436 Tore t0 heart fall have a clear fight of Cod hereafter, il:a1! be put upon the foul of man, and howíhall that be raiçed and indeed, if mans eye were not raifed to be able to ,look íleadily upon a more glorious object then the Sun, it would be a rnifery for the body to be in heaven : for the light of Heaveta will be aboundantly more glorious then the Sun in the firma:. Ment, the luflre of it, and the Saints í7,a11 not be wearied with it, but the glory of Heaven shall perfecî the eye of the Saints,. & then the glory of God shall pet fed theiì fouls,they fhall be able fully to iook upon God ,and they shall fo lee him,as never to bofe the fight of him: here in this world the Saints many timeshavefcme glimmerings of God, Ionic little fight of it, ô but they k ofe it, and ô how fweet were it, if it were not fo little and quickly gon, but then they f} al! ever fee his face, what Would many a godly man or woman give,thar they might have but thole beams ofGods glory in a contlant way ihininb upon them, that fometimes they have had ? but then you shall have them alwayes shining upon you ; O bicffed are the pure in heart, f they fhall fee God And the reaï on that fonje give, why Chrift doth annex the fight the Cod to purity of heart, is this among others, becaufe that e Scripture tels us, that by faith the heart is purifyed : now when the foul beleeves, and comes to be purified by faith, it is willjng to,give up its rea- fan, to have it's reafon fwallowed up:now'becauie it Both hear, beleeve that which it cannot fee, it shall hereafter fee whatfo- ever it doth beleeve, :7hat's (as 4uftin.calls it) the reward of faith ; That becaufe faith Both beleeve what the foul cannot fee, that is, faith goes beyond reafon,,therefore the Lord will rant t hit; reward unto ir, that it fhall hereafter fee whatfoever is doth beleeve, thou now haft the glorious revelation of God, and of the miíleries of falvation, well they are above thy rea- fon, thou cant. not underíland than now,yet by faith thou doff beleeve them though thou canfl not under/land them,why now, wilt thou glorifie God by beleeving when thou canft not ieé, God hereafter will make thee fee what thou haft beleeved, Thou (halt fee it fully, thou (halt fee intd all the reasons of the miflery of the Golpel, and the things of Cod, that now thou dpfl take in by faith : O 'tis good for USr1UW to be rill- ling
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