Burroughs - Houston-Packer Collection BX7233.B87 G67 1660

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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