324 Chap. 23. An Expefition tern the Bockof 0 B. Verf. And indeed what fhould the Creature do,i- ut be upon an enqui- ryafter God there is a Naturality in it, he being the fuprearn beirg, that we who have our being fromhim fhould feeke after him. And the Apottle tells us (40,r 17. 26, 27.) that this is the defigne of God in makingofone blood ali Nations of men,for to dwell On the face ofthe earth,. and in determixing the times befere appointed, and the bona,: of their habitation (namely) That they Ih6141 ffeke the Lord, ifhaply they might fide after him and finde him, thetth he be notfarrefromevery one ofas, for in him we live, &c. The Lord is neer all, he hath a pretence in all places, with ail. perfons ; but the Lordwould have all recke, fecle, gope after him; even as fuch have but a dim light ofhim, as thole have that doe not feeke fo much with their eyes as with their hands, they only feed alter the things which they would hav-e.There is a light in the fpirits ofall men, that haply they may feel alter God, and finde him ; They who have not Scripture light, Gofpel light,the light, yet have force kincle or degree of light ; they have Lome glimmerings though noclime difcernirgs And that fhould put themon to leek God;, much more fhould they feeke after him, who have cleareft light. And where there is any heat ofat- feclion to God, a little light will ferve them to feeke after him ; they that are trae defirers will 6e diligent fakers. And they, who feekingGod, have found him, will leek him yet again, yea they will feeke himmore and more, as long as there is any thing more ofGod to be found ; And there will alwayes be moreof God to be found;.for here we know Godbut in part, and therefore hue found him but in part t & hence it is that all the Saints in this life, ixon this fi de Glory, even they ofthe bighe ft forme and greateft- proficiency in grace and knowledge,are called Seeker' (:hù ie the generarion of them that leek bhn (Pfal. 24.6.) not fuch feekers (as tve find too many in thefe dayes.) who, as if all were upon u: certainties in religionfay, they have as yet found nothing,for. as thtre islomething wherein the moft knowing and firongeft. Chriflians may be to feeke, fo the:-e are many things, yea all things neceffary to faivation, or without which wecannot be fa- ved, which themeakeft may find and know ftifficiently, though not fully.. And as they who delire to find thefe things, will be diligent in faking them, fo they may know in themfelves, or be fully eared that they have found.thero ;, and fo even while they.
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