I 56 The rFerfon of C/;rifl ihegreat ~prefentati.-ve o: Ties;(pn~nu, dM.; 8J~ JJ:Yt-AoL ~doll, ~n dp~-y~?cot, a'M.' €dv ~ , .) ' 1 I ' L.)' N ' I ' N ) I fi'::j (\. ' C. f 6tJ7l'iOC5 WJ'T1!5 CL'i(_9U(Ji'j me,t j.J.. <"Jt(,) !:i01ct;5 !:IO<'V ct./TIT/X..e,tiiOf»JV'&" ':OO c;CG J €v -u'+t'TTJI5 pBliOV ddb!1 TI5 m! e~CfN • Y,_g:/ ~I ~ Xep!:irS'Ip.. ~ _9p (' I > e I / e ~ '. I ~ < ~ 1 ''¥'-' , O"Be_stCp~tp.. <<m Uf!.M~M 'TI f{E811, __T o ..· f.M-!CZ1 t(.9J! 'T'd a')ACLt:!Jl-'d p.-t- /1.@-. dY1.9van, 'iJ 3<n 7r?cnpns o' oueytvJs 'iJ n_, 'Y~ et Jb~ns d.JdJ. }or that which is God (the Effence of God) 'nvt only have not the Prophets feen, but neither the Angels nor the Arcbangfls. If thou wilt enquire of them, thoujhalt ha·ve nothing, of tl>e fu/;– jfanceof God; ~ut on?J hear themfay, Glor.,_-v ~toGod on high. If thou askefl the Cherubims andSeraphims, thou }halt on?J hear the praife ofHolinr.fs,the whole Earth is full of his Glory,Says Chryfoflome, incap. I . Joh .. v, IS. ThatGodisinhimfelfab– folutely incomprehenfibleunto us, is a nece.«ary Effect ofour Infinite difiance trom him. But as he ~xternalfy reprefents himfelfurtto us, and by the Notions which are ingenerated in us by the effeCts of his Properties, are our Conceptions of hsm, 'Pjal,r9.I.Rom. 1.21. This is declared in the Anfwer given unto that Requefi of Mofes; I 6efiechtheejhewme tky Glory, Exod. B- 28 . Mofes had hearda voice fpeaking unto him, . but he that fpake was in thick Darknefs, he faw him not. Glorious Evidences he gave of his Maje}fatica! . Piefence, but no Appearance was made of his E!fence or Perfon. , Hereon Mojes defireth for the full fatisfafrion ofhis foul (as the nearer any one is unto God, the more earnefi will be his defire after the full fruition of him) that he might have a fight of his Glory, not of that created Glory in tbe tokens of his Prefence and Power which he had beheld, but of the increatedGlory of his Effence and Being. T hrough a tranfport ofLove to God, he would have been inHeavenwhilf1: he was on the Earth; yea defired more than Heaven it felfwill afford, if he would have feen t he Ef{e nce ~fGod with his Corporeal Eyes_. In anfwer hereunto . God tells him, that he cann(Jtfte His face and live; none can have
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