431 'Pure 'rf 1 eaxtfhalld.^aa>eR,cic,ar fshe- If Cod l:exeafier: truth is, -the moil of our knowled -ge of 'God here, it is but bÿ. negations rather then any other way : But then we'fhail- fee hiln as he is, not onely what his beetng is not, but what it is. 4Iind we shall fee God lik .wife in the unity of his'nature; here we fee God in feveral parts,we cannot underhand the ex celleucy ot:God to be all one here ; As thus, when we would' know God, how come we to know and fee him here; why by thofe- feveral fhines of his altributes,as by thé power,& rvif"dtm andholinefs, andgeodnef, and faith fulncfs,& elernity, and fmplì- city, and`in ftnitenef of God ; 1 hefe now are fe-veral thin s,büt ertainly there a -e not -many things in God, all thefe attributes are but that one in:nite excellency of Cod, only they are di- verle according to the feveral wayes of the manifeflarion of that one excellency of God: -As fometimes I have told you of the (Fine of the Sun through feveral glatfes of lèverai colours: fame beam of the Sun through a blew giaffe, gives a- blew reffe &tion, and through a green, a green, and through a red, á red, but there is no inch change of the Sun, fo the fame'excel- lency of God working feveral wayes appears diverfly to us, and fo we fee God as if he were one great excellency, made up of many excellencies, but certainly this is not fo, God' is not fuch a glorious excellency, as made up of many, for he is but one, Bleffed are the pure rn heart, for they (hall fee God its the unity of his being. And come to fee the great miílery ofthe Trinity,how three Perlons, but one God, what the work of the Father isin beget- ting : and what the Son is, in being begotten : o -- And the Holy Ghofl is in proceeding, we fee thefe things by faith now but then by fight. And we flail fee God in his eminency, and infinite above all creatures whatfoever,and fee him in heaven as he is:-- and ièe whit ever he shad doe, what ever he (hall be working to all eternity, the Saints fhail fee God, (befìdes the being of Cod) I fay, fee him in all his workings that fbail he to eternity the Lord in leflè then thefe fix thoufand years, how glorious hash he been in his workings, and wotild it not be a blefled thing if ai`wT one of you had been admittod to have been with God
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