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430

eure

in

heart

fhall

have a

clear

fight

of

God

hereafter.

2

Cor-

>

i

bath

reveal'd

much

of

himfelfe now,

in his

great

works,

in

his

-

word,

in his Son

;

O but there

are

other

manner

of

things to

be

knowne of God then ever

yet

we

have knowne

,

No

man

can fee

God

and

live

There

is

that

fight of

God

that

cannot

fiand with this

life

;

They fruit fee

God

in

heaven;

There

is

tnanifettation of

God

beyond what we have

here

;

we walke

here

by

Faith

and

not

by

fight, but

Then

we shall

w:_tke

by

fight and

not

by

Faith

;

here

it

is

Faith that

mua

help

us

when

Cod

withdraws himfelfe

from

us

;

but there the

Saints

t

=gall

live

by

fight, they ilia!'

have no

need of that

Frith that

fhould

uphold

them in

Gods

abfence and

withdrawing himfelfe.

In

the

18

Math

:'

fo.

lake

heed

that

ye

de

f

jir7e

not

one

of

trefe

tle

ones :

For

I

fay

unto yon,

that

in heaven

their

A

gels

ctoe

ai

-ayes

behold

the Face

of

my

Father

which

s

in

l,ecz

en.

It's

a

note

of

a

Learned Interpreter'u,l

>on

this

place, Obiçrve,

faith

he, that Heaven

is

named

twLe here,

I

lay

no

you

th

in

Heaven their

Angelis doe

alwaye

behold the Face

of my

Fa-

ther

which

is

in

heaven

,

whwas

it

not

en_eugh

to

r

ay,

TLèt

in heaven their

Angels

doe alcoayes behold

the Face of

ay

-Pit-

Ihher;

But

Chrifl

repeats

it

twice,

In heaven their-Angells

be

alwayes

behold the

Face

of

'my

Fiche-

which

is

in

heaven, To

note, that that's the

place of

the Face of Go

,

and in com

a-

rifon of that,

we

have but

the

back

parts

of

God

;

That's the

Throne of Gott,

and

then

the Saints

fall

fee

God

u

on his

Throne

;

There's

a

great

deale

Of

difference between

íe

itJ

of

a

Prince

in

an

obfcure

Cottage,

and feeing

of

this

P

ince

'upon'

his

Throne;

with

the

CroWne

upon his

head,

and-Al-his

Nobles

about him,

and

in

all his

Royall Robes

Now

all

the

-fight

We

have of

God here,

it

is'

but the fight of the Prince

in

a

Cottage, bat

our fight

in

HetWen,

is

like

the

fight

of

the

Prince

upon

his

Throne

in

his

Glory Ifa:

33: 17

we

have

there

a

promife

to

the

fame

that

here

are faid

to

be pure

in.

heart

;

namely,

to

thole that

are .upright.

In

the

is

v:

t-here's

;defcrïbed

thofeto

whom this prormfe

is

made

;

tHethat

was

/Z-

eth

right

cou

l

y, and

fpeaketh

uprightly,&c.and then

the

prbmife

is,

He

(hall

dwell

on

high

;`

and

in

the

17'v.

,Yh;ne;eyes

-(halIfee

the King

in

his-beauty

It's

more

to

fee

the

king

in

his.beau

ty,