430 Pure in heart (hall have a clear fight of God hereafter, bath reveal'd much of himfelfe now, in his great works, in his-- word, in his Son ; O but there are other manner of things to be-knowiie of Cod then ever yet we have knowne ; No Man can fee God and live; where is that fight of God that cannot iìand with this life ; They (hall fee God in heaven; There is a tnanifettation of God beyond what we have here ; we w ilic here by Faith and not by fight, but T hen we thrall walke by fight and not by Faith ; here it is Faith that'll-at help us when God withdraws himfelfe fróm us ; but there the Saints ft all live by fight, they hall have no need of that F.;ith that fhouid uphold them in Gods abfence And withdrawing himfelfe. In the i 8 Math: fo. 1 ake heed that ye de irfe not one of thefe lit- tle ones : For I fay unto you, that in heaven their .A gells doe al- wayes ibehold the Face of my Father which is in heaven. lt's a note of a Learned Interpreter ui -on this place, Obtcrve, faith he, that Heaven is named twice here, I fay unto you th it in Heaven their Angells doe aiwaye- behold the Face of my Fa- ther which is in heaven , why-was it not en ugh to ray, 'nit. in heaven their Angelis doe alwayes behold the Face of r'say -Pei- ther; But Chrift repeats it twice, Inheaven their -Angelis !òe alwayes_behold the Face of my- Father which is in heaven, To note, that that's the place of the Face of Go , and in com-aa- rifon of that, we have but the back parts of God ; That's the Throne of God, and then the Saints thai! fee Cod a on his Throne ; There's a great deale of difference between to ing of a Prince in an obfcure Cottage, and teeing of thisPcince 'upon his Throne; with the-Crowne -upon his head , and-all his Nobles about him, and in all his Royall Robes Now all the .fight we have of God here, it is b2;t the fight of the Prince in a Cartage, but our fight in Fletíben, is like the fight c,t" the Prince upon his Throne ih his' YClory. Ifa: ; - : 1 T. we have there a promife to the fame that here are laid ro be pure in.. heart ; namely, to tilde that are upright. In the i 5 v: there's .defcribed thofei^o whom this promife is made ; He that wall(- eth righteoufly, and Jpeáketh uprightly, &c and then lhe prbinife is, He (hall dwell on-high ;`'and in -tl the 0 qr. ,fT"hine eyes'(ball fee the Kin'- las h$s,beataty : It's more is fee tlí'èKing i.í7 hís.beau ty, 2 Cor- ;. 7.
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