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y'iyes

wherein

God

reveals

himfelfe

to

the

foule.

nits,

but the bright

glaffe

of

all

is.

Jefus Chrifi. And

therefore

in the

2

Cor:

4.

6.

it

is

aid,

7

hat

God who

comra,rded the

light

to Thine

out

of

darlîaeffe,

bath

fhi6eel

in our

hearts,

to

give

the

light

of the

knowledge

of

the

Glory

of

God in

the

face of

jefa,

Chrifi.

God

who

commanded

the

light

to

Chine

out

of

dark-

nefie: All the knowledge

of God that

man

hath

before

his.

Converfion,

it

is

but

as

darkneffe,

and

God

when

he

comes

to

Chew

himfelfe

to

the foule,

he

Both

as

great

a

work

as

when

he made

the world,

he

did then

command

light to thine

our,

of

darknetfe

;

And what's the

fruits of

it

?

Hath

firmed in our

hearts,

not

onely in our

heads

but hearts,

and

it

4-dnes

there

to

give

light, to

give

the light of the knowledge of the

glory

of

God.

Mark

thefe

gradations,

---

He

hash

4hined

in

our

hearts

;

--

To

give

the

knowledge of

God

;

,--

To

give

the

light of

the

knowledge

of

God

;

To

give

the light of the

knowledge

of

the

glory of

God

;

And all this,

In the

face

of

jefus

Chrifi. O the

bleffedneffe

of

the pure

in

heart,

that

comes

to

fee

God

in

the

face

of Jefus Chrifi. This

is

a

Myflery

that

none

can

underfiand

(

like

the

white (tone )

but

Ittvel

a.

thofe

that

have

it

;

thofe

that doe

fee

God

in Chrifl,rhey know

what

it

is

to

fee

God

in

Chrifl,

and

they would not for

ten

thoufand

worlds

loofe

any one

fight

that they

have

of God

in

the

face

of

Jefus

Chrifi, But

it's

irnpof1ible

for

them to

ex-

preffe

it to

others.;

Obleffed

are they that

doe thus

fee

God;

It's

a

good

thing

to

fee

the light,

faith

Solomon

:

Suppofc

that

God

had

made

us,that

we had had

but foure fences,

onely

the

Hearing

and Smelling,

the

Feeling

and

7afting,

and had

left

out

the

fence of Sight

:

Now

I

fay,

If

this had

been,

that

God

had

made onely foure fences,.and afterwards in

our

dayes

had

been

pleated to add to the beauty

and

excellency

of

mans

nag

ture

a fifth

fence, that

is

fi

ght, O

what

a

glorious thing would

it

have

been

to

us As

now,

a

man

that

had

liv'd

in

a

dungeon

all

the

dayes

of

his life and

never

had feene

light,

if

this

man

after

he

is Browne

up

in

yeares fhould be

let out of

this dun-

geon and come

to

_fee,

this glorious

Sun,

what a'gk

rious

thing

would

it be

to

fuch

a

one.?

Or

further

,

The

beafi

who have

onely

the

fight

of

the light, if

God

fhoul,d

add unto them

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