Wherein the fight of God appears to be fach á happy thing. he were in all that Glory that poiiibiy a man could be in a Kingdome, yet he forfooke Egypt, away he goes out of Egypt, not fearing the difplealure of the King, that the King would purfue him : when.he went out, why he wen= nut over a great deale of difficulties, carrying along with him is many thou- finds, and not knowing how to provide fo: them , paling through the red Sea, yet not dift.ouraged with fearer ; yea,he Both not repent him after he is come in o any difficulties many men undertake bufineiies, but when they meete with difficulties, they begin to repent themfelves that they were fo farre Ingaged.Ml es repents not upon any difficulty ; for why, the text iai:h; Le endured, he. went through all , and all upon this ground, For he faw h;ns that e 1 vifble; If Invisible, hmv could he fee him ? If he faw him, how was he Invilibh ? Invi- fible to the eye of fence ; yea and that kind of the Glory of God that M Jar saw wa; Inviiible to, the eye of Realon ; it was by a princi,.,le elevai ing Reaton; by aprinci;,le of Fai.h that is Reasons pro(pe&ive (,lass ; he faw the Invifible God, and that'çarryed him th-ough. all. Certainly tho.e men and women that are quickly di,couraged in the wages of God, never had a fight of trod, the fight ofGod would, carry through all diffi- culties. For ad to fay,. I amhe, as it humbled Saarl and ffopt him in his wiy in which he was going againil God ; fo it will raife and incoul7age the heart of a Saint , in his way, when it comes to fee hat it is the Lord that I have to deale with, a: fight of the Invifible God ; O bleffed therefore are the pure. in heart,for they fr all fee God ; the fight ofGod is a blelfed thing even the fight of od that eve have here, it is by that we come to have communion with him, we cannot have communion with God without the of him ; And how ma- Saints a e there that can fpeak by their own experience, they would not locate fame one fight of God that They have had in their converge wi h God, nor for a world, ô .hey fee tit bleffed,'tic blef ed here,but much more bleifed hereafter ; They !ba!i fee God, This F romile f emes to refer to what (hall be hereafrer ; the fight of God iereafter ; we fometimes, thinke, that Gdd la.atli 429'
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