Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9318.S45 L5 1638

God tta,snf41. fecond Perfon,Let us thus thinkeofGoa' manifejt in theflesh. To thir;keofG.od alone,it fwallowes up our thoughts; but to think of in CErifi, ofGodmanlfft in theftcfh, it is a cormsortable con (ideration. To fee the Sunne alone in it fe'fe; in Simile, the glory and luflreofit,it is impoffible,without hurting of the eye;but to fee the Sunne in water, as we doe in, an Ecl ipfè; &c. we maydoeit, So wecannot çonceivcof God ,alone abfoigç-Oyr;but toconceicof od in ourflefh,is to looke upon the Sun(as itwere)in the water,or upon the ground. God in hitnfelfe is fogiorious,that.we could ne- v.rfee him as he tells rt[afea,,Exod,33,None can Exod 33. eve? fee God,and live ; that is, God nakedly , or ab- folurely. Oh, but God rnanifefi inourflcfh, wemay fee ; and it¡hall beour happineffe. in. Heaven, to fee him there, to fee God in ogrßefhface toface. We cannot toooften meditateofthese things; it is the life and fouleofa Chriflian, it is the marrow ofthe Gofpei , it is the wonderof won - dens we neednot wonder at any thing,after this. Jr isnowonder,that our bodies fhall rifeagaine, that mortal! man fhould becomeafterwards im- mortal!, in heaven; since the immortali God bath taken mansnarure,and dyed in it. All the Articles ofour Faith, and all Miracles, yecld to this grand thing , God manifefi in the PP. Be.. leeve this, and beleeve all other. Therefote let us often have thefe fweer cherishing conceitsof God inour efb, that it may flrengthen, and feed, and'nourithi our Faith , efpecially in the timeof temptation. ; Chrit}s incar.. natlon,tnatter of wonder. Againe,A

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