Pure in heart (hall have a clear fight of God hereafter. head being bodily in him : why then the Saints that (hail have the fullnette of the God -head ipiritnally in them,ihall iee him, fee him immediately ; Not as we fee a Colour, but as we fee the light : The light is fir(.+ in our eyes,and .by that the Colter; fo then Gods very beeing (hail be fill+ in the eye of the foule. ; we fee God here in this world by his effeóts ve fee the Glory of God from the effects of Gods wifdome, and his power, and his goodnette. What doef+ thou fee of God, o thou foule, in this world, who art Contemplating of God in the molt ferious inanner I Why the foule Will fay, Lord, I fee glorious beanaes of thy wifdorne, and thy power, and thy'goodneffe in the crea- ture, the great works that thou halt made : This is but to fee God in the etfea s of what he hath done ; but we (hall fee him face to face. You feé a work-man in fome piece of work that he hath done,and O you long to fee the face of that man : I w God hath wrought this world, it is the work of his fingers; but you (hall nor fee God then by effe is fo much as imme- diately: we come here to know rather what God is not, then what he is ; as thus, when we fay God is Infinite, what doe we nieane by that, but that there is no bounds of his beeing, When %Ve fay that God is Incomprehetifible, what's that, but that God cannot be Comprehended in any place : When we fay that God is Eternall,that he hath no beginníng,no end, no fucceffion of time : -- When We fay God is Immutable, (till it fpeaks rather What God is not then what he is ; that is, he doth,iióc change.:: --- _.When we come to fay, That ha is a Spirit, that fecmes to beíiix9sitTirmation, what doe we meane by that ? It is but to rake othfrom any conceive of bodily nib- Rance, that God is not corporiall ; for if we fhould (peak pro- perly, God is not a Spirit, not, of the fame nature that Angels and Mens föules are of, for they are but creatures : Armi God cannotbe faid properly to be rhe-fame'thing that a creature is ; but becaufe he would rake away all conceive from him of be- ing bodily ; therefore we fay, he is a Spirit, When we fay, God is holy, what doe we doe when we come to defcribe his holineffz but this,he is that wheréby he hath not the leaf+ fpot- and Elaine of :fin ; -and fuch kind of things -; So that the K k k truth
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