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on
the Nature
of
God.
bee pure,
and cleanfed
from filthineffe, you
have
the
pro
-
mife,in
Matth
5.8.
ilefJed are
the pure
in
heart, for
they
fhall
fee
God.
It
may
bee
you
that
are
poorpeople,you can ne-
ver
come
to
get
learning
to
have
the
knowledge
of
Arts and
Sciences,
and
fuch
things
;
I
but
if
you
have
clean
hearts
you
are bleffed
in this,God
faith
you
that!
fee him
:
Labour
to
i
{udy
God,
and
labour to
know
Cod
more;
P/4.91.14.
Mark
how
acceptable
it
is
to
God
for
his
creature to
labour
to
know
him,
1
will
fet
him
on
high
,
becaufe
hee
bath
known my
Name.Thy Naane,O
Lord,alone
ys
excellent,and
thy
glory
above
the heavens
and
earth.And
1
mill
fet
him
on
high,
becaufe
he knows
my
Name. Oh, faith
God,
yonder
is a
poor
creature
that
above
all things
in the
world delires
to
know
mee
:
hee bath
had
a
little
glimpfe
of
y
glory;
and
oh
how
earneft
is
his
heart to
know
mee
!
I
will
reveal
more
of
my
felf to
him ,
and
then
I
wil
fet
him on
high
, be-
caufe hee
knows my
Name,the
Lord
ha,h
a
high
account of
thole that
know his
Name
:
As for
thole ignorant
crea-
tures
,
let
them bee what they will in regard of outward
things
yet
if theybee ignorant
of God, they
are
vile
and
low,and
bate in Gods efteem
;
but take
a
foul
that
knows
Gods
Name
,
the Lord
will
fer him
on
high
;
fuch
a
one
is
high
in the
very thoughts
of
God,
and
the
Lord dorh take
pleafure
to
make
fuch
a
foul
to
bee
high
:
Paul in 14;l.3.8.
did
account
all
things dung
and
drofs
(for
what
?)
for
the ex-
cellency
of
the knowledge
of
3efus
Chrift
:
For indeed in
the
knowledge of
Chrift,
God
is
known;
and
if
you would
Rudy
the
knowledge
of God,
it
mull bee
in
Chrift,
you
can
never
know
God but in Chrift,
Math.'
1.27.
faith
Chrift
there
,
No
man
knows
the
Father
but
the Son
,
and
him
to
whom
the,Son
fh.
all
reveal him.
It
muff
bee Chrift
that
mutt
reveal the
glory
of God
to
our
fouls
or elfe
wee
can
never
come
to
know
him favingly.
Sixthly,If
God
bee thus excellent
above
all,and
his
glory
thus
above
the
earth and
heavens,hence
we
are taught
to labour
so
keep
the
fesfe of
the infinite
difitance
that
there
is
between
God
and
hu
creatures
always'
its
our hearts
:
And
this
is
a
Foz