424 ytherein the fight of God appeares to be filch a happy thing. wages behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Chri(l here Both forewarns men of taking heed of offending the lit- tle ones , for their Angelis doe alwayes behold his Fathers face. Seventhly , Yea (hall I fay further.: It's the happineffe (as I may iò fpeake) even of (Thrift himfelfe, To fee the Father. That you have in the to j oh: is. As the Father knoweth me, evenfoknow I the Father, faith Chrilt. Chrilt would fet forth his excellency here, why faith he, 71 he Father knows me, and I know the Father; It's that that )efus Chrift doh glory in,him- felfe ; That he knows the Father; Now he promifes this hap - pineife to the pure in heart, that they likewife 1ha11 fee God. But wherein loth it appear to be.fuch a happy thing; It ap- pears many wayes; Ile name one or two now. Firft , O it's a bleed thing to fee God, it's the perfe &ion of mans tunderilanding, God hath given to man an underfland- ing of fuco large capacity, that it's able to be converfant every thing that s true, that's truth in generali And therefore nothing can perfe& the underflanding till it come to have that that is the principle truth difcovered to it. Secondly , And an infinite fatisfaòtion it is to the under - flanding, they two mutt needs goe together ; for in the per - fe&ion of a thing, there mull needs be the fatisfa &ion, and Nil of it : Suppofe all the beautiful) things that ever were in the world, were put into one òb,:ee?, that would be a beauti- full thing to behold : why now all beauty, all excellency, all glory in all creatures are all in God. And in the fight of God the foule fees all things that are excellent, and therefore mull needs be a kind of infinite fatisfacaion, faith David in the 17 P fal: i 5. eAs.for me, I writ behold thy face in Rrghteoufned e, I floall be fatisfied when I awake. with thy lkeneffe. It is a Pialme that David made ( it's very like) when he was driven from Sauls Court. Now as if he fhould have faid, Well, .I cannot behold the face of the King , he bath hard thoughts ofme, I but as for me, I will behold thy face in Righteoufneffe, and :I íhall.be fatisñed when I. awake with thy likenefhe., There's:an infinite fatisfa &ion to the mind of man ; many of ÿóù feek to fatisñe
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