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Wherein

the

fight

of

God

appears

to

be

fad)

a

happy

thing.

he

were

in

all

that

Calory

that

potfibly

a

man

could be in

a

Kingdome,

yet

he forfooke

Egypt,

away

he

goes out

of

Egypt,

not fearing

the difpleaíure

of

the King,

that

the.

King would

purfue him

:

when

he

went

out,

why

he wen. out over

a

great

deale of

difficulties,

carrying along

with

him

To

many

thou-

Enos,

and not knowing how

to provide

fo: them

,

pay

{ìszg

through

the red

Sea,

yet not

difiouraged

with feares

;

ya,he

doth

nor

repent

him

after

he is

come

in

o

any

difficulties

;

many

men

undertake bufineifes, but

when they

meete with

difficulties, they begin

to

repent themfelves that they were

fo

farre

Ingaged,M.

fes repents not

upon

any

difficulty

;:

for

why,

the text

iai

:h;

he endured,

he

went through

all , and all

upon

this

ground,

For

he

faw

h:na

that

is

I

vi

fble

;

If

InviJ4le,

how

could

he fee

him

?

If

he

faw

him, how

was

he Invifible

?

Invi-

fible

to

the eye of

fence

;

yea.

and

that

kind of the

Glory of

God

that

Mof

s

íaw was

Inki

ible

to

the eye of

Reason

;

it

was

by

a

princi,:le

elevar

ing Reason

;

by

aprircii

le

of Fai

h

that

is Reasons

profpeaive

Glass

;

he

faw

the

Invifible

God,

and

tharçarryed

him through all.

Certainly

thole men

and women

that

are quickly di,.couraged in the

wayes

of

God,

never had

a

fight

Of

.pd,

the

fight

ofGod

would, carry

through

all

diffi-

culties. For

--.:

ad

to

fa

,

I

am he,

as

it

humbled Saul

and

flops

him

in

his

w'y

in

which

he

was

going

again&

God

;

fo

it

will

raife and incou

rage the

heart

pf

a

Saint.

,

in

his

way, when

it

comes

to

fee

-liar

it

is

the

Lord that

I

have

to

deale with,

a

fight of

the

Invifible

God

;

O

bleifed

therefore

are

the

pure

in heart,, for

they

Cr

all,f

ee

God

;

the

fight

of

God

is a

bleifed

thing

:

even

the

fight

of

od

that

.ve

have

here,

it

is

by

that we come

to

have

communion

with him, we cannot

have

communionwith

God

without the-fight of

him

;

And

how

ma-

14y

Saints

a

e

there that

can fpeak by

their

own

experience,

they would no loose fome one

filth:

of

God

that they

have

had

in

their

converge

wi h

God,

nor

for

a

world,

o

-hey

fee

'tis

bleed,

'tic

bleffed here,but

much

more bleifed hereafter

;

They

!Fa' fee

God.

This

lromife

feemes to refer

to

what

fltall

be hereafter

;

the fight of

God hereafter

;

we

fometimes, thfrike,

tiat

God

ha!li

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