The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

Let us then stir up our drowsy souls, open our heavy eyes, and turn them upon God, inure• and habituate them to a constant view of his (yet veiled) face, that we may not see him only by casual glances, but as those that see• his face, and make it our business to gain • thorough knowledge of him.

Let us then stir up our drowsie souls, open our heavy eyes, and turn them upon God, inure• and habituate them to a constant view of his (yet vailed) face, that we may not see him onely by casual glances, but as those that see• his face, and make it our business to gain • thorough knowledge of him.

But let us remember that all our present Visions of God, must aim at a further Conformity ⟨p. 315⟩to him, they must design imitation, not the satisfying of curiosity, our looking must not therefore be an inquisitive busy prying into the unrevealed things of God. Carefully abstain from such over-bold, presumptuous looks▪ But remember we are to eye God as our pattern. Wherein he is to be so, he hath plainly enough revealed and proposed himself to us. And consider this in the pattern both to which we ought, and to which we shall be conformed (if we make it our business) so will sense of duty, and hope of success concur to fix our eye and keep it steady.

But let us remember that all our present Visions of God, must aim at a further Conformity ⟨p. 315⟩to him, they must design imitation, not the satisfying of curiosity, our looking must not therefore be an inquisitive busie prying into the unrevealed things of God. Carefully abstain from such over-bold, presumptuous looks But remember we are to eye God as our pattern. Wherein he is to be so, he hath plainly enough reveal'd and propos'd himself to us. And consider this in the pattern both to which we ought, and to which we shall be conformed (if we make it our business) so will sense of duty, and hope of success concur to fix our eye and keep it steady.