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836 Of the ioyes ofhcarrco,, lied. But yet though this heauenly glory cannot be fully ex- preffed, it is not wholly to be pretetmuted, though it can - not be purtrayed(as it were) in liuely colours, yet is is not to beleftvnfhadowed; for feeing wee know but in part,. Nec ideo tamen therefore as it is not fit to comprehend the whole; fo nei- debeo tacere, Cher to omit and let.that part paffe which.wee conceiue :.and fret ârm llet, uia feeingthe holy g hofl hath inmany P lacesofthe Scriptures dicequatt- in fome darke maner fhadowed this glory, and giuen vs a nomvola,nox tall of thefe ioyes, we muff not negledit becaufe wee can- valeo.Augu(t. not haue our full draught; and becaufe we cannot compre- li j,medit, ssg.t bend as much as we would, we mull not (lightly ouerpaffe that which we can: conudering that God bath purpofely granted vs a fight ofthefe firll fruits, that we may more bar - tily long after thewholeharuefl, and hath in his holy word giuen vs a tail of this happineffe, that we may vfe all poflible encanes to come vnto this fountaine.of glory,where wemay drinke our fill, and bath giuen vs liberty both to thinke and fpcakeof the ioyes of his kingdome ;according to ourmea- fare andproportion,though we cannot fully conceiue them; eaen as we haue liberty to thinke and fpeake of his owne in- finite maielly with refpediue reuerence, although he be in - Numb.ay.ts, effable and incomprehenfible. As therefore Moles for his 53 fxi ne was not füffered to enter into the land of promife, and fo to take a particular view of euery part of the earthly Ca- naan,and yet was permitted to gee to the top of mountA- barim, and thence to take fome generall fightandnotice of it; foalthougltwc by our finnes haue the eyes ofour vnder- (landings fo dimmed, thae}we,cannot cleerely and diflinctiy behold the glorious beauty of the holy land ; yetlet vs take fome fach general! view as the Lorain his wordreuealethit vnto vs. And as thole who cannot behold the fanne (hining in hisfull brightneffe, attaine vnto fuch a fight of it as they are capable of hy looking vpon it, or rather the image and refcmblance ofit, in a banding poole, or difh of water; Co though we cannot fee theft glorious ioyes in their own per- fect beautie, becaufe our vnderfl'andingswould bee afìoni fled and confounded; yet let vs as it were by reflection dif- couer them as well as wee can, in fome earthly fhadawcs and;