wayes wherein God reveals himfelfe to the foule. 4 21 tits, but the bright glaffe of all is Jefus Chriff. And therefore in the 2 Cor: 1. 6. it is aid, 7 hat God who commanded the light to Thine out of darkseffe, bath fhi ,.ed in our hearts, to give the light of the kn. owledge of the Glory of God in tke face of 'le*, Chriff. God who commanded the light to Chine out of dark- neße : All the knowledge of God that man bath before his. Converfion, it is but as darkneffe, and God when he comes to Chew himfelfe to the foule, he cloth as great a work as when he made the world, he did then command light to i }:Cue out, of darkneife ; And what's the fruits of it ? Bath fhined in our hearts, not onely in our heads but hearts, and it Chines there to give light, to Five the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. Mark there gradations, --- He bath Clained in our hearts ; -- To give the knowledge of God ; .'To give the light of the knowledge of God ; To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of -God ; And all this, In the face of Jefus Chrif}. O the blefedneffe of the pure in heart, that comes to fee God in the face of Jefus 'Chrifi. This is a Myfiery that none can underftand ( like the white time ) but 4icrc thole that have it ;thole that doe fee God in Chriff,rhey know what it is to fee God in Chrifl , and they would not for ten thoufand worlds loofe any one fight that they have of God in the face of Jefus Chrifi, But its irnpo.Tible for them to ex- preffe it to others.; bleffed are they that doe thus fee God; It's a good thing to fee the light, faith Solomon : Supple that God had made us,that we had had but foute fences, onely the Hearing and Smelling, the Feeling and Tatting, and had left out the fence of Sight : Now I fay, If this had been, that God had made onely foute fences, and afterwards in our dayes had been pleafed to add to the beauty and excellency of mans nay tune a fifth fence; that is fight, O what a glorious thing would it have been to us : As now, a man that had liv'd in a dungeon all the dayes of his life and never had feene light, if this man after he is groyne up in yeares should be let out of this dun- geon and come to fee this glorious Sun, what agir rious thing, would itbe ro fuch a one ? Or further , The beafl who have only the fight of the light, if God fhould add unto them un- der- 2
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