Burroughs - Houston-Packer Collection BX7233.B87 G67 1660

4Pùr+en heart fhall have clear fight of god hereafter ty, then to fee the King another way ; Now this i 3 pro aaifed to the upright, to the pure in heart, to fee C :Jod ii his beauty; ----- I make little Qaieflion but God will appeare with more beauty in the world then yet he hash don.-even in This world. There is a promife in the 7oa Pfal: 16. when the Lcrd (Mt buildup Sion, he fhall appeare in his Glory : i ie {half put on his- Glorious Robes : As in the time when Noble Men and Princes marry, they put on them belt attire ; fo when God (hall build up Sion, which is the re}oycing of his foule, he lhall appease in his Glory ; And bleffed are thofe that'll-1;111 fee God then in that Glory of his ; But when they (hall fee him in his beauty. and Glory in heaven upon his 'Th. one., they will be much more bleffed :.y Then they (hall fee indeed all the Coun ells 6f God concerning th'emlelves front all eternity, yea and cOncer -, ping all creatures and the nature of all creatures ; They (hall` fee all things in God when they Tome to fee him there ; For fo it muff needs be,otherwife man could not be perfectly bleffed, - except he came to underf and all creatures : Man in his firft Creation did underftand, all creatures ; Now this knowledge mufl be reflor'd again ,or clip man by Chri(t fhould nor cote to be as happy ache was in the firft Adam. But certainly the happineffe of Man is mórein'the" iecond' Alain then in the firft, therefore the knos ledge fhall be higher then (his,. and this muff be in the fight of God that he (hall have.; The fight of God that he {hall have in heaven , {hall be more immediate then it is now, it "halt not onely be the fight of him by fuch and fuch wayes and ädi$tions as now we have from him, by any intervening thing'; but by an immediate uni on with the very beeing and effence of God, and fo a fight of his effence , -- And that it muff needs be, that this fight of God, muff be of his very bee:ng and E fence is cleere, not one- ly from many Scriptures that we might name , as-that in the ï Cor: I 3. latter end ; Notó we, fee through a glare darkly, bat then face to face ; riow I knpw'in part, but theft (hall I hscw even .as I am.l{naivne ; We fee through a glaffe, that is,' through a medium ;.we fee by feeing fomething elfe ; firit,we fee fome- thing elfe, and then we come to fee God ; But then we (hall fee

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