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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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I answer; The face of God (which was touched before) as taken for the essence of God, or for his essential glory, cannot be seen; That's too transcendent a glory for man to behold. What we see of God is but some ray or beaming out of light and glory from himself, we cannot see himself. The essential or personal glory of God, is that face which cannot be seen, but the declarative glory of God is a face of God which may be clearly seen by faith in the light of his word and works. And to see the face of God, is nothing else but for a man to know in himself (as the Apostles word is in somewhat a parallel case, Heb: 10.34.) that God is gracious to him, that is, to have an assurance of his favour, or a reflect act of faith about it. The holy Spirit showeth us what God is, and what the things of God are (1 Cor: 2.12.) We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us of God; that is, that we may•e enlightened with the knowledge of the grace, goodness, and favour of God to us discovered in the Gospel. The Spirit showeth us this blessed face of God, and we see it by the actings of our faith; all our visions of God in this life are visions of faith; upon whose wings all our intellectual powers soar aloft and are carried up to God. Faith is not only a work of the will in consent and application, but a work of the understanding by assent and knowledge. Thus we ⟨p. 433⟩see God (as a Spirit is only to be seen) with a spiritual eye. The vision of God is intellectual, the vision of faith.1 Thus the reconciled sinner finding God favourable to him; he seeth his face with joy.
I answer; The face of God (which was touched before) as taken for the essence of God, or for his essentiall glory, cannot be seene; That's too transcendent a glory for man to behold. What we see of God is but some ray or beaming out of light and glory from himselfe, we cannot see himselfe. The essentiall or personall glory of God, is that face which cannot be seene, but the declarative glory of God is a face of God which may be clearely seene by faith in the light of his word and workes. And to see the face of God, is nothing else but for a man to know in himselfe (as the Apostles word is in somewhat a parallel case, Heb: 10.34.) that God is gracious to him, that is, to have an assurance of his favour, or a reflect act of faith about it. The holy Spirit sheweth us what God is, and what the things of God are (1 Cor: 2.12.) We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us of God; that is, that we maye enlightned with the knowledge of the grace, goodness, and favour of God to us discovered in the Gospel. The Spirit sheweth us this blessed face of God, and we see it by the actings of our faith; all our visions of God in this life are visions of faith; upon whose wings all our intellectuall powers soare aloft and are carried up to God. Faith is not only a worke of the will in consent and application, but a worke of the understanding by assent and knowledge. Thus we