The fight of god is the blefednde of Man. prefent j : He thought there was fo much excellency iu .the. knowledge of that one creature ; O what excellency is there in the knowledge of God himCelfe, in the fight of God. It was a fpeech of Philip unto Chrif +in the i4:foh: 8 v. Lord them w the Father, and it faficeth us, faith Philip, doe but thew us the Father, let us fee cod; and it luflîceth us, we have enough whatfoever becomes of us, o may we but fee the Father it is enough. And the great defire that Mofes had in the 33 of Exod: i, 18. he Paid, I befeech thee flees, me thy Glory; Let me but fee'thee and it's enough for me ; Oahe fight of God it is a blefled thing : The fight of the infinite and glorious fir(+ -bee ing of all things, that is the fountains of all good ; O how bief- fed is ir. Men love to fee fuch as have been great Inf+runi encs of good ; O what flockingwould there be to fee them ; As in° former times, when we heard that great things were done by filch a man, as Alexander, if fuch a man were alive, who would4 not but prefs hard to fee him ; and of late, lush a one as the King of Swethland ; and now Sir Thomas Fairfax, or thole men that God hath made publick Inflruments of good , every one would fee fuch a man ; O then to be admitted to the fight of the firf+- beeing of all things, that path been the Caufe of all: the good that ever hath been, or shall be ; to have the fight of that principle, is mufa needs be an infinite bleffednetfe. If a . man had never feene his Father or Mother, but had liv'd ira another Countrey fine his birth to his mans eflate, ó what a defire would he have to fee the woman out of whole bowells he came, and Father from whofe loynes he came. But ó the blefléd fght of God, who is the firf+ beeing of all things, our Creator. This is that that onely the Rationall creature is ca- pable of: the Reafonable creature is not facisfied as the Senfi- tive creature is, meerely to have a fight of that that pleafes the fenfe for the prefent ; But the Rational! creature inquires prefently at the Caule of its beeing ; here's fucdi an excellen- cy, from whence is it ? what's the Caufe of it ? and when he fees that, then he inquires after the Caufe of that, and then the-. Caufe of that, and if he underf +ands that, why then he would,! ktaowthe Cants of that, and fo he gets up a link higher; fuch ïs:
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