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The
fight
of god
is
the
bleffedneff'e
of Alan.
relent)
:
He thought
there
was
fomuch excellency
i
a
.the
knowledge
of that one creature
;
O
what
excellency
is
there in
the knowledge of
God
himfelfe,
in
the
fight
of God.
It
was a
fpeech
of
Philip
unto
Chrif} in
the
14
7oh:
8
v,
Lord
fhero
us
the
Father,
and
it
fuficethus,
faith
Philip, doe but
chew
us
the
Father,
let
us
fee
God,
and
it
iufficeth us, we
have enough
whatfoever
becomes
of us, ö
may
we
but fee the
Father
it
is
enough.
And the great delire
that
Mofes
had in
the
3
3
of
Exod:
i,
18. he
farad,
I
befeech
thee
Jima,
me
thy
Glory;
Let
me
but
feethee
and
it's
enough for
me
;
O
the fight
of
God it
is a
bleffed
thing
:
The
fight
of
the infinite
and,
glorious
firff
-bee -
ing
of
all
things, that
is
the
fountain
of
all
good
;
O
how
blef-
fed
is
ir. Men love
to
fee
fuch
as
have been
great
Inf}rumencs
of good
O
what flocking would
there
be
to
fee
them
;
As
in..'
former
times,
when we
heard
that great
things
were done by
filch
a
man,
as
Alexander,
if
fuch
a
man
were alive,
who
would
not
but prefs
hard
to
fee him
;
and of
late,
filch
a
one
as
the
King of Swethland,; and now
Sir Thomas
Fairfax,
or
thole:
men
that God
bath
made
publick
Infiruments
of
good ,
every
one would fee
fuch
a
man
;O
then
to
be
admitted
to
the fight
of the
firf
}-
beeing'o
all
things, that bath been the Caufe
of all;
the good that
ever
bath been,
or
shall be
;
to
have
the
fight
of
that
principle,
it
muff.
needs be
an
infinite bleffedneflè.
If
a
man
had
never feene
his
Father
or
Mother, but
had
liv'd
it
another
Counrrey
fine
his
birth
to
his mans
effare, ó what
a
delire
would
he have
to
fee
the
woman
out of
whole
bowel's'
he
came,
and
Father
from whole loynes, he
came. But
ó
the
bleffed
fight
of
God,
who is
the
firft
beeing
of
all
things,
our
Creator.
This is
that that onelythe
Rationall
creature
is
ca-
pable
of:
the
Reafonable
creature
is
not
fatisfied
as
the
Senfià
ttve
creature is, meerely to
have
a
fight of
that that
pleafes
the
fence
for the prefent
;
But
the
Rational!
creature inquires
prefently
at the
Caufe
of its
beeing
;
here's
fuch
an
excellen-
cy,
from whence
is
it
?
what's
the
Caufe
of
it
?
and when
he
fees
that, then
he inquires after
the
Caufe
of
that,
and then
the_:
Caufe
of that,
and
if
he
underffands
that,
why
then
he
wóuld;!
**the
th
.Cable
of
that,
and
fo
he
.gets
up
_a
link
higher;
fuch