áZ2 Wherein the fight of God ii a bief cd thing. der¡anding, to be able to conceive of things, why what a glo- rious change would there be there ? But now when God gives us a f pirituall fight of hinifelfe, there is as great a change, and that is aboundantly more glorious, and more bleffed it would be then the adding of Peeing to a man that never had fuch a fence, or the adding of Reafon to the leaf }s ; It's a bleifed thing to fee God , and that we find in Scripture fét out to us many wages. As irfì,It is made to be the fruit of the Covenant ofGrace; howfoever men may thinke light of it, that doe not know it ; As the beads that know not what reafon is, they are not trou- bled for the want of it, and if we had not knowne what the fence of fight meant, we fhould not have been troubled for the want of it ; fo the world is not troubled for the want of the fight of God, becaufe they know no more what it meanes then the Beafis knowes Reason, or a man that had had the foure fences could have knowne what a fift had meant ; But the Scripture makes it to be a fruit of the Covenant of Grace, in feremy mark how the Lord eapre %s himfelfe, Chap. 3 i 34. They (hall teach no more every mean his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the Lord ; for they (hall all know me, from the lea,fit of them unto the greatef of them faith the Lord ; for I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their fin no more. It's a fruit both of the Covenant of Grace, and of the pardon of fin, that is the fpeciall mercy in the Covenant. The reafon why there are fo many of you that know not God, it is becaufe your iniquities are not forgiven,but God remem- bers your fin, you are not in Covenant with God; when God brings you into Covenant with hinifelfe, and forgives your fin, he makes you to know himfelfe. Secondly ;For God to reveale himfelfe, it is a great fruir Of love; of the love of God to the foule, for God to manifef+` himfelfe to it. In the r 4 Ph: 21. lie that hath my Comma*_ dements and keeper') them, he at is that loveth me ; and he that loveth me, ¡hall be loved of my Father, and I will Pave bins Flow will that be manifefled ? and will roam: fig my fife to hitn. Chrif}s manifelling himfelfe to the foule, is a fruit of his love, and of his Fathers love. Yea Third-
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