4e>4 YYkerein a pure heart as 6leffed. achall fins This is the Curie of God upon hypocrites, they doe maintaine much fecret wickednelie in their hearts for a long time together,, and the Saints thinice well of them be- caufe of :heir profetlion -, But this is the Lurie of .you upon them, the Lord leaves them to the ttltthi, ,e;ie of their hearts,, and lets them breake out into tome fcandalous firs, to be a re- proich upon them, that fhall never be blotted out : Brit we have now dorïe with this part of the Text. We come to the other part. For they (hall fee ggod. The world perhaps faith concerning thefe that are fo.pure: and firi&t and nice, and dare not doe any thing againli their Confciences, they are poore ignorant filly people, filly igno- rant women, and the like ; well as filly as they are , as igno- rant as thou thinkefi them to be in the matters of the woï ld, yet they (hall fee God, they (hall know God ; perhaps their knowledge is but weak in other things, but thisis the promife, They fl all fee God,they fhallknow him; fuch as would walk in purity in the world,& dare not defile. themfelves foas others, they are fubjeet to a great deale of wrongs in the world , the men of the world they will be too wile,too cunning for them ; Well, though the men of the world doe out -goe them in cun- ning, becaufe they have Pimple plaine hearts, yet this is their Comfort, though I have not the cunning and craftineffe to provide for my felfe in the world, but men in the world, that have uncleane hearts, that are full of cunning and craft goe be- -vond me, yet this is the blelling ofGod upon n ie,I (hall lee his face : They (hall fee God: See him No-rnan hath ever fee, G d; that is, with bodily eyes ; God is invifible, and you muli not think that God bath any llape or fashion like man, or any creature, he is a f irit, an infinite Gmple being, and therefore cannot be feenwith bo- dily eyes, but they flrall fee Clod, that is, they flail know God by the eye of their underfianding, and they fhall come to en- joy God, for fo, feeing is taken in Scripture, They shall fee God, they
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