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3S
On the
Nature
of
God.
Fathers,
hearken,
The
God
ofglcry
appeared unto
our Father
Abraham
,
when
hee
was
in
Mefoporamia
before
hee
dwelt in
Charran,
and
faid
unto
him
Get
thee out
of
thy
Country, and
from
thy
kindred
, and
come into
the
Lard
which
I
fhaIlthew
thee
:
And
fo
hee thews
how
Abraham
was
content to
for
-
fake all
his
friends and
Country;
Why? the
God
of
glory
appeared
to
him
:
it
is
faid
uron
this, when
the Holy
Chou
w
would thew
iat.
it
was
that
brought
.brah,m
out of
his
Country
, that
took off
his
heart
from all
his
friends
and
Country,to
go
into
a
ftrange
Country,faith the
Holy
Ghoft,
The
God
of
glory
appeared to
our
Father
Abraham:Let
a
mans
heart
bee never io
much
glewed
to
any
contentments
that
are
here
in the world
, let
but the God of
glory
appear
to
that
man, and
all
things are
vanity,
then the heart quickly
comes
off
from any
thing.
And
indeed
though there may
bee
many arguments
that
may make
men
and women
to
deny
themfelves
very much
the
ufe
of creature-
comforts,
yet
the heart
is
never throughlytaken off
till
the God of
glory
appear
to
the
foul. A
notable
example
of felf-
denial
it
that
of
Mofes, Mofes
that
might have had
all
the riches
andglory
of
Egypt,
might
have
been next to the
Kiug him
-
felf,
an heir ,
for fo fome
write
, that
Pharaoh
had no fon,
and
that
Pharaohs
daughter did
adopt Moles,
to
the end
that
hee might bee an
heir
to
the Crown, and yet
Mofes
that
had all
riches', and the treafures
of
Egypt
at
com-
mand,
yet
hee forfakes
a'
1;
but
though hee forfook all for
a
while, yet
you will fay,
did
hee
not repent
him afterward?
No;faith the Text,
Heb.i
i.z7.
By
faith
hee
forfook,Egypt,
not
fearing
the
wrath
of
the
King,
for
hee
indured,as
feesng
him
that
is
invifible,
that
was
the thing that did
it,
it
made
Mofes
forfake all
the
riches
of
Egypt,
and indure ,
to
go
on,
and never repent
him
for
making fuch
a
choice
:
What
was
the
great
thing
that
did take
Mofes
off from the
crea-
ture
?
It
was
the
fight
of
God,
that
God
that
was inad¡:ble :
My.brethren, the
fight
of God
,
it
puts
a
mighty
magna-
nimity
upon
a
mans heart;
there
is
nothing
great
to
a
great
fpirit,
.
nor nothing can greaten
the
fpirit
of
a
man or
wo
-.
man,