v fe full Notes. 405 they !hall fee him here in this world, and the more and more clean their hearts are, the more fight they (hall have of God; and they shall fee him hereafter in glory; for the more deer a glaife is, the more bright will the beams of the Sun be upon it rvhenitíhines Take your ordinaryglanés, as your thick green- glane, when the Sunlhines upon that, it doth not make inch a reflexion as upon a deer Chrrltal glalle, or if- there be dirt upon the glaife, the Sun will. not appear fo bright and glo- rious, but take a bright and cleer glass, and the Sun will be very glorious indeed :. So the hearts of men that are foul.: , there's no luftre of the glory of God upon them, but the hearts of men that are clean, God ( hines in his glory upon them, and there -is a reflection of Gods glory again upon their hearts : They /hall fee God, f with Auffin, O rofl fweet fight of minds that are clear, fed ; He calls Cod the molt fweet light of cleanfed minds : Now before we come to the main promife, of the fight ofGod, there's one or two Notes that are very ufe- ful. Obf The firfi Note is this,- That according to the clean- neffe or uncleanneife of miens fpirits, fo is their fight in refe- .. rence unto God and the things of God : It arifes f, om the Connexion, Bleff ed are the pure to heart, for they flHall fee Cod : I fay,- according to the cleanneffe or uncleanne(le of mens fpi- rits, fo. is their understandings in reference to God and the things of God, that is, if men have clean- fpirits, then they will come to have higher underítanding in rpirittial things, if their hearts be unclean, then their fpirirs will not be able to have that right underítanding in fpiritual things. In the 9 Pro :: io. And the knowledge of the holy, is underflanding : M-en that have holy hearts, if they come to know, they have underftan- ding, and it's an excellent underfta.nding that -a nun or woman bath of Heaven and the things ofGod, that hath a holy heart, the knowledge of the holy is underílanding,no mans knowledg is worthy the name of underftandi.ng,but the knowledge, of the holy, if his heart be clean then his fight will be Beane. And in the 9 Dan: i There's a notable Scripture, that thews how our underlìandi g of the things of God, depend. upon the clean-
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