2 Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the.Bd'okof J p$; verf. r g. in his effence or nature : A fight of God would atlonifh,yea,fwal- low up the creature,/ti. death to fee the- livingGod; and man mutt die before he can fee God fo fully as he may, and know as he is known. But ( though the face'of God be invifible ) yet his back- parts may .be feen. Behold (:faith the Loi-d to Mofes ) there is aplace by me,fi-end thou there upona rock, and thou(halt fee myback-parts; thou thalt fee much of my glory fhining forth, as much as thou canit bear ,as much as will fatisfìe thy delire ( wçre it a thoufand times larger then it is)thoughnot fo much asthou hail(not know- ing what thou askelfjdefìred ofrne.My Name (hall beproclaimed, Gr.aciotts'andmercifull'e c. the back parts Of God may be feen; the invifible "God ditèovereth much of himfelf to man: and thews us a fhadowof that fubltauce which cannot be feen. Some may objeft that of the Prophet - 'Ifaias , cryi ig out, ¡Yo-unto me,"for miite- eyes'"have' feel the King, the `Lord of hafts, Chap,. 6.5. Seen him ? could /fäiar'fee him, whom job and Mofes could not ?-Ifaias did not -fee him in his effence and nature, but in the .manifelfations and breakings forth of his glory. His trainfilled the Temple, faith the Text( verf. r.) or his skirts. It is anallution to greatKings who when theywalk in Stafe,hav'e "their trains;. or the skirt of their toy ll robe held up. 'Twas this train, which Ifaias law. He not God who was prefent, but he law the manifeft tìgns of his prefence: That Ipeech of ifaiah fcemed to favourof, and border upon higheut blafphemy, and was therefore charged as an articlqi,ot accutation againft him ; he was indited of blafphenìy for fpeaking thofe words, I have feen'the Lord, lii$ ené_ mies taking or rcfiing it, .as ifhe had made' the Lordcor`poaeall and vi.tìble with the rye of the body. *aid it is conceived he was put to death upon that,and mie other paffage in his prophecy,Gh. t . t o. calling the Princes of f udah,Princes of Sodom,and the people thereof, the people_'of GorYoorr.ah. But- though God be thds'invifible in his effence, yet there isa way by which the efface of God may be Peen. And of that Mo- fes,to whom theLord faid,Thoucall riot fie my face, the Authour to the Hebrews fait h ( Etch. t r .24.) That hefaze him who was invi- fiblc.; the letter of the text carries a contradialon in the adjunct it is asmuch, asif one flrould fay, Ile Jaw that which could `not Pe teen. Tlae'tneaning is, He lawhim by the eye offaith, who could not be fern by the eye of fenfe; faith fees notonly the back- parts, but the face of Jehovah . the effence°of -God'is clear to that eye, as
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