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On
the
1Yattire of
God.
point
of marvellous
confequence
;
the
fenfe of
the diliance
between God
-and
'us
:
If
Gód bee
infinitely:
above
the
creatúre,-
then God
expeas'.thatfwee that
-
profefs any
knowledge
of him
, that
wee
Mould
evermore have
our
thoughts upon
Gods excellency
,
raifed
in
a
kinde
of
in-,
finiteriefs above
what
wee think
of
the
excellency
of
any
creature
;
and our hearts
then
fhould
work
after God in
a
kinde of infinitenefs more than-ever
they
did
work' after
any
'creature
, as
there is ail
infinite
difproportion
between
the
excellency of
God,
and the excellency
that
there
is
in
any creature.
Í
befeech you obferve
what
I
am
fpeaking,
for
it
is
of marvellous ufe
to
help us
to
fan&ifie
God
in
all
our
wa
es;
as
there
is
an infinite diflance between
the
ex-i
cellency
of 'God ,
and
Of
all creatures
fo
there ought
to
bee in
a
kinde, an infinite
diftance
between what
our
hearts
are
in
the
working
after God
,
and
the
working
after
the
creature
,
otherwife wee
lift
not
up
Gods
Namein
his
ex-
cellency and glory.. And
indeed
a
gracious
heart
=will
make
it
fo; and
in this
j
conceive
the
very
work
of
grace confias,
in
that
it
is
fuch
aprinciple
in
the
foul
of
a
man
or
woman:
that
is
converted,
that
though'fuch
a
one
bee
a finite crea-
ture, yet
bath
a
kinde
of infinitenefs in
the
working
of
it
after God. You
Will
fay,
Infinite,
how
can
that
bee?
True,
Tëònfefs properly
it
cannot bee infinite
,
but
thus
it
is
in-
finite in its kinde,
that
is,
fuch a
creature hath
fuch
a
prin-
ciple as
it
would fain
,
'if
it
were poílible:,
work
infinitely
after
God
:_
Md
Father
,
.
This
principle
of grace
:
loth
caufe this
in
thë'
heart,
-that
it
will
never.:linnkits'
felf
in
any work
ing
after God,and therefore
bath
ackinde
of
Iiafiniteneffe
and here
is
the
difference
between one
t''iat'liath
true grace,
and
the
motiglorious hypocrite
in the world;
An hypocrite'
ee
,will- ever-bee
boundiiìg his working:
after God
,
and
.
think
thus
nuuh
Xs
enough
:what: need
an
..
More
?
If
I
do
thits.and
thus
Why
I
maiy_do
well ,
and
go
to
heaven
at
1äf4,
,and
'fo
Both
bound
himfelf: But
now
where
there
is
the
leaf4
drain
of
true
,giage4,.
though
there
bee many
G
weak-