Chap. 3 3. An £xpofition upon the Boo,_of J o 11. Verf. 26. 43 3 fee God (as aSpirit is only tobe feene) with a fpirituall eye. The vifion ofGod is intellei uall, the vifion of faith. Thus the Mere fadem reconciled firmer finding God favourable to him ; kse feeth his :, ital:uá el de}quam nih fenti- face re spud ani- muot faun de- with joy, umpreplan. The word fignifies joyful! acclamation, or fhouting for joy, coc: fttch as men ufe after great favours done them and benefits or fn Juuoda iF ` rather bountiesbeftowed upon them. There is a feeing of the exptcabitt face of God with terror ; fo the wicked(hall fee God , that is, gaudio. they (hall have manifefiations of Gods difpleafure ; they than be ,Aquin: made to fee him with (name and forrow : They fhall fay ( when they fee him) to the meuntaines and rocker, fold on us, andhideus from theface ofhim that ftteth on the throne, andfrom the wrath of the Lambe. Theywho never fats the face of God with joy, Thal! fee it with horror f3z amazement. Saints fee it with joy,they have unexpreflible comfort and contentment in beholding God ; they (hall rejoycewith fhouting, as in the yeare of fasbile, when they founded out rh& joyes With trumpets, or made a joyfall noyfe. 'Tis no ordinarybut a triumphant joy;With which thegod- ly fee the face of God. Extraordinary fights atfea with extraor- dinary joy. Now the face of God being the higheft and molt glorious fight in the world , it muff needs ate& the beholder with a glorious with a Jwbilean joy. He fhall fee his face with Fir(i , Ir being fáyd,Hefhall fee his face with joy , upon his prayer, and the humblingofhimfelfe before God. Obfrve. Godhides or vayles hisfare, till w'è humble our 'optics andPeek, his face. God will not be feene at all times, no not byhis ovine people ; There are feverall cafes in which he turneth away his face in an ger, ordrawes a curtain (as it were ) yea acloudbetweenhim- felfe and the foule. And this he loth; Fir(!, and molt ufually to try his people , how they can beare his wíthdrawings , and to fee whether or to what they will betake theinfelves, when he takes himfelfe fo much from them, that they cannot fee him. Secondly, He Both it often to chaltenand orret man for Lin. K k To
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