416 Pore in heart (hall fee God as their God. is the nature of the underffanding of a. Rational! creature, tm look from the Het to the L.auie, and theta . :hat oahers case, and fo higher and higher, and,neverleaves rill it conies to the Supreame Caufe, the highe(t Caule of all things; now They fall fee God : This is mans bleffednetfe. They ihali fee God, and (hall fee his Co %n fells and will, all thole Counfetls of Gad that do concerne their eternal! Injoy- ment of himfelfe; that's the meaning ; Shall fee Gd, and know his mind : And they shall fee God as their God That muff be taken into there three things. Firff , See God the Firff bering of all things. Secondly, Know the mind, and the very heart Of God; his will concerning them and their eternal! efface. Thirdly , They avail fee God as their God , as having an Intereff in God, in all that good and excellency and glory they fee in God : They (hall fee it as theirs, as having a Pro- priety in it ; There's a great deale of difference between a Queens looking upon the King fitting upon his Throne, and a ffran ers ;a (+ranger comes and fees the King with his Crowne upon his head, his Scepter in his hand, upon his Throne, with all the Nobles about him, and it's a Glorious fight for a ffran get to fee ; -But now if the 2eene,or the Kings eldeff.Sonne, fhould look upon her Husband, and he upon his Father, as he fits upon the Throne with all his Glory about him ; the CZueeii the lookes upon all this Glory as her Glory, it all refleefs upon me, I have an Intereff in all this Glory And fo the Prince lookes upon all this Glory as his Glory , as his Inheritance, this is my Father that is in this Glory : why fo the proniife muff be underflood, They +hall fee God,they (ball fee the excel- lency; and glory, and Majeffy, and Greatneffe of God ; That is the fir(f'beeing of all beeings,_and the Caufe of all things; .-- And know his mind and heart, --- And then they. hail fee all this as their good ; here's my excellency, and my glory, my háppineffe it is in this God that I now behold; This is the pro - mife ; They (hall fee God. Now Cod reveales himfelfe and fur Iles thispromife many wayes.. By an immediate revelation of himfelfe to the fouie;
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