wayes whereby God reveals hïmfelfeto tre foule. 419 ftarid all the nature of the plants, as Solomoh did, and themy- aeries of all Arts and Sciences ; yet when he hash done all, coming to read the word, he !hall fay , well, I have feene an Nat. t ¡9.96.. end of all per feTien,butThy Ward is exceeding broad; I fee more in thy word, then I doe in all the book of nature : A few lines of thy word doth difcover more unto me, then all the book of nature befides : I, this were a good Argument of purity d heart ; A pure heart goes and reads in theword, and doth not read it as other books, but fees the wifdome of God there, the purity of God there, the. Authority of God there ; the word is not a fealed book to fuch a foule, but its open to it ; And then it fees God in all his Ordinances ; they are the glaíl'esby Which he fees Gods- Likewife the Miniftery of the Word, and Sacraments, and all other Ordinances, God comes into the foule, and the foule finds thofe but as Glaties to repre- fent God unto it : -*- And it fees God againe in the Saints ; In the Saints, there's the Image ofGod ; there's the pidure of God in the creature ;But in the Saints,there's the lively Image of God, as the Image of the Father is in the child : The men of the world they fee little of God in the Saints; But noav, When their eyes come to be opened,and their hearts purified, they cannot looke upon anygodly men or women,but they fee much of the,glory of God in them : and it's this that makes them fo love the Communion of the Saints,becaufe fo much of God appeares in them ; yea and they fee God in their own fpirits more then ever before, there was nothing but darknet e in their owne fpirits before, bût now being fan&itied, there's the prefence of God within them, they fee God within them in their owne hearts ---- But above all, that ihàt is here in this world,they fee God in the face of Jefus Chrift,there they fee the glory of God, thofe that are of pure hearts or fpirits. In the i Heb. Chrift is faid tá be the charafler and Ingraven forme of the Image of God, the brghtneffe of his glory. You have not fuch an expreillon of all the Angelis in heaven , nor Men in the world : Its true, Man was made ac o ding to the Image of God, I but Chrilt is faid to be the bri ghtnetfe of Gods Glory, and the exprefle Image of his perfon,the expreíle H h h z Image
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