wherein the fight of god appears to be fuch a happy thing, facisfie your felves in bafe and bruri(h 1ufls;If you can be fine, and gay, and eate and drink, and be unclean and filthy, there's your fatisfaófion. O the difference between the fatisfac'iion of a foule in the fight of an inìnite cod, and the fatisfaCtion of a foule in a baie brucith luii-. Bleffed are they that doe fee God, they (hall be fatisfied : In the 36 Pfal: likewife , faith the Piaimit+ there (peaking but of the fight of Sod even in his houle ; How excellent is thy loving k ssdreffe b' God, therefore the children of men put their truft under the fhaddow of thy wings ; They fkall be aboundaotly fatisfied with the fatneffe of thy houfe, and thou firalt make therm drink¿, of the River of thy pleafures : Why io ? For with thee rs the fountaine of life ; to thy light (hall we fee lght. Hence comes the fatisfaelion,hence comes the Rivers of pleafure, hence is the Fountaine of all good unto them ; For in thy l ght Thall we fee light. They come fee God by cod, as a man comes to fee the Sunby the light of the Sun, the Sun lends his beanies upon the world, and by thole beanies of light that the Sun fends downe upon our eyes, we come to lee the Sun it felfe : Set, In thy light (hall we fee light ; The light of Gnd (hall (nine upon the foules of the Saints that are pure in heart, and fo they (hail come to fee that God which is the Fountaine of all life. And d the drawing of the fouie to God then. Thirdly, It's made in Scripture the very fpring- of all Grace in the foule, being made partaker of the Divine nature, and of the transforming of the foule into the very Image of God. a Pet: T. z. Grace and peace be multiplyed unto you ; how ? Through the knowledge of God, and of jefas our Lord, All Grace and peace it conies through the knowledge of God, and Jefus our Lord ; According, faith he, as his d'vine power, bathgiven unto us all things that pertaine to life and godlineffe ; how? Through the knowledge of him that bath Called us. Oh, the knowledge of God is a Fountaine of good indeed unto the foule , whereby, faith he, are given unto su exceeding great and rreciosa premif s, that by theft you might be partakers of the Divine nature, having of aped the Corruption that is in the world through loft ; and all this ail', Through the knowledge of Iii God,
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