Secondly, here the excellency and eminency of an 1object does destroy the faculty, if the faculties of our souls be exercised about objects, that are very high above us, that are full of excellency and glory, they destroyed the faculty; as now though light be the most pleasing to the eye of all things in the world, yet the excellency and glory of light destroys the eye; so sound is the proper object of the ear, but if the sound be too great, it makes one deaf, but it is otherwise in heaven, the more excellent the object is, the more perfect will the faculty be; the object shall not only delight the faculty, but perfect and strengthen the faculty. ⟨p. 503⟩nature as in a glass, but thus far, that as we see good in the creature now, then we shall see them by knowing God himself, more then by knowing the creature. And the reason is, because all excellency and good that is in the creature is eminently in God; for all the good of the effects must needs be eminently in all the principles, and the good of all principles in the first principle: If all good in the creature be eminently in God, and the souls of the blessed shall come perfectly to know God, so far as their created understandings shall be capable of, then they must needs see the excellency of the creature in God. We shall know as we are known, 1 Cor. 13. 12. Upon this a learned man hath this note, We shall know as we are known; now God knows all his works, by knowing himself, by knowing his own power, and will, and nature, and so we shall know as we are known, because we shall know the creatures by knowing God.
Secondly, here the excellency and eminency of an 1object does destroy the faculty, if the faculties of our souls be exercised about objects, that are very high above us, that are full of excellency and glory, they destroyed the faculty; as now though light be the most pleasing to the eye of all things in the world, yet the excellency and glory of light destroys the eye; so sound is the proper object of the ear, but if the sound be too great, it makes one deaf, but it is otherwise in heaven, the more excellent the object is, the more perfect will the faculty be; the object shall not onely delight the faculty, but perfect and strengthen the faculty. ⟨p. 503⟩nature as in a glass, but thus far, that as we see good in the creature now, then we shall see them by knowing God himself, more then by knowing the creature. And the reason is, because all excellency and good that is in the creature is eminently in God; for all the good of the effects must needs be eminently in all the principles, and the good of all principles in the first principle: If all good in the creature be eminently in God, and the souls of the blessed shall come perfectly to know God, so far as their created understandings shall be capable of, then they must needs see the excellency of the creature in God. We shall know as we are known, 1 Cor. 13. 12. Upon this a learned man hath this note, We shall know as we are known; now God knows all his works, by knowing himself, by knowing his own power, and will, and nature, and so we shall know as we are known, because we shall know the creatures by knowing God.
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