4 ; 'P14r ;it heart Thali lhave,ac tear Jg*tfGra4hereafter. fee him face to face, theta I,thall know even as Jinn kt}ovine. NOWGod knows uswichout any thing Intervening; fo,w, (hall .know as weare knowvne, it's a great my( }ery. And that place ita the i 3oh: 3. 2. v.-e fhal: fee him ás he is ; as he is At him- felfe ; Thé reafon is this, becaufe if Fve fait' any tliií,but Gods beeinn, that would be brit a creature ; what never rra 4dïation, whatfoever glory lhould flow from God, coneptve ji to he the molt glorious thing that can be, that' od fi :4,i rep refent the molt glorious fight that can be imagin'ti, yet if it be not Gods beeing and ellence, It's but a creature, and if a creature, then it caimat be the ob ;e61 of mans happinelle ; It's impo` ible for a man to be happy by the light of that that is not God : Now if there be any thing Intervening,fo as we fee that that God doth, but more out of himfelfe, and no: himielfe ; I fay, we cannot be happy, for it would follow then that mans happineßè confif}ed in creature ; no therefore, we (hall, fee him as he is : Chin faith, That he Dhows the Father,ar thlFR- ther knows him : he doth nit !peak of bin-dare as he is fecond perfon in Trinity, but as he is God -man : So he know3 the Fa- ther as the Father knows him : So that by that you may fee, that even a finite creature is capable of fuch a knowledge, of the knowledge of the very geeing of God : You cannot com- prehend it becaufe it's In' nite ; and ii it had no: been revea- led to us in the Scriptures,it had been impoiìïble for us to have conceived that a Finite Creature could be hupol }atically uni- ted to an Infinite ; hut when the Scripture makes that out to us, that that which is Finitas the foule and body of Chrif} is, can be fo united to an Infi tè. This cleerely holds forth thus much to us, that the nature of Man is capable of another man- ner of revelation of God, and union with God, then poftïbly by Reafon can be undcrflood. The Saints in heaven i1,ä11 be fiil'd with Gods prefence,ihall fee God in themfelves; As the Fullnefs of the ,t od -head did dwell bodily in Chrif},ro it !hall dwell fpiritually in the Saints; Celof 2. 9. The Fuhneffeof the God -head dwelt bodily in him : Now f-Yritually the fulhielie of the God -head {hall he in the Saints.And certainly Chrif} do:h fee God, the very beefing of God, the fullnef e of the God - head
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