427 t.E..ma:/ :9a ! SEFLMON XXVII. O R. Wherein the fight of God appears to be 'itch a hap. py thing. M A T ii. 5. 8. Bleffed are the pare in heart, for they (hall fee God. 41y, He fight of God is a bleffed thing, It's that that draws forth, and acts the Gra- ces of the Saints; The very felting God before the foule , is that (I fay) that 11 drawes forth and a &s whatfoever Grace . >, the Saints have, becaufe God is fuch a furable oblea unto the fouie : As the fetting before one that bath an uncleane heart, an objéd futable unto uncleanneffe, drawes forth that Corruption ; fo the fetting before the foule Ca cleane foule) the felting before it the holineife of God, and the glory and excellency of Uod ; It bath a kind of infinite power to draw all the Graces of the Saints to ael , to make them lively and quick. Fifthly, Further, by this the foule comes to worfhip God as a God, when it cotes tofee him; Men and omen that are ignorant of God, they torthip they know not what, but when _ the foule' comes to have a fight of God, even here in this world ; then, and never till then,is th:L name of God ftné -kified by the foule ; the foule Worthi ,s God in a holy manner.- I i i 2 Sixthly,
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