4i8 Wa7rs whereby Gad reveals himfelfe to the foule. fed, and God revealing himfelfe unto them, If you fhould aske them, what doe you know of God now more then you have done, they are not able to expreffe, onely this, we can fay,. We were blind, but now we fee, we doe fee God in another manner then ever we have done. And befides this mote immediate revelation of God to the foule, one that's pure in heart fees God' in his works,, in the beholding of the great works of God in the glafs of the crea- ture , in the heavens and earth, and feas ; i(jeholds God in anotherway then ever it did before : O the glory ofGod that appeares when it lookes upon the ruing of the Sun, and the Moone and Starres, and the vafineffe of the Seas, and the body of the earth. Perhaps fuch dayes as thefe after Sermon is done,many of you will be walking up and downe the fields ; but what doe you lee ? why you fee the green grafs, and other men walking up and downe, and you fee trees ; But what of God doe you fee here ? Now if you did walke meerly to con- template of God appearing in his works, then it were another matter ; A fpirituall heart when it lookes upon the works of God, it gets through the work prefently to God, it looks up to heaven, and fees the God of heaven, and the God of the earth and plants ; -- And this is my God, and the glory of God that appeares in all the creatures, it's the glory of my' God ; ,Indeed when he goes abroad he may fee more Land then his ovine , I but I cannot fee more Land then is my Fa- thers. And though God ( hines much in his works, yet he appears: more clearly in his word ; And it's a good Argument of one: that's fpirituall, that can fee more of the Glory of God in the' word, then in all the great works that ever were done in the world : If the Lord fhould carry a man or woman over all the world, and Phew them all the Cot:n vies in the world yea,. carry them up to heaven, and Phew them the Sonne, Moone,. and Starres, and finable them to underhand all the motions of them, and thew them the Seas, and be able to underhand the motion of the Seas, the ebbings and the flowing s, and all the vafineffe of that creature: And fo if he were able to under- * timid
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