Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

1. Clearly convince the soul that the immortal, invisible, and most holy God, that dwelleth in an unapproachable light, has set out himself to be seen, or made himself only visible in Jesus Christ; so that he would have no man look upon him any other ways, than as he has revealed himself in his Son: In whom (though in all other creatures his vestigia and footsteps are to be seen) as he is God, the face of God is to be seen; which no creature is able to behold, ⟨p. 24⟩ubt there, being the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his Person, Heb. 1.3. And as he is man, the very heart of God, both in respect of Affection, and Will is to be seen; So that in and through Jesus Christ, especially his human nature, the glory of the great God breaks out like the Sun through the clouds most brightly, in respect of us; and therefore in and through his human nature we are only to behold God, in whom all that a Christian desires to know, is to be seen, which is the Face and Heart of so dear a Friend, 2. Cor. 4.6. Joh. 14.9, 10. For we know by too lamentable experience, how the whole world vanishing in their smoky thoughts of the glory of God, as he is considered in himself, and not able to conceive or retain the knowledge of him; did hence invent and set up Images as fit objects for their drunken staggering understanding to fasten upon, and to be limited with; and hence adored God before these, (as our Popish Hypocrites do before the Altar) and in these and at these, as Papists do in respect of their Images. Hence the Lord to cure this inveterate natural malady, hath in the second Person, united himself to man Christ Jesus; through whom we are both able to our everlasting wonderment to see him, and also here bound only to behold him; who as he is a fit handle for our faith, so he is a fit object for our weak minds to behold the glory of the most high God in. Wherefore then do you offer to go unto God without Christ, when as you are not so much as to look upon God, but as he appears in Christ? ⟨p. 25⟩Is not the human nature of the Lord Jesus more easy to be seen and conceived of, than the invisible unlimited eternal God-head?