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848 Of the ioyesofbeaten. feEtmemorie,the remembrance whereofmay bring vnto vs any ioy and contentment? how happie and bleffed fhal we be,when our confciences Thal leaue offto accule and terrifie vs; -and be only exercifed in iuftifying vs, and in giuing ap- probation to al our alitions ? fu thefe there iisf from fwhi ch they Thal be eliue ed: 0ftheexcellent PP f ,,,sties and which being vnderftood, we Thal not need to fpeake much qualities where- ofthofe good things, and ofthe excellent parts and quali- with our 1-8"1". ties,wherevvith they Thal be beautified and adorned, feeing (hall be beawt there is the fame reafon of contraries, and the one being fscdaadaáor- knowne, Both by direft oppofition thew the nature and xecL qualities of the other, In a word therefore, as our foules Thal be freed from ignorance, fotheyfhal be endued with hea- uenlywifdome,whereby they fhal know God in thatperfe- éLion,that the creature is capable of,thehigh mylierie of the Trinitie,andof the vnion of Chriftshumanitie to the diuine ttature,and ofthe faithfulvnto Chrifi : and this knowledge that not then be darke,and as in a glaire, like our dim know- ledge in this life, but cieare and perfpicuous, and as it were face to face, it fhal not then b e in part only, but whole and a.Cor.t 3.9. perfe6t; for thenfhall we k, ow, ewers aewe are lnowne. In this ¡0.5t.u< life we lie as it were in a dungeonofdarkneffe ; and al the comfort that we haue is,that the light ofGods truth,wherc- 'by the eyes of our minds are illightned,'with Tome fmal and dim knowledge ofGod, fbineth vnto vs, as thorow a little chinée orhole: but when we attaine to heauenly happineffe, and enioy the glorious libertie of the Fons ofGod, then Thal we be conipaffed about with light, as with a garment, and our mindsfhal receiueperfe6tillumination, and fulnc feof knowledge.'Finally, we Thal not attaine vnto this diuine knowledge, as in this life, with paines and excefiiue labour, 'whereby we confume the bodieto enrich the foule; neither yet by fecondarie an d inferiour meanes, as namely, thc hea- ling, reading, and meditation of the Word, and the vfe of .theSacraments,through which we fee after al ourfludie and indaftriebut darkly,and as it werethorow Tome dim glalfe; but wethal haue it with ail cafe and facilitie by the imme- diate