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The joyes of Gods Children, invisible. [ 845]
IT is St. Augustines own relation of a certain Gentile, that shewed him his Idoll-Gods, saying, Here is my God? Where is thine? then pointing up at the Sun,* 1.1 he said; Loe, here is my God, where is thine? so shewing him••divers Creatures, still up∣braided him with, Here are my Gods, where are thine? But as the Father answered him, I shewed him not my God,* 1.2 not because I had not one to shew him, but be∣cause he had not eyes to see him: Thus the joyes of a Christian, though they can∣not be seen with bodily eyes, though the wicked cannot so much as discern them, yet is there nothing so delightful, so comfortable as they are; witness that Peace of Conscience, that joy in the Holy Ghost which is so unspeakable, such as eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard, neither hath it entred into the heart of Man to conce••••e them as they are.