The divine life in three treatises

It may be thy Rejoicing if thou have the testimony of a good conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, thou hast had thy conversation in the world, 2 Cor. 1. 12. It is the state of Hypocrisy, when One God is openly professed and worshipped, and yet the creature lieth deepest and nearest to the heart.

It may be thy Rejoycing if thou have the testimony of a good conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, and not in fleshly wisdome, but by the grace of God, thou hast had thy conversation in the world, 2 Cor. 1. 12. It is the state of Hypocrisie, when One God is openly professed and worshipped, and yet the creature lyeth deepest and nearest to the heart.

2. The Invisibility of God also must have its due effects upon us. And, 1. It must warn us, that we picture not God to our eye sight, or in our fancies in any bodily shape. Saith the Prophet, Isa. 40. 18. To whom will you liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? so 25. [No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of his Father, he hath declared him, Joh. 1. 18. and therefore we must conceive of him but as he is declared, Joh. 6. 46. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.]

2. The Invisibility of God also must have its due effects upon us. And, 1. It must warn us, that we picture not God to our eye sight, or in our fancies in any bodily shape. Saith the Prophet, Isa. 40. 18. To whom will you liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? so 25. [No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosome of his Father, he hath declared him,