z 56 The third Sign PART. III; every dye 'hallfee him; when they. Ihall cry to the Mountains to fall;, upon them, to hide them from the Face of him that fits upon the Throne, they are reprefented as fceing the Glory of God's Majefty, Ifai. 2. I O, 19, 21. God will make all his Enemies to behold this, and to live in a molt clear and affeaing View of it, in Hell, to all Eternity. God hath oftendeclared his immutable Purpofe to make all hisEnemies to know him in thisRefpe&,in fo often annexing there Words to the Threatnings he denounces againft them, and they flail know that I am the Lord ; yea, he bath fworn that all Men (hall fee his Glory in this Refpea ; Numb. 14. 21. 1s truly as I live, all the Earth 'hall be filled with the Glory of the Lord. And this Kind of Manifeftation of God is very often fpoken of in. Scripture, as made, or to be made, in the Sight of God's Enemies in this World ; Exod. 9. 16. and Chap. iq.. 18. and 15. 16. Pfal. 66. 3. and 46. ic. and other Places innumerable. This was a Manifeftation which God made of himfeif in the Sight of that wicked Congregation at Mount Sinai ; and deeply affeaing them with it ; fo that all the People in the Camp trembled. Wicked Men and. Devils will fee, and have a great Senfe ofevery Thing that appertains to the Glory of God, but only the Beauty ofhis moral Perfection. They will fee his infinite Greatnefs and Majefty, his infinite Power, and will be fully convin- ced of his Omnifcience, and his Eternity and Immutability ; and they will fee and know every Thing appertaining to his moral Attri - butes themfelves, but only the Beauty and Amiablenefs of them : They will fee and know that he is perfe6tly juft and righteous and true ; and that he is a holy God, of purer Eyes than to behold Evil, who cannot look on Iniquity, and they will fee the wonderful Ma- nifeftations of his infinite Goodnefs and free Grace to the Saints ; and there is nothing will be hid from their Eyes, but only the Beauty of thefe moral Attributes, and that Beauty of the other Attributes, which arifes from it. And fo natural Men in this World are capa- ble of having a very'affe6ting Senfe of every Thing elfe that apper-, tains to God, but this only. Nebuchadnezzar had a great and very affeEting Senfe of the infinite Greatnefs and awful Majefty of .God, of his fupreme and abfolute Dominion, and mighty and irrefftable Power, and of his Sovereignty, and that he, and all the Inhabitants of the Earthwere nothing before him and allo had a great Con viaion in his Confcience of his Juftice, and an affe6ting Senfe of his great Goodnefs'; Dan.=4.'1, 2, 3, 34, 35, 37. And the Senfe that-Darius had of God's Perfections, feems to be very much like his Dan. 6. 25, &c. But the Saints and Angels do behold the Glory of God confining in the Beauty of his Holinefs : And 'tis this eght only, that will melt and humble the Hearts of Men, and wean them from the World, and draw them to God, and effectually chenge them. A Sight of the awful Greatnefs Qf God, may over- power
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