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428

wherein the fight

áf

God appeares

to be

filch

a

happy

thing,

Sixthly,

The

fight

of God

darkens all

the glory

of

theworld

'before the

foule.; takes

off

heart from creature

-

Comforts

:

Now

the

foule

cones

to

fee

the Comforts of the creature

that

before were

admir'd

ro

be

as

nothing

;

one fight

of God

prefently

darkens

all

the world

:

As

the light of

a

Can IL

is

darkened

when

the

Sun arifes;So

when

God

arifes in the

heart,

Arts

7,

2.

It's

faid,

that

Abraham faw

the god

of

Glory,

I

he

God

of

Glory

appeared to Abraham,

and

fo

he came out

of

his

own C,ountrey

;

I

C

was

that

that

coók

Abrahams heart off

from

his

kindred,

from

his

Fathers

houue,

from

all

things

in the

World

;

The God of

Glory

ar

;geared

to

him

:

Let

The

God

of

Glory

appeare

to

the foule,

and

it

will take

otir

the

foule

horn

any

thing,

whatfoever Ingagements

there

are:upon the heart.

Many

of

you

perhaps have your

hearts fet

Lyon

force vaine

thin,

fume flrong

Luff is in your

heart,

and you

thinkit's

ina-

po!

ing

to

have your

hearts

_taken

ofd

;

Let

me

tell

you, one

fight

of God

will

doe

ir,

if God

would

but

Lt

one beanie

of

his

Glory

in

c

on

you,

it

would take off your

hearts

from

the

ifrongeff

luff

that is,

and onely

himielfe would be fancaLed

by

you

:

They are blefîed that

have

feene-Cod.

Seventhly, Yea it

would make

all

ali,:iions

to

be but

lit-

tle,

and carry

the

foule

through

all

difficulties wharfoever

;

you

coaiplaine how hard

it

is

to

iunfer,

and that

there

is

this

and

the other trouble

in

the

wayes of.

God.

The

appearing

of

Cod

to

your fouies would

prefen

ly

ffrengthen

you againif

all

difficulties,

and

it.

would be nothing

in

your

of

eeme,that

you

.

fuller here in

the

world

for

his fake.

That's

a

famous Scrip-

ture

which we

have in the

i

i

of

the Heb: 'tis the

example

of

Mofes, v.

27.

By

faith,

he

forf

ol,e

Egypt,

not fear:tyg

the wrath

of the

King

Why

?

For

be endured, how

came

that

to

paffe

?

as feeing

him

who is

Invifrdle

:

,By

Faith he forfooke

Egypt.

It

was one

of the

difculteff

works

that ever

a

mats

under-

took For

Mofes

that had

fo

much

Glory

in

Egypt;

The

Son

of

Pharaohs

Daughter

;

And

like

(

as

forne

report)

to

have

been her Heire

;

For

Pharaohs

Daughter

had no Child

(fo

7o-

fephus

)

and

Adopted

him

;

So

that

it's

conceived he might

have

Inherited the

Kingdome after Pharaoh

:Butnow,though,

he