372 Chap.19 . An Expofition upon the Bootie of JO B. Verf. 26' foule. God is enough for us, and we fhail certainty have enough when we fee him (as then we(hall) as he is- That priviledge is allured to the Ions ofGod (r rob. 3. 2.) We (hallfee;him as ke re. In this life the Saints feeGod ; the lifeofgrace is, thevi- fion of God, as well as the life ofGlory ; and though it be true that here the Saints doe rattier fee what God is not, then what heis; yet 'cis true alfo that here theSaints fee God ás he ù, as thofe words may note a reali feeing ofhim, though not (as ey intend ) a full teeing of him. Here we fee God by faith We ( faith the Apoltle, 2 Cor. 5. 7.) wakebyfaith, not by fight. We neyther walke by fight, as carnali men doe, who have no faith, nor doe we walke byfight, as glorified Saints, who are a. hove faith, But we walke by faith, which though it be appo_ fed both to the fight of nature here below, and to that fight of glory, which we fhalthave above ; yet that alto is a fight,and by that we feeGod.. rieft , In his ?romife; ; Abrahamlawmy day ( faith Chrift ) ( ?oh. 8. 56.) He taw it in the promife ; and thereGod is feene. Secondly, In his Ordinance; ; 'David defired todwell in the houle of the Lord; allshedayes of his life, to behold his beauty, f£. Pfal. 27.. 4. )- Thirdly, We fee God in his 'Providences ; in them God is fo eminently tobe feene, that he is as angry, when his people fee him not in Providences, as when they fee him not in Promifes, or Ordinances. In all thefe we have a fight ofGodby faith in this life, and we fee him truely as he is ; yea God bath been pleafed to make himfelfe vifible to fome of his people in this life, even to their fenfe as well as to their faith, (Ifa. 6. a.)Ifaw the Lord, faith Ifaiah the Prophet ; he fpeakes not of an Intel- leáuall, but ofanoccular fight ; and lob, I bave beard ofhim by the hearing ofthe eare, but nowmine eye: havefeene hem (Job42. 6.) And fo 'accb (Gen, 32. 3 0. )1have time Godface toface ; & he calls the placeFennel theface ofGod. Notthat he ( or they) fawGod himfelfewith the eyes of his body, fo rosrsan bath fern God at ony.time (i. job.4.12:)and fono man canfeeGod andlive, ( Exod. 33. 3o. ) &1t there lawGod in forne reprefentation of himfelfe,in force fuch breakir:gs forth, and evident demonftra. tions ofhis Glow to the eye, as gave them an undoubted argu- tnent.of the prfence. ofGod wish: them ; yea. fometitnes God bath,
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