
vanity
of
all
things
in
the world
to
us:That man,or woman,
that hath had once
a real fight
of
thisGod
in
his
infinite
excellency, wil not
much
regard what becomes
of
him con-
cerning outward things
in
this
world.Hee that
fees
God
to
be
great,
willfee
allother
things
to
he
fmall.
And
indeed wee
never
fee
God
to-bee
truly excellent
, except wee fee
him
alone
to
bee excellent. Thou thinkefi thou knowefi fome-
wh
at
of
God
,
I
but
Rill
the
excellency of the creature is
glorious
in thy eyes
:
Certainly
thou
doff
not
know
God
aright
:
If
thou knowefi
God
aright
in
-his
exce'
lency, thou
knowefl him
Alone
to
bee
excellent
,
and therefore
if
thou
knewetl no other
excellency
but
God,
all
other things
would bee but
vanity
in thine eyes.
In
a
Cor.3.ro.
faith
the-Apofile
there
concerning
the glory
of the
Law, com-
pared with the glory
of
the'
Gofpel, That
that
which
was
made glorious,
now
had
no
glory
by
reafon
of
4-
greater
glory
that
is come :
So
I
may
fay
in
this cafe,
the
things
of
the
world
that
were glorious
in thine
eyes
before, yet now they
are not
glorious,
but
all
darkned,becaufe.there
is a
greater
glory
that
now
comes
and
alines in
upon
thee.If'a
man
had
lived
in'
a
dark Dungeon
under
the ground all the dayes
of'
his
life',
and never had
the glimpfe'of
any light
what-
foever,
never
fince
hee was
born,
if
on
a
fudden
a
candle
fhould bee brought
to
him;hee would
admire at
that
glory
;
but
now
if
this man fhould
afterwards
bee
brought
into
the
world ,
and
fee
the
glory
of
the
Sun,
the
glory
of
the:
candle
would
bee
nothing
to
him
:
So
the
men of
the
world, becaufethey live
as
it
were
in
darknefs
they
have
Rime comforts
in
the
creature
,
and
they
think
them
to
bee.
gloribusi
for
they know
no
better
:
But
that-
fouUthat
bath
-had
a
fight
of
God,
cones
to
fee
that
all things
in the
world
are'but
darknefs
tohim.
There
is
nothing can
dii-
iiagage-
the heart
of
a
man
from
the creature,
fo,
as
a
fight
of
God..
Youhave a
notable
Scripture.fÖr
that
-,
how
a
tight
of
God
cloth,
lif
ingagethe heart
of
a
man from
the
creature
in
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And bee Paid,
Men,
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