MEDITATIONS, 


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A GLIMPSE OF GLORY; 


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Emmanuel's Land. | 


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Whereunto is Subjoined, 


A SPIRITUAL HYMN, 
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THE DYING SAINT?'S SONG; 


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SOME OF HIS LAST LTTINS.. 


BY MR ANDREW WELWOO 


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TO THE READER. 


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 CurisTIAN READER, | . WE. 
| "HOU haft here preſented to thy view, a GLIMPSE or 
Gros from the heavenly - Zion, ſo, bright and 
lively as nothing of human compoſure yet extant can 
equal—a ray of ſuch heavenly fire, as, being received 
into an heart affected with eternal objects, may prove a 
bleſt mean to inflame it into a divine rapture of holy 
longing, to ſee and enjoy theſe unſeen things which are 
here in ſo bright colours repreſented. Whoſoever will, 
in ſincerity and with attention, peruſe this {mall trea- 
tie, will be led into ſuch a delightful contemplation of 
divine and heavenly things, as may, in a manner, tran- 
ſport his very ſoul into that heavenly paradiſe; carry 0 
him along the beautiful banks of that pure river of the - 
ee of life; and repreſent to the eyes of his mind that 
oble and glorious company that ſtands about the Lam, 
on mount Zion, in white robes, with palms in theiet 
hands, finging a new ſong of praiſe to Jehovah and tge 
Lamb. Here ſhall he find the incomparable beauties of 
the upper Paradiſe, and royal palace of the King of kings, 
deſcribed ſo brightly, in ſuch high and lofty expreſſions, 
as well ſuit theſe ſublime and ſupernatural objects; and 
yet withal fo eaſy to be underſtood, that the meaneſt ca- 
| , pacityy exerciſed in ſpiritual things, may apprehend the 
true ſenſe and meaning of them. The holy heart of the 
Author hath been ſo much in heaven, that from the end 
of the prelude to the concluſion, he talks altogesthet like 
one in heaven already; and as a poſſeſſor of th 
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he deſcribes—- which is to be attentively noticed, for 
the better underſtanding of the ſcope and intent of the 
diſcourſe. x5 DOSS 36), 
Beſides the deſcription of heaven, and the glory which 
the ſaints ſhall enjoy there, (which is the profeſſed ſub- 
jet of the book) there are not a few other excellent 
ſubjects interſperſed, and pretty largely handled. How 
iweetly doth he expatiate on the praiſes of Chriſt, the e- 
ver bleſled Redeemer? How lively doth he deſcribe him, 
in his humbled ſtate; his humble, laborious, ſorrowful, 
vet holy life; his painful, ſhameful and accurſed death; 
his infinite love to his choſen, that put him upon all 
that voluntary humiliation and ſuffering? With what 
1aviihment doth he admire the difference of theſe two 
io diftant eſtates? In what ſweet, lively and bright ex- 
preſſions doth he declare the mutual intercourſe betwixt 
this glorious Redeemer and his, choſen, eſpecially in the 
upper houſe ? It is allo another great aim of the Author 
to diſplay the attributes of God, to his glory: His 
grace and mercy towards the elect; his ſovereignty, in 
his works of creation, providence, and eſpecially elec- 
tion; his truth and faithfulneſs, in making good all his 
promiſes; his unchangeableneſs, in his purpoſes of love 
and grace to his own ; his ſpotleſs holiness and juſtice, 
in puniſhing the wicked? How lofty is he in deſcribing 
the ſovereignty of God over his creatures; either to 
create or not create, ele& or pals by, as he pleaſed? 
How ſweet, large and raviſhing is he, in holding forth 
the freedom and riches of redeeming grace ? And how 
doth he exult and glory in the unchangeableneſs of God, 
which ſecures the ſame to all eternity? His wonderful 
wiſdom, in contriving the ſaints way to the kingdom, 
through a life of ſufferings; afflictions, poverty, labours, 
watchings, ſorrows, &c. is pleaſantly cleared up; and 
many myſterious providences, relating thereunto, judici- 


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_ oully unfolded; which may ſerve much for confirmation 


and conſolation to many poor drooping behevers. In | 
deſcribing the holineſs and juſtice of God, in the eternal 
puniſhment of the damned, he takes occaſion largely to 


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_delineate the miſerable eſtate 4 the un godly : Nor is 
this improper for his ſubject; for contraries ſet beſide 


other ſerve to enlighten one another. He ſets forth 
their extreme miſery from the greatneſs of theit torments; 
the great and 3 — loſs they undergo in their 
Ten baniſhment from the preſence of God and the 
,amb :; The eternity, yet juſtice, of their puniſhment— 
which: jaſtice he founds not on an arbitrary conſtitu- 


tion, but on the infinite holinels, juſtice and ſovereignty | 


of God, againft whom ſin is an infinite offence, as firik- 
ing againſt his very „ Haw and glory; and therefore de- 
ſerving an infinity of puniſiiment— The blaſphemies they 
continually belch forth againſt their Creator for his pu- 
niſhing them, tho' at the ſame time their conſciences ap- 


prove him juſt; and their horrid inclination to-- fulfil 


their luſts, though they cannot: All which he reckons 
their punichment, as well as their ſin; for he was at no 


loſs to believe, that there is ſinning in hell. And final- 
1y, here is ſet forthwthe holy triumph of the righteous 
over. the wicked, devils and men, once their mortal en- 


emies, now laid low under the ſales of their feet, and 


for ever baniſhed their holy and happy ſociety—All 
which the Author deſcribes in ſuch a moving and pathetic | 


monner as might cauſe an adamantine heart to relent and 
tremble, and to enquire, what. müſt I do to be lavede 


How ihall I eſcape the wrath to come? 
And indeed, to bring fouls to ſuch a ſerious enquiry, 3 
and draw hearts from this baſc, empty earth, to an in- 


queſt after heaven and ſalvation, i is the great aim of the 
Author through all this book. And hence, how pathe- 


tic and vigorous is he, in his inviting, perſwading, ane 2 


reaſoning with the mnoopycrted (whom he..commoenly* 1 
ſtiles worldlings, becauſe yet intangled in the luits of te 
warld) to awaken them, to a due concern about heavens 


ly things, and wean their hearts from earthly: vanities ; 


and, by leſſening their eſteem of them, to amen their a. 


fections from them! 
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not want an help at hand, to diſcover to them the good- 


neſs or badneſs of their eſtate,— he hath added in the 


concluſion of the work a confiderable number of excel- 
lent marks, or notes, whereby a Chriſtian may diſcern. 
his being in Chriſt, and whether he be in an heavenly 
frame, or not; allo. by n a formal ByPoomte! oy: be 
detected: 

If there be any lights of lofty and blies thought: 
here and there, that may offend. the cenſorious, 'tis de- 


| fired, that before they cenſure they would firſt compare 


them with the fimilitudes and expreſſions of holy ſcrip- 
ture, and next with the ſentiments of ſound divznes,! gi- 
ving ſome grains of allowance, on; confideration of the 
ſublime and rapturous way of writing here uſed; and 
tis confidently. preſumed, they will find nothing but 
what is moſt agreeable to truth, in this whole tractate. 
There is a ſentence, ſect. 54, where he ſeems to make 
ſincerity the condition of the new covenant, as perfec- 


tion of obedience was the condition of the covenant of 


works; which may perhaps offend ſome, who diſhke the 


very term Condition in 1 e vob grace. But Who- 
ſoever conſiders how large and pathetic he is in de- 


ſcribing the free grace of God, and aſcribing all the glo- 
ry of redemption and ſalvation to Chriſt, and only to 


Chriſt, muſt be perſwaded, he cannot mean that the be> 


liever's ſincerity, or any grace of his whatſoever, is the 
condition of the new covenant, in a legal ſenſe; for ſo 


Chriſt's righteouſneſs alone is the condition of that cove- 


nant, Nor can we charitably judge, that this term 
condition is in any worſe or ſtricter ſenſe affirmed of 
fincerity, which preſuppoſes and includes faith, than it 
is of faith itſelf, in the 32d anſwer of our larger Cate» 
chiſm. It is clent then, that the Author takes condition 
in a large ſenſe, for any thing required or accepted. in 
the new covenant : And fo it is true, that as Adam's 
works were to be perfect, in order to acceptation; fo 
the believer's good works cannot be accepted frithont 


- Gncerity, and will, thro? Chriſt, be accepted when fin- 
dere: Which mult certainly. be all the Author intends. 


by condition in "At place. 


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VII. 


Hle is alſo pretty poſitive in his opinion of the renova- 


tion of the earth and viſible heavens, at the day of 
judgment; which he deſcrives in bright and beautiful 
emblems. The opinion is indeed controverted among the 
learned But moſt of the orthodox are of the Author's 
ſide. Hence, when he is ſpeaking of things in that re- 
et Rate, after the day of judgment, none needs mar- 
vel, that he calls fun, moon, and ftars everlaſting, and the 
earth an eternal monument, as in ſect. 43, or ſtumble 
at any ſuch uncommon expreſſions ; for he ſpeaks as 
one beyond time in eternity. 

Moreover, the intelligent and dblhevicn reader will 
here find ſuch a ſurpriſing variety. of the moſt profound 


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goſpel-myſteries, interwoven in ſuch a beautiful and art- 


ful contexture, as will every where entertain his under- 
ſtanding with an uncommon delight. 

Tis hoped, none will deſiderate method, or quarrel the 
want thereof as a defect; if it be but reminded, that 
devotional books, amongſt which this may juſtly claim 
a chief room, are not uſually aſtricted to the rules of 
art and logical method—it being the defign of ſuch 
writers, not ſo much to pleaſe the fancy, or entertain 
the underitanding with an orderly ranging and methodiz- 
ing of things, as to quicken and inffame the affections 
with divine aud ſublime meditations; where, not a 
gingle of empty eloquence fills the ear, but heavenly. 


and ſupernatural objects, brought down, as it were, 
from the eternal world of ſpirits, and made familiar to 


the underfianding, move and engage the heart, and ele- 


vate the ſoul to follow hard after thoſe only worthy and 


ſubſtantial delights. And beſides, the intelligent reader 
will find upon due peruſal, that 'tis not a mere rude heap 
of indigeſted matter, but that there is really a comely 
order obſerved, in the diſpoſing of the thoughts herein 
contained, which will ſufficiently gratify the under- 
ſtanding, while the incomparable matter melts and inflames 
the affections. 

As for the titles of the ſections, the oubliliiirs Were 
not aſſured, . they were added by the author 


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himſelf, or by ſome. other hand: Nay, they did not. . 


want ground of ſuſpicion, both from the difference of 
expreſſion, and ſometimes from the unſuitablneſs ta the 
matter, that ſome leſs KE ilful perſon had added them. Vet, 
having no copies ſave one (except the Letters, and Saint's 
Song, whereof we faund ſeveral copies) to. compare, 
'twas. thought ſafeſt to retain them, left any thing might 
be deiiderate that was in the manuſcript: And the judi-. 
cious reader is left to his Aue, whether to read an the 
matter without regard to theſe titles, or otherwiſe, fox ; 
it-muſt be owned, that, conſidering the variety of hea ven? 


ly purpoles ſometimes comprized in one of theſe para. 


graphs, 'tis no ealy matter for any man to deviſe an appo- 
lite title, to . the ſubitance of the matter therein 
contained. 

There is no Sake but the reader, by this 3 will 
be longing for ſome account of the author: And it 


were to be wiſhed, that a true and genuine relation of the 


life of that pious youth could have been recovered, in or- 
der further to oblige the public, which had i been prac: 
ticable, no pains Would have been ſpared to tranſmit it: 
And without all. doubt, ſuch a life would have been a 
rare and excellent draught, worthy of Chriſtian imitation 
He was. the ſon of a Fodly father, miniiter of the goſ- 
pel at Tondergirth in Annandale, concerning whom there 
is related this remarkable paſſage. When the Lord 
had taken away from him his beloved wife, the defire of 
his eyes, he ſpent the whole enſuing night in prayer and 
meditation in his garden. One of the elders of the pariſh, 
coming next morning to vifit hun, and condoling his 
want af reſt by. reaſon. of the diſpenſation ſo lately befal- 


len him, he replies thus, or to this effect: I declare I 


* have. not all this night had one thought concerning 
the death of my ſpouſe; I have been ſo wholly taken 
up with the meditation of heavenly things. I have 


been this night upon the banks of Ulai, plucking an 


apple here and there. — This paſſage plainly ſnews what 


- a heavenly foul this holy man had been; and how 
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with the ſame ſpirit, is abundantly evident from the enſu- 


ing treatiſe. His brother, Mr John Welwood, was a per- 
ſon well known to many, and his memory ſtill ſavory to 
all that knew him, for his holineſs, diligence in the la- 
bours of the miniſtry, amidſt many perils from bloody 
perſecutors, and falſe brethren, his undaunted zeal and 
courage in the cauſe of Chriſt, tho? under a very weak 
and fickly conftitution of body. What a life of faith 
he lived in theſe perilous times, is evident from ſeveral 
letters of his, written to his godly acquaintances, and 
friends, yet extant in manuſcript. And as he excelled in 
the grace of faith, ſo this holy youth, the Author, ſeems 
to have peculiarly abounded in that of love, as will be 
abundantly manifeſt from the whole of this heavenly trac- 
tate. And how zealous he was for the royal prerogatives 
of his lovely Redeemer, uſurped by wicked rulers, and 
the public concerns of his houſe and glory, may be 
gathered from ſeveral paſſages in this treatiſe, tho? the 
nature of the ſubject did not permit him to enlarge much 
this way. It appears plainly, from his letters annexed 
to this treatiſe, that he deſigned to have ſerved the Lord 
Chriſt in the work of the miniſtry, if it had pleaſed 
the Lord to have continued his abode here below: But 
the good Lord was pleaſed carly to tranſport him from 
the wilderneſs of earth to the paradiſe of glory ; and 
to accept the will, in that matter, for the deed, as himſelf 
ſpeaketh. He died at London, in time of our late per- 


ſecution, as would ſeem of a confumption, under which 


affliction, how much he profited and grew in grace, ap- 
pears alſo evidently from the ſame letters. He conclu- 


ded his holy and happy, though ſhort life, with the ſweet- 


eſt aſſurance of obtaining that celeſtial bleſſedneſs he 


here deſcribes, and quietly ſlept in the Lord. And tho? 
the reſt of the hiſtory of his life cannot here be com- 
mitted to writing, (as was deſigned, if certain informa - 
tion could have been obtained) yet there is here a ge- 
nuine tranſcript of it to be read—for no doubt he endea- 
vour'd to live what he wrote and ſuch a laſting monument 
erected to the glory of his Redeemer, as will alſo ſerve 


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to tranſmit his memory embalmed to poſterity, without 
needing an eulogium from any other hand. 

To conclude, the treatiſe itſelf, will upon due peru- 
ſal, ſo approve itſelf to every gracious heart, by its 
heavenly and divine ſtrain; the noble deſign it drives, 
namely to exalt Chriſt, and allure Souls to him; by its 
mott ſweet and taking compoſure, —its tile being both 
lofty as to the ſubject, and condeſcending to the moſt 
illiterate ; and finally by the ſweet diſcoveries it makes 
of that holy city, the Heavenly Jeruſalem, the hope, 
reſt, and joy of all the {aints :—Fhe treatite, I Jays will 
ſo recommend itſelf, as that it mall need no Ivy to be. 
hung out to invite the paſſenge 3 and will only need to 
ry known, to recommend 1t elend to n. de vout 
oul. 

That the Ame Lord, with 1 is the regung 
of the ſpirit, and who only can command the pleſſing, 
may make this TREATISE a bleſſed mean in the hand 
of bis Holy Spirit, to build up and oomfort belie vers, to 
quicken them to heavenly-mindedneſs, and draw them 
from the too eager love of this earth: And awaken, 
allure, and draw finners to Jeſus Chriſt, charmed and 
raviſhed with the unſpeakable glory of the great reward 
here deſcribed, which he hath promiſed to all them 
that turn from iniquity, and ſincerely love him, is the 
carneſt deſire of the Publiſhers... 


WRITTEN BY A FRIEND OF. THE AUTHOR, UPON THE SIGHT 


Is not allur'd with Siren's empty voice, 
And ſcorns to aim below the Zenith high, 


On ſeas of briniſh tears, poor we are toſt, 


Can't ſee our deareft native ſoil, or lover: 


Which rouſe theſe fainting ſouls, whoſe feet do ſtand” 


_ Hath walk'd alongſt the green and flow'ry banks 


His eyes, on glory's land, moſt lovely, fair; 


His hearing, with harmonious raptures high; 


A POEM, 


OF THIS RARE PIECE, IN COMMENDATION or BOT I. 


Ou exc'llent ſouls, whoſe lofty minds aſpire 
To higher objects only, whoſe defire 
Diſdains o'er-valu'd dung, vile worldlings choice, 


Whither refin'd perfections all do fly; | : 
Here is an object higheſt thoughts tranſcending, 
Yet unto mean conceptions condeſcending : ' 
Here's heaven and glory, higher Eden come 

T' unhappy earth, a ſweet elyfinm : | 
Here's glory brought to us, or, (happy we!) 
To glory made, by nimble wings, to flee. 


With boiſt'rous winds, and lofty waves are croſt; 


But, here's a curious proſpect, to difcover 
That land afar off, thoſe ſweet hills and vales, 
Where blow thefe fragrant, ſoul-refreſhing gales, 


Within the borders of Emmanuel's land ; 

Where ſhines the Eternal, with celeſtial ſhow'rs, 
Ne'er ending bleſſings on the ranſom'd powers. 
The ſoaring author bath flow'n up above, 
Drawn by the cords of his Redeemer's love ; 


Of life's ſweet river, view'd the curious ranks 
Of glory's ſtately fruitful trees, hath taſted 
Their fruits moſt pleaſant and delicious; feaſted 


His taſte, with Nectar and Ambroſia rare; 
His imelling, with heaven's ſpring's embroidery ; 


His touch, upon the filken carpet's lap, — 
Whach glory's fields and alley's doth inwrap ; — 
His mind, upon the elevated things, > 
And deep contrivance of the King of kings: 

His love, on joys which eye back never leen, 
Which man's capacious heart did ne'er contain: 
He's fad, that mortals in foul mire thould wallow, 
And greedily vile lumps of earth ſhould ſwallow : 


Moſt friendly bids you, ſhare ſome drops with him 


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Of pleaſure's ſtreams, in which the ſaints do ſwim : * 
He (Iſraels ipy) ripe grapes from-promis'd land 
Hath brought (t' inflame them) with a liberal hand. 
Thy pen mounts higher than the eagle's far, 

Thy ſharpeſt eye more than the eagle's dare. 
Thy draught Appelles tables far outvies, 

More curious thy picture is than his. 

Thy raptures future ages ſhall admire, 

And theſe ſhall light their tapers at thy fire. 
Thou'ſt trode a lofty path, ne'er trode before, 

And which ſhall be, it ſeems, by none trode more : 
Thou haft outſtript, and ſhamed the ages gone, 
And by the rareſt writings graced thine own. 

The times to come may trace thy ſtately pace, 

But ftill thow'lt get the honour of the place. 
Who would fee glory of the neareſt ſhores, 

Draw near it with theſe curious mighty oars ; 

Caſt out on glorius beauteous ſkirts your eye, 

And there, O ſaints, your raviſhed foals ſhall ſpy 
A Paradiſe, whoſe loweſt parts excel 

This vileſt dunghil in which mortals dwell : 

A. Paradiſe, each glimpſe of which will fill 

Your minds with wonder, and with joy your will: 
In ſhort, a Paradiſe, whoſe every part 

Shall ſo inflame your ever raviſhed heart, 


That longing you, ſhall never ref, till ye 
Have heaven in you, or you in glory be. 


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THE PRELUDE 


OQUSE. thee, O my ſoul, from this baſe and conta. 
gious earth: Why ſhould lower thoughts and 
baſe aims poſſeſs thee thus? What haſt thou here, that 


4 may draw thee aſide from the center of thy felicity but 


for one moment? If this world, in her roſy and youth- 
ful conſtitution, be very vanity and vexation of ipirit, - 
what muſt there be now in her ſad and withered ſtate ? 
If in her ſmiles ſhe be not worth the regarding, what 
| folly is it to court a frowning nothing? 

2. Is it time, O my ſoul, to place one beam of thy 
affection upon ſuch a ſilly, baſe dunghill, fo as to give it 
an affectionate look? Trample it under thy feet: Car- 
ry thyſelf after the manner of theſe who expect the 


"i kingdom. God hath formed thee of ſuch a capacious 


conſtitution, as nothing can ſatisfy thee below his infinite 
' ſelf ; and ſhouldſt thou be confined, in thy outgoings, 
within the limits of this lower, ſmoky region? Mount 
up ſwiftly, far above ſun, moon and ſtars, beyond the 
borders of this narrow vault, where thou mayeſt ſweetly 
bathe thyſelf in theſe oceans of joys and felicity that 
know neither brim nor bottom : Thou art not to waſte 
away thy conceptions * things to day in their vigour 


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and to morrow they are not; ſhadows, empty nothings, 
night-dreams and vanities, inſufficient objects for the 
faculties of ſuch a noble being to fix upon. Art thou not 


beginning to conſider of a more enduring ſubſtance ? The 
kingdom that cannot be ſhaken, Emmanuel's glorious, 


ſtately and ever flouriſhing land, the ſmiling, roſy place 
where his ſervants do inceſſanty ſerve him, and ſee his 
face eternally, without a cloud; where our all lovely 
well-beloved doth corporeally dwell, and ſhall forever 
take up his eternal abode; a fruitful, fragrant, beautiful 
delightſome ſoil , overflowing with the true and real Nec- 


tar and Ambroſia; a garden of delights, a Paradiſe of þ 


pleaſures, planted at the beginning by the Almighty's 


own right hand, whereon he hath manifeſted, in an high 


and tranſcendent manner, the incomprehenſible glory of 


his power, love and goodneſs, wonderfully, above what 


eye hath ſeen, ear hath heard, or the mind of man, with- 
in the tents of mortality, conſidered. What a wonderful 


frame is this! O the alluring objects up above! The 


firf\thought whereof ſet all on a flame: O what deſires: 
O what longings ! | When ſhall mortality be ſwallowed 
up of life, death of victory, time of eternity, miſeries of 
bleſſedneſs, ſorrows of joys, pains of pleaſures, painted 
enjoyments and delights of his love and eternal ſweet- 
nels ? 

3. All creatures are ever in action, eſpecially theſe 
of the higheſt and moſt noble rank, which muſt neceſ- 
farily have ſome object or other, to fix their outgoings 
The moſt excellent and ſublime are then to be 
choſen; and what more excellent than what will fill all 
the powers and faculties of blefled men and angels 
throughout all eternity ? | Fs 


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rioſity nor audacity, but a necefiary duty, lying upon 


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all who are travelling thither: 
a noble ſtudy cannot be told, nay nor conceived, but by 
the exerciſed therein. | 

5. According to the knowledge, ſo are the affections, 


What we know not, that 
we cannot love; and what we behold lovely, we cannot 
but love it. Seraphic ſpirits, no wonder you are oft-times 
raviihed from yourſelves. 
cannot but have a drooping life of it, ſince you know 
nothing but earth : Had you an half glimpſe of the more 
enduring ſubſtance, of the ever flouriſhing, never fading 
glory, how ſhould you be in an unexperienced frame of 


The advantages of ſuch 


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joy and admiration ! How ſhould you diſdain all the leſ- 


ſer beauties on this {ide of time! But ah! you never faw 


the enduring glory; and what wonder you are as you 
are? 

6. Mortality hath no . joy than the ſolid hope 
of glory; the ſweetneſs ariſing from the ſolid hope of fo 


great things, fills the ſoul with wonderful raviſhments, 


and . the loweſt of earthly enjoyments: Surpaſ- 
ſing joys. to my foul ! Theſe temporal things my Lord 
beſtows upon me, are as pledges of the fair FS i 
And are not all viſible things as many emblems of the in- 
viſible? Worldlings, you are fools to imagine we have 
a ſad and melancholious life: None live but we; tho? 
we may ſaid to be, as to this life, fall men the moft 
miſerable; it's only as to the bulk of externals: You 
know not our joys, nor the manner of our enjoyments; 


neither can you know them, 


7, Of ; neceſſi ity we muſt 23 ar another life than 
thi. evanſhing vapour. 

May not the vanity and vexation to fairit, in che pur- 
ſuit of every ſublunary enjoyment, force us to the ſearch- 


ing after another life? If we ſearch not for the glory 
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to come, then let us ſearch after nothing at all. Sirs, 
what madnels to notice this earth, unleſs in order to eter- 
nity ? Do you not clearly i ce all your temporary enjoy- 
ments die in the birth? Are not the gliſtering ſhews of 
men on this ſtage of the world, like the appearance of | 
aerial things in the clouds ? Here are armies engaging | 
one another, there are ſhips under fail, yonder are men 
riding in the equipage of kings, queens, &c. otherwheres | 
are towns, caltles, rivers, &c.—all appear real to the 4 
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8. The ſmall 3 of glory proves us in a great part | 
carnal. 5 
Is it not evident we have our eyes too much upon | 
ſthadows? And that we divide * looks betwixt heaven : 


and earth; ſince our joys are more carnal than ſpiritual, 


and our longings and defires run fo little heaven-ward ? 


Ah! our love to the only well. beloved is not unlike that 
that every nation carries to their God ; elſe we would : 
be oft en crying out, is not my well- beloved gone unto an- 1 
oth er country? and ſhall not my heart and love forever : 
dwell there, and only there? Sit I down here, when he 
hath removed himſelf to another place? Can there be 0 


any thing defirable where he is not? O! all ye beauties 


of this lower world, what are you to me if my Lord be 
abſent ? Let me,paſs through all poſſible difficulties, e- 
ven through ten thouſand oceans of burning fire and} 
brimſtone, providing I land at laſt on that ten thou- 
ſand times happy place, where he forever dwells ; that 
theſe arms may be bleſt in embracing, theſe eyes in e- 
ternal beholding, and all my faculties may be filled with 
his eternally raviſhing ſweetneſs. Oh, when ſhall I be- 


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hold thy countenance ? when ſhall I hear thy voice ? 


when ſhall I ſtand amongit the happy, happy, happy 


ones, who ſtand in the immediate preſence of thy all- 


glorious Majeſty, and have the naked, immediate and 


| clear viſion of thine eternally raviſhing Godhead ! Ah 


how is it I think of any thing but heaven! Why are 


we not ever in an impatient longing to be in his ever- 
lasting embraces ? Know we what it is, to take him for 


our only well-beloved ? Is not every ſounding of his ye- 
ry name melodious harmony in our ears? Doth not e- 
very hearing or reading of him affect us with a wonder- 
ful ſweetneſs? Do not the thoughts of our being in his 
naked embraces e'er long, fill us with an extaſy of joy? 
Are we not often challenging years, months and days, 


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ſence, and death as of a {weet and lovely countenance, 
ſince it opens as a paſſage to the full enjoyment of him; 


and the marrow of all creature-excellency, a maſs of de- 


formity, if it ſhould eclipſe for a moment the {ſweet en- 
See of his all-ſufficient ſelf? 


9. Students of glory ene the di * difficulties and vVex- 


ations of time. | 
Sweet, {weet is the way to my bleſſed home.! Can 


U the way be thought tedious that leadeth to ſuch bound- 
leſs joy? O! the goodly country I behold lying at the 
end of my race! Hell in my way ſhould be as a plea- 


{ant Paradiſe : What tho? ſadneſs aſſaults me? Yonder are 
oceans of joys at the end of my journey ; tho? weari- 
nels, yonder are green paſtures, with an eternal May ; 
tho? death, yonder are floods, the rivers of life of which 
I ſhall drink, and drink again, ſor ever more: Doth po- 


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1 the golden and pearly city, the ſplendid houſhold-ſtuff ! 
O : the rich inhabitants! How do mine eyes affect mine 
heart! O bleſſed Chriſt, I have ſeen thee in thy beauty; 
and O! how is my ſoul in an uninterrupted motion to be 
at thee! The affairs of time move not as ſuch. O 
what allurements! Who can ſee, and not run? O! thy 
violent, ſweet, attractive virtue! How ſtrongly and | 
quickly doft thou draw thy members up to heaven af- 
ter thee! See I not thee, O well-beloved, ſtanding with | 
the maity crown of glory in thy hand, crying, Run, and 
bave it? And ſhall I not run, even run with patience and 
cheerfully unto death ? How cheerfully did my Lord go 
up to Jeruſalem, to purchaſe the crown for me! a 
Crown to be purchaſed through a world of ſorrows and 
> difficulties! What am I doing? Why ſtand I thus ? all 
is purchaſed already, andthe word is to me enter and poſſes. 
10. The fludy of glory is fo alluring, that the more we 

fludy, the more we love to fludy it. al” 
Had we a diſcovery of the only excellent things, how 
difficult would it prove to get our thoughts plucked 
off them? Moſt lovely things, ſeen in their lovelineſs, 
captivate the affections mofl, and conſequently determine 
1111 the thoughts: Do we not think moſt upon what we love 
n moſt ? Worldlings, I appeal to your conſciences, if your 
| thougl:ts run not out moſt upon earthly things : Why ? 
You know them only, and eſteem them moſt : But had 
iN you a view of the real world, the outgoings of your ſoul 
would run in an higher orb. Had we the impreſſions of 
34 glory on our ſpirits, lower objects ſhould not eaſily draw WW 
| down our thoughts, or turn the aſide ; yea, our high- 
" er powers ſhould be fo ſtrongly affected as that the lower 
powers {hould be regulated even in ſleep ; our imagina- 
tions would be compoſing and dividing the ideas of the 
life to come they received, according to their natures, 


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dreams, walking up and down the ſtreets of the golden 
city, the beds of lillies and roſes, in the higher Paradiſe 
of glory, the banks ot that river of water of life? days 
thoughts have influence upon night dreams; the diſpo- 
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fooliſh a manner! The flrength of your ſublime powers 
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11. Creatures are only to be efleemed more or leſs ex- 


== cellent, according to their knowledge ; it being the pri- 
mum mobile Fall other endowments. 


Creatures are excellent according to their knowledge: 
Let beaſts imagine, that the ſcenical garbs of riches and 
titular honours add any thing real to men. It is only 
knowledge that differenceth ; without it a man 1s but. a 


EF beaſt; and with it, in its elevated pitch, he is a glorifi- 
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they might know thee, and Jeſus Chriſt whom thou 
= *© hait ſent.” 
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taken up congruoully ? O then! are they not ſeraphick 


And is not the knowledge more noble, ac- 


creatures, whoſe minds are ſet upon the only excellent 


things? Had we a fight of that ſurpaſſing glory, how 


would our minds be elevated wonderfully above this 


{ baſe dunghill! how ſhould we look down upon the greateſt 
things of earth, as inconſiderable trifles, far below our 


ſublime ſpirits ! how ſhould we trample on crowns and 
ſcepters, yea, many worlds, tho? exiſtent, when elevat- 
ed * on our high places, clothed with the ſun, and 
having the moon under our feet!“ How ſhould we 
laugh at filly earth-worms, crawling over one another 


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you contending and walting your inch of time on tritles 


and ſhining nothings? What is the gain, when all your 


projects are accompliſhed ? Heirs of glory, no wonder 


you are termed by truth itſelf he excellent ones of the 


earth: None of excellent and generous ſpirits but you. 


The opinions of blind worldlings concerning you is of | 
no value; the excellency and baſeneſs of mankind is | 
not yet laid open: Mortality and its black retinue i 


obſcure all; a little patience, and the Almighty ſhall f 


unmaſk the whole race of mankind. | 
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duties. : 

The clear fight of the great recompenſe of reward | 
makes the creature chearful in duty: Am I ſo flow in 
my race, and the matchleſs inheritance at the flake? Þ 
Cries not my Lord unto me, Be thou fauhful unto the | 
death, and I will give thee a crown of life? Is there | 
ſuch a neceflary connection betwixt a momentary fight 
and an everlaſting triumph? O the diſproportion! who 
would not fight? who would not wreſtle ? O let me | 


run to the death! 


13. The better we. are verſed in the ſludy of heaven, | 
the more we are fitted Far it. 5 
It not grace young glory? and the 1 a 
Heaven a preparation for heaven? even as black na- 


ture is a preparation for hell, the height and perfection 


of wickedneſs: a ſuitableneſs is congruous betwixtthe crea- 


ture and its condition. High ſpirits are not for baſe, low | 
things; as creeping ſpirits are not for high—what things 
in heaven can delight a carnal ſoul? earth, earth, and 
onlys earth is its known object: give him earth, and he 
defires no more. There is congruity and diſcongruity 


betwixt the capacity and the object: beaſts have no up- 
taking ot intellectual things; neither carnal men (term- 


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ed beaſts in ſcripture) of the things of God. O ſweet ! 
how do the ſaints ſmell of glory, before they enter in? May 
they not fay, Whither 1 go I know, and the way 1 
know? Were I ignorant of the world I remove for e- 
ver into, could I be thus in ſo joyful a frame ? My n 18 


* know in whom I have believed, and what is my re- 
* ward. O joy unſpeakable, and full of glory!“ 

14. Noble up-takings of glory make us in part poſſe * 
of heaven and glory. 

Serious meditating on heaven, renders us in ſome 
manner poſſeſſors thereof: Our converſation is in heav- 
en, ſaith the apoſtle; and again, you are come (not to 
the mount viſible) ant mount Zion, and to the city of the 
living God: Converſe and preſence is only by benefit 
of the mind: Were we dwelling in heaven by faith, we 
might be ſaid to be in heaven before we were there; 


and all his glorious train would be intimate unto us. 


then! we might ſay, my company is ſweet, my fellow. 


ſhip glorious : He whoſe preſence enlightens, enlivens 
and beautifies heaven, is ever preſent with me: I have 


© ſet the Lord always before me; becauſe he is at my 


is my well. beloved unto me, he ſhall lie all night be- 
O paſſing joys and ſweetneſs ! the 


Blinded worldlings, you ſee but the outward garb of 


ſaints; ſaw you what were within, you could not but 


admire their happineſs. The king's daughter is all glori- 
ous within, Saw you your own ſelves in your own 
genuine colours, ye would run from yourſelves, if it 
were poſſible: Hell lodgeth within you, and you know 


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ſhall know it to your dreadful experience. 

15. Heaven i the proper place where excellency 
dwells ; ; ſhould we not then dwell mentally there ? 

As the fields are molt pleaſant, fertile and beautiful 
which lie neareſt the perpendicular rays of the ſun ; ſo the 
more nearly we approach the Sun of Righteouſneſs, the 
more vigorous and lively ſhall our condition be: how ſhall 


we bloom and flouriſh like a tree planted by the rivers of 


waters | O how beautiful ſhall we become in the eyes 


of God, angels and ſaints! worldlings, you live in a cold | 


climate; can any thing befal. you, except withering and 
decay? Come hither, this is the funny fide of the world; 
were ye here, ye could not but cry out, The lines are 
fallen t me in pleaſant me yea, 1 Pave a goodly he- 
ritage. | 

16. We are allowed to oe our 2 5 0 no bbs elſe bu Jay 
in heaven, that only being free of the contagion of fin. 


To have the mind in heaven is ſafe; to let it fall | 


down to earth is moſt dangerous: Moſtly from this do 
Satan, the world and our vile hearts get ſuch advantage 
againſt us: This is the place where Satan domineers; 
to dwell here implies a ſubmiſſion to the ſcepter of his 
government. No wonder fo many miſchiefs befal earth- 
worms. Heaven is the ſfaints proper ſoil. If ye be wile, 


O cãtizens of the new Jeruſalem, range not without the 


borders of your kingdom, left ſome evil befal vou. 
17. According 10 the excellency of our knowledge, ac- 


cordingly is the ſphere of our activity; and conſequently | 


our fitneſs. for doing great things for our Lord'r glory. 
Who are. moſt accompliſhed for the greateſt actions 
and ſufferings: for Chriſt? who: but theſe who are moſt 


above? If the ſtudy of human ſciences render a man, 


in ſome meaſure, ex$:lent ; what will the Rudy of this 


NFL R 23 

hyper phyſical ſcience do? all other ſciences are ſubor- 
dinate to this, it being a practique ſcience, directing 
nd illuminating our minds in the right and ſolid up- 
taking of all things. Know much of . and know 


uch of all things - . 
o the 18. What we bnow and affet, that we are; F earth, | 
the e are earthly, i heaven, we are heavenly. 
{hall The difference betwixt ſaints, and all ain | 


lies much here; as the man is, ſo are his thoughts. 


eyes Do the faculties of thy ſoul run moſt on heaven and glo- 
cold Hy? Doth heaven more affect thee than earth? Is it the 
rand MWrdinary frame of thy ſpirit ? O the bleſſedneſs of thy 
YTrId 4 ondition ! little canſt thou conceive what thou art 
are &oming to. But doth thy mind run moſt upon earth? 

s it the moſt delightſome object? and is heaven a fram- 


2d and ſtrange like ſubject to meditate upon? Is that the 


/e but Mrdinary harmony of thy ſpirit? O thy dreadful' condi- 
Ce ion! Who can conceive it? But thou thalt know it ere 
it fall Pong. | ; 
is do And how beet * dn are we invited to 
ntage Nome up from this: baſe earth, and partake of that noble 
eers; Nellowſhip with the Father and the Son: The gates of 
5f his Flory are caſt wide open to all; the wells of ſalvation 
arth- re not ſealed: If you be eternally thruſt out, blame 
wiſe, ourſelves. He complains, exhorts, arguments, Ye will 
it the ot come to me that you may have hfe; why will ye die? 
„ ho foever will, let him come and take of the vater of 
e, ae. Me freely. Ah fools! what are ye doing? doubt ye, 
ently rhither to come up, or not? what have ye there but 
% {Wroken ciſterns? here, O! here are the fountains, the 
ions Rivers, the oceans of living waters. Beware, Sirs, this 
moſt {Wecome not your eternal complaint,—heaven was wide 
man; pen, and I would not come in; and now, wo, wo, 
frhis o for ever more! the gates are for ever ſhut againſt me, 


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24 PRELUDE 
19. I. is dangerous to takea ſuperficial view gt 
y, and no more: We are to ſearch, and to die ſearching; 
Vince earth hath ſo flrange a power upon creatures com. 
poſed of earth, 

O heirs of this never fading Joey, at: we ſpeakro 
the things you have a view of, far above all our expreſ- 
ſions ? See you not what is inexpreſſible ? Are you no 
raviſhed with the goodneſs of your lot ? Have you not 
been often upon the top of mount Piſgah, viewing the 
higher and lower world? the vaſt difference betwixt the 
childrens inheritance and that of the baſtards? Have y 
not received a taſte of the delicious fruits that grow or 
the tree of Life? Have ye not received in your ſoul 
ſome ſparkles of that heavenly joy and love? Have you 
not experimentally ſeen the nothingneſs and vanity of all 
created enjoyments? How 1s it then, that ſo many of yo 
are ſo baſe and carnal in your deportment, as 1t is difficult 
to diſcern betwixt your walk, and that of the fons of the 
earth? What! back to the earth again, after you have re! 
ceived ſo high an elevation? You ſomewhat reſemble the 
fallen angels. Sirs, (if it be ſo that you are fallen indeed) 
it is an hundred to one if ever you approach ſo neat 
heaven on this ſide of time: Apoſtaſy in the ſmalle | 
degree is very dreadful. Be it ſo, you cannot totally 
and finally become earth again; yet, is it not ſad nevet 
to come near to the firſt attainments! as it moſtly fall 
out in fallen ſaints. Even David's laſt ways were beloy 
his firſt. But however, can ye endure fo to diſgract 
your Lord's glory, before the eyes of vile worldlingsMit 
who eſteem heaven a well invented chimera ? Can youll! 
feed their atheiſm? And dare you ſhake the faith o 
weak ones? and to be the ſad occaſion of many's going 
back at the birth? Either walk in an heavenly manner 
or profeſs no religion at all: If your converſe be lik 


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that of dunghill wretches, wherein do ye glorify God 
more than they? yea, you diſhonour him more a thou- 
ſand ſtages. Chriſtians, can you forget your ſweet coun- 
try, in this melancholious wilderneſs ? Is not death at 
vuur hand? Our time is ſhort for making ready for e- 
ernity; e'er we get a fight of the vain world, death 
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eive we ſeeka country: Cry out, ſirs, Adieu you guilded 
enjoyments, abſtracted from the life of all enjoyments. bs 


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ndeed) to one who hath found the enduring ſubſtance ? Wel- 
ſo neaMcome, a thouſand times welcome, eternal joys, | ſabſtan- 
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tation; © tho? thou haſt lain amongſt the pots, yet ſhalt 


e below” un be as the wings of a dove, covered with ſilver, and 
diſgrac her feathers with yellow gold.“ Let not a flow ſight con- 
ldlingsMtent thee, ngver reſt until thou be oyer the borders of 
Can yo time, where thou ſhalt be at reſt, and free of trouble: 


faith of Here is nothing but vanity and vexation of ſpirit. 
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lime. 

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ledge of excellent ad They are wiſeſt, who are beſt 
ſtudied in them. Faith is an inſtrument whereby the 
ſoul takes up aright the things contained therein. And 
doth not every page ſmell of heaven and glory? The 
glory of Gop, and intellectual creatures, and everlaſt- 
ing enjoyment of him is the ſubje & and ſcope of all ; nay, 
this great volume of this viſible all demonſtrates ſome. 
what inviſible of a far higher nature: The heavens de- 
* clare the glory of God: The inviſible things of him from 
the creation of the world are clearly ſeen, being under. 
* ſtood by the things which are made. How many draughte 
and emblems of glory may we behold, in the glorious 
fabric of heaven and earth? How doth the ſpirit ſet be- 
fore our eyes that inconceivable glory to come, in 


types and borrowed terms, drawn from the glories of 
this lower region? Verily, they have the advantage of 


others, who have ſpirit and opportunity for ſearching 


into the admirable works of Gop's creation: For, ſuch 


is the nature of things viſible, that they lead us to theſe 
that are inviſivle. 


21. Glory ts not to be confidered after a phil phical 


manner, being altogether ſupernatural. 
To enquire metaphyfically into the nature of this ex- 
cellent glory, is not our intention: We defire not to 
ſpeak other things than what is written. Subtile i inqui- 
ries are cold, having ſmall influence on the affections, 
the inflaming of which is our aim. A goſpel view of 
glory, in a ſcripture dialect, is our deſign. That the ſcrip- 


ture termeth heaven a city, and again a bride, ſhews, | 


that all emblems come wonderfully ſhort in repreſenting 
ſuch inconceivable things; and therefore, diſcourſes 
thereof are not to be examinedaccording to vulgar rules. 
Glory may be underſtood either formally or ſubjeQive- 
ly, which 1s the NEO elevation of the creature; 


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or objectively, which is the manifeſtation of God to the 
The glory then to be revealed is a ſupernatu- 


: The ſplendour of the ſun, tho? 


is ſtill but natural glory, and not a ſupernatural elevation. 
Every thing is perfect, beautiful, excellent or glorious 
(which terms expreſs the ſame) in its own kind ; but 
in heaven, all are ſupernaturally excellent, as alles ele- 
vated far above the reach of their natural beings. | 

22. All creatures, from the highe/t to the loweſt, are 

ajjively capable of ſupernatural elevation. 

What baſer things than duſt ? And yet that's admitted 
within the new Jeruſalem : Yet may intellectual beings 
be ſaid (by way of eminence) to be only capable of 
glory: And then we may fay, glory is the higheſt ele- 
vation (aQual) of a creature in its being, faculties, vir- 


_ tues, operations and relations, by which it is enabled to 


enjoy God to the full. | 

23. Nothing leads us fo LOW to 2 Inowledge'of | 
glory, as grace is forerunner. 

Grace being an endowment above the ſtrength of nature, 
what is it elſe but young g/ory ? For the knowledge of 
the one will lead us by the hard unto the knowledge 
of the other, As glory is grace in the bloom and fulleſt _ 
vigour, ſo grace is glory in the bud and firſt ſpringing : | 
The one is holineſs begun, the other hclineſs perfected: 
The one is the beholding of God dartly, as through a 
glaſs, the other bebolding him fag face. Chriſtians, are 
you conſidering. that in part youMe glorified already? 


Tho' it be ſmall, like a grain of muſlard ſeed,” and ob- 
ſcured by corruption and mortality; 3 little patience 
and you ſhall ſee it grow out wonderfully i in all dimen· 


Logs, ard flouriſh and Niere and be fruitful and fra- 
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grant through never-ending ages. You have taſted that 
the Loxp is good, you ſhall ſwim ere long in the oceans 
of goodneſs: You have had his amiable countenance 
lifted up upon you, a little hence you ſhall forever dwell 
under the noon Gay Tays of his raviſhing face : Some 
drops of celeſtial Joy have fallen into your hearts, unto 
raviſhment; you ſhall enter into the ocean itſelf ere 
long: You are walking with the Lamb, in the days of 
your pilgrimage ; you ſhall follow him anon whitherſo- 
ever he goes. May ye not then attain to ſome conception 
of glory? The tree may be known by its ſeed ; the di- 
rect rays by the reflex. As for you, worldlings, who 
know net what it 1s to have communion with Gop, the 
very natural conſideration of ſuch dazzling glory may 
rouſe up your ſenſes, and cauſe you underſtand what you 
never heretofore conſidered. 

24. Saints get ſome diſcoveries more evident than thro 
a glaſs, which may be termed glimpſes of glory. 

The ſaints on this fide of time are not ſeldom more 
than victors; they have fights above that of faith. O 
the ſights! O the ſweetneſs! O the raviſhments, more 
like thoſe of overcomers than fighters, which the ſaints 
experience! Why may we not then attain to ſome appre- 
henſions of the glory above? May not the experience of | 

ourſelves and others lead-us into the diſcovery of won- 
derful things? No doubt, the new creation is a ſuper- 
natural elevation, which we ſhall never be able to attain 
unto, through the ordinary and natural influencing of the 
ſpirit, on our con bl faculties ; his marvellous light 
is of another nature than that commen light, which he 
communicateth to every one that cometh into the world. 
Natural excellency never ſo gradually perfected is till 
vatural ; ; *gradual difference changeth not the Kind: Join 
all common graces of reptobates together, could they 


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Cans BY not a heavenly; many material excellencies make not 
ance up a ſpiritual : ce is a heavenly, new principle in- 
Iwell faſed, not the ew pu. of what hath been already in 
Some the worldling. O ſirs, beware of a beguile here: The in- 
unto Bl tenſe natural knowledge of divine myſteries, with the 


f ere overflowings of love and joy ariſing therefrom, may 
ys of dazzle our own eyes, and the eyes of the ſpectators. 
erſo- Lock that you have heaven indecd within you, elſe you 
ption BW cannot enter there. O to be partakers of the divine nature! 


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O for the noble mind of Chr! O to be transformed 
in the ſmirit of our minds! Cauſe the wind to blow on 
our dry bones; and we ſhall live. Be nat beguiled firs; 
as ye ſow, ſo ſhall you reap. Have you the immortal 
ſeed within you? Look well to it; let it not be chocked 
with cares, _ anxieties and vanity : Tho? the beginning 
appears ſmall and inconſiderable, the end will be wonder- 
fully glorious and excellent : The wonders to be mani- 
feſted upon thee, will be perfection of what thou haſt / 
got already. If. the ſpirit of him, that raiſed up Jeſus 
© from the dead be in you, he ſhall alſo quicken your mor- 
* tal bodies, by the ſpirit that dwelleth in you.? _ 

25. All things invite to this excellent Judy, qnd 1 no ar- 
rument againſt it. 

We heartily beſeech you to itep up to the e of mount 


throꝰ 


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more 
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won- 


uper- Piſgah, and take a view of our raviſhing country: What 
attain have you to ſay againſt the buſineſs? Come and ſee, will 
f the Wi anſwer all your objections: Whatever you can fay a- 
light | gainſt the matter will prove it. Speak you of a melan- 
ch he choly ? O what ſweetneſs is here ! Of inability and dim- 
1orld. neſs of knowledge? O the lightſomenels of this city! all 

s {till 


things are obſcure and ſmokey below. Speak we of 

Join hinderances from our neceflary worldly affairs? O0 

they how doth the fight of this glory oil the wheels, end cheef 
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| 4; {8 up to every duty? ? Will any term it an unknown ſubject? 
5 Nothing more fruitful, and fuller of varieties: Nothing 
fl op » more lightſome than glory. Art thou worldly-minded? 
. O then ſtudy heaven: The excellency of the one will 
0 1 i j cauſe the other to diſappear. Thinkeſt thou hell and de- 
1 1 ſtruction are more to be conſidered by thee? Come, and 
0 19 "1 thou ſhalt behold that the diſcovery. of glory diſcovers 
+ Bl all things, ſince there is no danger for a trembling bro- 
+ Fi ken hearted' ſinner: The way to glory is the path of 
} Kt life, the new and living way. We are not come unto 
Fl | Me * the mount that might not be touched, and that burned 
ma 14 © with fire; but unto mount Zion, the heavenly Jeruſa- 
4 bo 1 lem, the innumerable company of angels, and to the ſpi- 
jy 6 Lt: * rits of juſt men made perfect; to JIxsus the Mediator of 


© of the new covenant, to Gop the Judge of all, and te 


© the blood of ſprinkling, that 1 es better e 
than that of Abel | 


26. This Kill ts only Pow above, and to be . of 
Gop. | 


Thou inexhauſtible original of all light, life and 
fulneſs! draw up our minds to thee, from this proper 
habitation of the Devil and his ſlaves and hold us ever 
with thee, leſt we fall down to this dunghill again: Then 
© ſhall we be joyful i in glory, we ſhall ſing aloud in our 
beds, we ſhall ſpeak of the greatneſs of thy kingdom, 
of the 2 of thy majeſty, and of the glory of 
4 thine inheritance in the ſaints in light: Then ſhall 
ve go out with joy, and be led forth with gladneſs ; the 

mountains and the hills ſhall break forth before us into 

finging: Then ſhall we renew our ſtrength, we ſhall 
mount up with wings as eagles; we ſhall run and not 
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H= Tabor's tops ſurmounting far the marches 

Of thoſe etherial moſt majeſtic arches, 

Reaching beyond the azure canopy, EEE, 

(Which envious maſk hides glory from our eye, ) 

Into the new creation, whoſe bright glory 

Would cauſe earth's ſplendor vanifh, make us ſarry 

We've plac'd a grain of love on things below, 

Since only *bove this world all ſweets do flow. 
Aſcend the mount, aſpiring ſouls, and enter 

Within the clouds! fear not, draw near love's center: 

Go in to th' privy chambers of the King, 

If princely minds, and flowing hearts you bring : 

But wanting theſe, I ſtraitly you command, 

In my LoxD's dreadful name, aloof to ſtand. 

There ſhall you fee your Lover's lovely face, 

His heavenly geſture, his divineſt grace : 

There ſhall his voice melodious charm your ears, 

And from your heart ſhall baniſh quite all fears: 

There ſhall the ſmell of's garments all perfum'd, 

| Refreſh your fainting ſp'rits, with cares conſum's : 

There ſhall you feaſt upon the cheering wine, 

That crimſon liquor of the only Vine. 

You and your Lox ſhall claſp in one love-tie, 

Ne'er to be loos'd through all eternity. 

Your thoughts ſhall dive into love's deep abyſs, 

And ſcan, what without all dimenſions is : 

| Your heart, (ſurpaſſing joy!) in your Love's breaſt, 

And his in yours, eternally ſhall reſt: 

. In fine, your ſenſes, ſoul, and all ſhall dy 

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HOU Glory and Beauty of the higher Paradiſe ! 
fulfil thy promiſe upon me, in letting me ſee thee 
thy beauty, and that /and that is very far of : A diſ- 
pvery of thine exceliency, a taſte of thy ſweetneſs ſhould 
auſe me overlook all ſublunary things, ſhould enable. 
dy glory to proclaim thine aloud before the ſons of men. 
et thy ſtrength appear in weakneſs : Thou canſt per- 
& glory and praiſe by babes and nothings; get thy 
If glory, and I have all I can deſire. | 

2. Alljoys! Am not I exalted on the high places of 
1e earth? Wonderful! What ſtrange things are theſe ? 
Vhat hath Gep done ? Shall I write, or ſhall I not ? 
Vhat avails earth's idiom here, which falleth ſhort in 
e full expreſſion of carthly things? Shall I not debaſe 
y Lonp's glory, if I endeavour to repreſent it by the 
dw, baſe and-childiſh expreſſions of earth's idiom? But 
nce out condeſcending Lozp is pleaſed, in borrowed 
rms, to expreſs theſe inexpreſſible enjoyments, which 
ether eye hath ſeen, nor ear hath heard, or the heart 
man conceived, we will follow his footſteps z being 
ertain, tho? our expreſſions reach not the brim of that. 
cean, yet they may ſurpaſs moſt mens eſteem of it. 
ay we not then, in borrowed ſpeeches and dark em- 
lems, delineate the glory of his kingdom, the excel- 
ncy of his perſon, and the riches of his inheritance 


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34 A GLIMPSE 
in the ſaints in light, —until we come unto the fulneſs o 
the ſtature of Chriſt, when we ſhall ſee and expreſi 
f 1 him as he is. EL 
3. The ſoul muſt be elevated on the wings of heavenly 
| meditation, before it get a fight of the promiced land. 
117 Now my ſoul thou art got up to the top of this 
1 ſublime and mgjeſtic mountain, overlooking the celeſ. 

tial Canaan. Kh, my ſenſes are not celeſtial! Vet do 

the things I ſee and hear fill me with joy un/peakabl 

il and. full of glory: I cannot tell what my faculties are 
ws filled with. Words are narrow for ſuch high and wide 
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1 4 4. Glory is rathes to be admired by mortals than un 
1 der ſtood. 1 | p 
1 I am quite amazed, confounded and raviſhed at once 
5 ) eternal dwelling- place of bleſſed men and angels 1 
2 "nn and of the Max infinitely more excellent than all! Ho 
. am I affected with thy various beauty, excellent glory 
JH and delightiyl ſweetneſs : What appeareſt thou now, Ol 
4: if lower world Thou art the dunghill, this the palace 
3 royal— thou art the footſtool, this the throne. Were 
$18 the curtains betwixt the higher and lower world draw 
1 aſide, all lower glories would diſappear: all glories are her 
Bo and only hefe : This is the world. Where ſhall we fin 
1 emblems ally where elle, ſufficient to repreſent, in thi 
1 thouſand thpuſandth part or property, one of the infinitt 
. beauties, bee glories, admirable excellencies, tran 
D - feending virtues, wherewith this land is ſtored. ? Veri) 
0 | it is a large d indeed, like a confluence of an infinite 
1 number of worlds. O my Lonp, thy report was true, i 
= my Father's houſe ar many manſions. The earth is no 
1 Ll . thing to the viſible heavens, and the viſible to the in 
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boaſt themſelves of ſhovelfuls of earth? But worms are 
uch taken up with dunghills. Nothing below this 
arrow vault of the viſible heavens can bound the out- 
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4. 5. We may imagine, in this our childhood, childiſhly ; 
of thigh, ad ſo conceive of glory in a metaphoric way. 
: celel: And O! the beauty and ſweetneſs, wherewith this 
Vet do blefſedfland is adorned ! Earth in its May-clothing, with 
eat abi; various beauties, appeared ſomewhat delightful be- 
ties ar More; but all former apprehenſions are ſwallowed up; 
d wide the ſenſes and faculties are loſt in the endleſs maze; of 
 accorW: finite varietes of beauties and excellencies. Are not 
he eyes almoſt raviſhed from their proper orbs, by the 
= trong attractive virtue of raviſhing objects? Atte they 
ot dazzled and confounded ? What varieties! what glo- 
at once hies! what numberleſs numbers! Every object is enough + 
.ngels o allure unto raviſhment z but the conſpiration of them 
Hoy cannot be told. How are the ears charmed with 
: gloryMWumberleſs variety of melodious raptures, fo that the ears 
ow, ecome harmony itſelf! How do inceſſant and full gales 
palace f odoriferous exhalations perfume and fill with a paſſing - 
Wer veetneſs not only the brain, but every vein, artery _ 
| drawWnd finew : That which enters the mouth every where 
arc her urpaſſeth Ambroſia and Nectar. The circumjacent ſpi- 
we find its have ſo pleaſant embraces, as they ſtill refreſh the 
, in th ody, that cannot be weary. What ſhall I ſay? Am 
infinite not nonplus'd here? Lo, all beauties, both material 
s, tran iind immaterial here! All things are here in an eminent 
Veri ormal manner. O mighty Gop, this world is a maſter- 
infinit piece of thy power, wiſdom and goodneſs indeed! Did 
true, i never ſee more of thy raviſhing attributes, than what 
h is nos imprinted on this golden world, ſhould I not he ra- 
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thing, do bloom and flouriſh with an eternal and glori 


ous verdure, ſeeming, as it were, all to outbrave one an 
other, in wonderful beauty and excellency : What wouli 


an earthly paradiſe appear here? Shall we ſpeak of gol 8 
and gems, trampled upon by beaſts? Sure the ſun in it 0 
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countenance : Nothing in the lower world which is no 
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er world. If we ſpeak any thing in earthly idiom, i: 
muſt be in perfect contradictions. All is covered overiiſſ . 
with all varieties of beds of lilies and roſes, and dropping 
ſweet ſmelling myrrh ; every where the vines flouriſh, 


the mandrakes ſend forth an odoriferous exhalation, the 
pomegranates bud, the grapes and all fruit hang in good 
ly order; all is overflown with ambroſia, milk and ho 
ney 3 all is an orchard, all a champain field ; every place 
is the ſunny fide of the hill, and alſo a ee ſhadow j 
every place is filled with odoriferous gales; and yet 
there is nothing but one ſweet and endleſs calm: The 
winds that blow here are like vital and animal ſpirits 
Are they not theſe heart-refreſhing and ſoul-rejoicing 
breathings of the ſpirit of life? All are planted with 
trees, every one of which doth ſpecifically differ fro 
one another, and bears every month, every hour, ever 
minute, ten thouſand kinds of fruits; and every frail 
containeth ten thouſand qualities, and every qualit 
ten thouſand virtues, and every virtue ten thouſand de- 
lights, and every delight is enough ts confound myriad 
of worlds of men and angels. All things ſend forth me 
lodious notes, odoriferous perfumes, and what may charm 
_ thouſands of ſenſes, differing ſpecifically from one a 
| nother: All things here do more than contain al 
the virtues and excellencies of ſun, moon and ſtars 
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| agi This world is all things —a palace —alſo it 
is a glorions and ſtately city, decked with the glory and 
comelineſs of her builder ; * whoſe light is like unto a 
© ſtone moſt precious,“ whoſe walls are high and beautified 5: 
with twelve gates; and at the gates are twelve angels; 

* whoſe figure is fourſquare, whoſe circuit istwelvethou- 
« ſand fourlongs and the height of the wall, an hundred 
* forty four cubits; the building thereof is of Jaſper, and 
* the city of pure gold as it were tranſparent glaſs.“ If 
the foundations thereof be of pearl, the houſes, ſtreets 
and walls of gold, what muſt the dectings of the houſes 
be? If the ordinary ſtuff exceed the price of the dia- 
mond, who can weigh our molt noble Jewel of the new 
Jeruſalem 2? Sure all the excellency of this lower uni- 

verſe would be of no reckoning here ; yea, many worlds 

are not to be valued, Muſt not this be a glorious and 

delightſome city, which is immediately enlightened 
with the uncreated glory of Jznovan and the Lamb? 


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nour hither : All other glories and excellencies are ſwal- 


lowed up and concentered here: All joys, all ON 
all contentments, all deſires are for ever here, | 
6. Me cannot be ſo high in our own conceptions of . 
ry, but fill we may be higher. 5 
But let us draw near, that we may diſcover more of 
theſe wonderful things. What raviſhing melody is 
this? Were it not heaven to dwell within the found ef 
heaven's melody ? I am altogether raviſhed! O it is 
good to be here! * the ſweet, ſweet, ſweet frame the in- 
habitants are in! Their hallelujahs have converted me 


almoſt into joy itſelf. But what can I ſay? The idiom of 


glory hath a wonderful efficacy and deepneſs beyond 
our ſhaflow uptakings, as far tranſcending carth's lan- 


guage as immortality doth tranſcend mortality; and I 


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want an ear, celeſtial muſic to perceive diſtinctly, and 


underſtand theſe angelical ſongs and wonderful expreſ- 
fions of joy, love, and admiration in the higher houſe : 
But the very found is enough to raviſh all our ſenſes, 
Hear I not ſomething like the ſongs of Moſes and the 
Lamb ? 

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gloriouſly; his enemies he hath overwhelmed with ever- 


. * laſting ſhame: He is our ſtrength and our ſong, and 


he is become our falvation : Thy right hand, O Loxzn, 
is become glorious in power; who is like unto thee ? 
Glorious in holineſs, fearful in praiſes, doing wonders, 
Thou in thy mercy haſt led forth thy people, which 
* thou haſt redeemed ; thou haſt guided them 1n thy 
ſtrength unto thy holy habitation : We have a ſtrong 
city, ſalvation hath our Gop provided, for walls and 
bulwarks. We will greatly rejoice in the Lozp, our 
ſouls ſhall' inceſſantly and eternally be joyful in our 
Gon; for he hath clothed us with the garments of ſal- 
vation, he hath covered us with the robes of righteouſ- 
neſs. Thou. haſt awaked, and put on ſtrength, O arm 
© of the Loap! Art thou not it which dried up the Red 
ſea? that hath made the deeps of the ſea a way for thy 
ranſomed to paſs over? Therefore the redeemed of the 
Lox do return, and come with finging unto Zion, and 
everlaſting jays upon their heads; and ſorrow and ſigh- 
ing hath fled away. Sing, ye heavens, ſhout, ye lower 
parts of the earth, break forth into melody, ye moun- 
tains,—for the Loxp hath redeemed Jacob, and glori- 
* fied himſelf in Iſrael. Behold, we dwell on high, our 
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be taken down, And in this mountain hath the Loxp 


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OF GLORY. — _ 
© of hoſts. made unto all. people a feaſt of fat things ; 


and and hath ſwallowed up death in victory, and hath 
prom « wiped away all tears from all faces. The Loxp is a 
uſe: WM, ſun and ſhield 3 he hath given grace and glory; no 
** good thing hath he withheld from thoſe who have walk- 


© ed uprightly. How excellent is thy loving kindneſs! We 
are abundantly ſatisfied with the fatneſs of thy houſe, and 
thou haſt made us drink of the rivers of thy pleaſures: 

* Thou haſt turned our mourning into dancing; thou haſt 
put off our ſackcloth, and girded us wah gladneſs: 
The lines are fallen to us in pleaſant places; yea, we 
have a goodly heritage. Thou haſt ſhewed unto us 
the path of life; in thy preſence is fulneſs of joy, and 
at thy right hand are pleaſures for evermore. Worthy 
is the Lamb that was ſlain, to receive power, and riches, 
and wiſdom, and ftrength, and honour, and glory, and 
bleſiing ; for thou. walt ſlain, and haſt redeemed us to 
God, by thy blood, out-of every kindred, and tongne, 
and people, and nation; and haſt made us unto our 
Gop kipgs and priefts ; ; and we ſhall reign for eyer 
and ever. Cry and ſhout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for 
great is the holy One of Iſrael in the midſt of thee,'!— 
hat a golden life is this? Am I not come unto mount 
Lion? Know I not now by experience, that the converſe . 
of mortals may be above? O what a raviſhing frame am 
now in! The melody of heaven draws me nearer and 
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pithin the vail. | 
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matchleſs beauty and lovelineſs of the WHITE Ap N DD 
oN E, the STANDARD-BEAREK. among. ten thouſand ? O the 
day's- man betwixt Gop and creatures! the wonder of 


wonders—the plory and triumph and ſhame of creatures 


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the compend and model ot heaven and earth, and all 
things—the life of all joys, marrow of all loves, flower 
of all defires, fountain of all ſweetneſs, ſun of all glory, 
—the everlaſting delight of the Father, and raviſh- 


ment of men and angels—the centre whereunto all hearts, 


all loves, all eyes do eternally and inceſſantly run—the 
brightneſs of the Father's glory, the expreſs character 
of his perſon! Currsr. Jusvs, Gop-man, the ever flows 


riſhing ſtock and the ſtem of Jeſle, the plant of renown |! 


AU are chanting thus. 

Speak ho more of heauties, men and angels; ; all lefſer 
glories are quiet ſwallowed up: This is the only beau- 
ty, the only excellency, by the borrowed rays of whoſe 
lovelineſs we are rendered glorious : Out of his fulneſs 
bave we all received; let us down with theſe maſſy 
crows of glory at his feet; for of him, and by him, 
and through him, and to him are all things. 

8. No manifeflation of Gov ſo full and feet to crea- 
tures as through EMMANUEL, /o infinite is the diſtance. 

O! my only Wellbeloved, thou art Gop; thbu art 
Gep, the infinite Jenovan ; and therefore hes art. be- 


come my all and only one. None but him! I diſdain 


all yeſterday-beings for a Wellbeloved. Yet, fince thou 
art a creature alſo, thou art more lovely as to mę: Wert 
thou not man as well as Gop, I could not enjoy thee 
10 ſamiliarly and nearly. Though fin in itſelf cannot 
be the object of joy, yet the reſult thereof is paſſing joy- 
fal : This world of free grace, tranſcends never ſo ma- 

py worlds of another kind. * Ne enjoyment of Gop,: as 


„ or GLORY. „ 
a redeemer, huſband. brother, is another manner of en- 
Voyment than that of Gop Creator. Happy, happy we, 
that ever we were miſerable! We had been undone, 
if we had not been undone. We ruined ourſelves, but 
h thou haſt made us up, far, far above all that we had to 
1 all loſe. O ſweet debt of thy free redeeming grace ! ! Shall 
not every moment of eternity augment my obligation ? 


15 I am thy bound debtor, O my Lon; and therefore my 
rich. happineſs 3 blow and eee through all eterni- 
arts, ty. 5 | 
the 9. One fight oe Cabins 15 enough to raviſh never 5 1 
Ker many. 


The firſt ſight of thine eo hath Tice me with e- 
erlaſting admiration! Many excellent beauties do my 
bleſſed eyes behold, but thou doſt infinitely tranſcend 
hem all. Thy countenance hath a beauty and exceHency 


eau-Pbove all poſſible and created glory ! Uncreated glory 
hoſe Hays thro? the vail of his human nature! My bleſſed 
lneſs es, a thouſand times bleſſed eyes, which behold the 5 
naſfy an who is God! Fellow beholders, this ſight hath - 
n 4a aſt us forever into a wondering frame! The more we 


chold, the more we are inflamed ; the more we love, 
he more we behold! O wonderful eternal circle ? 


1 Hence joys unutterable, inexpreſſible; hence the ſweet 
5 FE raiſing diſpoſition, hence, admiration, hence behold- 
3 ing; and thus throughout eternity. 

ſdain 10. All our enjoyment nothing, vl we fee him face fo. 
thou 5 
Wert O flower of excellency |! O ocean of W mor- | 


thee ality could take up no conſiderable portion of thee; 
he moſt excellent of their diſcourſes was childiſh non- 
enſe: Nothing bat /eeing thee face to face can diſcover 
hy worth, Verily I never ſaw thee until now ; and 
herefore love and joy were never in their Txt bo ly 
pour, I love, I love now indeed! What though I might 


8 A IM 8 E 1 
be faid to love thee in the abſence, and to be filled with 
Joy unſpeatable and glorious. with the very ſound of thy 
name? Theſe drops are nothing to the ocean, the ern 
to the banquet. O ſweet, ſweet! Nothing but joys! 
Who can ſtand beſide infinite love, and not be inflamed? 
Am I not almoſt converted into love itſelf? O delight- 


ſome raviſhing fire! What 8 * chan to 
burn here for evermore! 


Bo 


\ IT. The foul ts not perfectly happy until i 507, with 
out interruption, in the Wellbeloved's love, 


Now we are for ever in one another's arms. The 
days of heaven ſhall not put a period to theſe love em- 
braces: Thou haſt /e: me as a ſeal upon thy heart, as 
a ſeal upon thine arm; for love ts flrong as death, the 
coals: thereof would burn hell itſelf, Nothing but full 
eternity, inceſſant enjoyment, will ſatiate this burning 

love; and therefore art thou unto me as a bundle of 

myrrh which lyeth for ever betwixt my breaſts. This is 
the place where love doth bloom with an eternal ver- 
dure: No ups and downs and hidings of his face; no 
love ſickneſs, through the want of perfonal poſſeſſion ; 
no need of apples or flagons of wine ; no contending 
with time and days, becauſe of their ſeeming lazy pace ; 
nor with interpoſing clouds, lingering death, fin and 
mortality—nothing but full enjoyment—lI am as I would 
be: I ſee thy face to the full; and therefore my haps 
pineſs overflows the banks. 

12. The mutual intereſt betwixt CnRisr and bis choſen 
Ar an eternally fweet conſideration. | 

Thou art mine, my deareſt Loxp, and I am thine ; 1 

was thine from eternity, and thou art become mine to 
eternity. O my large, wide, broad inheritance! Thou 

art mine in full poſſeſſion: O my happineſs,” my happi- 
neſs! my loves overflow, my joys are in their ſpring: 


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vith ide! Even thou art mine, and thy defire is towards me. 
thy No wonder I am raviſhed with thy beauty; but art thou 
uy raviſhed with mine! Waſt thou not at reſt until thou 
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but what is thine own, Beholdeft thou raviſhing love- 
lineſs in me, who am what I am only of thee ? What 
boundleſs ocean of ſweetneſs, what infinite worlds of 
beauty are in thy matchleſs ſelf! Many an excellent ob- 


„ the ect have I ſeen,” but thou haſt raviſhed my heart from 
t full them all. I have found, I have ſeen him who is only 
rning lovely: This fair one hath my heart for ever more.— 
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mon; Hraviſhing conſolations from the lips that brought the 
nding Poyful tidings of this boundleſs happineſs? None but thee: 

dace; If I love and delight in other beauties, it is as they are 
and decked with thy lovelineſs ; as they are emblems, ſha- 


vould dos and reflections of thee, who art a/rogetber lovely: 
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choſenF*9und about thee, one ray of thy traſcendency would 
Neclipſe them all. Beholders, can you tell what: you 
ne; II ſee ? O his beauty, his beauty! What more, can be ſaid, 
ine to] chan that it infinitely tranſcends the conceptions of men 
Thou and angels. 

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for Gow is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth 


the ſun doth appear? How maſly, maſſy art thou, Of 


I have ſpoken, written and done? But, ah! how poorly 


44 A GLIMPSE 
is love-indeed ! Should I ſpeak of flames? Am TI not en- 
tered into the ocean, the floods, the worlds of love 


in Gop, and Gov in him, Is not this a ſweet raviſhing 
habitation ? What joy to think this is my eternal repoſe 
I dwell in the midi of hot burning flames without harm, 
as in a bed of roſes and an orchard of delights. | 

13. The glorified ſoul, refleting on former things, lacks 
nhon all as childiſh. „ 

This is the fulneſs of the- flature py Cugis r. How 
capacious, to receive inceſſantly floods of love! Before, 
my ſoul was narrow; now it is larger than the heaven of 
heavens. O! the outrunnings of my ſoul after thee: 
Before, they were ſmall ſtreams, now they are huge 
floods: Small things are not now noticed — all our 
deſires are now ſwallowed up. What is the moon when | 


love of JIxsus! Wouldſt thou not down-weigh innume- 
rable worlds? Had I known in the ten thouſandth part on 
earth what now I know, the world would have imagin- 
ed me quite beſide myſelf: How wonderfully would 


and childiſh did we . of thee? What joy that mor- 
tality i is done away! 
14. Saints and angels ſhall be ever goi 


forch, EO the 


6 
matchleſs excellencies of their Welibeloved ; and rn n 
them, as it were, over and over again. 
Though I behold thee as thou art, yetam Iever * 
plied with new matter of admiration: When more ages Wl 
are paſt than atoms in the creation, I ſhall not be jejune ii 
to expreſs thine infinite excellency. Men and angels, when Na 
ſhall you dive ſo deep as ye may dive no further? But 
ſhall I not for ever delineate thy beauty now, when It 


have thee in my arms? Sirs, ſhall we not for ever ſpeak. 


— 


Er "LOA Y. - 
bim, of whom too much cannot be ſpoken?” No inju- 
is here done to the Father and bleſſed Spirit; their 
lory and excelle..cy do viſibly ſhine here: And do theſe 
rms embrace Gop,—theſe eyes ſee him? O the myſtery 
f codlineſs! Men and angels, you are all-aſtoniſhed, 

op viſibly manifefted ! O wonder of wonders ! Is not 
hy name rightly termed Wonderful“ — O my ele- 
ated thoughts! O eternity, eternity! thou ſhalt be fil- 
ed with wondering: What glory ſhines in this man's 
ee: Tay countenance, Wellbeloved, hath a non-ſach 
ajeſty. The ſaints have the face of glorified crea- 
ires, and no more; but the majeſty of thy ceunte- 
ance is altogether divine. O perfection's flower, and 
arrow of lovelineſs! None who ſee thee will enquire, 
Vhat art thou more than another beloved ? O thy face, 
y raviſhing face! Indeed thou art the white and rud- 
dy, the ſtandard-bearer among a myriad :? Thy face, my 
ellbeloved, is like the face of the Son of Gop; every 
ile is fullyof inexpreſſible joy; For Gop, thy Gop 
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladneſs above all thy 
fellows." Is not this he, men and angels, * whoſe viſage 
was more marred than any man's,'—in whom the world 
aw no beauty or defirableneſs? Is not this:he whoſe 
ace was ſpit upon by the filth and offscourings of men? 


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hich now thou haſt done away, that thy glory may 
ine forth in its full ſplendor before thy choſen ! O thy 
ately majeſtic head, only worthy to be crowned with 
lory and honour, to be exalted far above all creatures! 
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46 3 GLIMPSE 1 


able love“? The eternal Gop ig my refuge, and under- 


neſs which carries in its boſom boundleſs j joys. Thi 
was the joy that was ſet before him. O bleſſed we, 
that have ſuch an head! The head of this golden world 
is of fine gold. O how beautiful are the adornments 0 
thy head? O thou wouldſt entangle all creatures for e. 
ver in the folds of overcoming love! How am I ravith. 
ed with thine eyes! Heaven and glory dwells in every 
look; the firſt glance of them did firike heaven and 
love into an eternal rapture: Nothing can reſiſt :hei 
overcoming emanations of love. And did theſe eyes 
guſh forth tears, through bitter grief and ſorrow? ? Could 
ever the leaſt ſadneſs and darkneſs enter into ſuch divine 
orbs of light and joy? Thou haſt overcome me with 


ere 


thine eyes, my fair one. One look of thee, and no more, 
would raviſh ten thouſand worlds of men and angels. on” 
the noon- day light of thy countenance for ever and e. p 
ver! And who can tell the comelineſs of thy fragrant, Mil - 
beautiful cheeks? And what can be ſaid of thy roſy 1 
lips? How do they perfume this land with their fra. q 
grant myrrh, that W atly drops from them ? O what 
boundleſs oceans of grace is poured into them? There 
fore Gop hath bleſſed thee for evermore. Every kiſs of % 
them is an heaven of ſweetneſs. I am filled and over- 
come with the mirror of glory! The ſmell of thine oint- 3 
ment afar off did raviſh my heart but now I am more, : 
ten thouſand times more than raviſhed ! Oae drop of " 
this myrrh would ſweeten ten thouſand oceans of all ima- 4 
ginable bitterneſs: And O thy princely hands, fit to 
ſway the ſcepter of this ever-flouriſhing kingdom, de- 
lightful habitation! Can there be a more bleſſed poſture 
Has left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth - 
embrace me. Am I not circled in the arms of unſearch- g 


neath are everlaſting arms. Theſe bleſſed arms, that 


OF GAORY. -.0 
ere ſtretched upon the croſs for me, do embrace me 
eetly forever more. + 
Whether thy love Fa more ſhine forth i in the firſt or 
ter poſture cannot be told; but ſure thy love in all 
s reſplendency paſſeth all crented Maste en O 
e glory, ſweetneſs and excellency of thy belly ! O thy 
owels of compaſſion ! O what rivers of waters do from 
ence flow out inceſſantly upon us? And what is com- 
arable to thy ſtately legs? How glorious are thine out · 
pings among us! O my King and Gop, when thou 
ode upon the high places of the earth, its foundations 
ere ſhaken, How didſt thou trample the people 
thine anger, and the kingdoms in thy fury, Thou 
meſt ſkipping over the mountains, leaping over 
e hills, for the ſalvation of thy people. Bleſſed men 
xd angels, what can be conceived or expreſſed of ſuch 
wonderful perſon'!—O his ſtately deportment ! Every 
rt of him, ſo to ſpeak, is an infinite maſs of beauty. 
hat a beauty then muſt all theſe numberleſs beauties 
mpoſed in one be? Is not thy countenance as Leba- 
n, excellent as the cedars ? Thy majeſty is wonder- 
lly various, and every variety the height of excellency. 
y ſweet experience I may ſay, thy mouth ãs moſt ſweet : 
he relics of the impreſſion of one of thy love kiſſes 
ay fill the ſoul with paſſing joys, throughout endleſs a- 
s. Suppoſe a creature filled with all creature · ſweet- 


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48 A, GLIMPSE , 
one ſimple excellency ? Let me rather further and fu 
ther into the ocean of thy lovelineſs, through endleſs; 
ges, yet ſhall I ever be in the entry: Neverthele 
will I pay thee the tribute of praiſes, and cry up thee, bi 
fore men and angels, and ſpeak. of thine excellene 
while my Being remains. I praiſe thee, not becauſe 
am able to ſhow forth thy worth fully; but ſtrong lo! 
doth conſtrain me, that forever I muſt be expre 
ling, and for ever the. concluſion. muſt be, ho at 
ALTOGETHER , LOVELY : —for to thee alone , doth, t 
epithet appeſtain. You chiefeſt of created excellenci 
can this agree to you? Are you nothing but maſſes 
pure eſſential and unmixed love? Who but he, even 
| aloneis Altogether lovely ? He is all loves, all ſweetue 
all raviſhments : Nothing but lovelineſs in him! Þ 
weakneſs, infirmity, poverty, contempt, croſſes, lofi 
pains and death, flaſh forth the raviſhing reſplendenci 
of ſurpaſſing love and ſweetneſs. Heart and love, 
all is gone from me. O the ſublime thoughts of my 
levated underſtanding !- O this frame! this love ! t 
ſweetneſs All are unutterable, all are inexpreſſible 
1 5. Ever to fland befide the Chief of Ten Thouſand 
a dignity. inconceivably above the excellency of all en 
saures. . ag LEES” 
That * we might be ever with thee, and behold t 
glory, was one of thy great petitions, in the days * 
thy fleſh, Thouſand, thouſand times bleſſed I that e 
this was aſked ! Thou aſked nobly, and thy Father gr: 
ed like a king. Can we have more than to dwell in 
immediate preſence ? Any enjoyment of thee ſurpal 
that of the flower of created ſweetneſs; A ſight of tl 
in a viſion of the night, through a glaſs, or any way, 
raviſhing, as I often have ſweetly experienced, in 
days of my pilgrimage: To touch the dem of thy gar 


OT G6LOKY.> -.- 49 
or to ſee thee in thy infancy, was a happineſs /inexpreſ- 
ſible. What ſhall we ſay to our lot, who are as near 
thee as our heart can defire? O this high, high, high 
dignity! O beloved eſtate! far above the heaven of 
heavens; nay, numberleſs heavens ſuperadded to one 
another: And am I in thy immediate preſence? Even 
in the chambers of preſence with thee, O lovely One, 
who inhabits eternity? What honour is this! What ſhall 
I ſay of it? But thy ways are incomprehenſible. This 
is the prerogative of the ſaints, this is it bat ſhall be 
done unto the man whom the bing delighteth'to honour? 
Spake he not in good earneſt, when he told us of digni- 
ties, thrones, crowns, prieſthood, and poſſeſſions of all 
things ? Shall Jever enough wonder at the honour of the 
ſaints ? This is the dignity of the overcomers, to Wear 
the laurel, the badges of honour, the garlands of glory. 
How came thou to all this, O filly ſelf? Haſt thou been 


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in and without with ſo great a weight of glory? Thou 
appeareſt indeed in the equipage of a king, decked with | 
majeſty, glory and honour; arrayed with wonderful ex- 


ent cellency and comelineſs. Waſt thou not once, O thou 
ail filly I, a baſe worm, defiled with the very filth of hell? 

How haſt thou robb'd the Almighty of his glory, diſ- 
_ honoured his excellency, wronged his holineſs, tram- 


pled upon his moſt precious things, on his blood; done 
what thou couldſt to precipitate thyſelf into eternal per- 
dition; violated the gates of that woful priſon, O un- 
done foul, to cover thyſelf with utter darkneſs from the 
charming beams of the ſun of righteouſneſs ? Vet I am 
here, even here ſurrounded with inexpreſſible glory : 

n Many thouſands leſs deſerving are in the place of utter 
d, 1 darkneſs. O thy love! thy love which paſſeth all un- 
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depth, and length and breadth of thy ways | ' My enjoy: 
ments are more than free; ; hath hel not brought me over my 
deſervings! But king can ſtand in the way of infinite 
love. Thou loved me, becauſe thou loved me; and be- 
cauſe thou loved me, I became lovely in 20 fight, 
Not unto us, not unto us be the glory ; 3 but, unto Jznovan 
and the Lau be praiſe for ever and ever. 
16. The nearneſs of Saints and Angels to their Crna: 
Tor and RED EENMER, aftomſheth them eternally. 
What aſtoniſhing condeſcenſion, to admit bits of no- 
thing ſo near thee! Can this thy way be ever enough 
admired ? It is ſtrange thou ſhouldſt deign creatures with 
either thy 18 or thy hatred: What it man that thou 
» /houldft vi/it him,— that thou ſhouldſt notice him, and 
bring him into judgment ? But more wonderful! haſt 
thou not crowned him with glory and honour ? Thou haſt 
made him fit down beſide thyſelf! He treadeth the low- 
er world under his feet, he walketh on the high places 
of the creation: O thy bounty! O thy condeſcenſion! 
Should I ſtand ſo near my Loxp the King? Since free 
love will have it thus, (and it is not his way to create 
deſires and not fulfil them), ſtrong love can take reſt 
no where but in his naked embraces. On earth I-was 
unſatisfied—oft-timescomplainingofdiſtance and abſence; 
and when I found thee I would not let thee. go, but held 
thee faſt, until we entered into theſe glorious manſions: 
And how are my thoughts heightened by beholding 
thee face to face? The nearer thee, the higher eſteem 
and reverence: None can have low. thoughts of og 
but they. that know thee. not. 
. 19. No knowledge, no evidence, bike the non day evi 
- dence of glory. 5 


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not all an aſſembly of eternal wonders ; and all the pro- 


duct of the noon- day viſion of glory, not of ignorance ? 
All the things of time, from the greateſt to the ſmalleſt, 
are now ſeen to be wonders ; ; hovrbeit that little of them 
was diſcerned, and that in a brutiſh manner,? Strange! 
O beloved, thou art another manner of CuxisT-than we 
ſpake of in the days of our mortality : Thy very name 
was ſcarce conceived. How came Thither with ſo little 
conceptions ? # Have I not begun to know, in the very 
firſt entry of eternity, my knowledge on earth was of no 
evidence i in compariſon of this noon- day viſion of glory: 
As the man looks back on his infancy as a mere brutiſh 
ignorance, and the man awakened on his bypaſt dream; 
ſo do I now on my. moſt refined conceptions on earth.—O 
the clear and ſharp uptaking of a glorified capacity! Do 
I not behold every thing, as it is in its own proper and na- 
ked being? All ſhadows have feduway.” What wonderto 
think what we were and what we are! —O the infinite 
power of omnipotent Jznovan What a perfecting is 
this : — But what cannot my Loxp do? | 
i8. To be witneſſes of the glory of h and the 

Las, is an inexprefeible dignity. ; 

Ar! doſt thou manifeſt thyſelf in ſuch a manner to us? 
What is effential eternity to beings of yeſterday ?— : 
Are we fit witneſſes of thy glory? O infinite Jznovar, 
are we not before thee as nothing and vanity ? May not 
the greatneſs of thy glory, if thou ſhouldſt let it forth to 
the full, confound, even confound us to nothing ? Its in- 
inttenelt nothing can comprehend but an infinite under- 
ſtanding; The furthermoſt of all created glory i is no- 
thing and vanity ? in thy preſence, tho? it might Een 
bine whe among its like. Dart forth the full rays of 
youz glory, all you creatures, you ſhall not dazzle theſe 
eyes, Which are fixed on 2 object. | 155 

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52 +: LA DAE 
. What he  manife /ts to us is 0 wonder; but the 
ED of his manife ing it is. a wonder of - eee 
Shall we not wonder again and again, and for ever, at 
the way thou haſt taken to manifeſt ſo nearly and fa- 


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not aſſumed the nature of a creature, t hat thou mighteſt t. 
converſe the more intimately and condeſcendingly wirh 11 
us? To enjoy thee i in any way requires an infinite con- T 
deſcenfion, the diſproportion being infinite; But this, Ml _ 
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is the moſt excellent of all poſſible ways! O the won-W g. 
derful foul-alluring glory that, doth moſt ſweetly dart u- fo 
pon us from the Man who is Gop! 0 eternally bleſſed of 
I who have ſuch a Wellbeloved, in whom 1s all fullneſs! L 
Thou art a marrowleſs one indeed. We have done for 4 
ever with other beloyeds. What wonder, ] I am fo deeply 4 
in love with thee ? What wonder I. I ſwim in the flaogs N 
of eternal latisfaction, ho enjoy thee ſo familiarly ?— * 
Can a creature, be more bappy, "If am full, Tam full, 8 
and can deſire no more 2 7 


20 To conſider the change Canisr hath undergone, i 10 
an eternally raviſhing conſi ideration. er 

Is this he who. WAS, born, of the Virgin Maar, ir in a 
Kable, and laid in a manger W ho, for the moſt of his 
days, was in a poor, obſcure, contemptible condition— 
who was 3 man of forrows, and acquainted with grief, of 


no corporal beauty in the, eyes of the beholders ; ;, and 


ho was deſerted of the outgoing of the ſweetneſ⸗s a 
and the love of Gon z; nay, did drink from brim to bot-l t. 


tom the bitter cup of his Father's wrath—who was ap- 
prehended i in an ignominious manner; betrayed, denied 
and forſaken of his © own diſciples ; violentty haled away 
to judgment, reviled, mocked and buffeted, and ſpit u- 


or GLORY. 33 

pon; accuſed of blaſphemy, treaſon, madneſs, and what, 
ever lelliſh heads could deviſe ;/ then fcotirged;and ſet 
forth to the opprobry and aßhing of the raſcally mul- 
titude ; then condemned to the vile and ſhameful death 
of the croſs. for blaſphemy and treaſon, and that by 
the petition of the vaſt multitudes gathered together to 
the Paſſover, who preferred a baſe robber before him! 
The ſentence was no ſooner pronounced than executed, 


—for he was hanged betwixt two thieves, in the ſight 


of the multitude, to the inſultation of devils and their 
ſlaves, who beheld this matchlefs one nailed to the cur- 
ſed tree, and bled to death in great torment, and anguiſh 
of * ſpirit, —while the fun, clothed in mourning for his 
Lokp, contrary to the courſe of nature, ſy mpathiſed with 
the eclipſed Creator, and withdrew his beams from thoſe 
who had eclipſed the light of the whole creation. Thus 
did my Wellbeloved continue for a long ſpace, and gave 
up the ghoſt in great torment of body and ſpirit ; yea, 
was buried, and continued under the power of death 
for a. time : And this, even this is the ſame. Behold, 

men and angels, behold and wonder at the man, who is 
the wonder of wondets, and whoſe name is termed Wox- 
DERPFUL !'Wellbeloved, thou appeareſt to be far changed, 


tho? thou be ever the ſame! Thou only haſt done hero. 


cally, O mighty captain of the Lonxp's hoſt : This was 


thy defign from eternity. Oughteſt thou not firſt to 


have ſuffered, and then to enter into this incomprehenſible. 
glory? Thou haſt gracioufly overcome, and fatisfied 


avenging juſtice, incenſed againſt the children of thy e- 
ternal delights: * Having ſpoiled principalities and pow- + 
ers, thou madeſt a ſhew of them openly, triumphing 


© over them on the croſs.— For tho' thou, being in the 
form of Gov, thought it no robbery to be equal with 


God; 5 os madeſt thou thyſelf of no * and 
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54. A 6 LIM S E 
became obedient even unto the death: Wherefore Gop 2 
*,alſo.hath; highly exalted thee, and given thee a name a; of 
* bove every name, that at the name of ]esvs.every: knee: Ml ce: 
* thall bow, in heaven, earth, and under the earth. J 
Waſt thou not as low as the grave, and yet haſt: aſ-- er, 
cended on high, led captivity captive, and received gifts all 
for men? Art, thou not he who ivetb, and was dead; Ning, 
And behold, thou art alive for ever. more! Who Mis 
exalted, and waſt low and diſpiſed ? and behold, thou 
art exalted above all created heavens for ever Who 
rojoicedſt, and did weep, and ſigh and gtoan? and .. 
hold, thou art ſurrounded with boundleſsj joys. for e 
more—Who reigneſt victoriouſly, and waſt in the Ps 
of a ſervant? and behold, thou reigneſt in glorious 
majeſty for ever more Art thou not a wonderful onein- 
deed |—Shall men and angels ever enough admire thee: 
Tho! every moment :of. amy #hall be filled with ad- 
miration of my raviſhed heart. 
21. GOD MANIFESTED 1N TAE FLESH, fon: ever 4 a 
Aud is duſt and aſhes for ever exalted to ſuch an incom- 
prehenſible pitch of glory? O duſt, how cameſt thou hi- 
ther? Strange, that the Almighty hath exalted thee above 
Jun, moon and ſtars; and hath brought thee into his im- 
mediate preſence, to carry the leaſt tincture of ſuperna - 
tural heavenly glory upon thee, to become the temple 
of the Holy Ghoſt! But, men and angels, what are your 
conceptions of this duſt, to be the temple wherein the 
high and lofty One, the Almighty Jznovan, the eternal 
conſubſtantial Son of Gop, doth perſonally dwell, and 
with which he is perſonally united 42 Is not this a myſ- 
tery—is not this an infinite abyſs, men and angels, into 
whoſe furthermoſt you ſhall never be able to dive? 


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OF GLORY. _ 55 
22. That Gov ſhould bring about the higheſt exaltation 
of human nature through, man's en Ig an 
ocean of wonders. 4 

To think that theſe bodily © eyes behold my Redeem- 
er, might aſtoniſh ten thouſand worlds, Are we not 7 
all overwhelmed in aſtoniſhment ? Is not every one cry- 
ing, What. hath Gop done? O thy incomprehenſible 
ways! O thy irrefiſtable power! O thy unſearchable 
wiſdom! O thy love, thy boundleſs love, /ove that 
paſſeth all undemnſtanding {—Strange | hath the Almighty 
exalted thee, .O man's nature, unto this incomprehenſible 
dignity It was much thou receivedſt the characters of 
divine majeſty and excellency, yet more to be admitted 
into friendſhip and converſe with that gre .: and dreadful 
framer of all. O. are not ſuch gradations of wonder 
like millions of worlds placed above millions of worlds, 
and again and again for ever more ?—lIs' not man in- 
nitely obliged to ſuch a ſovereign If the crawling 
-orms be infinitely obliged for their being, what ſhall 
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C mightſt draw him nearer thyſelf, and manifeſt thy glory 


56 A GLIMPSE 

thould ſpare them, if once they. dare to utter one word 
againſt. thee ?2—Shouldit thou reduce to nothing whit ful 
thou haſt created, what haſt thou loſt, ſince thou couldſ der 
produce, in this very moment, wunes⸗ of millions of 
worlds? Yea, andif produced, what are they, but as ſo many 78 
millions of ſhadows and nothings before thee. O the conde may 
ſcenſion, the MI of thy nature! O the boundlek 
riches of thy grace! O the height, the depth, the length, mat 


the breadth of thy unſearchable ways! ' Haſt thou becbmt ſelf 
friends with man again—entered into a treaty of peace 5 
ow 


and reconciliation with him held out the golden ſcep- 
tre as a manifeſtation of the thoughts of boundleſs love hl 


that inflamed in thy heart from all eternity, erectipge 4 
glorious thrc..e of free, altogether free grace, upon che l 
horrid apoſtacy and rebellion of ingrate man Who Th a 
could have imagined ſuch a diſpenſation as this ? Were i © 


you expecting this, you glorious angels, when ye be: 


ſo prodigious ingratitude would come to this? Were you 
not amazed at ſuch a ſecond convenant after the breaking 


EI 
of the firſt? Vea, are we not all in the ſame admiring , a 
frame. O eternity ! thou are not ſufficient to make theſW. 
impreſſion old, which Gop hath enſtamped on the minds g 
of men and angels. The objects are wonderful, out Die 
faculties are wonderfully elevated! What rallies ml. 
heart is fixed! O this frame of ſpirit? | lee, © ſee that | 
world of altogether free grace was the only defign oli, 
eternity ! even that heaven ſhould be filled for ever with 
a ſong wo him that fiuteth on the throne, and to the 
Lamb, for ever. and ever. —Lokd, what haſt thou done! Þ: 


Not only haſt thou become friends with man again—not 
only haſt thou made him thine everlaſting minion, but 


thou haſt alſo perſonally aſſumed his nature, that Wt * 


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OF GLORY. 57 
unto him, in a more familiar, i intimate, {ſweet and wonder- 
ful way than was poſſible in the firſt diſpenſation! Won- 
derful! Did man caſt off the image of his maker—and 
did his maker take upon him man's image, to reſtore all 
again? Didſt thou, O my Gov, aſſume perſonally our 
nature, even in its lowell eſtate, that thou mighteſt weep, 
and figh, and groan, and' ſorrow, and die for undone 


word 
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ag man? Is not this love indeed Man had deſtroyed him- 
om a ſelf, but in did our excellent. Wellbeloved ſtep betwixt 


eternal wrath and the miſerable ſinner 3 and all the bil- 
lows of divine veh geanqe did he receive, till divine fu- 
ry was pacified ! "No forrow, no ſhame, no pain could 
terrify him : Infinite love is invincible. © I will not ſpare 
© baſe man,“ laid offended Majeſty; in the day he re- 
bels againſt me, as I have ſaid, he muſt die the death; 
for the word hath gone out I my mouth. He ĩt 
* ſo,” faith the Son of Gop; 3 © here am I, a man ready 
© to ſuffer all Torrow,. grief and pain oÞ ſoul and body 


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Sacrifice and offerings (hou wilt not accept ; but a body 


carry their ſorrews. My Father, I am glad thou lay 
upon me the iniquity of them all; they are thine and 
mine from eternity. This was our tranſaction before 
* all ages, that in the fulneſs of time I ſhould lay down 
my life for theſe thou haſt given me out of the world: 
Therefore, thou, O Father, doſt love me, becauſe I lay 
down my life for my ſheep.” 


am a gement. 

Who can ſearch into the depths of thy boundleſs 1 
| Thou haſt delivered us from going down into tbe pit; thou 
haſt found a ranſom : This is a draught of infinite wiſ- 


* unto the very death: Hath r man ſinned? Man ſhall 
bear the puniſhment. oy even I will die the death. 


* thou haſt given me. I will bear their griefs; I will 


23. The relations betwixt Gop and us are laue 


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58 A GLIMPSE 
dom, the eternal wonder of men and angels! Verih 
thy loves are incomprehenſible, matchleſs, boundleſs and 
unchangeable; which, tho! we ſometime doubted i in the 
days of aur abſence, yet all are uo evident as the noon 
day light; paſt, preſent, and tb come, preſent them, 
ſelves for ever. O then my happinefs: 
Am I not overjoyed as at the firſt entry? How famill 
arly and ſweetly do I converſe with thee, O excellei 
Wellbeloved ! Myriads of ages appear not a moment i 
thy preſence. This diſpenfation is an eternal wonder, 
Would not this have been thought a horrid petition befor 
the promulgation of the goſpel? * O that thou wert as my 
brother that ſucked the/breaſts of my mother; when! 
© ſhould find thee without I would kiſs thee : His left hand 
© ſhould be under my head, and his right hand ſhould em- 
* brace me. I am my Beloved's, and his defire is toward; 
© me.” Indeed our dignity before our fall was high and 
glorious: But, O this diſpenſttion of Tove ! Sirs, is not 
Gop'our brother, our huſband, our Redeemer, our only 
 Wellbeloved ? O our happineſs ! | What ſhall we do 
throughout eternity but wonder! Gop manifeſted in 
the fleſh—O ſtrange Loxy Go Almighty, want ne 
th ou do more to creatures? 
24. Men and angels run themſelves W 5 ehe 
circle of beholding and admiring Gop v ifebly manife, fled. 
Shall I not behold and admire, admire and behold, and 
flame and love, while this immortal being remains: The ; 
vail 1s ens aſide, and we behold clearly the man 
Cnxrsr Jesvs filled with the Godhead ! Indeed the 
earth is full of a divine glory, the heavens alſo in a more 
ſpecial manner, faints and angels wonderfully and emi- 
nently ; yet all in meaſure : But glory dwells in this man 
above all meaſure. He is Gop equal with the Father! 
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eſs of the human nature of our Wellbeloved with 
e Godhead! O then the emanations of thine exhauſt- 
dle fulneſs! Even thy glory, beauty and ſweetneſs, 

all overflow their banks, for ever and ever! We are 
ver filled and ovei- filled with thy fulneſs; yet there 
ill remains as much behind! Infinite worlds of men and 
gels couldſt thou. ſatiate, and make to run over with 


ith ine overcoming love and ſweetneſs! Upon whom may 
na d doth not thy light ſhine ? Thou art the ſun, we are 
efor 


e flars: What ſhould we be, didſt thou draw in thy 
lory? Wherever thy glory is peculiarly, manifefted, 


hen 1 1ere is heaven! Let me be any where, ſo be thou ſhine 
don me. They have the ſunny fide of the world who 
chold thy face in righteouſneſs.; A world of all crea- 
re-beauties and delights is hell without thee ; I ſhould. 

punt them a maſs of deformity, ſhould. Nhat for one 

inute ſtand in betwixt me and thy raviſhing counte- 
ance. Jeyovan: and the Lawns! Had I had this fight 


8 a t for one moment on earth, would I in the leaſt have, 
ed ü earded the gliſtering vanities of time! In thy light I 
„alan lisht; every thing appears as it is: They are en- 

I htened to the full who dwell under the beams of thy 


wiſhing countenance, Bleſſed ones, what muſt he be 
fed hoſe glory and beauty, darting in upon us, doth beauti- 
J. and GC all? What were we, if this fair one were not a- 
Tue ongſt us? By thy darting upon me, I am partaker of a 
vine nature, even transformed from glory to glory, !— 

thy attractive, lovely emanations! I cannot, will not. 
t follow thee. whitherſoever thou goeſt, tho? without 
e borders of this great all, or thro? the lake that bur- 
th with fire and brimſtone; theſe then ſhould be no 
ore what they are, but, worlds of joy and delights — 
thy glory, thy glory, thy glory !—Curſed monſters 
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neſs! Is il not good to be here? Wonderful -Was I ever 


red theſe oceans of unſpeakable buoglneke — Through 


our wiſdom, righteouſneſs, —all things. O perfect ſecu 


©, A GLIMPSE = 
excellency, had you a glimpſe of this tranſcendent glory, 92 


ſhould not your miſery and torment be quite forgotten 
But ye are baniſhed from his preſence and glory; and 
therefore you are inutterably miſerable, O my happi. 


loath to come here? My Lox is here, are not then all 
things here? Was I ever loath to come here, becaule 
filly harmleſs death did ſtand in the way? But what is 
it to paſs through ten thouſand black deaths, ten thou: 
fand ages of all imaginable torment ? One hoar here 
will do more than make up all. O maſſy, real, ſubſtan- 


tial, enduring glory! Am I not happy, eternally happy 5 
Happineſs is here in its full bloom and verdure : I have i. 
thee in my arms, O Wellbeloved, and is it poſſible ] by 
can be more bleſſed ? | 


25. The glorified only capable of underſtanding glory 
fully ; mortality can conceive little. 


Buy thy blood, and only by thy blood, have we enter: 
thee have we ſuch full acceſs to the Father; thou a 


rity for ever and ever! What wonder this could not en 
ter the minds of mortals ? This is only to be conceived 
by manly capacities. Before, we reſembled thee in par 
becauſe we ſaw thee by faith, as through the glaſs d 
thy word, but in part; now, we are capacious; now 
chou ſhineſt upon us in full ſplendor, whereby thine i 
mage is fully impreſſed upon us; we know thee face ti 
face, as thou art, without the benefit of interpoſing crea 
tures and ideas, extracted from other things. O imme 
diate viſion of Gop! O clear diſcoveries of infinite per 
fections ! 1 fee, I ſee the infinite oxz Jace to Face, | as | 
am ſeen, and my life is preſerved. I am fully ſatiat 
raviſhed, overcome with thy lovely i Age 1 What w "Ol 


6 r GLORY. =, = 
der I am like thee, who partake of thy nature, the 
beams of thy excellency every where darting upon me? 
en o this illumination! 0 the high, high pitch of glory! 
O the everlaſting ſmiles of my Lonp's countenance. !. O 
manifeſtations of more and more throughout eternity ! 
All the enjoyments of eternity are as one moment: All 
ages are ſwallowed up as in the infinite depths of bound- 
Jeſs excellencies. Creature enjoyments are empty, and 
ay be received; but infinite love raviſheth throughout 
-ternity: When more ages: are paſt than there are atoms 
n the creation, then ſhall I be, juſt as I am now, ever 
wimming and diving in the depths of thy infinite per- 
ections, and never attaining the furthermoſt. This is 4 
ife! How ſweet to dwell under the noon-day beams of 
hy raviſhing countenance ! All darkneſs and i ignorance 
ire quite diſpelled; every thing is knoxyn as it is, in 
Its own proper eſſence: Here wiſdom louriſheth i in its 
igheſt region—my former attainments are ſwallowed up, 
ike the light of a candle beſide the ſun. O this light 
lay of eternity! O eternity, thou art not ſufficient, where- 
n I may delineate what my elevated heart doth conceive! 
All are inexpreſſible: Myſteries are no myſteries, and 
et eternal myſteries ! How was I beſet with darkneſs, 
nd could not attain ſuitable uptakings of thee? How 


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d with the full and immediate beams of thy glory. And 
how great and precious are my thoughts of thee! O 


ith divine love? I am rendered divine; ; therefore I 
nd to thee with an inceſſant and eternal propenſity : 
lineſs before was in part, not the copeſtone is upon it, 


as I vexed with low and unbeſeeming thoughts of thy 


is raviſhed frame of ſpirit! How am I all inflamed 


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* blood of the Lamb? I ſee, Wellbeloved, thou can 

7 waſh black hell fair and white, till it become a lump d I 
15 heaven and glory. Sirs, are we not far changed? Ma ſho 
Ft not every one of us ſay, I am not I? Might we not mi 2 
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Mt 4 tible with glory ? | be 
i 1 26. The beholding of Gov, i in his way of 'ſubfiftency ani er 
11308 outgoings to creatures, is endleſs raviſhment. > he 
oo. The wonderful myſtery of thy being oxx in eſſene gin 
1455 yet THREE in the way of thy ſubſiſtence, was only to hi bin 
; 9 believed by mortals; and not to be underſtood demon [gh 
I ſtratively: But now I behold, with a noon- day evidence and 
N 0 « what I believed. Thou art onx, in the moſt ſimple mai py 
hed ner; and yet there are THREE in the bleſſed Goparar al 
1 5 every one of which is Gop, who are only diſtinguiſhe lels 
1 0 by proper ways of ſubſiſtence. I believed in the land. We 
vs darkneſs, this, as all other myſteries, ſhould be full "6 
# 15 manifeſted in the land of glory. Now all, all is accon 5 
IH pliſhed. My hope hath not made me aſhamed: He ha gel: 
Wl * fulfilled the defire of thoſe that fear him.“ O blefle of | 
1 J, for ever more] What a life is this thus to ſwim int] 3 
3 oceans of delights! O this enjoyment ! O my heaven 15 
151 Father, firſt n of this all adorable, eternal, coeſſes 3 
5 tial generation! O thou brightneſs of thy Fathers glory "4 : 
. * end expreſs character of his per/on | O. holy Ghoſt, the. ; 
1 ternal conſpiration of love betwixt the Father and tl * 
14 Son! O raviſhing fights ! Shall I not behold, with 1 oy 
i eternal overcomipg delectation? What rs God, will tak Ef 
. eternity to anſwer, tho? we behold thee as thou art 80 
1 one view of thy infinitely amiable eflence and way Es 
# '* ſabſiſtence would ſeal up innumerable worlds of men a! whe 
1 * b angels in everlaſtin g raviſhments Can I expreſs wh MH 
. 5 I behold! Should write new. volumes through mil 7 
i ons of ages, until the. creation were filled, they ſhoul IA 
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Ivrite to all eternity new ſongs of thine immortal praifes, 
ſhould I not be ever a beginning, and never fully begun? 
—O ſweet ſweet fellowſhip with the Father, Son and 
Holy Ghoſt! O my Redeemer, do I not behold thee 
the brightneſs of the Father's glory, the expreſs charac- 
ter of his perſon, his efficacy and his wifdom, by which 
he made all things? The Loxp poſſeffed thee in the be- 
ginning, ere ever the earth was ; even then thou waſt by 
him, as one brought up with him, and was daily his de- 
light, rejoicing always before him. Immortal bleſſings 
and praiſes to thee, O Gon, the Father of our LoRD IE. 
sus CurisT ! Art thou not lovely, excellent, full of all 
delights and ſweetneſs, who haft begotten ſuch a match- 
leſs, ſuper-excellent One as Cnxisr Ixsus our excellent 
Wellbeloved, our Redeemer, our head, our days-man, 
our al] in all! The ſubſtantial image is lovely, O my 
heavenly Father! O then thy lovelineſs Men and an- 
gels, you are but as ſo many painted accidental draughts 
of God's excellency ; but Currsr Ixsus is the ſubſtantial 
image of God, his very power, efficacy, and excellency 
by which he doth all things his very ſelf. None but 
Cuxtsr Is he the Father's-darling; and is he not ours? 
Is he his wiſdom, joy and delight, and is he not ours al- 
fo ?—0O eternal raviſhments ! God hath given to and for 
ad ll the Son of his everlaſling delights !—Sent he not his 
only Son and, heir into a baſe and inhuman world, that 


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thy boſom . delight to be a propitiation for us, the off. 
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given unto us the Son of his everlaſting delight ? This 


with all imaginable paradiſes of pleaſures, with innu- 


to matchleſs IEsus. It is a ſhame to lay any thing in 
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64 A GLIMPSE. 


being on us was a great bounty—but more that thoy 
created us after thy lovely divine image—yet more, 
thou condeſcended to enter into a covenant with us 
and yet higher, to be appointed thy everlaſting minions, 
But what ſhall we think, men and angels, hath he not 


gift can never be enough admired and eſteemed: O Al. 
mighty Jzzovan, thou giveſt like a king—too great a 
gift indeed for us to receive, but not too great for thee 
to give. Nothing can be too great for thee; and this 
was the greateſt gift that thou couldſt give. Hadſt 
thou gifted us ten thouſand worlds of beauty, ſtored 


merable fair created heavens of ſweetneſs, with infinite 
legions of men and angels, ſhould they not have been 
eſteemed rich and noble gifts ?—But all is juſt nothing 


confound all poſſible created excellencies to nothing. 
O thy excellency, thy excellency ! Am I nat overjoyed 
that I ſhall cry thee up through numberleſs ages ?—Ye 
may hide yourſelves, men and angels; for all your beau- 
ties and glory, what are you to him ? Is is aftoniſhing con- 
deſcenſion he admits you to ſtand befide him! I-can but ¶ che 
extol thee before aſſemblies of men and angels. My heart 
is fixed, eternally fixed : Shall we not, as it were, contend 
who ſhall extol thee moſt? And faid you, Amen, my 
Wellbeloved, to the bleſſed, a thouſand times bleſſed bar- 
gain of the new covenant ? Verily that love thou mani- 
fested in the fulneſs of time, did ſhow the love that 
flamed in thy heart before all ages: Tho' thou waſt in 
the boſom of tbe Father, ever delighting him, and delight. 
ing in him; yet didſt thou come down to baſe earth, 
and converſed familiarly with filly, ſinful, frail man! and 
wes found to be à man, that thou might ſave kim lost 


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OF GLORY. 65 
and undone to the uttermost. Men and angels, you are 
looking in with astornſhment.. To behold Gop per- 
ſonally, clothed. with the human nature, is a ſight we 
can never enough view and admire,—the mirr or where- 
in we behold the love of Gop to creatures in its full 
fplendor.. Wast thou: never enough near and intimate 
with us, until thou becamest bone of our bone and fleſh 
of our fleſh—until thou becamest one with us, who art 
one with the Father? For both he that fon ctiftetb, and 
they that. are ſanthjied, are all one: For which caitſe 
thou art not aſhamed lo call us brethren. O eſſential 
tove! Art thou not here manifested tranſcendently ? 
That ſentence was comely in thy mo uth, /ove your ene. 
mles, Hast thou not loved thy mortal enemies to the 
death? Were we not heirs of wrath, born enemies a- 
gainst thy highneſs ? But in deſpite of our enmity didst 
thou love with an everlasting love. Nothing can ſtand 
in the way of infinite redeeming love. No matter what 
I have been, fince I am lovely in thy fight : It's wonder- 
ful lovelineſs to become the object of thy eternal love; 
and this only. will I glory in. The more vile and loath- 
ſome I have been, the more doth the lovelineſs, noble- 
nels, and freeneſs of thy love appear, which will nei- 
ther be budded nor hired. Sovereignty ſhines forth in 
all thy actions. Mho ball give thee, and it ſhall be re- 
ompenſed ? Not unto 'us, not unto us, but unto.him that 
ftteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, be glory- for 
ver and ever. O blefſed Spirit of grace, the eternal a- 
ſpiration of love, and outgoing of the Father and the Son,. 
hou great [exovan, bleſſed for ever more, —how ſweet 
i co-operation. haſt. thou in this glorious work of re- 
demption, this tranſcendent manifeſtation of altogether 
ree grace! How ſweet haſt thou been unto us in the 
lays of our pilgrimage 5 . di dſt thou convince, con- 7 


66 4 OCUPMPEE 
vert, enlighten, and comfort? We ſhould have periſhel 
in our journey to this goodly- land, hadſt thou not 
ſtrengthened us in our inward man. And waſt thou 8 
weet in the days of our ſinning? Art not thou now ſweg, 
infinitely more than ſweet ?—O the full, inceſſant, eternal 
flowings of the Spirit of love! This ſouth-wind breathes 

ſtrongly, cauſing the ſpices of the higher paradik 
exhale a raviſhing fragrancy every where: How, in 
every high tide, nothing but raviſhing perfumes? Ne 
+ winds, but the breathings of the holy Spirit. O whiat 
Tivers, oceans, worlds of conſolation! One drop of this 
falling from the heart appeared heaven itſelf, but thi 
is more than heaven: Every drop of this boundleſs ocean 
of ſweetneſs J am entered for ever into, would raviſh 
ten thouſand worlds of men and angels. This could 
not be conceived by mortals, unleſs in a childiſhmanner; 
the firſt fruits ſurpaſſed their apprehenfions; and yet hat 
no proportion conſiderable with the harveſt. None cas 
.apprehend this except they be experienced therein and 
none can be capable of this experience, but thoſe whi 
are raiſed to this wonderful pitch of glory. Theſe flood 
of ſweetneſs would have undone us in a moment, had we 
entered. them in our frail mortal late. O miraculou 
ele vation of glory, which can bear ſuch ſweetneſs ! At 
we not as ſo many trophies and monuments of th 
tranſcendent power in its high victory? Much « 
thine excellency was to be ſeen in thy kingdom of m 
ture, much more in thy kingdom of grace, but mol 
4n this of glory : Here ſhine forth thy infinite excelleng 
cies in their noon-day ſplendor. 
27. Nothing but _— occeans of Joy, enn En 
MANUEL's /and. 
O joy inexpreſſible, and 3 glorious ! Non 
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OF GLORY. 97 
are pleaſures forever more In the days of my pilgri- 
mage, thou put, more. Joy and gladneſs into my heart, 
than in the time when wordly employments abounded in 
worldlings: Then, have I been fo raviſhed with the glimp- 
ſes of thy countenance, that earthly joys could take no 
place; ſo that I could not but imagine myſelf in heaven 
already; thinking that the vintage had come in place of 
the firſt fruits: Now, O now! I am in thy immediate 
preſence. Thy ſweetneſs, O thy raviſhing ſweetnels ! 
The floods, oceans, worlds of eternal raviſhing delights 
treaſured up at thy right hand, wherein I am entered, 
and fim for ever and ever! Thy land, O EuuANUEL, 
overflows with pleaſures, Never, never did I know 
what joy was until now. Now I feel, Iight hath been 
fawn for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. 
Joy is come to its May-blooming vigour. O the rivers 
of pleaſures that ſweetly run through all the faculties 
of the ſoul and body! O the full gales of the ſpirit of 
conſolation! Am I not almoſt joy itſelf? Are theſe the 
joys that were ſo much ſpoken and written of on the 
other fide of the water! Surely earth's idiom hath come. 
wonderfully ſhort! Thy. word was written to children, 
and therefore did expreſs all in a manner ſaited to childiſh 
capacities; but nothing low and childiſh here! O maſſy, 
ſolid, ſubſtantial, enduring Joys : O ſublime, high, 
manly frame! None to the joy of my. Lozxp ! Hereto- 
fore I was ſometimes filled with joy, but naw I am 
entered into joy itſelf. I live and dwell in joy ! No- 
ding but joy for evermore ! Thou haſt brought me in- 
to theſe glorious manſions of glory: How ſhall we for 
ever be glad, and rejoice in thee! An the apple tree 
amonꝙ the trees of the wood, ſo art thou among the afſem- 
bly of men and angels. O ſurpaſſing delights i in fitting 
under thy. ſhadow.! The ſweetneſs of thy fruits, the 


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fragrancy of thy perfume, no tongue can, expreſs, 
They who come under the covert of thy wings never 
defre to remove from thence.—Sirs, is not this a life of 
unmixed joy and ſweetneſs, to fit under the boughs df 
this tree of life? Is it not good to be here? Have 
not the lines fallen unto us in pleaſant places? Have we 
not 4 gecdly heritage? And after ſuch a world of woe 
and tribulation, to enter over head and ears in theſe 
fuper-abundant j joys O ſweet diſpenſation—firſt to be 
alflicted, and then comforted; to weep, and then to re- 
joice; to run, and then to reſt! O high tide of over- 
flowing joys, which had ſwallewed up all former 
griefs and forrows! The firft fight of thy raviſhing 
countenance, O my Gon, made me, as it were, forget 
that ever I was on earth !—This land hath a ſweet fmel- 
ling countenance : Pam and ſadneſs ſhould be converted 
here into joy and delight. Here is an eternal Spring: 
For the winter is past, the reign is over and gone, the 
flowers appear on the earth, the time of the ſinging-of 
birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our. 
land.“ Now we have everlaſting joys for ſorrow, the 
oil of gladneſs for the ſpirit of heavinefs. We exceeding- 
ly rejoice with Jerufalem, who have loved her; we 
* ſuck, and fatiate ourſelves with the breasts of her con- 
+ folation; we milk and delight ourſelves with the abun- 
© dance of her glory: For the Lox extendeth grace to 
© her like a river. Our eyes do ſee this, our hearts do 
© rejoice, and our bones do flouriſh like an herb. He 
© hath made us an everlasting excellency, a joy of many 
* generations. Sing, O heavens, for the Loxp hath done 


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into finging, ye mountains; for the Lon Jenovan 15 


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ing! Who can trace thee in all thy proceedings ! ? 


| prefented it ſpotleſs and glorious before the Father 
Now I behold all thy promiſes completely accompliſhes 


70 - A SLIMPESL 

least be frustrate by all the power of creatures. Whin 
I was a wretched, lost creature, lying in my blood, and EM 
no eye pitying me; then didst thou, in thydÞy-going, 


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cast a look of love on me,” and faid unto me /zve; and 5 
that time became a time of love.“ Free love was the Cans 
rule thou walkedſt by, not my deſervings or willing. my 


neſs, Had I been left to my helliſh will, I ſhould for 5. 
ever have deſtroyed myſelf: But thou ſweetly and 
naturally, ere ever I was aware, didst raviſh heart and 
all from me; fo that my will could not but ſtoop to "a 
thy overcoming lovelinefs. When I. was following after 


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the monſtrous imaginations of my evil heart, debauching gor 
my loves and joys on creature-enjoyments, deſpiſingl ſon 
the only excellent things, then didst thou diſcover 1 . 


thy irrefistible lovelineſs unto me, which bowed, tran. Di 
formed, and enamoured all the faculties of my foals ſo 


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that I could not but yield, most willingly : ESL 5 
Naturally did the influences of thy Spirit work on che ,;. 
powers of my ſoul; fo that I cloſed with thee on thine fas 


own terms, as treely as I had been abſolute ſovereign of 
myſelf, and yet as infallibly as T had been no intellectu 
al agent. Verily, thou, thou alone art the abſolute 
 fovercign of all things. O thy wonderful way of work 


29. The glorified, reſlecting on the way to the kingdom 
fee it to be an inconceivable draught of divine wiſdom. 
O piercing joys and ſweetneſs, that ever I heartih 
and fincerely received thee on thy own terms! How wel 
haſt thou keeped what I have committed unto thee, anf 


Thou haſt ever held me in thine hand through all thi 
dangerous wilderneſs I have overpaſt; thou buſt gui 
ed me by thy counſel, and at laſt brought me to lol 


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How hath thy ſtrength been ſeen in weakneſs? How 
many temptations have I overcome? How many croſſes 
have I wreſtled through ? How many floods have I G- 
verpaſt? How many boiſterous ſtorms have I ſet my 
face againſt? How have I eſcaped through all the aſ- 
faults of the Devil, the world and the fleſh? And yet 
my Loxp hath ſet me fairly above all hazards and dif- 
ficulties. My feet for ever ſtand now within the glo- 
rious land of Emmanver's bleſſed conqueſt, All, the 
united ſtrength of bleſſed ſaints and angels could not 
have brought me hither, 
to one another throughout eternity what Gop hath 
done for us in time, that eternity may be filled with a 
ſong to Jenovan and the Laus? Who ſhould exalt, and 
love, and fear, and obey, and ſerve thee, if not we 
Didſt thou love us from eternity, and ſhall we not 
praiſe thee to eternity ?—And-can we but extol thee, 
not ſo much becauſe thou art good to us, as becauſe 
thou art good in thyſelf ?—But O how is my heart in- 
famed to think how thy love from eternity brake forth 


in time! How didſt thou ſhew forth the acts of thy free 


ſovereign love, in that thou hadſt written my name for 
eternal life! How bravely have all exigencies and croſs 
diſpenſations conſpired to wy welfare? Now I ſee all 
things work together for the good of thoſe that love-thee. 

The ſaddeſt and moſt croſs junctures of providence have 
been the beſt : When thou ſeemedſt to be ſmĩting, thou 
waſt healing: When thou appeared to be deſtroying, 


chou waſt making up, —Shall I. not for ever declare thy 


wonderful ways? Happy I, who ſhall ever have eter- 


nity before me ! Thy ways to me in time, are the mat - 


ter of an eternal ſong. All exigencies of time did- ſo 
jump together, as every one, hath proven a ſtep to this 


inexpreſſible ag. Free redeeming love hath been 


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written on all the paſſages of my pilgrimage! and mb I 
in the laſt water: When I began to fink, thou held mel !! 
up in thy arms, and put my head in thy boſom, and ſaid, Wl ** 
© Be of good cheer, my Love, thy fins are forgiven thee; 6 thy 


© fear not, my Dove, but rejoice exceedingly ; for thy ; 0 
* Gop, thy head, thy Loxy, thy huſband, thy Saviour e 
is here, holding thee in his arms. Have I bought thee 
© ſo dearly, ſuffered ſo many griefs, and woes and pains; 
yea, death itfelf for thee, —carried thee through the 7.0 


hazardous wilderneſs ſo circumſpectly and tenderly, ' the 
* and will I let thee periſ now? Never fear, my Fair lo 
* one; am I not willing? am I not able? have I not over. 0 
come death and hell? I have dried up this river with 2 
© the ſoles of my feet: Nothing remains "OT vane] to do, . 1 
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30. The fellouuſbip betwixt CarrsT and ys one of bis | * 
as intimate and familiar as if he had but one.” ; oy 
And hath not the found of thy welcome, on this fide : tha 
of the water, an immortal permanency on my heart? 'The ip 
impreſſion is indelible : On my landing on the ſhore of Ml, e 
this ſweet land, did not thou run, and fall upon my neck, . mY 
and embrace and kiſs me; faying, © Welcome a thou- . 


* ſand times with all my fout to this purchaſed poſſel. 
* fion: O my fair one, it raviſheth my heart to behold 
6 thee here ! With defire have I defired thine intimate 
q fellowſhip, and could not rest till T had brought thee 
* bither, that ſtrong loves might be ſatiate with full and 
mutual enjoyment. And now ſhall theſe arms be exer- 
© ciſed in embracing z we ſhall for ever be twiſted in the 
© neareſt connection of loye, and ſwim in the bound- | 
* leſs ocean of delights. - Haſt thou been faithful over: 
© few things, and ſhall I not make thee a ruler over all 
things Enter thou into the joy of thy Lox, thy love: 
5 Seeſt thou not 0 treaſures of all ws and bleſſedneſ 


OF GLORY, 73 
1 have laid up for thee, even for thee, my lovely one? 
© I had not forgot thee while I was on earth; and no 
© wonder, fince from eternity I loved thee. What are 
© thy thoughts of ſuch great preparation? Is not this a 
« raviſhing place? How. is it ſtored with all manner of 
« delights, ſuitable to thy highest capacity? Doth not 
thy fight ſhew that thy imaginations of theſe on earth 
© were nothing ? Lo, all this is the fruit of my ſufferings 
Gand death: And now, how ſhall I entertain thee fince 
thou haſt come hither ? Thou longed. in thy pilgrimage; 


for the naked and immediate enjoyment of me; and 


now enjoy me as thy heart can deſire. Thou art mine, 
and I am thine: We eternally feed among the lillies. 
I will ſatiate thee with my choiceſt love-dainties, and 
fill thee to the full, with my eternal overcoming ſweet- 
© neſs. Theſe victorious brows do I adorn with this 
maſſy diadem of glory; with theſe fair and refplendent 
robes of righteouſneſs do I array thee, that all the 
ſpectators ſhall admire thy majeſty and glory. Thy 
excellency on earth was obſcured by the vail of cor- 
ruption and mortality: Now have I removed all thy 
infirmities, healed all thy diſcaſes, raiſed up thy facul- 
ties unto ſuch a wonderful pitch, as thou art ſit for 
conyerſing with me face to face. And didſt thou, my 
delight, deſire nothing more than the immediate and 
full enjoyment of me, and deſpiſed the world in its 
* moſt ſmiling condition, in compariſon of my matchieſs 
excellency ; looking on all pains, ſufferings and dif- 


fi culties for my name's ſake as delightful; making 


| my glory and exaltation thy chief joy and aim; and 
all I not deck thee with paſſing majeſty and r r 
© This is the man, O my friends, whom I have honeur- , 
ed, and will honour him, for he is worthy : Becauſe. 
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* I have ſet bim upon high, becauſe he hath known my ( 
great name. This is the man, O my Father, who 


*. bath been with me in my temptations, who hath go. Ev. 


* rified me on earth, and done great things for me: E. 


ven this is the man who hath kept the word of my 5 
“ patience; who hath known that all things, whatſo- it 
ever thou haſt given me, are of thee ; for I gave un-. van 
& to him the words which thou gaveſt me, and he hath 0: 
received them; and did know ſurely, that I come ear 


* out from thee, and believed that thou didſt ſend 3 fe 


„% me.“ How great a friend was he to me on earth Ho 
When I was hungry, he gave me meat; when thirſty teri 
© he gave me drink; when a ftranger he took me in twi 
* when naked; he clothed me; when fick and in priſon i cer 
„he viſited me.“ Verily, in my eyes he is worthy oi the 
eternal glory. Whatever thou haſt been, in my ſigbiſ the 
thou art worthy of eternal glory and rezewn. He. the 
* roicly done! Thy ſufferings and actions for my name“ er 
* ſake I heartily. acknowledge excellent ſervice : Re-Ml a v 
* ceiye then theſe enriching palms of victory into thy cel 
« valiant hands, as an everlaſting ſign of thy conqueſt ex 
over the Devil, the world and the fleſh; and thy ma the 

jeſtic head be graced with theſe laurels of triumph fon 


* while thine enemies ſhall for ever lie under thy feet. fer 
All that thou beholdeſt are thine; for they are mine <þ] 
and I am thine. And now thy happineſs ſuperabound im 
and overflows its banks; now do * I reſt in my love t th; 
4 thee, and thou doſt reſt in thy love to me: [I rejoici in 
over thee ; yea, I exceedingly rejoice with ſinging. Ne 
How ſhall we ever dwell in theſe everlaſting love- en if 


* braces ? How ſhall we be filled with loye thropght 
eternity ?? 

31. VISIBLE things a ; mo ene 22 
INVISIBLE, 


0 r GLORY. 75 


1 my O inexpreſſible raviſhments of love O moft holy, 
who WM greet and condeſcending nature of my Wellbeloved'!— 
$10. Every hour of eternity is like the firſt hour: Thy love 
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is green and blooming thro? never-ending ages. Is not - 
this a ſweet life, O inhabitants ? This ſoil overflows 
with milk and honey. Have we not undergone an ad- 
vantageous tranſportation ? The outfields of this land 
wonderfully excel the lower world : Indeed the very 


come earth is full of thy glory. What paſling delectation have 
ſend 1 found in meditating on thy works of the lower world ? 
zrth! How did every thing I heard or ſaw ſhew forth thy e- 
hirſtyMW ternal power and Godhead 1 But O! the difference be- 
ne in twixt heaven and earth could never enter within my con- 
riſon i ceptions on earth. O glorious world! ſhould we in 
hy ol the ſtate of mortality, have ſtrained our conceptions to 
fight the higheſt, and imagined all the glory our eyes could 
He. then behold; augmented and perfected more ſtages high- | 
ame cr than there are atoms in the creation, yet ſhould ſuch 
Ne. a world have been a deformed maſs to thee. Lower ex- 
o thy cellency gradually perfected, will never attain unto that 
quei excellency which is eſſentially of an higher degree. I 
mg thought in my childhood, that the lower world might 
mph fomewhat reſemble the higher; howbeit I knew the dif- 
r feet ference was inconceivable, and that here ſhould be no 
mineſſi cbbings or flowings, bloomings or fadings, or what could 
bund imply the leaſt privative imperfection: But now I ſee 
OVe ti they have no likeneſs to one another, either in whole or 
ejoiclf in part, even as to the ſmalleſt external reſemblance. 
ging No beauties, no comelineſs, no joys, no. delights here, 


if we ſpeak according to earth's dialect; yet here are 

all things in a high and eminent manner. O my God, how 

incomprehenſible art thou in thy works ! How raviſh- 

ing in that reflex of thy glory which ſhall endure for 

ever! Thou ſhalt for-ever LI thy works ; every 
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76 A GLIMPSE 8 
work of thine is a Ne a raviſhing wonder to my e 
levated capacity ! Might not the immediate enjoyment 
of thee through thy creatures, render a creature eternal. 
ly happy ? How excellent is thy name in all the earth, 
who haſt ſet thy glory above the heavens? What wonders 
are written in thoſe heavens of heavens ? The chene 
maſter- piece of thee, who art perfect in knowledge, and 
excellent in working, This is a world ſtored with all 
manner of tiches; the inhabitants here inherit all 
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32. All excellency, ſpiritual or corporal, on earth, il 
augmented in glory by myriads of flages. | | 
We knew on earth by thy word, that when the clay 
houſe of our tabernacle ſhould be diſſolved, we were to 
receive a building of God, an houſe not made with hands, 
eternal in the heavens : For in that we did groan, not de- 
firing to be unclothed, but clothed upon with our houle 
from heaven; that mortality might be ſwallowed up of 
life. And now every one of us, in our own kind, ap- 
pears the perſeQion of beauty, —whoſe very clay taber: 
nacles are now conformed to his glorious body, and 
whole ſouls are made perfect in holineſs !—And did our 
bodies, when terreſtrial, ſo degrade ? how doth the ce- 


leſtial, united to an elevated foul, perfect with paſſing. 
excellency? Did our vile clubbiſh bodĩes ĩimpede the ſub- 


lime operation of our heaven- born ſpirits? how do theſe 


glorious bodies perfect perfected ſouls in all their out- 
goings —If, when own in corruption, they rendered us 
frail and contemptible, in many things like the beafts; 
how excellent, glorious and majeſtic are we now, when 
vileneſs and corruption are ſwallowed up of glory? Vea, 
if it might been faid of our fouls, when darkened with 
mortality and ſinning, they were in their operation quick; 
what are they now, when exalted to ſuch a ſupernatural 


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OF GLORY, 
lich pitch of excellency? Did we behold, by faith, A 
raviſhing fulneſs and beauty in thy face; what. do we 
now behold, when made ſo capacious 3 ? Were 
our bodies, when animal, ſuch ſtupendous pieces of thy 
unſearchable” wiſdom and power, as every one of us was 
amazed, and faid, I am feanfully and wonderfully made! 
how excellent and curious are theſe heavenly bodies, 
conformed to the glorious body of the Son of Gop?—Did 
our wiſdom ſhine in our mortal faces? what majeſty 
and glory dwells in every caſt of our eye now? Were 
the potſherds- of the earth ſo vigorous, ſtrong and vali- 
ant, that many of us, through faith, excelled in theſe 
perfections which brutiſi men were only taken with, 
whereby we ſubdued kingdoms, flopped the mouths of li- 
ons, quenched the violence of the fire, eſcaped the edge of 
the ſword, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the ar- 
mies of the aliens? O now, our wonderful ſtrength and 
vigour, when our very corporal parts became ſpiritual, 
and of a divine nature! Had ſome of us hearts, in our 
dull earthly cendition, enlarged as the ſand of the ſea- 
ſhore ? How capacious are our hearts now, when wide- 


ned above the dimenſions of many. worlds ?—What is 


earth to Heaven? What is darkneſs ta light? What is 
childhood to manly eſtate :O high, high capacity of 
glory! O ſuper- excellent and only glory in its þlooming ! 

O the raviſhing frame that we are forever into ! Are 
we not the ſelf fame perſons we were on earth ?. And 
yet we are not the ſame : Every one of us is like our all- 


lovely and Wellbeloved, whom we eternalty behold 


with our bqdily eyes, according to our proper meaſure; 
every one of us is at the higheſt pitch of created-perfec- 
tion. This is a wonderful transformation indeed;—O 
ſun, ſan of the lower world, I can look thee out of coun- 


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78 A, GLIMPSE . 
Is this ſometime poor, Frail, deſpicable I ?, Surely this 
is I, the ſelf ſame I, who was fo ſilly in mine own eye, 
and the eyes of all the beholders wonderful d. Am not 
cruſſied under ſuch an. exceeding. weight, of glory But 
glory, and only glory can ſuſtain itſelf. Thy eternab Ml mort 
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The moſt ſignal foretaſte of this glory on earth, 0 
thy trausfiguration, O M Vellbeloved, in the days of-thy;' 
mortality, on the holy mount, when thy; face ſhone as 
the ſun, and thy raiment bas as the; light, ſa that the mortal 
beholders were amazed and confounded: Such an un- 
ſuitableneſs there 1 is betwixt mortality and immortality; 
Weak heads would not be able to bear one draught of 
this celeſtial wing. — And was thy face ſo mazeſtic and 
glorious in the days of thy mortality and ſorrow ! Is itte 
not more than majeſtic a and beautiful now in the days of 
thy joy and exaltation, when * thou haſt. ſeen all the tra- 
© vel of thy ſoul, and art ſatisfied ? More lovelineſs is, 
to be ſeen in every view of thy divine countenance, than 
in infinite. numbers of excellent, beautiful worlds. One 


immortal loves. Much was ſpoken in time of thy acts, 
and glory, and majeſty ; but lo! the thouſand thouſandth 
part hath not been told. Indeed thou art a beloved 
more than another beloved. All joys, that I ever took 
thee- for my all and only one—that ever. I cried heart- | 


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0%" LOR r. 79 
ily Amen to the bleſſed bargain of the new covenant, 
and renounced” my vanities, and came to thee—that e- 
ver I ſubjected myſelf” to the obedience of all thy com- 
mandments—that - ever-T preferred a holy, heavenly, 
mortifled walking in time, to the fulfilling my vain fleth- 
ly inclinations that ever I efteemed * the reproaches of 
« Chriſt greater riches than the pleaſure of fin, for a ſea- 
„ſon! Now I clearly behold, that 1 have choſen the/ 
good part that ſhall never be taken from me.“ O hap- 
Py I! that ever I ſold all, and bought this matchleſs 
pearl of invaluable price? -O my riches, my riches ! 


Since T have 'thee," 'O Wellbeloved, what can I have 


„ nore? Strange! Waſt thou defpiſed by baſe worldlings? 
waz But they knew thee not; thy raviſhing lovelineſs was 
thy, nid from their blinded eyes, which, if they had ſeen, how 


ſhould the whole race of mankind run after thee, Men 
and angels, all beauty; all Tovelineſs, all excellencies are 
here to be Teen : Much is to be ſeen in this viſible fabric 
f this great creation; but r no manifeſtation of glory to 
this. Who can Aeſre more, than to ſtand beſide thee, 
O flower and only beauty of heaven ? What are all cre- 

s it ted heavens? Thou art only heaven thyſelf. No won- 
der, Mary Magdalene, you mordinately defired ſuch an 2 
armful 'as the dead body of this lovely Loxp Jesvs,- 


S.1S, ince you knew it was, tho? a dead lump of clay, the bo- 

) of the man who is Gop, infinitely above the value of 
Ine: Innumerable glorious. created heavens. What a ſweet 
any rmful hen when exalted to ſuch an high pitch of 


glory. . 

34. 7. be Sumrphre every way lhe their WELLBELOVED, 
nce full love muſt have full ſimilitude. 

Love defires the neareſt fimilitude and conjunſilps. 
\s thou. becameſt like us, aſſuming our nature, ſo haſt 
ou made us like thee both in ſpirit and body. We 


80 A GLIM S E 
ate in every part transformed into thy lovely 1 2mahel 
What ever before was terreſtrial, is now heavenly ant 
divine. Theſe tabernacles were © ſown in corruption 
© diſhonour and weakneſs; now they are raiſed in inter! 
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YR ſweet, lively influences can make dead clay live eech hag 
4 PM O thy Tweet "ſhaddi={thy" pleaſant fruit—thy ue 
1 F. thing. perfume, filling all-witk immortal vivacity -en. 
* 5 polfible any can die beſſde thee; O foüntain of Ute or 
1 4 What wonder 1 am fo lively, who have the beams Me. 
= life ever darting upon me: 2 The inhabitants here c ello 
9 | not fay they are fick. Here is perfect ſeeutity : Ou“ 
| 4 iniquities are Þlotted © out, and quite aboliſñed. O. er he 
* cellent life of G ill its Perfection! Rendering, vi ne 
"if only the ſpitit, Put allo the body, every vein, every at 275 
* 5 rery, every ſine active, with immortal vigour ; for Hf 
| 1 ; is filled and overfilled with joy. O my beloved! Thol che 
, * art excellently termed the PrINCE « OF LIFE, the RESURREG ed 
5 1 fron and ThE LIFE; 5 verily thou waſt 1 in good earnel 4 
4 when thou eriedft, be that believerh on me, out of b1s bel 
4 ſhall flow rivers of living waters, * O the po - 
4.9 and ftrengt th of immortality ! we are beben bi 
A | mighty, we have the ſtrength of an | unicotn j—b f 
N 4 Lord Jehovah is become our ſtrength ; we will wall = 
1 upon the high places of the univerſe. He bath 
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o FT GLORY, SH 81 
ad no might, be inereaſeth Arengtb. What was the 
ſtrength of clay to heavenly vigour ? The diſproportion 
rien pet wist the excellency of the terreſtrial and celeſtial 
annot be told. And no wonder we are fo vivacious and 
lrong, ſince our earthly part is become heavenly and 
plorious: Fleſh and blood is done away, as incompa- 
ible with ſuch heavenly majeſty. Theſe bodies, tho? 
ubſtantially the ſame, yet they are quite other as to the 
ualities which are heavenly, ſpiritual and divine. Naked 
eings, conſidered as ſuch, are endowed with no excel- 
ency : It is only by fupervenient modifications they are 
tendered intrinſically more or leſs excellent or baſe.— 
Vhat wonder we are thus, whoſe eſſences are clothed 
yer and perfected, without and within, with ſuper-ex- 
ellent perfections, merely heavenly and divine? O the 
omelineſs and beauty where with ſoul and body is a- 
lorned ! O what beauty, when two excellent beauties 
re unite in one! O ſweet union! O pleaſant, delightſome 
ellowſhip ! In the days of mortality the conſort be- 
wist them was, in a great part, jarring and unpleaſant; 
he one did obſcure the excellency of the other: But 
ow the ſoul i in the body is like the ſun ſhining in its 
roper ſphere ; 3 or like the light darting through a per- 
icuous body, adorned with various modifying beauties, 
hereby the rays are variouſly perfected in their modi- 
ied out-goings : All the properties, perfections, faculties, 
nd actions of ſoul and body are modified and perfected 
y their ſubſtantial connection. Indeed, my Lox, . ; 
Wave gained wonderfully by lofing our firft excellency ; x 2 
hich was excellent in itſelf, and glorious and heavenly; 
n compariſon” af our ſinful condition we precipitated 
urſelves headlong into; but was earthly, baſe, in com- 
ariſon of this. Who could have imagined that an earth- 
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82 A GLIMPSE 

of angels ? J How filly i is man in an earthly PAR 
excellent. in an heavenly ? And all by the power and 
virtue of the Man who is infinitely more than a man, 
35. Complete bleſſedneſs is the complete en joyment o 
Gop every way, mediately and immediately. 

We are bleſſed, and more than bleſfſed, who enjoj 
thee every way : We drink abundantly, both out of thi 
fountain and ſtreams, at once being ſatiate with the re. 
flex and direct emanations of the eternal ſweetneſs. Eva 
thou thyſelf art in an incomprehenſible way delighte 
with the reflections of thy glory, wherewith this beay 


tiful all, but eſpecially thy ſponſe, is adorned. Art tho 


not enamoured with thy raviſhing image imprinted on het 
ſo that thou crieſt out, Thou haftl raviſhed my heart, 
fler, my ſpouſe, thou haſt raviſhed my heart with one 
thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck: Thou art all fun 
my love, there is no ſpot in thee 2-—The love of comply 
cency ariſeth from ſimilitude : O then ſhew thy love i 
us, our love to thee, and one another ! We are becom 
altogether fair, by waſhing ourſelves in thy molt pre 
cious blood. What can be our exerciſe through eternity 
but ſweet embracing? O our raviſhing ſweet entertain 
ments of love, among theſe refreſhing mountains d 
Toles yp ſpices! O what compellations ! ' What lot 


kiſſes! O the overcoming perfume of the vaſt mountain 


of myrrh and hills of frankincenſe ! O the ſmellf 


| of his Lebanon garments ! O his fragrant ointments ! ( 


his ſoul-overcoming emazations : Every hour here ! 
heaven, and more” than heaven. What joy to {e 
Carsr and all his members together, in the royal palad 

of glory! Ate we not all gathered up to theſe heave 
ly paſtures? And none is wanting. We all longed 00 
be here, fought to be here, prayed to be here, ran to 
here, groaned and wept to be here; and behold we ag 


OF GLORY. 83 
ll here for ever more We helped and comforted one 
mother in our journey hither, and behold, we are here 
or ever more! Satan and the world, our corruptions, 
yea, and oftentimes ourſelves, ſtrove to binder our coutle 
ither ; and yet we are here for evermore! ! Now we are 
erſonally all come to mount Zion, and unto the city of 
he living Go, the heavenly Jeruſalem ; ; and unto an in- 
wumerable company of angels ; to the grand aſſembly of 


Pre be church of the Firſt Born, which are written in heaven; 
hi nd to Gop the Judge of all, and to the Spiri. us of juſt 
9 wn made pes fect; and 10 Irsvs, the Mediator of the 


ew covenant 5 to the blood of ſprinkling, | that ſpeateth 
letter things than that of Abel.—O ſweet converſe! O 
xcellent fellowſhip ! O the frame of my heart! O the 
ig motions of joy and love! O eternity! Is it pol 


one 
J. fair ble thou canſt prove weariſome ! Ten thouſand ages 
by em not one hour Who can ſet forth the ſweetneſs 


f thy land, O EMMANUEL 2181 it not an houſe, an orchard, 
city, a kingdom, a world a commonwealth of a moſt 
omely order! How good, and how pleaſant i is it, for 
hem to dwell together i in unity? ? It i is as the everlaſting 
wellings of the Spirit, that dwells on theſe everlaſting 
wuntains of Zion; for. c here hath the Loxp command- 
ed the bleſſing, even life, for ever mors;”> - 

36. Cunlsr 7s the everlaſting , PRrzsr, and pro- 
nr of his people. 

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\ere ¶auſe of the Bridegroom's veice ? No wonder it was ſaid 
to {el t him, Never man ſpake like this man. How doth he 


aviſh us with his ſweet compellations of love! * Qur 
ſouls fail us nof when he ſpeaks; mortality is ſwallow-. 
ed up of life.'—Sirs, is not our Wellbeloved and we in 
heſe green paſtures together ?—O his raviſhing ſmiles! O 
is looks of love towards us! O his voice, his voice 


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84 A GLIMPSE | 
I am inflamed ! Is he not ſaying, i in the boundleſs jo; Wi 
of his ſpirit, Father, behold I and the children whit ib 
thou haſt given me are for ever in the molt intimate fel 
lowſhip of one another, hefe in the higheſt manſion 
which I have prepared, wherein we might be ſatiate with 
loves throughout eternity, according to thy promi. 
I do ſee the travel of my foul, and am ſatisfied; fy 
thou haſt divided me a ſpoil with the great, and I i 
vide a portion with the ſtrong ; becauſe I poured ou 
* my ſoul unto death.“ We all reap the fruits of ou 
| groans and tears, afflictions and labours : My choſen ar 
comforted, and I am comforted. All the children 
our everlaſting love are here beho/ding my glory, whit 
thou haſt given me; ſor thou doſt glorify me with this 
own ſelf, even with the glory I had with thee before th 
world was. Now the copeſtone is put upon our ever 
laſting contrivance of free redeeming grace: Thok 
whom from eternity we choſe for our minions, have! 
effectually called in to me in time ; and cauſed then 
willingly and ſincerely cry, Amen to the bargain of the 
new covenant : And I have brought them thro? a world 
of tentations, ſnares, afflictions, and all imaginable in. 
pediments, into this haven of everlaſting blefledneſs= 
As from eternity I loved them, ſo to eternity will 
enjoy them: As I made them ſharers of my ſuffering 
and forrow ; ſo have I made them partakers of my glory 
and joy: As I have entered into the oceans of bount 
lefs joys; fo have I made them to enter alſo. The de 
fires of my foul are fully accompliſhed—rmy fair ons 
Joys are fall: As their affſictions were my attic 
their forrows my ſorrows, —fo their joys are my jos: 
For we are one, and they are one In us, even as v, 
* one: For I have given them the glory, which th 
* haſt given me: I ia them, and thou in me; A 


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or GLORY. 85 
they are made perfect i in one. As thou haſt loved me, 
„ ſo do I love them, and they erernally abide in ray 


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tel, love: And thou haſt loved them; for they have loved 
ion « me,” in deſpight of all e in a vain world. — 
wh Wi Behold, my Father, how fair, and beautiful, and loy ely, 
nile and ſweet I have made my ſpouſe! She is all defirabte 
1 and comely; no ſpot, no blemiſti is to be found in her. 
d. 


Offended Majeſty hath nothing to ſay; I have redeein- 
ed her, I have waſhed her in my blood. Here I ſtand 
n high Prieft for ever, after the or der of Me! ohifedeh, 

s 2 monument that juſtice is pacified, and all is in ſw ot 
terms, As thou lookeſt upon me with infinite love and 
felight, and art well pleaſed with all my ſufferings and 
Qions for thy glory, and on her behalf; fo art thou 
tell pleaſed with her, ſince, of thine own good pleaſure, 
rom eternity, thou accepted ofthe bargain. Vengeance 
bath nothing to exact: I was wounded for my choſen's 
ranſereſſions, I was bruiſed for their iniquities; and in 
py eyes they are worthy to walk in glorious robes up 
ere with me before the throne. They kept their gar- 
tents clean in the midſt of a filthy and polluted world; 
hey accounted all the glory and excellency of time but 
ols and dung unto my glory and exaltation, and looked 
a all afflictions and di fficulties as eaſy for my name's 
Ke: They ſubjected themſelves to the univerſal obedi- 

ace of all my commandments they fought the good fight, 

bey finiſhed their courſe, they kept the faith. O how 

roically have they done for the crown of life, which 
Ir ever adorns their victorious heads ! As thou, O Fa- 
T, * hait fet me down on thy throne, fo have I given 
wto them to fit down on my throne ;* for I have 
wited and exalted them, as thou baſt highly clorifed 
d exaked me: And now we are for ever exalted a- 


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burneth with fire and brimſtone. Our joys are full, out 
glory perfected, our happineſs boundleſs, our Prailes in. 


45 
ceſſant for ever and ever.. M1 

37. An aſlomſbment, that the high and lofty One ſhoull to f 
look on creatures. fled. 
Men and angels, are we not all amazed and confound. abov 
ed with this infinite love of Jesus? What are we ty cer 
him, that he ſhould caſt one look either of love c p 
hatred upon us: — What are our thoughts? O the va. fee 
derful frame of my raviſhed heart! He loves us, he dt. i+ i 
lights in us, his eyes are fixed upon us, his heart is open. 2 
ed to us, his arms are ſtretched forth to us, his voice ii Mi m 
of us and to us,—who. but we !—Q my LORD, wia 'to 
haft thou done ?—Q love of Jxsus! I will cry thee up WW da 
gain and again, and for ever I will cry thee up. Bleſeli 


I, who have ſuch a glorious aſſembly to help me vit 
an high, eternal note of praiſe ! O this is life”? O mor {iſhgh 
than joy, more than On more than {full late won 
tion. 

38. EARTH and Heaven guite oppoſite things. 

Yea, ſurely they are lovely who are arrayed with l 
comelineſs; and what doth the ſpouſe want that the 
bridegroom hath to give? O then ſhe is endowed with al 
poſſible excellency! This is an aſſembly of ings a 
priefts,—every, one is a noble, magnificent and royal pet 
fon; all are children to the King of kings, —all u 
princes of the blood-royal of heaven,—all are poſſeſſes 
of all things. Here is the flower and perfection of 


hath , choſen, and with which for ever he will divell- 
Great is the Lon, and greatly to be praifed, in the cl 

© of our Gov, in the mountain of his holineſs. ' Beau 
ful for ſituation, the joy o of all nations, is mount Ziv 


| "OF' GLORY. „ 
in How compactly is it built together? It lieth four- quare. 
our . No temple here; for the LoxD Gop Almighty, and the 
in. « Lamb, is the temple thereof.“ None needs teach another; 
we are all filled with thy fulneſs: We behold thee face 

oull WM to face. No more mediate- enjoyment—ſhadows have 
fled away. Now, and never until now, are we lifted up 

above ordinances :* Propheſies have failed, tongues have 
© ceaſed, knowledge hath vaniſhed away: We knew in 
« part, and prophefied in part; but that which is per- 
ect is come, and that which was in part is done away. 


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e de. . When I was a child, I ſpake as a child, underſtood as 
open. n child, thought as a child; but when T became a 
ice i man, I put away childiſh things: For now I ſee face 


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{to face; but in my childhood, I faw through a glaſs 
{ darkly: Now I know, even as alſo Fam known.“ And 
what wonder, fince our minds are illuminated by the 


light; thou art become all and in all unto us. We 
wonderfully enlighten - one another, men and angels, 
but all is nothing to the infinite light. O the glo- 
ry of Jxuovau, which ever ſhall be admired and ne- 
vith bh ver comprehended ! How nearly and ſweetly is it 
hat tle 


with i lesvs? And bow: richly is thy city ſtored, O E- 


nos ee! Here are all manner of things new and old, 
yal pe. which thou haſt prepared for thy friends. Were they 
a fools who forſook all they poſſeſſed on earth to be- 


oſſeſſon i ceme citizens here? Here is the abundance of all good 
on of dl wings, all jo ys, all delights, all beauties; all are here, 


ny Cn mot eminent and ſuper- abundant manner: Nothing 
Iwvell- ine itaperfection here; no darkneſs, — the ſun is ever in 
the cih bis meridian, the light of his countenance is ever lifted 


Beau p upon us; for ever doth he look upon us in a ſweet, 


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be comforteth ur. O joyful, O white, O bleſſed, O n. 
dient day of endleſs eternity ! Thrs ig the day which the 
LokrD bata. made; we "will-rejoice and be glad in ü. 

Even this is the day which beth taken its birth from hz 
infinitely amiable countenance. O theſe rivers of col. 
ſolations that male glad ibe city of Gop ! O the eternd 
emanations of all fulneſs, flowing out from the throne 
of Gon and of the Lang! No mixture of creature iim. 
perfections; all proceed immediately from the fountain! 
O my Gov, how was I tormented with thirſt in the wil. 
derneſs? I was ever full of wants and defires,—but 0 
now, now I am drunk, raviſned, filled and ſatiate with 
the eternal overflowings of thy ſurpaſſing ſweetneh, 
which run over this vaſt multitude of men and angel 

like a mighty inundation. In the days of our vanity 
we fat by the rroers of Babylon, and wept; when 1 
thought on the ſweet life the inhabitants of this higber 
houſe, this higher Jeruſalem had, we could not but 
groan forth, When ſhall the night be gone, and the fla. 
dows evaniſhed? When ſhall time be out of the wiy, 
that I may enter into the pure river of the water of life 
and fatiate myſelf with all the fulneſs of Gop? th 
ſoul thirfleth for God, the living God; | when ſhall 
come to oppear before Gop? How long ſhall 1 dwell ina 
dry and parched wilderneſs, wherein there'ts no water! 
Mae is me that. I ſojourn ſi long in Mefhech ; Vor my day! 

are comſumed lite ſmoke, and mybones do burn as an hearth 

By reaſon of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleaue i 

my kin. My days are like a ſhadow that declineth, and 

I am withered like graſs. But O, now is the joyful add 

white ſide of Providence turned up! My yourh is renew. 

ed like the eagle's: I ſwim in the ocean of life. Who on 

tell what raviſhing ſolace is under the branches of tie 

tree of life ; divine W * oa dart through: Yet 


1 OF GLORY. 89 
beho!d I fully thy countenance, O Jzuovan! We are 
thy ſervants, ever ſerving thee, and beholding thy face, 

baving thy name vuritten on our fore-heads, I went 

mourning to the grave, becauſe of my unfitneſs for ſer- 

vinz thee on earth; but O! now I ſerve thee in as hea- 

yenly and divine a manner as T would : I am become al- 

[together like thee, I am filled with thy glory and thy 
beauty : No need to aſk, /hew me thy glory: Thy face 

inceffantly and eternally, do I behold, and live. 

39. Nothing in glory, ou Jorge to Jrnovan and the 

Luis, +> tx 

This 15 Zim the ber addon of 3 the joy f the 


ne, i bale world : This is the city which Gop hath made, e- 
oth en which he hath made in a peculiar manner. O what 
nity, e! © what majeſty! O what; joy! O what bleſſed - 


jeſs! * As we have heard, fo have we ſeen, in the city 


- er of the Lord of hoſts, Gov, hath eſtabliſhed: it for 
t bu erer. The Loap our Gop doth fave us this day, as 


the flock of his people; for we are as the ſtones of a 
crown lifted up as an enſign upon his land: For how 
great is his goodneſs and how great is his beauty !— 
Sing, O daughter of Zion, ſhout O Iſrael, he glad and 
rejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerufalem ; 
„ue ber the Loxp thy Gop in the midſt of thee is mighty, 
vater? ! be bath ſaved thee and rejoiceth over thee with joy; 
1 dot he reſts in his love, he joyeth over thee with ſinging; 
Fear: de bath healed our backſlidings, he hath loved us free- 


gave h; for his anger is turned away, and he comforteth 
75, ond” He is as the dew unto us; we grow as the lily, 
ful aud aud caſt forth our roots as Lebanon. He hath made 
-2n60-W 20d the places round about his holy hill a bleſſing, 
ho cd cauſeth the ſhowers come down in their ſeafon, 
c of tie eren ſhowers of bleſſing for ever more. And the 
ch: Yet 


hee of the field doth yield her fruit, and our land doth 
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and we ſball not ſorrow anymore at all: For beholi 
the Lord hath created à new (heaven and a rer 
carth, and tbe former is not remembered, nor dot 
come into mind. Our gates are open contigualh 
*, they. ſhall not be, ſhut, day nor night,; for hraßz wt 
have gold, and for iron we have ſilver, and for: vob 
braſs, and for ſtones; iron. Violence is no more heat 


but we call our walls ſalvation, andi our gates praiſe: 
everlaſting light, and the days of our mourning att 
of his hands, that hemay be glorified. Our ligt 
doth break forth as the morning, and our health ſpring 
fore us, and the glory of the Loxp is our rear wal 


vation; we ſhall not be aſhamed nor confound 


* wilt exalt thee, I will praiſe thy name; for thou hi 


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* and: do Know the Lord. 01 Behold, he that brough 
us from all..couatrics,, and gathered us from the 
coaſts of the earth: For, the Lord hath redeem. 


gether to the goodnels, of the Logo, for wheat, al 
box, wine, and for oil, aud ſor the young of the: flo 
and of the herd; and our ſpul is as a watered garca, 


in our land, waſting nor deſtruction within our border; 


The ſun. ſhall no more go down, neither ſhall th 
moon withdraw. herſelf; for the Lord is unto us à 


ended. We are all righteous, we inherit the lat 
forever: We are the branch of his planting, the wall 
eth ſorth ſpeedily; and our righteouſneſs doth go 
We are ſaved of the Loxp with an everlaſling 
world without end. O Loy thou art my G05, 
*.dane; wonderful things: Thy counſels of old, 


faithfulneſs and truth; for thou baſt been aſtrenf 
to the poor, a ſtrength to the needy in his diſt: ch 


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OF GLORY. | 91 

na, Wi refuge from the ſtorm, a thadow from the heat; and 
ug WW haft brought down the noiſe of devils and their ſlaves, 
the as the heat in dty places; and haſt ſwallowed up 
cen. WW death in victocy; and wiped: away tears from all fa- 

bin ces. Lo! this is our Go, wet have waited for him, 
con: WW he hath ſaved us; we will be glad and rejoice in his 
© ſalvation: He extendeth: peace to us like a river, 
and our glory is like a flowing ſtream. Our heart re- 
ejoieeth, our bones flouriſtr like an herb; and the hand 
of the Lok is known towards his ſervants, and his in- 
© Jionation towards his enemies; for he hath puniſhed 
the world for their evil, and the wicked for their int- 
„quity; and hath cauſed the haughtineſs of the proud 
to ceaſe, and hath laid low the pride of the terrible, and 
broke the ſtaff of the wicked and the ſceptre of the ru- 
„lers. Hallelujah, ſalvation, and glory, aud honour, 
nd power unto the Loxb our Goo: True and righ- 
*teons are his judgments; for he hath judged all his 
enemies 3 and the glory of avenging juſtice is forever 
© difplayed; © Let Iſrael rejoice in him that made him : 
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king; for 
be Lord taketh pleaſure in his people: He hath beau - 


tuſalem, praiſe thy God, O Zion; for he hath ſtrength- 

ened fore ver the bars of thy gates, he hath bleſſed thy 

children within thee: He maketh peace within thy 
* borders, and filleth thee with the fineſt of the wheat: 
„The Lord hath choſen thee for his reſt, here wall he 

* ever dwell ; for he hath defired it.? 

40. The happineſs df the ſaints faperabundant nes 
wc have all manner. of enjoyment. 

Are we not more than bleſſed ? United happineſs hack 
the greater force. O the ſweet fellowſhip of bleſſed 
men ud N All manner of * are here 


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are the ſame tree. We are one with thee; for both, 


ſes of excellency and delight? If, when clothed with 
mortality, you were of ſublime and princely ſpirits 


9 A GLIMPSE 
Al our. natural, propenſities are fully ſatisfied, and we 
are every, way filled, with Gop. As Our fellow thip with 
him was interrupted, imperlect, and at a diſtance on earthz 
ſo our converſe with creatures was o ſmall. profit ;= 
Vanity as to us was poured out on all creature enjoy 
ments z ſince our faculties. were in a great part vitiate, 
was .not our fellowſhip on earth oft times for the work 
as well as for the better? For that our converſe favours 
ed ſtrongly of earth, differing little from that of world 
lings. But is not this a wonderful change? We look, 
like an aſſembly of kings and prieſts indeed. Are ne. 
not all one, in mind, in love, in joy? For we have the. 
mind of Chrift. All of us reſemble advantageoully that 
perfect and only pattern of holineſs, that infinite world, 
of raviſhing beauty, and boundleſs ocean of overcoming, 
ſweetneſs, that only delight, love, ſatisfaction, wonder," 
and all, of men and angels. I am like thee, O ny 
e I am like thee! Ojoy! ſuperabounding 
joy! This one thought bears in its boſom ten thouland 
heavens. O firs, are not his glory, his excellency, hit; 
ſweetneſs diffuſed among us? We are one in Chriſt; 
and therefore one among ourſelves being united by the Wh thi 
ik ot love. . Thou art the head, we the members; | 
all treaſures of excellency are but communicated from 
thee. unto us, as from the root to the branches, which 


be that ſanctifieth and they that are fan@tified are one, 
Are you not excellent then, Oye angels! ! Were ye not 
paſſing excellent, and only delightſome, O ye excellent] 
ones of the earth, when encompaſſed about with ionu- 
merable infirmities ? and are you not now ſo many mal. 


what are vn now, when mortality is ſwallowed he 


pe fe? Was our converſe ſweet in the valley of tears and 
with WW crows: ; and is. it not more than pleaſant i in this para- 
th; ie of joys and delights: Was our lamenting our diſ- 
_ ance from Gov t to one another ſweet? What raviſhments 
Joy n Gur mutual congratulations of the overſſowings of de- 
late, ights and happineſs, in the immediate preſence of Jeno- 
orle n and the LAB? What a golden life is this? As this full 
out. moyment of thee, O my Gon, doth ſwallow up all other, 
old. noyments; ſo doth it perfect them alſo. Until our 
look e to thee was perfected, never did we love one * 
e we ter perleklliy. The more tliou art loved, the more | 
e the WW: thy i image. Thou art the centre of all my faculties ; 2 
' that BW my love to ſaints and angels terminates in thee, 
von on hact clothed them with thy lovelineſs, and they 
ming re become lovely: yea, tho they were not, yet ſince 
nder hey are the object of thy love, therefore will I love 
O ny en: But becauſe thou haſt loved them, therefore haſt 
ading WW ou made them wonderfully lovely ; ; and therefore, how 
uland te we all kindled together into an eternal flame ! O 
Y, h bst a wonderful ſympathy ! As we ſuffered in one an- 
brit; ners afflictions, ſo do we rejoice in one another's j joy. 
y the h this ſuperabundaut 3 joy and happineſs! Since all your 
vers; y and happineſs, men and angels, are mine, even me 
iron ey affect: The happineſs of thouſands and myriads of 
whicl WW ouſands are abridged in one happineſs. And how dif- 
r both oering is the light of thy glory! I know every one of 
& one, hu in particular, as by name; and what was your lot 
ve ni earth. When our converſe is more joyful, ſhall not 
:ellent t fellowſhip now be paſſing excellent? The faculties are 
100+ eat, the objects are great, and great is eternity, which 
y mal: Wie have ever before us in our fellowſhip : We are not 
d with, pnbned as on earth, to days, hours and years; but ſhall 
pirits ek to one another of his infinite excellencies again 
d up $i d "gain, and more and 'more, and for ever ſpeak : 


OF GLORY: 93 


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94 AGM PSs 
And what. new delights, ſince earth's childich a 
is done away 2 Words I ſentences, orations and volung 
were as dark ſhadows af little or no ſigniſication. But . 
the prafound idiom of EANNEL's country! Ec 
word is like a talent, repreſenting ten thouſand, excelley 
volumes, in earth's language. How-admirably do mot 
tality and immortality. differ in all things ! Cry out ti 
His matchleſs praiſes: Shall we not contend, who ſhell 
"ſpeak: moſt excellently of his glory? Shall we not bee 
ever recqunting his wonderful goodneſs; to us, in um 
and eternity 2 O raviſhing(feNowſhip with men and u 
gels! O more than. xaviching voice of the Son of G00 
Were it not the prexogative of glory, that one enjoy 
ment cannot divert from another, I eee t 
all, my faculties againſt. you, © fellow creatures; thatth 
might only be filled, with, Jesus my on Welbelond 
Whatever enjoy , ſlill J enjoy thee perfectly and ſulh 
wich yhomſde ver I converſe, gentinrally I am uuith ile 
Thou art the beginning, widdle and end of all. O 
eternal high tides of joys in my heatt! Nothing cant 
parate me in the leaſt from this immediate enjoyment 
thee... The members are not binde ted from receiv 
influences from the bead becauſe of. their mutual con 
LI Among themſelves ; ; reflex rays hinder not the i 
3. the, enjoyment of the thing included eminent) 
on not the enjoyment of that which it /Tnc/udes. 
enjoy. thee, and therefore I enjoy all things; and g 
enjoyment of creatures is no new enjoyment, but 
other manner of enjoying thee, like the beheldingt 
light of the ſun darting from the moon: Every one 
us reflects the beauty wherewith thou adorne ſt us. 
41. All the attributes of Gop contribute to our eien 
bleſſedneſs, but his uncaanceaBLEness ts the erown of 
How do we ſmile with a raviſhing countenance, WW 


tion of Gop's wonderful providences in time will fill 


| ages? Here there's is ever a further; but 'tis accor- 


and 10 come. Thou art eminently all things, yet not 
rmally, and in their own proper nature ; We change 
un eery moment, and have {till new actings; becauſe we 
re finite beings : But with thee there inn variableneſs, 
pr ſhadow of turning. Whatever thou doſt, from e- 


enjoy ity thou doſt it: Thy actings have neither beginning 


dle, nor ending; which are but one ſimple act, the 
ne with thyſelf, tho? virtually and equivalently it con- 
ins in its boſom innumerable actions, even as thy ever- 
fingneſs innumerable days, years and ages. Who 
th un admire enough thy ſimplicity ? All thy excellencies 


Ot but one excellency, equivalent unto infinite worlds 
can fe excellencies, O what a bleſſed life have we, men 
ment id angels, in dwelling in Gop, the Almighty, allſuf- 


ecerrnitnt ]Jruovan ?- in whom is contained infinite varieties 
121 co all joys, all pleaſures all ſweetneſs, al contentments, 
deauties, all glories in a tranſcendent, eminent and 


minen perfect manner. O happy I, who have ſuch an in- 


ite boundleſs one in all perfections to be my portion ! 
thou art infinite, eternal, unchangeable in thy wiſdom, 
; holineſs; juſtice, goodneſs and truth. Everlaſting 


or GLO Rv. 95 


geh Aber we view on time in earth theſe preſent enjoyments, 
er their flouriſhing throughout eternity ? The conſider- 


he thoughts with endleſs admiration. And am I not 
wiſhed in looking back into infinite perfections before 


ing to finite conception to look upon thee as 4, pre- 


iments! He ' who loveth us is unchangeable; he | 


ry hom we truſt is the rock of ages, whoſe goings fort th 


ve been from eternity. 
ing. Our happineſs is eternal; it is Joy upon joy to 


ale, progrels nor ending, but ſhall ever be a : begin- 


ider this life can have no period: It hath neither 


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ning, and ſhall. be ever, ever alike far from the perig 
of my joys and happineſs : ever is this ſame raviſhe un, 
ſpeakable frame of divine love and joy I am juſt noy 
into !--Shall it ever be high. tide ?—OQ. more than hap. 
pineſs It overflows its banks :—It 1 is much I bear thy 
Joy. '—O my joys! My joys, you are of immortal dun 
tion !—O my excellent Wellbeloved, now haſt tha 
with eternity crowned all my happineſs ! To think eng 
to be disjoined from thee, would embitter all the prelel 
ſweetneſs: The greater the enjoyment, the greater th 
loſs: Temporary enjoy ments nothing affect me: WU 

will end will be as it had not been. Never ſo many 
ges are nothing in the minds of elevated creatures: 0 
ly brutes are taken with time. Nothing i is real and 
ſtantial but what is enduring. Nothing vain and emp 
now: All things here ſhall be ever in the ſelf ſame fiat 
we are now in—So are all things in hell alſo. 
faſhion of this world ſhall never paſs away: Allare nof 
ſolid and enduring : Vanity is for ever baniſhed out 
the ning all things ſhall be for ever as they area 
O my joys! Tho? you were low, yet the ovale 
your eternal permanency may cauſe you {well over yl 
banks. O glory, glory! How maſly art thou? Nu 
thing gliſtering now, and anon evaniſned. O the mc 
enduring, ſubſtance ! | The kingdom unmoveable: ih 
everlaſting arms encircle us eternally ! For * the Lo 
* ſhall reign for ever, even thy Gov, O Zion, to all ꝗ 
nerations. We that truſt in the Loxp are like moul 
« Zion, that cannot be removed, but abideth for ever 
* The glory of the Lok ſhall endure for ever: Hell 
y rejoice in all his works. The children of his ſervai 
$ ſhall continue, and their ſeed ſhall be eſtabliſhed bela 
$ thee : With long life doſt thou ſatisfy them, and 
f elt them thy ſalvation. Thou art the Rrength 41 the 


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Period, heart; and their portion for ever.“ O real, ſolid, ſabſtan- 
ed u, 5 enduring portion! ! Indeed, thou art the rot of 
i! noy All the innumerable ages paſt, preſent and to 


n hay. M do roll upon thee as their foundation. Thy years: 


* thy 7; Weng bos all generations + Of old did thou lay the 
| duo iS. eon. of the earth; and the heavens were the work 
i thi thine hands: They Yet peri ; ; but thou ſhalt endure ; 
k en 0 all of them waxed old, lite a garment; as a veſture 
prelag, changed Ihen, ndl they <vere changed: But thou art 
er th e ſame, and thy years Hall hade no end. O my paſſing 
W | popinels ſhall have no end. O life and marrow of 1 joys! 
"mw, ſhall be ever with thee, O moſt lovely WerLrBrr.oved ! 
9 me tranſient glimpſes of 'thy lovelinefs upon my 
1 ul was an heaven upon earth; ' But O, the permanent 
1 d fall outlettings of thy beauty, ſweetneſs, and all ex- 
— lencies, are more than ten thouſand heavens of happi- 
6! J a here dwelling within the boundleſs circle of e- 
mity ! O ſweet for ever more! Only becauſe of my 
eeteſt Wellbeloved, whom I fully and eternally en- 
y !—What good would my life do unto me were [ 
4 to enjoy him throughout eternal ages? Not that I 
count it not an invaluable happineſs, to receive one 
re. kils, and no more, from thy ſweewelt mouth; ſhould 
t its wonderful impreſſion leave a paſſing raviſhing 
ectneſs, throughout endleſs ever- more? One fight of 
y only excellent beauty, one ſmell of thy raviſhing 
grant garments, one love-ſmile of thy overcoming 
ely tace, tranſcendently excels the height of all crea- 
re-enjoyments. Any thing of thee, my matghleſs One, 
of 1 incomparable excellency ; Thy very frowns are in- 
nceivably ſweet, becauſe thine. 

42. That we are altogether Cars 's, and not our own, 


Our only happineſs. 


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98 A LIM PSA 


Thy kingdom, O EMMANUEL, is an everlaſting king, 
dom ; the ſceptre of 'plory doſt thau ſway to al gene, 
rations. Indeed, when time and days came to a prin, 
and thou hadft put down all rule and all authority ut 
power, thou delivered up the commiſſion of govertiy 
the church, and (in part) bringing the world back! 
the Father; and art ſubject as days-man betwixt Gy 
and creatures, that Goo may only fill the faculties d 
men and angels with his uncreated ſweetneſs: Yet, 
days-man, thou art for ever. king, prieſt and prophe 
of thy choſen, the eternal head of men and angel 
the fir/l-born among many brethren, having the pre. en 
nency in dll things: Thou art the great Loxp, Mediata 
the crowned king of Zion, for ever end ever: Wea 
under thee ſo many crowned kings in Zion : But thy 
art exalted above us; upon the throne of thy father N; 
vid doſt thou fit, and of thy kingdom there ſhall ben 
end. The Loxp hath laid help upon une that is might 
he hath exalted one choſen out of the people; he hath mal 
him his firſt-born, higher than the kings of the earl 
His mercy doth he keep for him for ever, and his cu 
nant flandeth faft with him; His feed alſo hath be mad 
endure fer ever, and his children as the days of bh 
ven: All kings. fall down before him; all nations jon 
him. There is an handful of corn in the earth, on 
10% of the mountains; the fruit thereof doth ſhake i 
Lebanon: And they of the city do flouriſh like the pri 
of the earth —-O LAN T or xExNOwN! men and u 
gels are 68 ſo many branches ingraſted in thee etem 
ly, or elſe we ſhould in a moment wither ; to all ett 
nity we ſtand in need of a days-man : We are not all 
eternally to ſtand on our own legs; neither are we i 
to behold Gop fo fully and familiarly as in the face 
EMXMArvEL, the White and the Ruddy, And wht! 


FF; O:F' GL OR T. 25 99 
bring dignity, men and angels, for us to reign over all, 
co-heirs with this eſſential heir of all things! Do I 
jon with thee, O King of kings? - Wonderful! Thou 
aft given me power over the' nations, and I do rule them 
vernng. 4 rod of iron ; as the veſſels of a patter are they bro- 
en in ſhivers, even as he received of his Father. What 
ere earthly kingdoms and principalities, but evaniſhing 


I pors, night-dreams and vanities? What were the hee 
Yet, the earth, but bits of half-dead clay, breathing for a 


ex hours, days and years, at the moſt, and then return- 
| to duit again? No wonder he loaded the baſeſt of 
ja with the greateſt. portion of thick clay: Such a 
ung-hill was a fit portion for dung-hill worms: No won- 
er he gave ſo little of earth to his choſen ; ſuch gifts 
re below ſublime, heavenly and divine ſpirits. Sirs, 
are we not been ordained for far better aud more ex- 
elent things than earth's filly glory? It was not our 
ather's will we-thould he trouhled with many nothings : 
ſuch clay would have clogged us in our way. Ie 
ew belt what was for us, who cut us ſhort of creature- 
njoyments, What have we loſt, who have received 
old for clay, diamonds for common ſtones, ſolid ſatis. 
Gon for vexing vanities, heaven for earth, eternity 
Ir time, all things for nothing ?—All glory to him 
at ſits upon the throne, and the Lamb—Let the crown 
ternally flouriſh on the head of the purchaſer of ſuch 
perabundant happineſs. O the great things we have eſ- 
ed! O the great things we have attained !—And 
ere theſe joys purchaſed by forrow ? This golden life, 
} 2 ſhameful and cruel death? This glory, by ſhame 
not d contempt 2 This reſt, by labour and wreſtling ? This 
we g alstion, by lowlineſs and ſubmiſſion ?—O the price, 
e price! Every fight of the Man who is Gop would 
ver. value and over. buy ten thouſand excellent worlds. — 


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thou wert not in the thouſandth part what thou art 
Wha! can we render unto the Loan, for his wonderfy 
goodneſs * What can we, thy eternally bound dyvers, d 
but cry aloud, Thy excellency? And the more we prail 
thee, the more our obligation grows upon our hand, 
O! let us ever, in this manner, run ourſelves into thy deb 


ternally obliged debtors to thy free grace, redeeming 
exalting grace.— O then! ſhall I not praite thee, m 
Redeemer, my exalter ? Shall not boundleſs eternity bd 
flled with thy praiies? Is my happineſs life- immortal 
and ſhall not my praifng be immortal alſo ? O this high 
high praifing frame! Nothing but raviſhing hallelujal 


thivaghout eternity. O Sirs, is not this frame altogethe wore 
wexpreffibly, wholly 1 inconctiv: able 2 | deft 

43. The manife/tation of Gop in Time, nothing to th 1 thy 
cf ETERNITY 3 and that of etermiy, nothing to what dwell ed wa 
ridden in utsEULr. To fer 

Even the ſmall breathings of theſe full gales of th i t 
fpirit that blows ſtrongly in this higher region, fallin ad 
down upon the land of grace, filled my he: [here 
with fuch paſſing ſweetneſs, that I could not but e h 
out, Loxd, my heart is fixed, my heart ir fixed, I wil a 
Ang praiſes unto thee. O! let all creatures in all Plc be 
of thy dominion, ſing forth thy excellencies. Let ul" be 
belold thy name ſet on high, and the deſires of m il ther 
15ul are accompliſhed, I am raviſhed, I am ravih N cre 
with thy ſurpaſſing ſweetneſs, thy overcoming love mie 
lineſs! Is not this heaven, even glory come down le ir 
grace's region? Or what can glory be more ?—Bu thee ! 
now, now I clearly find, theſe have been but the fi es 
fruits, ſome drops falling off this boundleſs ocean; a” bay 
no wonder little ſeemed excceding great to alittle child ir th 


OF GLORY. WE 
then I could not be capable of glory, in the perfection 
and bloom thereof, The ground ſufficient to bear a 
nee in its firſt ariſing through the earth, would not be 
ble to bear the leaſt branch when it attained i its perfect 
nch. Vet the remembrance of thy ways to me in my 
cildhood is full of deleQation. Ho thou haſt 
bought thy ſons to glory is an eternal wonder. O to 
wink of the wonderful diſcoveries of thyſelf to weak 
nortals! whence thou evidenced, that thou could 
ew forth thine excellency by weakneſs and emptineſs, 
vid I not. ſometimes, even. when a blockiſh mortal, 

Ik rather by TR than faith? O the ſtrange Seo 
mes of thy infinite beauty! From whence 2000 high 
faning love, then zeal, for ſetting thee on high, far 
ove all. Continually were. thy praiſes in my mouth; 

| defired that all I thought, ſpake, or did, ſhould wad 
vo thy glory, for whom are all things. How torment- 


To ſee almoſt a/l. minding their own things, and very 
few thine! How vexed was I that my heart was ſo 
allow, and my facultics ſo unſit for glorifying thee ? 


to praiſe thee aright, before this glorious allembly of 
men and angels. How oft have I been crying ont, O 
to be an, inſtrument of his ſuper-cxcellent glory! Let 
me be eternally confounded, (abſtract from ſinning,) 
it thereby his excellency may be manifeſted. What are 
Jill creatures to him? Let him be exalted, let him be 
praiſed, tho? we all ſhould be abaſed for ever more. O 
tte inexpreſſible ſweetneſs my ſoul finds in praiſing 
tiee! In the boſom of this divine exerciſe is contained 
great reward. It is both the work and the wages; it 
b happineſs to extol thee: It is only hell not to be 
br thy glory. O praz/e 22 for ever praiſe him, all his 
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and maſſy. Since glory cannot fully delineate thy ex- 


in mortality's tents: Our ſongs can only be learned 
' theſe who haveattained the height of wiſdom, even whoar 


works. It is a light thing that thou alone ſhouldſt praile 
him, O ſilly 11 O whey ſhall I ftand among the inn. 
merable aſſembly of praiſers? and tell, and hear tal 
over thine acts, and glory, and wiſdom, and infnite 
excellencies for ever and ever! Verily, all thy promiſe 
are yea and amen to thoſe who put their truſt li 


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the midſt of you, O glorious. creatures, who for eve mould 
ſing forth hallelujahs to biin that fitteth upon the tbrau b pl 
and the Lamb. It was but the weakneſs of mortality ire, + 
cauſed ſmall flirrings appear high and mighty over bre 
gs. O glory, glory! Thou art indeed ſubſtantia p: 
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cellency, I behold thy amiable countenance to the full, 
O Gop of glory; and O then the enlargement of 1 
heart: O then the wonderful flames of love. Nothing 
was known, was felt until new : I have heard ſome t 
mour about thee ; but now I behold and perceive, thi 
4ll poſſible creatures, exalted to the higheft pitch of er 
cellency, can never be able to praiſe thee to the full ¶ Kernit. 
Even becauſe of this will I praiſe thee, that thou art i. Het fo 
ſinitely above all praiſes. Wert thou not infinite, tho 
ſhouldſt not be the eternal object of my praiſes : C nme 
ted enjoyments cannot fatiate for ever. How am 1% U rec 
verjoyed, thou haſt thus fitted me for ſetting thee ett 
high! How am I lifted up in my capacity, almoſt in 
nite ſtages above the higheſt pitch of mortality! dis be 


this is another manner of praiſe than was to be found witl-ifcultic 


filled with all the fulneſs of God? What are finite thing 
in the way of our conceptions ?. We are paſt from te 
low conceptions of mortals : Earth's putid idiom, in b 


<=: OF GLORY. 2263 
ckelt ſtrain, compoſed and divided by all poſſible ways, 
or pouttrayed down in as many books as would fill the 
creation, ſhould not  exprels in the thouſandth part ſo 
much of the excellency of our never enough exalted ono, 
2 one ſentence of this ſong of glory. What is expreſſod 
by dull ſound, or tuned out in black and white is not 
pow worth the noticing; yet had I no other way of 
expreſſing thy excellency before men and angels, I 
erer mould for ever and ever be writing ſongs of thy match- 
ks praiſes,” that all the beholders Wight in fome mea- 
ne, conjecture the high thoughts of my heart. Were 
dete oceans of ink greater than ten thouſand worlds, 
anti nd paper and pens con{ormable thereunto, I would ſoon 


praiſes : and yet the thoughts of my elevated heart 


an eternal fountain, ever inditing new matter, ever 
nding forth new ſtreams of praiſes. What wonder ? 
] am filled with thine image: I behold thee face to 
face, and therefore ſee more and more of thee to all e- 
temity, Ever, ever ſhall I have new diſcoveries, and 
jet for ever ſhall I have the ſame ; for I behold thee as thou 
rt, What wonder we are in ſuch an high praiſing 
ame? O bleſſed ones! who being framed fo capacious 
bo receive the full emanations of his infinite glory and 
veetneſs, ſtand continually in his immediate fellowſhip. 
ue we not raviſhed in praifing : Tis the only happineſs 
to be thus exerciſed ; the only miſery, to have the fa- 
culties exerciſed in other things. No monſter to a crea” 
due careleſs of thy glory. You abominable prodigies of 
ture who are not for extolling your Creator, preſerver, 
nd benefactor, can the deſperateneſs of your ſtate be 
told! Should you not praiſe him, eternally praiſe 
lin? He is the potter, you are thy clay; he is 


ehaufl them in writing new ſongs of thy matchleſs 


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104 A GLIMPSE « 
the abſolute ſovereign, you his eternal bound val. 
als: All that you are and have is of him: If you ar 
miſerable, it is only of yourſelves: Nothing from hin 
but that which is good, He is a pure mats of holiach, 
excellency and deſirableneſs. O curſed, O deſperate, 0 
altoaiſhing frame to have the heart hardened againſt tle 
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praiſes: This is the land of praiſes; the whole aſſembly 
redouads with praiſes. O my bleſſed ears, which are te. 
nally filled with the melodious raptures of Emmaxcer 
raviihing world! Is it poſſible forrows can enter 
here? All is filled with ſuperabuunding joys: L. 
very where thy beauty is fully manifeſted. It 
us dive deep, and look, and look again, ever (all ne 
find new matter for love-ſongs. Doth not a ſweet will 
ing conftraint lie upon us to praiſe thee ? Inundations df 
all goodneſs do flow out from thee, O inexbauſtible o 
cean of all excellency ; and muſt they not inceſlantly nu 
back to thee again? Vea, who can but extol thee, 0 
allſufficient Jenovan, becauſe thou art eſſentially beauts 
ful and excellent? What tho? little of thy goodeh 
were let forth on creatures? The manifeſtation of thy 
goodneſs to creatures adds juſt nothing to thee : wit: 
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Thou art infinitely above the praiſes or the blaſphemit 
of creatures. Thy glory is unchangeable ;—betor 
all ages did thy infinite perfections ſhine forth in tit 
ſame infinite ſplendour 3 ſo that in the fulneſs of tin, 
when it pleaſed thee to ſhew forth thy glory, in the pr 
duction and adorning of finite beings, nothing in the 
leaft was added to thy boundleſs excellency : Thy cte⸗ 
ating was the manifeſtation of what was from eteraltſ: 


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a GLORY. 105 
dot the bringing forth of what was not at all, —as when 
the ſun ſhould dart forth his light, which before he kept 
within himſelf,—or a box of precious ointment, when 
broken, exhales a perfume which before lay hidden, 

And' what haſt thou manifeſted on creatures, to that 
hich thou mighteſt, if ſo it had pleated thy ſovereign 
will? What is this world exiftent, but as a vaſt ocean 
ſhould let forth one drop, when it might pour forth 
millions of millions of ſhowers for ever and ever? What 


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© eter- WiWrnies, eminently contained within the compals ofthine 
tinte power? Whence thy dominion over things 
ht are not created is greater than over things that are: 
From all eternity hadſt thou the ſovereign diſpoſition of 
| poſſible beings, and they are forever at thy beck. 
adit thou never determined to create any creature, 
by power and ſovereignty ſhould ever have ſhined forth 
n 25 full a ſplendor in order to theſe ſelf ſame creatures 
niſtent, as now it doth: To reſtrain a being from ex- 
ling, or to cauſe it exit, are alike acts of infinite ſove- 
eignty. Men and angels, ſhall we not cry up the incom- 
rehenſible excellency of our Gop ? What can we con- 
nbute even to his declarative glory? Are we any thing 
o the infinite armies in the womb of his omnipotency ? 
nd yet hath. he appointed us the only oriers up of his 
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ow is abſolute ſovereignty and free grace to be ſeen 
very where? Creation is an act of free grace and good- 
jeſs, O! thou whole handywork of Goo! how oughteſt 


ne theſe handful of creatures unto theſe vaſt numberleſs 


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thou to praiſe thy ſovereign Lozap ? You. ſun, moch 

and ſtars, for ever exalt him who conferred upon voy 20 
everlaſting being, paſſing by infinite numbers of others, Mer 

and only you hath he choſen, as never- ending monument 

of his tranſcendent excellency. Thou earth, with thy 
various beauties, praiſe thy bountiful Creator, who hat 
appointed thee an eternal monument of his juſtice and 
mercy, paſſing by innumerable poſſible ones. O tha” 
glorious and majeſtic heavens, ſing forth the high prail:vfiſ®* 

of thine Almighty former ; tho? thou art the top and 
flower excellency of this vaſt all, what art thou to thek 
innumerable poſũble heavens Jegovan can produce? Tho 
whole creation, tho? thou art exact in number, weight 

and meaſure,” what art thou to what incompreheaſibl 
Jznovan can eſſect? What are you, O all ye creatures Wi"! 

you are infinitely every way within the limits of his ir 
finite power: Yea, tho” it were not , one blaſt ol li 
noſtrils could confound you to nothing in a moment 
Down with your glory before him, all creatures, 2. 

Ml knowledge your eternal ſovereign : Shall not etemſ *2 
reſound with his inceſſant praifes ? Shall not this great 
all be ever in a rejoicing, praifing ſound ? Shall d 
the earth clap its hands, the heavens leap for joy, beſar 
tim who hath formed them eternal monuments of bi 
ſuper- excellent glory! This is the only world Gop hatt 
been pleaſed to make; from eternity to eternity buen 
is no other; neither ſhall this undergo changes af 
more. How ſweet a ſavour doth the Almighty mel. 
pronouncing, that the viciſſnudes of day and ng 
* ſeed time and harveſt, winter and ſummer ſhall forevt! 
© ceaſe z? and that an eternal ſpring tide, an endleſs fun 
mer, an inceſſant harveit ſha!l remain, This is the gol 
den world all things have a ſmiling conntenance : Wie 
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ment; they opened their eyes, and behold. ohms are not ; 


moon 
ou u the righteous are in everlaſting remembrance. Thou 
ners: oner world, how art thou looſed from that bitter ſer- 
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itude to the filth and offscourings of all things? Being 


ments 
b ye age of horrid rebellion againſt thy great former; 
» haue place where created enjoy ments were preferred be- 


re the fulneſs of all ſweetneſs in that allſufficient Jrno- 
az, Our eyes behold what we believed and hoped 
ſor: O glorious nc do heaven and new earth, wherein 
ſwellech righteouſneſs | Are we not now maſters of all? 
[trough the Heir of all things do we inherit all things : 
1 things before were ours in title, now they are 
us in full poſſeſſion; for our minority is expired. 

44. All the PROMISES are 1N PART Jufied IN TIME, and 
ur in ETERNITY. 

Your folly is even manifeſt to yourſelves, curſed 
orldlings, who imagined us fools who laid cur hope 
nd confidence on the great promiſes of the Almighty : 
0! all that ever he promiſed unto us he hath perform- 
to the full, and more than to the full. Lo! we in- 


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is great it heaven and earth and all things, and delight our- 
aal not (vcr in - abundance of peace. We behold the floods of 
 beſor{iſoney and butter, and heap up gold as the duſt: Vea 


je Almighty ig our defence; and we have plentious Hl. 
er: Our eye is clear as the noon day; we ſhine forth, 


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y ther! are as the morning: Our fleſh is freſher than a 
ges a uld's, and we return to the days of our youth. * The 
(mel Los is our keeper, the Loxp is our ſhade, on our 
| night, Wight band: The ſun doth not ſmite by day, nor the 
forerti i oon by night. And the Loxp preſerveth our going 
eſs fun BF out and our coming in, om this time forth and for ever 
the go Gore. Behold, we eat, curſed wretches, but ye are 
„ Wie bungry: Behold, we drink, yet ye are thirſty : Be- 
„am old, we rejoice and triumph, but ye ſorrow and are 


108 A GLIMPSE 
* aſhamed. Lo! he that fitteth upon the throne hath 
made all things new; and the former things ſhallus 
* come into mind. Behold, a new heaven and a ney 
© earth! For the firſt heaven, and the firſt earth a n 
* paſſed away; and there is no more fea. Behold, the 2 
* tabernacle of Gop is with men, and he doth'dwallM* ! 
* with us; and we are his people, and he is our Gb: t 
And he hath wiped away all tears from eur eyes: Au u 
* there 1s no more death, nor Torrows, nor Cries; nor 

© pains for the former things are | paſſed away.“ Vile 
wietches, tho? your everlaſting dungeon be ſituate with. 
in the verge of that dunghill you adored heretofory, 
yet ſhall you never ſet your head within this glorious fa 
bric, but ſhall abide forever in utter darkneſs : Ye pol. 
ſeſſed the earth for a moment, and carried yourſelves as 
all had been yours, bearing down the excellent ones of 
the earth—but now we have you under our feet for ever 
more—now it is manifeſt who were the true heirs of 
the earth—now it is clear who were really excellent, ov 
What think you now of your pleaſure of fin for a ſeaſon let 
Have ye not built your houſe as a-moth, and a booth pi! 
that the keeper maketh ? As drought and heat conſume h. 
the ſnow water, fo hath the grave conſumed you. Your br 
triumphing hath been ſhort, and your joys but for a m. fro 


ment. Tho? your excellency might ſeem to mount up t0 the 
the heavens, and your heads reach unto the clouds; are 
yet are you periſhed fore ver, like your own dung: You for 
are fled away as a dream, and are not found; all dark. the 
neſs is hid in your ſecret places,—a fire not blown hati : | 

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conſumed you. © Your ſtrength is hunger- bitten, and 
* deſtruQtion is ever at your fide, it doth devour the 810 


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WM ove your firength is cut off:“ You are driven from 
un !icht into darkneſs, and chaced out of the world ; for 
ben Gos is jealous, and revenxeth, and is furious, 2 will 
not at all acquit the wicked: The mountains quake 
„the at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at 
s preſence; yea, the world and all that dwelleth 
therein: With an overflowing flood doth he make an 
utter end of the wicked; and darkneſs doth for 
ever purſus his enemies. The Loxp is good to 
all, and his tender merci -5 are over all his works: 
He hath fulfilled the defire of them that fear him, 
he hath heard their cry, and ſaved them. All thy 
works ſhall praiſe thee, O Lox, and all thy ſaints 

* ſhall bleſs thee, Thou haſt delivered us from our 
enemies. We have fled unto thee, and under the flia- 
dow of thy. wings we erer rejoice. Thou haſt led us 
unto the land of uprightneſs: And as for the head of 
thoſe that compaſſed us about, the miſchief of their 
own lips hath covered them; burning coals have fal- 
len upon them; they are caſt into the' fire, into deep 
pits, that they riſe not agais. But the righteous give 
thanks unte thee; the upright for ever dwell in thy 
preſence. Many a time kave the wicked afflicted us 
from our youth, yet have they not prevailed : But all 

t up v that hated us are confounded, and turned back, and 
loud are as the graſs on the hoyle tops, that Aber be- 

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in hat tit was that they might be deſtroyed for ever, The 
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our ſoul in adverſity, and haſt not ſhut us up into th 
hand of the enemy: Thou haft ſet our feet in a large ax 
place. We were in trouble, our eye was conſumel the 
with grief; yea, our ſoul and our belly: Our ſtrengi eu 
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0 ed We were a reproach to our enemies, a d © 
* rifion to a fanatic world: But we truſted in thee, 0 oft 
+ Loxp, we ſaid thou art our God; and lo thou hab plac 
delivered us for ever from the hand of all our ene 25 
mies: Thou haſt mad- thy face to ſhine in its full 8 
* ſplendour eternally upon us; thou haſt ſaved us, f. 
thy mercies ſake. O how great is thy goodneßf , 
© which thou haſt wrought ap them that truſted in Feb 
+ thee, before the ſons of men! O love the Loa, al rob 
* ye his ſaints; for the Loxp preſerveth the faithful thy 
© and plentiouſly rewardeth the proud doer : His a 
ger endureth” but a moment; in his favour is life. as 
* Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh ii dl 
the morning. Surely. goodneſs and mercy ſhall fol © 
* low us all the days of our life, and we will dwelli der 
© the houſe of the Loxo for ever.” * 
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'TICE and SOVEREIGNTY, are. ſeen evidently i in the "00 | 1 
tion of the e M 
All joys ! How Hp the glory. of mercy and 1 ſport : i 
juſtice ſhine forth before the eyes of all? Within t. \ 
limits of time, ſome ſmall forerunners there were 0 P 
what we now moſt evidently behold. How didſt tho. © 
drown almoſt a whole generation for their iniquii 7 
How didſt thou make thine earth to de vour and ſwalloi | N 
up thy rebellious blaſphemers 2. Yea, in all ages tho I 
brought{ down fſignal ſtrokes of thy diſpleaſure 01 | f 
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OF GLORY. 1 
upon the earth: So that thy moſt impious enemies 
could not but ſay, Verity there is a Gop. that Judgeth in 
the earth. And every ſtroke of thy vengeance was mercy 
to ny choſen , for, how often haſt thou compelled thy- 
ſworn enemies to come bending unto thy people? Such 
were ſmall &irmiſhes and partial victories over parties 
of thy foes; ſince earth, by thine appointment, was the 
place where every one. was to act their part in order to 
eternity, and the wicked to fill up their cup of wrath 


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heretofore? Thy vile enemies, through thy long-ſuffer- 
1 did paſs on in their rebellion ſome time unpuniſh- 
ed.; nay, in their. abominable ways, through thy won- 
derful providence, they proſpered, they lived, they became 
old; yea, were mighty in power: Their ſeed was eſta- 
; Ao aber in their fight, and their offspring before their 
eyes: Their houſes were ſafe from fear, neither was the 
rod of Gep upon them: 'T hey ſpent their days in 
wealth, and in a moment went down to the grave. — 
8 one event happened to all: He deſtroyed the 
perfect and the wicked; when the ſcourge flew ſud- 
deuly, he did laugh at ths trial of the innocent. In the 
place of judgment wickedneſs dwelt: Vea, there were 
juſt men to whom it happened, according to the work 
of the wicked Again, there were wicked men unto 
* whom it happened according to the work of the righ- 


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112 A GLIMPSE IA 
had come and gone from the place of the holy.1 \=0 


ant of purer eyes than to beho!d OE | 3 and will not 


is ſatisfied. We committed our, cauſe to thee. that 


for ever and ever to aſcend in our fight ; For righteou 


-YOL 
golden year of Jubilee ! wherein every thing is reduced * 
to its proper order, every man rewarded according tg abu 
his work: The moſt hidden things of darkneſs are lad WM ho: 
open: The innocency of the righteous. and the per ia 
verſeneſs of the wicked are laid open before all. Aren 
things are in a right order now. No more to be ſeen unt. 
exalted folly or debaſed wiſdom : The hiſtrionic fancie ga. 
of riches and titular henours are quite done away: 5:2 
Fools ſhall no more rule over the wiſe : Heroic ſpirits nile 


eternally poſſeſs the ate of princes, and laviſh ſpirit Ml he 
are bound in everlaſting chains of darkneſs, How doth foo, 
tae equity of thy proceedings appear, O rightead pou 
Gop ! What tho? monſtrous reprobates roar out. their 
horrid blaſphemies againſt thy ſpotleſs holineſs ?. Thou 


at all acquit the guilty. What joy! to behold truth * 
vindicated from all the horrid aſperſions of helliſh men 
ſters. I'm overjoyed, in hearing the everlaſting how-M;. c 
lings of the haters of the Almighty— What a pleaſant 
melody are they in mine ears? O eternal hallelujabs u 
Jxnovan and the Lamp !—O ſweet, ſweet !— My heal... 


judgeſt righ::ouſly, and behold, thou baſt fully pleaded 
our cauſe, and ſhalt make the ſmoke of their tormei 


art thou, O Lon, and juft in all thy ay. Curl 
creatures, your conſciences tell you. the equity of Jr 
novau's. ways. Are you not the creatures that banilh 
ed Gop out of your thoughts? And it is moſt equal you 
are baviſhed cternally from the preſence of Gor, and ih 
glory of his power ; being given up to a reprobate mind 
hardened againſt your great former and preſerver: A 
vou not all moſt worthy of divine vengeance who hal 


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| "EF LO R'Y; 113 
—0 your Creator, and preferred your baſe ſelves before him; 
aced} who, in the midſt of his bounty, when he gave yo: 
g 08 abundance of created enjoyments, contemned and a“ 
lad horred him! Who are fo deſperately mad againft that 
per. infinite original of all goodneſs, that though he ſhould . 
AV remove from you his juſt puniſhments, * and” reſtore 
ſec unto you your former enjoyments, yet ſhould you 
nc 1::4 out ungratefully againſt him. O horrid mon- 
vey WW firofity ! That which might be known of Gop was ma- 
niteited unto you; for the inviſible things of him from 
the creation of the world, were clearly ſeen, being under- 
flood by the things which were made; even his eternal 
power and Godhead: So that they are without exouſe ; 5 
becauſe that iuben yo knew Gon, you glorified him not 
as God, aeitber were thankful 3 but became vain in your 
qa: and your fochſh heart was darhened : Pro- 
ing yonrſelves wiſe, ye became fools, and worſhipped, 
erved, and loved the creature more than the can who 
is Gov, bleſſed for ever-more, Even your own ſelves be- 
ing judges, vile wretches, is not your lot ſvitable- to 
your abominable nature, which ſhewed ſelf in your 
bean way of walking in time. The characters of à deity 
were ſo written on your heart, as it was impoſſible to can- 
cel them; yet ye ſacrilegiouſly ſtrove to eradicate ſuch 
noble draughts, written by the finger of Go; and ba. 
rihed from your minds the thoughts of his mercies or 
judgments: Self, and only ſelf, was the ultiraate centre of 
all your defigns and projects. Whence you preferred 
he enjoyment of creatures before that of the all- ſufficient 
Creator; efteemibg it a more deſirable lot to live eter- 
ally in the midft of eatthly riches, honours, and plea- 
ſures, than in an immediate fellowſhip with Gov. © And 
$1t not moſt juſt, he remove theſe enjoyments you baſely 


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figned by you than his; and ſhould not he anke im: 
put to ſhame. the nothing beings you adored anda Ml the 
above hin? What ſhould he otherwiſe do unto you; mul. 
ſtrous wretches? Should he reflore the enjoyments vo chr. 
uſed againft him ? Should he cut you off to nothing and 
who have deſired to be his eternal enemies, and woul i tor 
have eſſential eternity deſtroyed Did you not care U hea 
ſee his cauſe and people debafed? And is it not moſt uf for. 
you be ſpectacles of ſhame and vileneſs, throughout eten of 

nity? Would you be above the Moſt High? And ſhouli N you 


ye not lie under his feet, while bis glory remains A #407 
you ſtated enemies againſt him? And may not vou wo, 


ad verſary uſe his power againſt you, and tread-yort ui 
der his feet, as you would do te him; if your powet 
did anſwer your monſtrous, abominable will — Do 50 
curſe him, and want a releming heart to acknowledpt 
your madneſs And are ſo dreadfully hardened again 
him, that you would deſpiſe and blaſpheme mercy; efe 
mercy offered unto you? And is it not moſt juſt ym 
continue for ever in that moſt terrible condition N, 
wonder your conſciences gnaw you fo fearfully. You 
cannot but be dreadfully affrighted- at your monſtroi 
ſelves; | Gov: in his equity having ſo wonderfully' ſharp 
ened your faculties, as that you are able to underſtat 
your own wickedneſs moſt clearly and fully. Yol 


beight; the ſmell of hell was upon you even then, dt 
now you are ſo many black lumps of death and hall 
caſt into the lake of fire. You were not afraid to ipeal 
irreverently of him; now you directly (O monſtroil 
madneſs?) curſe. him to his very face. The ſentend 


ven, and From him that hath not, fhall be talen! 
way, even that which he hath. Did you hate the ave N 


4 N UT. ts 
and. image of Gon? and is it not moſt juſt the remaindets 
in thereof you had on earth be quite (aboliſhed ? Some 
mom I lovelineſs, ſome: excellency you were endowed with, 
through the Creator's bounty: Now you are ftript of all, 


torments on earth might have raiſed compaſſion in the 
hearts of fellow creatures, but now your malice and de- 
formity is ſo monſtrous as you cannot become objeas 
of compaſſion: No, the beholding of the ſmoke of 


your ., torment ist a paſſing delectation. O my Gop, 
Abo art holy: in all thy ways, aud righteous in all thy 
your or: Thou art not the, cauſe of their everlaſting ru- 
wt us Ain, though they blaſphemoully father it upon thee. Curſ- 
powered wretches, who hath turned your hearts againſt Gop? 


Hath he turned them againſt himſelf ? This is repugnant. 
eledgt Or, was he obliged to, hinder your rebellion, or to turn 


again your minds again towards him, when you fought 6 ; 


„ even with all your ſtrength, foul and mind? » =. 
ift 50456. SOVEREIGNTY the farft mover of all things. | 
e How glorioully doth thine : abſolute ſovereignty 


aſtro e receive glory, and honour. and power; for thou haſt 
- Crarpicr-97ed all things, and for thy pleaſure they are and were 
erſtand 


Von all queſtions concerning thy proceedings. Why are we 
is atioWbere, ſuch and ſuch by name? Becauſe fo it pleaſed thee. 
en, bie that are praifing thee might been thine eternal 
ad bell dlaſphemers; and thoſe who are curling thee might 
0 ſpeil have been thine eternal praiſers: But abſolute ſovereign- 


enſt ro would have it otherwiſe. 'That all things are thus, 
enten becauſe of thy free will : Theſe creatures might have 
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created, Becauſe fo it pleaſed thee, will abundantly anſwer 


been in another tate, or others in their room; or none 


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might be clearly * manifeſted over you, the veſſels i 


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of abſolute ſovereignty. Is not the eternal reſound em 
our endleſs ſongs, not unte tis, not unto us, but unte this Har 
O abſolute fovereign of all things, be the glory For eve"! 
wicked men and devils have mightily endeavoured, tochter 
ſcure the glory of thy abſolute ſovereignty, by aſetib. vile 


ing indetermined and abſolute ſovereignty to intellectuil dir 


agents over their actions: Stupid madneſs! Are na en; 
all things at thy beck ? WWhatev#pleſath thee, baſt 1-771 with 
dine in heaven and on earth The hearts of men an”. 


in thine hands ; as the rivers of waters, thou turneft then vtro 
whither/vever thou wilt. © Thou remove/t the mountalii en 
him, 


and they know it not; thou” overturneſt them in the 
anger; thou takeſt away the heart of the chief of ti 
people of the earth; they grope in the dark without 
light. Tho? thou art not the "cauſe of ſuch a moniſtef fare 
as ſin, yet ſin could never have enteted within thy ban 
creation without thy infinite counſel; its exiſtence ot 
not exiſtence was at thy diſpoſing for thou wilt Bau e 
mercy on whom thou wilt have mercy 3 ; and whom they 
wilt thou hardenefl. Haſt thous not power over the ſame 
lump, O great Potter, to make of it any veſſel thoi 
pleaſeſt, either of honour or diſhonour! Mayeſt thol 
not do, in thine own things, what thou wilt Ble pbe | 
mous miſcreants, your blaſphemies redound to his glory} 
for this were you'creattd, that his ab ſolute ſovereigntf 


wrath, fitted to deſtruction; and that ſovereignty ca cal 
in jiftice mould: So that ye muſt deſervedly u L nderg 
eternal wrath. He ſhall have eternal glory over you, C 

haters" of bis glory! Theſe beings of yours are 1. wad 
ny ever«ſtanding monuments of his raviſhing perfeEtionl 
+'O' the depths of the riches, both of thy wiſdom and 
s Knowledge: How unſearchableare thy judgments, al and} 
| « tad is paſt out ? For Who hath known nl 


OF. GLORY. WE: 
14; mind? Or who hath been thy counſellor? For of thee 
4; and through thee, and to thee are all things.“ Hereis 
ay heart fatisfied, ſince the diſputers of thy ways are 
eternally confounded, Roar out now your blaſphemies, 
vile creatures; you are indeed in your enemies hand, 
divine juſtice hath overtaken you: Every billow of 
vengeance that runs over ſoul and body might daſh 
to nothing ten thouſand worlds. But he holds you 
p with one hand, and daſhes you with the other— 
Strong influences for ſuſtaining a being are ever 
ſhowered down upon you. Why ſtrive you. againſt 
him, filly bits of nothings ? For he gives not ac- 
ount of any of his matters : Far be it from him, that 


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in thy 
1 an a creature be more pure than his Maker? Can a 


Ce of 
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i eh no truſt in his ſervants,. and his angels. be chargeth. 


cn ith folly: Bebold be taketh away, and none can hin- 
1 thot fer. Who may ſay to bim what doft thou? Can we by 
_— earching find out him? Can we find out the Almighty 
be nto perfection? Shall creatures ſhape thee out, accor- 
At ory ing to their finite conceptions? Shall they think to 
-elgnt) omprehend thy ways? Art thou not altogether won- 
Wl ul in thy working, O Infinite? What comprehend- 
«lf th infinite excellency, except an infinite- underſtand- 
de A ig? Shall we not ever be diving farther and further, 
you, 0 nd ever a beginning to dive? Wert thou in thy goings 
'fo mi ut from eternity comprehenſible by us, then wert thou not 
Ai 0 po, the infinite Jenovan: Thon dwellest in light, which 
om i man can approach unto; thou art he whom no man 
* th ſeen, or can ſee, Can we stoop low enough before 
0 a ly throne ? What are beings, of yesterday to thee 2 


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of living! O life of lives! 


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lency in one, or many, or innumerable worlds? Is 


ver ſo many armies of creatures can add nothing then 


is the firſt-born of every creature exiſtent, or poſſible 


What are never ſo many worlds before thee ? Shall emy. 
ty nothings quarrel at what they cannot comprehend! 


Thy thoughts are not as our thoughts, neither are thy way mo 
as our ways. Who hath directed thy Spirit, or beiag thy * 
counſellor, hath taught thee? Who inflrufted thee, and ly 
taught thee in the path of ju4xment ? Behold, all crea: Th 
tures are before the? as nothing, leſs than nothing, and - 
Vanity, O boundleis ocean of all/perfeQions ! We * bb 
for ever ſwallowed up in hy infinite fulneſs. O ſuper: E 
abundancy of all happinels and joys ! O more than pet. : 
fect ſatisfaction in the full accompliſhment of all deſires! E 


O more than ſweetneſs, ſurpaſiing all ſweetneſs ! O hes. 
ven! O glory! How maſly, ſolid, real, ſubſtantial. and 
enduring art thou : O only life: O marrow, flowet 
and vigour of all lives! O life of beholding, praiſing 
rejbicing, wondering! O life of raviſhuments! Rs 


"147. A world of free redeeming gr; the wo . 
Ent world paſſible. | 

What ſpeak we, men and angels, of the limits of d. 
vine power? What talk we of his manifeſting his excel 


not manifeſted to the uttermoſt ? The production of ne 
to; fince the manifeſtation of Gop in the fleſh is li 


Principal deſign of eternity, and all'other manifeſtation 
are in order to this. There ſtands one among us all wi 


Here is the man, in whom is viſible'to be ſeen ſuch gl This 
ry, majelly, lovelineſs, ſweetnels, compaſſion, mercy, WM... - 
tice, wiſdom, and all treaſures of overflowing fulnels\ the, g 
excellency, in ſuch an incomprehenſible, tranſcendell grin 


eminent and ſuperabundant manner, as all the bsholde 
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or GLORY. 119 

erer-more. Couldit thou, O my Gon, manifeſted thyſelf 
more clearly, i familiarly, ſweetly, condeſcendingly | ? A- 
way with other worlds, tho? they were : this is the on- 
ly one, ſince my all-lovely Wellbeloved dwells here. 
Thy beauty, my fair one, darts round about thee, and 
flls this world with paſſing glory; yea, were this world 

myriads of myriads of ſtages, and never ſo many times 
greater than it is, one ray of thy countenance, one glance 
of thine eye would enlighten and adorn it all. Whac 
tho! we could view and comprehend at once thouſands 
of thouſands of created paradiſes of beauty, one fight of 
thy Gop-like viſage would ſwallow up all. Angels, had 
you ſuch a ſweet manifeſtation of divine beauty in the 
beginning, as now? Is not our heaven now two heavens 2 
ince the effential image of Gop ſtandeth here, clothed 
with the human nature, as our everlaſting King, Prieſt * 
and Prophet, the great Loxp Mediator of the new coy I =— 
nant, the boundleſs treaſure of all fulneſs, out of whyght . 
we ſhall all pe filled and ſatiate for ever- more. Are we 
not, as it were, conſtrained betwixt ſtanding aback and 
drawing near? Theſe who behold thee, what can they n 
think of themſelves? Vet, who can ſee and take reſt, 
untik they be folded in thy raviſhing embraces? Verily 
thou art both the ſhame and the glory of creatures: Cre - 
ated excellency is exalted in thee to the higheſt pitch; 
and all created excellency is beautified and obſcured; be- 
foce thee, This is the Man, men and angels, by whom 
all things in heaven and earth do flouriſh and bloom: 


This is the tree of fe, the great vine of glory, into which | j 


CY 4 ve are all ingraftede as ſo many boughs and twigs: : All 
* the glory of his Father's houſe hangs upon him, the off. 
enden | 


pring and the. iffue, as ſo many chips and pieces dart- 
ing out from him, This is he in whom we have been Mi 
ordained to this bleſſedueſs from eternity: This is he 3 


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who was promiſed to the people under the firſt diſper him 
{ation of the goſpel, who was held forth by, types au „be 


tered the liſts with death and hell, and gave hs an e⸗ 


ed men fools, that imagined to bind him with any ties! 


would infinite numbers of mountains of braſs be to hol 


ſhadows unto them. This is he by whom the carnal a like 


beggarly elements of the world were deſtroyed; M and 


clear, evident goſpel diſpenſation was brought in; the te 
hand-writing of the law cancelled ; the vail betwixt Jen t! 
and Gentile was rent aſunder; Fg nations were inpralt-l + 7 


ed into the old ſtock of the peculiar people; the ab ly 


ſtruſe ſecrets of eternity were opened; the kingdom roe 


were ſhaken; the princes of the earth were ſet up and her 
pulled down; the church was preſerved, and flouriſhed gr 


in deſpite of all the world. This is the Man who wound, J, 
ed the heads over many countries; who * trode the 


winc-preſs alone, and trampled the people in his fu. fir 


& ry, until all his raiment was ſtained with blood.” This we 


be whoſe name is called Wonderful, Counſellor, the AM Cc 
'H x nig by God, the everlaſti ng Father, the Prince of peacei I th 
1 of the increaſe of his government and peace there 1 mM to! 


end. This is the * ſtone cut out without hands, which WM te: 
ſmote all the power, ſtrength and might of kingdom, 
nations and languages — and lo, all principalities, and 
thrones, and powers, and dominions are broken to piecs 
together, and become like the chaff of the ſummer 
threſhing floor that the wind hath carried away. And 
behold this ſtone which hath ſmitten to nothing all tra 
ſitory glory is become exceeding great, and filleth all i 
all. This is he whom nothing could overcome; he ell 


ternal foil, —ſo that they lie under his feet, and the 
feet of his choſen, for ever-and ever. Could ten thou 


ſand deaths overcome him? Were not devils and wick: 


What would chains greater than many worlds, bet 


or GLORY: 121 


pe nim down, that he riſe not again? How did this Lion of 


ae tribe of Judah rouſe himſelf from the fleep of death, 

Lad like a mighty man after wine, and made heaven and earth 
the and all to quake? Who but the * ſtandard-beater among 
the ten thouſand, who, but the Prince of the kings of 
Jeu the earth, —who but the mighty * Captain of the 
wal Lonp's hoſts,“ could have done fo valiantly? Thou on- 
e ab. iy haſt done heroically, O Wellbeloved. You little he 
dome roes of time, your magnanimity and heroic acts evaniſh 


p and here, even tho? you had done all you did in your own 
hed e firength, and not by his: What tho” you ſubdued king- 
ound. Jom, wrought 'righteouſneſs, topped the mouths of hons, 


quenched the violence 'of fire, througb weakneſs became 


is fr. /rong, put to flight the armies of the aliens ? All theſe 
his WM were done through faith in him; yet what have ye done? 


Could you' have trode the 'wine-preſs alone, and drunk 
the cup of the wrath of the Almighty from brim to bot- 


which ternal vengeance, like a mighty flood, was ruſhing in u- 
dons, pon rebellious mankind ? Who elſe could have turned 
„ a back the mighty currents of ſuch floods of wrath, and 
pieces WY pacified offended majeſty, bringing rebels to ſtoop, and 


be received into mercy and favour again ? Who other 


Au could have given hell ſuch a blow as it ſhall never be able 
ran. to riſe, and raiſed men and angels to ſuch a pitch as that 
all it they ſhall never fall? Who other could have * led cap- 
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tivity captive, and purchaſed gifts for men, even for 
the rebellious?? Who other could have opened the gates 
of this celeſtial paradiſe, ſhut upon baſe ungrate man, 
and exalted him, by thouſands of ſtages, to more glory 
and excellency than he fell from? Thou art all in all, 


riſons betwixt thee and creatures. Hide yourſelves and 
be confounded, all lower excellencies—be ye filent, all 


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creatures, when he begins to ſpeak—Cover your faces, 
all you little glories and beauties, when he doth ſhew hi 
face—you are nothing, you are vanity compared to him, 
—he is all things. Verily in him dwells all fulndk 
Thou art not, O heaven of heavens, worthy to be a foot. 
ſtool for his glorious feet. Infinite worlds, ereded x 
bove one another, were low for him to tread upon. What 
are you, men and angels, that you ſhould thus ſtand be- 
fide him—that you ſhould ſet your head within that 
world he is pleaſed to dwell in ? Did he not wonderfully 
condeſcend, you might run out without the very creation! 


What is our ſtrength and beauty? On whoſe legs do we 


ſtand? Are we able for one moment. to perſevere in 
our integrity without him ? Should we not all become 
deformed, and fall a- ſinning, did he draw into himſelf 
' what he darts forth? How is this paradiſe of Gop plan- 
ted with goodly trees, bloſſoming and flouriſhing with an 
eternal verdour ? But did they not receive ſap and life, 
all from this golden branch of the tem of Ixssx, how in 
a moment ſhould their golden bloſſoms wither, their fruit 
fall off, their leaves decay, and their root dry up ?. Its 
ten heavens of joy, O Wellbeloved, to know that thy 
love is unchangeable and that theſethat are united tothee 
by faith in time, and immediate beholding in eternity, 
| ſhall never be dis Joined from thee, but ſhall ever fe- 
main cloſe locked in the arms of eternal love. What 
are your thoughts, O ye ranſomed ones, of this aſtoniſh- 
ing diſpenſation ? What an inconceivable tranſportation 
this, that any of the curſed ſtock of mankind ſhould be 


adopted co-heirs with the eſſential heir of all tbingi— 
of him are we in CuzisT Jesvs, who of Gop is made unto 


us wiſdom, righteouſneſs, fanQification, redemption, aud 
all. Thouſand times bleſt counſel of eternity, that 
cChoſe us in him before che foundation of the world; ba: 


OF GLORY. I23 
bing predęſtinated us unto the adoption of dear children 


ſure of hrs will, to the praiſe of the glory of his grace ; 
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: Having 
made known unto. us the myſtery of his will, according to 


. in the diſpen ſation of the fulneſs of time, he might gather 
1 . together in one all things in Chrift both which are in 
that beaven, and which are on earth. It was not thy purpoſe, 
fully dread Sovereign, that any ſhould inherit glory through 
65 their own obedience : A world of working was but for 
„ time, that this of altogether free grace might ſhine forth 
re h nore gloriouſly, Free grace's banner is the only pavi- 
dome lion we ſhould for ever abide under. How greatly did 
far che Devil be foul himſelf in end ea vouring to obſcure the 
plan glory of his Maker by the rebellion of man? Was he 
than vot herein an inſtrument in the hands of the great Sove- 
life reign, whereby he made way for his chief and only pur- 
w in pole: — What ſhould our bleſſedneſs have been to what 
fu now it is, if we had wanted thee, O Emmanuzr, the Man 
It . Wh 7 GoD's right hand, the very breath of our naſtrilt? Our 
X thy eternal ſongs ſhould have been ſo melodious, the praiſes 
thee of free redeeming grace ſhould not have been heard here: 
ray, | Glory to the Lamb that was ſlain, and lives for ever, 
Kees: ſhould never have been ſung. No worlds to this world 
What —no happineſs to this happineſs. This is the flower 
ni. nd top of all poſſible diſpenſations: Here is a conflu- 
:0n is ence of innumerable. providences, that ſhall never be 
1d be comprehended. Many, O Loxp my Gov, are thy 
age wonderful works which thou haſt done; and thy 
Ws thoughts which are to us ward, they cannot be rec- 
„ l * koned up in order to thee. How evidently do I now 
"that ee that thy love paſſeth all underſtanding, that thy ways 
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grace and truth: And of thy fulneſs have ve all received 


draught ; and all im: Ns the channel o ext 


|  verlafting days-man, Redeemer, Huſband, Head, Long 


eyes are eternally fixed upon thee, O flower of * 
ty and lovelineſs; thou art the centre whereto all deſire. 
ableneſs and excellency betakes itſelf: In beholding 
thee I behold all things. Art thou not love diſcoyered 
to the full—mercy manifeſted in its higheſt perfection 
—judgment and righteouſneſs viſibly, in its full ſplen. 
dor? What have we which is not in thee ? And what 
can creatures want which is not in thee ? Shall we hot, 
O enjoyers, be ſatiate, beautified, raviſhed, bleſſed, for 
ever-more, with that infinite, fulneſs of all excellency 
which dwells in him? We behold to the full 2% glary, 
as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, fullof 


and grace for grace. We have received thy teflimony, 
-—have ſet to our ſeal that Go is true; that thou 
whom he ſent into the world, ſpeaketh the things of Gop; 
for he giveth not the Spirit by meaſure unto thee. 0 
how great is the myſtery of godlineſs? Gop manife/ted it 
the fleſh, juſtiſied in the Sprrit, ſeen of angels, preached, 
unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in 
to glory; If this was wonderful in time, is it not ten 
thouſand times more now, when the bright day of eter: 
nity hath broken up? If a ſight of this by faith was 
viſhing, am I not now paſſed all the limits of ſuch mo- 
tions ?—O this frame! O glory, arp F Thou art maſſj 
indeed. | 
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gencies. | 

Immortality, 1 pralle and 8 to ha High 
eſt, that ever it pleaſed him, thus to communicate him 
ſelf to men and angels—that ever he purpoſed in himſel 
to give unto us the eternal Son of his delights,%as our e. 


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eau, and all things. To have enjoyed thee according to the 
fie. WY 5:6 diſpenſation, had been unſpeakable happineſs ; but 
ding to be choſen in Cuxlsr is overflowing happineſs. Ol were 
we predeſtinated to be conformed to the image of thy Son, 
which in time was begun, and now is perfected? Any 
tincture of thee, O Wellbeloved, any perfume of thy 
garments is paſſing glorious and oxcellevy; O, then, 
thouſand times bleſſed I, who am clothed with the 
robes of thy eee the garments of thy beauty; 


lency I who am ſatiate with thy likeneſs, filled with thy ſweet- 
e neſs, adorned with thy lovelineſs, decked with thy ra- 
ull of viking graces ! I am like thee, I am like thee ! Here is 
erved WY al my happineſs. This thy raviſhing image was be- 
nom, gun in me in time; and now thou haſt brought it to the 
thou, high bloom and perfection. What paſſing joys, to think 
Gon: Wl how thou haſt made me grow up, from my childhood, 
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to this manly conſtitution : How haſt thou been making 
fled ii I me grow up, until thou tranſplantedſt me from thy lower 
aches, I garden of grace to thy higher paradiſe of glory! Once 
h in I was a ſmall ſhrub, ſcarce diſcernable from the baſe 
ot ten thorns and briers that overgrew the earth: But now, 
f eter L am, through thy infinite excellency, a mighty and flou- 
was Wining cedar in this higher Lebanon. Strange ! how 
eh mo; chou haſt brought me to this glorious condition; and 
t mally till from leſſer to greater, until I have arrived a per- 
tection, Is it not moſt evident, that the path of the juft ts 
as the ſhining light, that ſhineth more and more unto the 
perfect day? Though our beginning was ſmall, yet our 
aller end is greaily egcreaſed : Our beginning was full 
of ignorance. and infinggity.z now our age is clearer than 
the noon-day. We thine forth as the morning: Thou 
bait brought forth our righteouſneſs as the light, and our 
udement as the noon-day : And this hath been thy way 
n all thy proceedings. N ſmall was thy church in 
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126 A GLIMPSE 
the beginning? How few in number among the nods. | 
multitude of mankind? - Yet how didſt thou increaſe and cc: 
multiply her as the ſand on the ſea-ſhore, in deſpite'of Wl cer 
devils and wicked men? And appearedſt thou not, O lead 
Wellbeloved, as a ſmall fone, cut out without band! his 
And yet haſt become great, and filled all: Thou ſhewedſt N opp: 
thyſelf, at thy firſt manifeſtation in the fleſh, unto the dra. 
ſons of men, in the form of a ſervant; ſo that thou waſt den- 
of no reputation in the eyes of a ſtupid world, who ate do 
only affected with external ſhews: How didſt thou make ¶ coul 
thy goſpel to go through the world without any earth. vit 
ly pomp or obſervation, ſo that the wiſe men of the Wl hug! 
world, for a long time, did little notice it? Vet did thy inch 
name break forth before all nations: The whole world Ml igh 
ſpake of thy glory. It had been a light thing, that thou fait] 
ſhould only have raiſed up the bes of Jacob, but thy ters 
Gop did alſo give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that mer 
thou mighteſt be his /a/vatien to the ends of the earth. con 
When * darkneſs did cover the earth, and groſs'dark: then 
* neſs the people, thou filledſt them with thy glory, and; ned 
madeſt the place of thy feet glorious:? For the Lou vie. 
* ſent the rod of thy ſtrength out of Zion, and cauſel the1 
© thee rule in the midſt of thine enemies; and made thy the 
people willing in the day of thy power; and at ti the 
* right hand did ſtrike through kings, in the day of l hes 
+ wrath : Thou judged among the heathen; thou file che 
the places with the dead bodies; thou woundedſt thi 
heads over many countries.“ How vain hath iht 
judgment of worldlings proven, who deſpiſed the ſeell 
of glory ſown in the hearts of the choſen ! They co 
ſidered not the noon-day brightneſs, rens ti 
dawning; fools were only taken with what filled d. 
external ſenſes: Tranſitory glory was a dying blazes 
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flouriſh, and ſeem to eclipſe the children's for a moment; 
becauſe it was then the baſtard's harveſt, but the chil- 
dren's ſeed time: Becauſe thou wouldſt-ſhew thou couldit 
lead thy choſen in their weak and childiſh eſtate into 
this kingdom, through fighting and wreſtling, and great 
oppoſition of all kinds; —- whereby our eternal ſong is 
drawn up higher, in exalting thy wonderful provi- 
dence in bringing us to glory. What aſtoniſhing things 
do I behold, concerning my pilgrimage, which then I 
could not perceive O time, time ! thou fills eternity 
with admiration. . Wonderful! thou brought us not 
higher at the firſt production of our beings: And was an 
inch of time a prelude to eternity ?—Did a moment's 
ichting uſher in an eternal triumphing? A life of 
faith, a life of beholding ? A ſmall intercourſe by let - 
ters and love-tokens, an eternal, full, and naked enjoy- 
ment?—O wonderful! O ſweet diſpenſation !.. O pleaſant 
conſpiration of divers providences, and all inked toge- 
ther in the moſt comely order What an excellent con- 
nection between time and eternity! What joy, to be 
viewing them both at once, and comparing them toge- 
ther? It is wonderful to conſider the difference betwixt 
the workings of thy Spirit upon me now and then toge- 
ther! Was it not the day-ſtar that aroſe then in my 
heart ? Now all is fully illuminated. I am placed under 
the full rays of thy glory. How is this being of mine 
filled with thy divine nature? All is perfected! O my 
elevated faculties! All my accompliſhments in time 
are ſo perfected as they are ſwallowed up; and ſo may 
be {aid to be done away, as a ſmall drop by the approach. 
of a vaſt ocean, What higher happineſs than thus to 
reſemble thee? O fulneſs of all happineſs * ! Qever 
flouriſhing eſtate of joys! Every moment is a golden 
life, every day is ten thouſand heavens of bleſſedneſs. 


128 4 GLIMPSE 
49. Our bleſſedneſs, one eternal act o marrying, fat wooe: 
ing, triumphing, ſolacing in the bed of love. ns Thou 
This is the day of our King's eſpouſal, and the ti in the 
of the gladneſs of his heart: This is the day we longed, have 
. prayed, ſighed, weeped, and wreſtled for. And may not conſe 
every minute obliterate millions of millions of ages of bere 
ſorrow and tormenting labour? This is the day whetein veak 
it is ever morn, ever noon-day; but never a declining ratur 
ſhade. You ſorrows, you griefs, you labours, you cand 
not enter this thrice bleſſed day of eternity! It is our 
marriage day, the day of the gladneſs of our hearts. 
No nights, weeks, months, or ages; all is aſter the 
ſame—eternity is but one day,—the day of the great 
conſummation of the match betwixt our glorious brides 
groom and us. In time we were betrothed unto him, by 
the mediation of his ambaſſadors ; and there paſſed loye! 
tokens, as a ſeal of the willingneſs of parties—and ſuch 
were ſufficient until the full accompliſhment :- Now, 0 
now, we are met together in this majeſtic marriage 
hall of glory, prepared for the ſolemnizing of this eter- 
nal marriage. All are now in the marriage robes. Atten- 
dants of the bridegroom, you are majeſticly arrayed, 
as it well becomes the miniſters of ſo magnificent a Prince. 
O! how doth the Father of the Prince, the bridegroom, 
appear in his glory and majeſty ? What wonderfnl ma. 
nifeſtations of ]Jznovan are here? And how is thei 
BRIDEGAOOM adorned ?—O my head and huſband" 
How haſt thou arrayed thyſelf in thy royal and gorge- 
ous apparel ? Thou appeareſt indeed like'a prince on his 
marriage day ! O but thy raiment is far changed! Thoü 
haſt caſt from thee the baſe garb of mortality, that in 
a great part obſcured thy matchleſs glory and lovelineſs] 
and haſt decked thyſelf with raviſhing divine majelly 
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740 wooed thy bride in a low and contemptible equipage: 
rhou madeſt it known thou couldſt draw hearts to thee 
dy in che moſt low and deſpicable condition. It would not 
have been ſo wonderful, if thou hadſt allured and gained 
conſent, appearing in thy royal and majeſtic eſtate. But 


eg of icre is the wonder !—yet, no wonder ;—ſince lowneſs, 
ein veakneſs, ſhame, and contempt, cannot but change their 
ming nature, and become exaltation, vigour, glory and re- 


nown, if once thou aſſume them. But now, thou art 
altogether gloriouſly arrayed, ſuitable to the perſon and 
he day. O the beauty! O the raviſhing perfume of thine 
ppparel! All thy garments ſmell of myrrh, aloes and caſſia, 
ut of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee 


ride: lad. The very perfume of his raiment is two heavens! 
n, by Nhat ſweetneſs then to ſtand within the place filled with 
love: Nich raviſhing fragrancy ? But O! to be ever thus, in an 
ſack eternal act of marrying, eſpouſing, embracing, kiſſing, 
„„ Od full communications of love, is ten thouſand 
: ives of ſatisfaction, ten thouſand worlds of perfect 


lefſedneſs, all beaten in one maſs. Who but CnRisr 


eter 
tten nd us! How hath. he arrayed us, according to his 
ayed, randeur and excellency? All is embroidered with gold 


nd gems 3 every diamond, every ruby, every ſapphire 
ranſcends, by innumerable ſtages, the ſun of the lower 
rorld ſhining in his ſtrength. And doth not this 
reat All appear in joyful - apparel, as befitting the 


and F'pouſals of ſo glorious a couple? All things dance, 
orge⸗ nd ſound forth melodiouſly our epitha/amium What 
on d life is this! Ever to be marrying ! ever to be at the 


arriage feaſt! ever to be entering the bed of love !— 


nat This feaſt is furniſhed with all delights, —it raviſhes 
lineſß very moment, and throughout all eternity! - O what 


ariety ! O what efficacy in every delight ! Every one 
loth for ever ſatiate, and yet delights are ever renewed! 


240 A IMS E 
This land is nothing but a table furniſhed with all . 
bundance of fruits always. All milk, all ſpices, all de. 
lights, every where ſuperabound eternally. And in 
what a raviſhing manner art thou ever inviting ? Eat, 0 
friends, —drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved: "Dink; 
and drink again, and for ever drink. This is a day of 
gladneſs and rejoicing ;—this is the day ot the accom. 
pliſhment of all our defires. The pomp of this day i 
glorious indeed !—Verily, my God, thou haſt made u 
as happy as can be — This diſpenſation tranſcends in. 
conceivably all others — This delight and love is ever 
blooming and green! O this ſweet and delightful | bed of 
love ! One fight and ſmell of it' afar off is raviſhing, 
How is it all ſtrewed over with ever-flouriſhing an 
overflowing roſes and lilies * With infinite kinds of odo 
riferous and beautiful flowers of infinite virtues? All my 
faculties are filled and overfiled with all manner of de. 
lights and "ſweetneſs! Is not this the wine of glory, 0 
enſoyers, of wonderful efficacy? Who can endure t 
pull the cup from the mouth ? And yet every draught 
doth fatiate to the full. And is it not endowed with al 
poſſible virtues? Do not its ſpirits fill all the facultis 
and powers with- an immortal vigour, an unſpeakable ept | 
ſweetneſs and ſurpaſſing joys? Great things haſt thoiliiiſo; a 
prepared, O Wellbeloved; far above all our concep us ir 
tions? What ſhall be my never-ending exerciſe, but ti 
be fatiate and raviſhed with thine uncreated ſweetnels! 
If my cloſing with thee, tho? abſent, was paſling joyful 
how ſhall I now rejoice and exult in ſolemnizing th 
bargain, in ſatiating myſelf for ever with fully manifch 
ed loves, in this bed of love ? The wooing time ſeemed 
ſma!l-and inconfiderable ; O the marriage is wonderful 
ly glorious and phecticnt? What eſteemed a baſe worll 
of thy great call, when thou ſent thine ambaſſadors 


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- call them unto this everlaſting ſupper ? ? How did they 
Ur: light ſuch an aſtoniſhing diſpenſation as a well invented 
| 10 Wfancy, and turned them ſelves wholly to their earthly en- 
joyments, as being the only real things which affected 
their brutiſh minds ?—Do you not now ſee your deſpe- 
rate madneſs, O vile worldlings ! Is not your apprehen- 
jon wonderfully changed? Did you flight the ſweet in- 
itations of, the Almighty to ſuch boundleſs happineſs ? 
ell, you ſhall never taſte it through all eternity. You 
have gotten your choice 3 a momentary enjoyment of 
arth have you received: This boundleſs joy you never 
ared for. If you have done wiſely, rejoice therein 
hroughout 'eternity. O happy 1, that ever I gave up 
ny name into the number of thy eſpouſed ones |  F hat. 
ver thou inclined my heart to take thee for my Lon, 
ad and Huſband ! O bleſſed choice, thouſand times 
dlefſed choice! had I known in time how happy a bar- 
ain I had made, ſhould I not have been overjoyed unto 
hedeath ? And was there ſuch difficulty to get the child- 
enof men to ſay Amen to ſuch an advantageous bargain ? 
Did& thou knock, and knock again, O Wellbeloved, 

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ot a conſent ?—Who would have thought but one ſeri- 
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ver thou waſt aware, with his overcoming love aui ©'© 
ſweetneſs : Thou waſt hearing the ſound of this god O 
in a dead and natural way, but he breathed upon all ti tho. 


faculties, and ſaid unto thee Jive; and thou aroſe fa this 
the dead, and heard, and ſaw: wonders in the pe forr 
pel, that blind ſtupid worldlings could never perceireMl t1:0 
Had he ſuffered thee to follow thy natural inclination 1:0 
thou hadst marched on to endleſs destruction, contranfi it n 
to all his loving invitations, Nay, but ſince from eter of a 


nity he had choſen thee, of his own good pleaſure, o 


of the maſs of mankind, he could not but manifest lM j97t 
love to thee in time in a ſpecial manner; and therefore Cor: 
past from intreaty to raviſhments, and drew thee with ſud to d 
strong cords of love, that thou couldst not but yield. are 
my holy One, no creature can reſist thy overcoming —\* 
beauty: When thou dartest forth thy love, all is ſet MW nail 
a flame; hell and death could not refist thee. E Beh 
hast thou been drawing finners up to heaven after tb and 
unto this great marriage; and now we are all wit y d 
the bed of love. Love |! Nothing but raviſhing love eruſſ 
O what looks of love ! Nothing but kiſſes, but eteni Eve 
embraces: Men and angels, is it poſſible we can che 
more happy? What can creatures have more? Is the behe 
any more ſweet and lovely than the Chief of hey 
' thouſand? Can there be greater and nearer fellofſÞout : 
ſhip with him than this? He is our friend, our nieyes 
intimate friend; we ſpeak with him face to bebe. I dhit! 
he is our AN near of blood unto us; we will kWicar 
eternally kiſs, and ſhall not be aſhamed. Nay, he iö f behe 
huſband, one with us, as he is one with the Fatheſ ght 
one in nature, ſpirit, mind and affections: He is oi Prin 


and we are his. O what great communications of l 
ſhall we eternally be filled with! Are we not chantil 
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erer inventing love ſongs of your matchleſs bridegroom, 
ſod O ye faints ? O whole creation of Gop! art 
thy thou not in a ſmiling, exulting poſture ? And is not all 
fron this glory and bleſſedneſs the object of your grief and 


through torment, and ſorrow, and envy, when: the 
whole creation claps its hands for exceeding joy? Is 
it not moſt juſt, Taat you are the curſe and the derifion 
ct of all? You judged yourſelves unworthy of this bound- 
, oulſfh'<'5 happineſs; and are you not juſtly ſhut out from this 
est Ml joyful marriage-ſupper of the Lamb? No more crying, 
reh (ome unto the marriage: All is paſt and done, nothing 
h ful to do; all things continue in this very condition they 
eld. 0 


omi — Who but the Lamb and his ſpouſe? who are now 


s ſet masters of all, —who are now the eternal triumphers. 
Ev Behold, men and angels, behold your King and Head, 
er thefW 2nd Wellbeloved, in his robes-royal, with ſuck a mal- 
with diadem of glory on his majeſtic head, as would 

> lone eruſh in pieces ten thouſand myriads of worlds: 
eter Every ruby of his crown tranſcends all valuation; „ 
can the diamonds and pearls for ever dazzle the eyes of Ri 
Is the beholders: All the ſpectators are amazed and confounded; 


of telfithey ſparkle and ray forth beauty and lovelineſs throngh- 

ella out all generations. Is it poſſible you can reſtrain your 
dur neyes, O ſpectators! Muſt not all your faculties bend 
. M hither eternally ? Who can expreſs the thoughts of his 


will Ki heart ? Who can tell what he clearly beholds? Whocan 
he 150 


FathdMizht, the only fight! What greater happineſs, O 
e is ou cince of glory, than to follow thee whither foever thou 
s of E What glory, to run aſter thy chariot in this 


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day of thy glory and power! What honour, to bear 
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ſcrow, vile miſcreants? Are you gnaſhing your tecth 


are into. O now, who but Jrnovan and the Lamp? 


behold enough what appears moſt evidevt ? This is the 


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134 A SE 

Could we but follow thee, tho? it were but through | in. 
numerable worlds! Never, never ſhall we be disjoined 
from thee.— O ſtrange world! O ara eats eſtate 
ever to be triumphing! ever to be marrying ! ever to be 
ſolacing i in the paradiſe of loves! ever to be riding in 
the chariot -of honour ! This chariot is of the wood of 
Lebanon ; the pillars thereof are of ſilver, the bottom of 
gold, the covering of purple; the midſt thereof being 
paved with love for the daughters of Jeruſalem. Ts not 
this a majeſtic chariot that contains ſuch a great com- 
pany of kings and prieſts !—What a life is this, thus 
to ride in the chariot with the great King of glory, 
whoſe goings forth have been from eternity ! Is thi 
the honour of the ſaints! Is this the glory we 
heard and ſpake ſo much of on earth ? Is this the ac. 
compliſhment of my expectations? This is more than 
ever I could aſk or think,—thus to triumph, in at the 
gates of this golden city, up and down its golden ftreets, 
alongſt the border of this pure river of living Water, 
overſhadowed with this delightful tree of” life —0 
aſtoniſhing exaltation! O filly I, art thou not highly 
exalted ? It was much thou couldſt expect this, but more 
thou canſt bear it. One beam of thine infinite excellen- 
cy, O my excellent Wellbeloved, hath a wonderful 
efficacy, that can render dung-hill wretches of ſuch 
ſublime royal ſpirits, as that they can carry bravely 
the higheſt exaltation and glory; Thou art worthy, 
O flower of excellency, thus for ever to ride gloti- 
ouſly, and all thy redeemed ones after thee ! Thou 
ſought and overcame; and ſhall not all be crowned 
with immortal glory and honour thou art pleaſed to 
caſt thy favour upon? Thou wooed and ſought thy 
hride through labour, and ſhame, and pain, and for: 
row, and death, tho? deformed and vile, flighting al 


.O0-F. GLO RX. | I35 
the manifeſtations of thine infinite love; and ſhalt _ 


thou not deck and beautify her, and be delighted in her 
eternally —0 this ſweet, ſweet union and communion ! 
O the mutual compellations of vehement and mutual. 
love! Nothing but, O thy fairneſs, thy beauty! Be- 
© hold thou art fair, my Love, behold thou art fair! Be- 
© hold thou art fair, my Beloved! Thou art all fair, 
my Love, there is no ſpot in thee. Thou haſt raviſh- 
* ed my heart, my ſiſter, my ſpouſe, thou haſt ra- 
viſhed my heart with one of thine eyes, with one 
© chain of thy neck! O the fairneſs of thy love, my 
fiſter, my ſpouſe! The moſt rejoicing liquors, the 


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' ſrreet tongue, ma all rivers of ſweetneſs! O thy 
© Lebanon garments! they ſmell like a field which 
the Lox hath bleſſed. —I am my Beloved's, and 
my Beloved is mine; he feedeth among the lillies.— 

Come, my Beloved, Jet us enter the bed of loves, and 
cternally ſatiate ourſelves with overcoming delights : 
O then, I will be ſatisfied with love-kifſes and embra- 
ces? J will cauſe thee to drink of all my delicacies: 
Thy left hand ſhall be eternally under mine head, and 
tay right hand ſhall embrace me. I thall be for ever a 
ſeal upon thine arm, upon thine heart. Strong burn- 
ing love requires the neareſt lag tte O what a 
green and blooming love is this! We are raviſhed with 
the love of eſpouſals! Throughout all eternity, every 
hour is the firſt hour, every enjoyment as the firſt en- 
joyment: All is like the lillies, roſes, paradiſe flowers 


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round about us, that laugh and {mile with an immor- 


tal verdour!— Dance, and dance eternally, thou whole 
creation of Gop; let the manifeſtations of thy joy be 


for ever manifeſted: Rejoice, even rejoice for ever, in 
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© thereunto! O thy honied lips! O thy raviſhing 


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theſe wonderful and glorious eſpouſals of the Lans; ſtren 
for every part of thee hath its excellency and in. ties 
fluence. Had Jenovau fo admirably adorned-thee, Had 
O thou heaven of heavens, had it not been for the bad 
glory and majeſty of theſe everlaſting eſpouſals? Would ler 
he have adorned thee with ſuch glorious manſions, if 01 2 
it had not been for the glory and delights of his Bard me 
Would the mountains of myrrh and frankincenſe been Ml 
Blled with ſuch paſſing raviſhments,—all the gardens ad 
love with ſuch rarities of beauties? Wovld the walls * 


the houſes, and fireets be made ſo wonderfully cnc nin, 


and delightful, were it not for the honour and delight ſho 


of ſuch a glorious couple? Wouldſt thou been renew. ben 


ed after lo glorious a manner, O thou lower world! pur 
were it not, that thy Maker will have all to ſmile, and act 
appear in a ſweet, joyful, and marriage apparel, in thi ane 
day of the boundleſs joys of his heart ?=O joyful cres. il 
tion of God -O my heart! thou overflows with raviſk- wit 
ments. O flower and excellency of all lives 'O high- for 


eſt top of all Oy O boundleſs ocean of eternal BY 
raviſhments ! the 


52. The full enjoyment of Gop conf i in the nearef 


mutual conjunction. be 
O bleſſed ſelf, that reſts ſo feeedy | in the arms of thy hd 
only Wellbeloved ! Thy head eternally lies in his ch 
boſom: The heat and life arifing from his flaming ti 
heart, hath a virtue would cauſe death and ſorrow to ty 
live and be chearful. Hell and devils, tho? I were in the * 


midſt of you all, I could not fear you, who reſt withn 
theſe invincible arms. — Vou flower and excellency of 
all creature beauty and lovelineſs, you could not allure 


This was a counterpoiſe in all thy difficulties through the 
villey of tears. The ſore-thoughts of this added 


. 437 


frength and courage in all thy faintings and infirmi- 
ties: The hope of this ſweet reſt hath not been vain. 
Had I had ſuitable apprehenſions thereof, how valiant 
pad I been for the truth upon the earth ! How ſhould 
| ever contended to the uttermoſt, for the ſmalleſt things 
of wy Wellbeloved ? How ſhould I raifed up againſt 


me the tongues and opprobrium of the moſt excellent 


ſalnts on earth? How ſhould I have been ſo Courageous 


and zealous for his intereſts, as that I ſhould have proven 
a man of contention? in the pureſt times ? ? The threat- 


niags, opprobrium and mockings of either friend or foe 
ſhould have been nothing N ed by me: But I ſhould 
| have ſo carried, that I ſhould have ſcarce eſcaped capital 
puniſliment in the belt of times. — Ho ſhould I have 
ated to admiration! How ſhould I have run and fought, 
and fought aud run, ever with joy unſpeakable and glori- 
ous? Can there be. greater happineſs than to dwell 


within theſe arms of love! My labour, my grief, my 


ſorrosv, bath been juſt nothing: One moment's repoſe 
in thy boſom, {ſweeteſt Wellbeloved, might ſwallow up ten 


thouland ages of all labour, pain, and ſorrow. Now I | 


need no more pray for kiſſes ; and I will alſo kiſs, and 
be ever drawing ſweetneſs from theſe bleſſed lips; for 
we ſhall never change this blefſed poſture. No need to 
charge any, that my Beloved be not provoked to ariſe 
till he pleaſe. I am overjoyed, that all inning and vani- 
ty is done away, which did much ſeparate us aſunder O 
ſweet, ſweet ! that thou haſl made me pleaſant and deſi- 


rable in thine eyes! What can I deſire more, than that 
I am lovely and delightful in the eyes of my Lond the 
King ? Rejoice and be glad 1 in what is thine own: Even 


rejoice over me with finging, and reſt in thy love to- 

wards me. Drink,. and drink again of that ſweetneſs 

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this lovelineis I am partaker of by thy bout and fl 
vour. Let mine eyes for ever raviſh thee —ſor ever dan 
forth rays of lovelineſs upon thee ; and be ſatisfied with 
my breaſts at all times. My bleſſedneſs can be no great. 
er: Thou art mine, and thy deſire is towards me.” Won. 
der, and be greatly amazed, O all creatures; the eternal 
One and yeſterday beings are for ever in the mutual 
delights of love, in the raviſhing ſolaces of one another! 
Dive, and dive eternally, men and angels, you ſhall e. 
ver be infinitely from the furthermoſt of this abyls of 
. wonders. Who can comprehend this exaltation ? ?\ Who 
can conceive this condecendency ? What think you, 
that Gop and creatures converſe ſo familiarly together! 
What think you, that he is our brother, oui huſband, 
one like us, one with us, one __ us, one raviſhed with 
our fellowſhip, for ever-more !—Who can ſhew the 
thoughts of his raviſhed heart ? Who can fully refle 
on the aſtoniſhed apprehenſions of his elevated mind? 

Haſt thou not ſhewn what *nfinite power can do? Hoy 
low infinite love can ſtoop ? How highly infinite bounty 
can exalt? How worderfully infinite excellency can 
make beautiful and excellent — O my faculties ! You 

mall be. ever filled with aſtoniſhment—ever ſatiated with 
his uncreated ſweetneſs! Can I ſuffer any w ant in thy 
boſom, O fountain of excellency ? Shall I not be filled, 
who am ſet down beſide this well of living water, under 
the boughs of the tree of life, whoſe delicious fruits are 
ever falling upon me? I am ſatiate with thy love, my 
fair one; ſome glimpſes thereof on earth were raviſhing, 


bern above what the abundance of corn and wine 


could produce. The report of thine excellency and glo- 
ry filled the heart with paſſing ſweetneſs : Thy raviſt- 
ing 2manations cannot be contained wi thin this large land, 
but had infuence upon the lower world, cauſing may 


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OF GLORY: „ 
of the inhabitants to be deeply in love with thee whom, 
they never ſaw; ſo that they renounced the love of all 
things for thee, 0 exceedingly to be like thee, and 
ple ale thee in all things— fought againſt all o poſition 
endeavoured to the uttermoſt for exalting thy glory, and 
continued in a longing frame to behold thee face to ſace, 
Hand ſo remained faithful unto the death. Ihy lovers 


are never ſatiate till they have thee in their arms: The 


enjoyment of thee afar off is raviſhing ſweet, and can- 
not but cauſe the beholder run with all his might, until 
he be at thee,” even innected in thine eternal embraces, , 
0 my life, my life! O ſweet, ſweet, for ever- more 

53. The life of cLokr, the only life that OM all 
uber lives, and ſwallows them up. 

All creatures live according to the capacity of their 
being 3 ; but no life to that which is divine. The animal 
life is dead and dark, and without efficacy and beauty; 
the intellectual is a low and baſe thing: But this life 
of glory doth only excel all other excellencies. All o- 
ther lives are ſwallowed up here! That which is in 
part and imperfe& is done away by that which is the 
perfection of excellency. O my lovely one, theu art in- 
deed the Prince of life ! Thou art the life of all the in- 
habitants of this majeſtic city. Didſt thou withdraw 
what thou haſt communicated. ſhould we not be fo ma- 
ty. lumps of death and deformity ? Thou art my all in 
all, my fair one! Thou art my life, and vigour of all 
my joys and defires. That divine life by which thou 
eternally liveſt haſt thou breathed into me; ſo that I 
an become inconceivably above a living foul, or an in- 
tellectual creature. This noble divine life didſt thou 

communicate unto me, in my dead and ſenfual condition, 
but in a ſmall meaſure, that it was much obſcured by fin 
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wreſtling: But how hath it grown more and more, ith 
it hath overtopped and ſwallowed up all other lives, ſo 
that now J am filled with all thy fulneſs? Loen thy na. 
ture, thine image, thine excellency haſt thou fully im. 
preſled upon me; fo that, as thou art, fo am J.—0 te 
cure eſtate! Chriſt is my life. Is not then my life eter. 
nal? My life lies in the fountain, and ſhall it not be e- 
ver in its vigour and full ſtrength? Other lives are like 
{mall drops ſeparated from the ocean, and may evaniſh; 
How ſoon did animal, rational and intellectual lives fall 
from their native coutiivuriin ? Nothing permanent, 
which is not divine—nothing everlaſiing, which lies not 


immediately without the mixture of creature imperfce. 


tions. The nearer thee, the ſafer; the further off thee, 
the more dangerous: To be quite cut off from thee, is 
perfect and only miſery. Curſed men and angels have 


no other influence from the fountain but that which con- 


ſerves their natural beings, in their natural operations, 
O Wellbeloved, not only in thee do I © live, move and 
© have my being.“ but thou art my all in all! I am fl 
led with all thy fulneſs—O my life, my life! - Do 1 not 


live for ever-more? 


54. NO neceſſity of creatures in heaven : > 1 


eminently all things. 
All things are ſ wallowed up in KEV infinite excellay 


cy! Created enjoyments are cried down times "and 
days are for ever fled away : All things are immediate. 


ly ſubjected to Jenovan, even the Son himſelf, Al 
rule, all authority is put down z—n0 fuborditations a- 
raong creatures: One thing ſtands not in need of ao. 


ther; every thing would be as it is, tho? all other eres 


tures were done away: All flouriſh by the immediatt 
rays of the Sun of righteouſneſs—Gop doth maintain al 
creatures without the concurrence of creatures -n o cel 


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i rections of ſecond cauſes, no dependencies of one crea- 
„e ure upon another—nature's world is quite aboliſhed; 
na. Inne conditions of beings are altogether changed: Yet, 


in how {weet an order do all things agree ? All are in- 
dependent, yet all conſpire in one; the bond of love be- 
wist all is ſtrong and immortal; the mutual aſpects of 


ze e, all are pleaſant, and ſuperabounding, in beings accom- 
like plimed, every one in their own meaſure, immediately 
with ; rom the original of all perfections. You creature-beau- 
fall ties, the full emanations of your lovelineſs and ſweetneſs _ 


are ever darted upon me with delight; yet am I happy 
to the uttermoſt, whether I enjoy you or not. Time 
was when I could not well have wanted you: But now 
whether I enjoy you or not, I am ever the ſame ; being 
filed and ſatiate with his eternal ſweetneſs; you are 


have the -adornments, outfields and pendicles to my great 
con-Winherttance, and no addition thereunto.—And art thou, 
tions, WO my God, become all unto me? The want of all 


my temporal enjoyments is a gain that cannot be told. 
How have I been vexed and wearied, with being oc- 
cupied about vain, empty, unſatisfying nothings! So 
that I was glad of a borrowed viſion of thee, of a re- 
flex manifeſtation of thy glory and excellency ; and was 
covered over with ſhadows, that I could neither order 
right expreſſions nor conceptions, becauſe of darkneſs. 
How oft have I bemoaned, * when ſhall the day dawn, 
Land the ſhadows fly away, that I may be filled im- 
* mediately with his glory? This fight of his beauty, 
this taſte of his ſweetneſs is tormenting, as well as de- 
* lightful : I cannot reſt until I get full enjoyment : 
Still I would have more and more of Goo, until I be 
filled with all his fulneſs. But oh! I tannot ten 

thouſand things ſtand in betwixt me and him, through 
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on ten thouſand things? Here am I diverted, through (the 
mortality, by every thing that comes in my way; in the 
numerable creatures having a enen diverting { the 
influence over me: Muit 1 ever be ſleeping, eating cor 
drinking, converſing in this and that trille? Maſt 1 lor 
draw conſolations Go this and the other and tbe thin irs 
creature, and have a fellowſhip with my Gop, by be. ter 
nefit of means and ordinances, which ever have theMilf fu. 
tincture and ſavour of imperfection! ? And are not the dir 
conduits oftimes ſo corrupt, as that they embitter m » 
enjoyments? And are not ſeldom fo ftopt, as that f al 
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hither and thither; this feeble fleih being apt to te 
ceive new impr e every moment, from every thing 
that comes in the way? And how vexing are all thek 
enjoyments, tho? moſt neceſſary ?- What a nauſeating 
round do 1 run, ever toſſing the lame ſtone ? That 
which hath been is tha! which ſpall be, and there it u 
new thing under the ſun, What profit hath a man 
all his labour? For tho? the eve is not ſatisfied with 
ſeeing, nor the ear with hearing, ſg that new enjoy. 
ments are ever required, yet muſt the fame things he 
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things, to have the heart filled with great experience 5: 
F wildom and knowledge ? Yet I perceive, that thin 1: 
alſy is vanity and ve vation of ſpirit ; for in much ile po 


dom is much grief, and he that increaſeth Fnowledgh, 
increafeth ſorrow, Run faſt, O time and days, th 


become all im all. Silly worldlings deſire to hurt 
thele enjoyments eternally, becauſe they know no ber 


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OF OLORY. 2 
ter. Something the faculties muſt be exerciſed with, 
( tho with vexing vanity.—O! but I have a fight of 
© the only fatisfying object! O to have all theſe out of 
the way! Were it not thy good pleaſure I ſhould 
continue thus for a time, I could not but die through 
(longing for the immediate viſion of Gov. Scattered 
' fireams and drops are become bitter; when ſha!) I en- 
i ter, body and foul into the ocean, and be filled and 
( ſwallowed up for ever and ever? When ſhall I receivethe 
direct rays of all excellency from the Sun ofr: ghteouineſs; . 
no clouds intervening throughout cternity ?? O flower 
of all bleNedneſs! O golden life of all my defires! I am 
belt from the light of the ſun and of the moon; I am 
pat from the neceſſary help of ſhadows and nothings : 
he Loxb J xHOVAH is my only ſtrength, and light, and 
life, and joy, and ſong, and all things. Is it not ſweet 


ating ring rhus, in the immediate preſence of Jenovan and the 
Luz? O EmmaxueL's world, thou art an excellent 


abitation ! How ſweetly and commodiouſly art thou 
tuate directly againſt the Sun and original of all light 
ind life, and joy and ſweetneſs? Who can but be lively 
nd joy ful here? Indeed, this, this is the ſmiling world, 


98 * roſy and ſunny fide of the creation. What more can 
mom be faid of my overflowing happineſs, than® that I am 
dy dere for ever-more ? 

ence 55. Groav 7s an eternal blooming a | 

it h 15 not the fountain of life deep? Men and angels, is 

; 1/0: poflible you fhell ever draw it dry? Nay, is it poſſible 
ele eu can draw fo much that leſs remains 'behind ? Vea, 

„ wbt could millions of millions of angels multiplied 
o here? Not only drink, and for ever drink, but en- 
hart er in, and you ſhall be as ſo many nothings, ſwallowr- 
> bel "ay as it were, and loſt for ever. What infinite ſprings 


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of raviſhing loves and joys! Shall there not be dene 


yet | ſhall we not ever be ſexrching into the unſear -habl 


nd A CELIMPSE 
deeper for ever, and ſtall you ſhall find new Fortis ſo 1 


{till there remains as many hid as at the firſt ſearching, and 


What boundleſs varieties of joys and ſweetneſs ? Ever un 
draught, every taſting may eternally raviſh ; yet due cile, 
ry moment, every inſtant is filled with new delight 4 
new raviſhments : For what can exhauſt infinite delight ; 
and-{weetneſs? We may feel, and taſte, and enjoy 1 its ban 
it is; ; but can we comprehend it, and ſearch it out a np! 
perfection When we are all filled, the boundleſs 0 Ocea E 
is nothing diminiſhed: And ſince we are ever -drinki ; 10 
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perfections, more and more ſeen, ſupply for ever with, nen 
expreſſions of the excellency, glory, lovelineſs, huet 
neſs, and kindneſs of Him that fits upon, the throne and 
the Lamb? We are paſt from augmenting "of ou | 
ledze by borrowed viſions, or perfecting 1 it by N 
know more and more evidently and diſtinAly : e 
confuſion and darkneſs is done away; error, ignoranch 
and falſe uptakings are no more: We now as we an 
#nown, even nakedly, immediately, and face to Face; 
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OFT. GLORY. - 45 
bo many divines, ſearching, preaching, diſcourſing more 
and more of the tranſcendent excellency of that foun- 
tain of all fulneſs? Do we not, in this raviſhing exer- 
eile, run over again in the ſame round? O then, through- 
out all eternity our happineſs ſhall ever be increaſing. 
In the very entty, all ſuperabounds and overflows its 
banks; ſo that nothing is wanting in the leaſt to perfect 
happineſs, ſatisfaction and fulneſs; yet ſhall theſe over- 
flowing tides of loves, joys, and raviſhments for-ever ſwell 
higher and higher; ſo that the ſucceeding moment fhall 
de more ſuperabounding than the immediately preceding. 

0 then, the 9 and flouriſhing of ten thouſand my- 
riads of ages! And doth not this river increaſe pro- 
ortionable to its greatneſs! O then ! after myriads of ages, 
eco rding to the number of the atoms of the creation, 
bow ſhall it be augmented above the number of all theſe 
atoms, thouſands of times multiplied by themſelves ? So 
hat, to all eternity, we are ever changed from glory to 
ory, and ever aſcend higher and higher, and ſtill the 
ieps become wider and wider ; the faculties ever are 
nore and more clear and extended; and the diſcoveries 
nore and more wonderfully raviſhing. This infinite 
orld of all perfections is beheld clearly and immediate- 
y as it is; yet who can comprehend all the beauties, 
ldlights, excellencies and infinite perfections, wherewith 
is ſtored? Or who can reach the infinite number of 
aradiſes, mountains, vallies, rivers? Yea, who can reach 
he ten thouſand thouſanth part of its immenſity ? 80 


es 
ui et eternally we ſhall follow the Laws, through new 
ds inte ardens, orchards, paradiſes, mountains, and ever be go- 
fect ng diredly forward, making greater and greater and 

Faß ore wonderful diſcoveries. All the powers and fa- 
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ſo that joy, and delight, and love, and raviſhment, ſhall 
ſwell more and more in keighth, and breadth, and length, 
and depth throughout eternity. Men and angels, is not 
our inheritance inconceivably large and fertile, rich and 
beautiful, and delightful ? Can we among us all but rec. 
kon over our palaces, cities, paradiſes, countries, king. 
doms and worlds? O what high ſtretchings of mind! 
and what further and further ſtretchings, to let in theſe 
boundleſs inundations of uncreated ſweetneſs, that over. 
flowes inceſſantly, rapidly and eternally! O my Gos, 
this happineſs is more than ſaperabounding! Who can 
expreſs, who can conceive, what a life it is, to be re- 
ceived into the boſom of thine infinite excellencies, 
be admitted into the eternal enjoyment of thy incompre- 
henſible ſelf !—O what eternal manifeſtations of the 
Godhead, to men and angels, in the face of Cuasr! 
What. outlettings of new and various influences from 
the Sun of righteouſneſs What inceſſant ſhowers of the 
dew of our Wellbeloved's youth ! What high, full, con- 
ftant, lively and cheriſhing gales of the ſweet rayiſhing 
breath of IEHOVAn! What wonder, then, all the trees df 
the paradiſe of glory aſcend higher and higher; ſpreal 
their branches further and further, and increaſe eternallyin 
their ſtrength, verdure and blooming, and fruitfulneb! 
Poor life, that depends on creature influences, and creatute 
enjoyments | Neither are they ſatisfying in themſelys 
nor can they yield new ſweetneſs eternally, Was it nd 
the higheſt of all madneſs and folly to forſake the eter 
nal fountain of living waters, and reſt on broken ciſtem 
that can hold no water? O joy of all joys, that ever! 
reſted upon thee as my only portion O my happineſs 
my happineſs ſurpaſſeth all expreſſion ! * 
56. EmmanuzL's /and 10 altogether of free redeenil 


grace, yet is it given by way of reward, 


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OF GLORY. 147 
And what is this great aſſembly of ſuch glorious and 


8 
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8 x ſree grace, altogether free redeeming grace of IJxuovan 

wn and the Lauz ? Are ye not, O bleſſed creatures, ſo ma- 
ny monuments of the free and undeſerved My and 
King love of him whoſe love paſſeth all underſtanding ? Away 
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80 ching of itſelf, then may it glory in what is its own. If: 
8 a ill creatures are not eternally obliged to love, and obey, 


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vonder thou ſhouldſt make men or angels actors or wit- 

nefſes of thy infinite glory and excellency ! What are 

all creatures. to thee 2 thou Huiueſt open thine eyes 
upon chm? What unſpeakable dignity, to be allotted 
of wel to the loweſt piece of ſervice for thee ? The more crea- 
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idhing MY run into the debt of thy free grace: Yea, tho? creatures 
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ſpreal in its boſom full and overrunning recompence. And 
nally hat proportion, imaginable i is there betwixt the acting 
ulneb or ſuffering of a finite creature, and one moment of theſe 
boundleſs. Joys? ? The ſervice is finite, but the reward is 
valuable. Tho”. it had been poſſible for creatures to 
perſevere under a covenant of works, yet could they 
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a divine life, in this celeſtial paradiſe, the re ward of the and 
ſecond—The , r was made with the earthly Adam, us Mc 
the head and principal perſon of the earthly houfe ; the nat. 
ſecond, with the heavenly Adam, as head and principal bea 


perſon of the heavenly. But the , ruined both him: con 


ſelf and his, not being able to fulfil the bargain Ml ie: 
the /econd hath made up both himſelf and his * Ot 
ever-more, by perfect obedience, and full ſatisfaction 
end excellency of power, in transforming his children 
into his heavenly image, and bringing them all infailibly 
to glory. The covenant was principally made with our 
Wellbeloved; all the promiſes of the new covenant 
were made to him, as the chief and V born among ma- 
ny brethren; ſo that it was impoſſible that any of he. 
choſen from eternity could be loſt being put into fo ſure Lou 
an hand, who was accountable to the Father for every Ml **< 
one of them, having frometernity received them fromhin wh. 
as his ſpouſe, his children, his brethren, his co-heirs, his Ou 
pupils, to be guided and tutored by him, in time and e- and 
ternity, 80 that all the ſtreſs and care of our ſalvation tha 
ves laid upon our Logp Redeemer's ſhoulders ; accor- del 
ding to Which truit, he bath called, juſtified, ſanctifed gui 
us, —kept us from falling away, in the midſt of infirmi- and 
ties, difficulties, temptations—and prefented us w:bou f 
'fpot or blemiſh before his Father. Our firſt earthly Fa is 1 
ther played the bankrupt with all, and left us poor, vile, i *© 
miſerable wretches, /y:ng in our blood, and ns eye pi eve 
ing us; our nature being in his loins, as the rot dit 
and original of us all. Did he not degrade and debale and 


ſo that from excellent rational creatures, created ate! thi 


| the raviſhing image of our Maker, we became brutill, er 
vain, fooliſh and vile? But in came our Wellbeloved, Ml ©2: 


and affumed our nature, in its low and baſe condition, Wl +9 
with all its inirmities and pa ons, yet without il © 


rutilh, 
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149 


and raiſed it up to a far, far higher pinnacle of excellen- 
cy than ever it fell from. Before, its excellency was 
natural, but now it is ſupernatural; 
heavenly and divine. What are our thoughts of the in- 
conceivable rays and raviſhing reſplendencies of free, 
free, free grace, ſhining from Godhead, in the face 
of Chriſt, to undone creatures? What could we do for 


before, earthly, now 


ourſelves, when broken and loſt ? Was not our condi- 
tion moſt deſperate like? We could not keep ourſelves in 
our firit condition, when entire and in our full vigour 
wat then could we do, when broken i in pieces and del- 
toyed? Had we not been obliged to him, who had reſ- 


tored us to our former eſtate, or merely {ſaved us from 


cternal wrath, tho? no more! But O! what aſtoniſhing 
boun ty, love, mercy, condeſcenſion, compaſſion, kind- 
pets, Patience, and infinite wondersſhine here! Sirs, 
what have we loft, by our great and uaſpeakable'lofs ?— 

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appertain, even on his glorious and majeſtic head who 
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are thine, we. are thine, O excellent W ellbeloved,— 
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150 A GLIMPSE 

leſs. joys! lam eternally tied to thee by all oblignthim and 
O my inconceivable happineſs ! Self hath not the/leaf nat 
occaſion to boaſt of itſelf: No creature, man or'anpel, WM en 
hath any thing to. glory in, before thy preſence. ;:0 Wl 1 
thou Heaven of heavens, ſhalt thou not be filled with WM on: 
ſongs of free redeeming grace? What ſhould we do with 45% 


our diadems, our ſceptres, our palms, our robes, and out c. 


glorious adornments? What ſhould: we do with al 
that we are and have, but caſt them down at the feet of 
Him, who hath created, redeemed and ſanctified us 
even at the feet of him who hath redeemed us to Go 


and we ſhall reign for ever and ever, Oexcellent! the les 


cur , own the better z—the more thine, the more bleſſed WM pa 
condition? We are altogether thine; all our excellency, less 
all our actings, all our ſufferings, all our glory; is only. ing 
thine. This kingdom thou. alone did purchaſe, -with- Wl tic 
out the help of any: All, all are the product of free, Ml lite 
eternally free love; all is given to us moſt freely! from me 
eternity were we choſen to all this bleſſedneſs, moſt ab: ¶ kic 
jolutely, without reſpect to foreſeen excellency or'deſer: ble 
ving. All is moſt free to us, but dear to our Wellbe. M 
loved. What couldſt thou give more, my deareſt Lon of 
than thy life, thy blood, thy very {elf ? Could thou Wil l 
lay down a greater pawn for our ſalvation; than'thy ſpe 
noble, ſuperexcellent and glorious ſelf? Could love have e 
been manifeſted in a more tranſcendent, glorious and ex 80 
cellent way! What couldſt thou have done more th Wil 2 
thou haſt done 2— s not this an excellent inheritance} 1 
tho 


men and angels? Is not this land a beautiful, rich and 
pleaſant land indeed? Doth this look like the faldvf 
blood? Our Emmaxver conquered all this by blood and 
death: He rode over hell and devils, and vanquiſhed 
all the oppoſers of this boundleſs A mah "Gre 


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OF GLORY. 15¹ 
and ten thouſands were nothing in his way. He made 
nations and languages facrifices to divine juſtice. He 
rent the heavens and came down, the mountains flowed . 
down at his. preſence He trode' down the' people in his 
anger, and made them drunk in his fury; and did bring 
down their flrength io the earth. He gave Exypt for 
our ranſom, Ethiopia and Sebah for us. Were not theſe 
great things? Hath he not redeemed Zion by blood? 
Hath he not made a noble conqueſt? Yea, he ſlew death 
itfelt, He went to the land of death and deſtruction, and 
nanquithed his ſtrongeſt and moſt cruel enemies in their 
own native ſoil. O wonderful! He led captivity cap- 
tive by being led (captive; by undergoing ſhame, and 
pain and grief, and ignominy. He conquiſhed bound- 
leſs joys, and delights, and glory and renown : By dy- 
ing he vanquiſhed 'death, and him that had the power 
thereof, Here, O !®here is the invaluable price! The 
life, the blood of Goo! - Wonder, and Rand in am aze- 
ment, all creatures: The life of the Loxp of life, was 
lid down a ranſom for us, as the price of our eternal 
bleſſedneſs. Who can value the life and blood of the 
Man who is Gop, bleſſed for ever-more ? Shall we ſpeak 
of ten thouſand millions of millions of excellent men, of 
glorious angels? That is juſt nothing alſo. Shall we 
peak of myriads of myriads of worlds, more excellent 
every one than another? That is juſt nothing allo— 
So many creatures, ſo many nothings. Never ſo many 
worlds are ſo many ſhadows, in compariſon of the endur- 
ng ſubſtance, O the price, the price! Do not the 
thoughts thereof heighten the conceptions of men and 
angels bey ond all conception: What ſtrange flamings of 
love? What high motions of joy? What overflowing 
tides of admixation, at every thought of the wonderful way 
herein Gop hath done all this to us! All this honour 
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ſaith, behold eternal, eflential glory | obſcured}: Ang. 
this/ joyful and flouriſhing life faith, behold: the Prince 
of life in a great agony, bleeding to death, even the 
ſhameful and painful death of the croſs !--Q higheſt ms 
nifeRation of infinite love! All is come through the 
bowels of our deareſt Loxp JIrsus, whofe love to us wa 
ſolſtrong, that nothing could in the leaſt quench it: He 
laboured | through love, ſorrowed through love, regt 
through love, he died of love. When cold death bega 
to ſeize on bis heart, he found it all flaming with the 
love of his deareſt pouſe; neither could he deſtroy theſe 


immortal flames which flaſk and dart forth their oven 


coming rays throughout eternity. O thy incomprehei 
ſible love! Bend hither all your faculties, men and ar. 
gels, and be amazed for ever- mee l- 0! my heavenly 


Father, by thy infinite gift, tou haſt loſt nothing; th 


Son of thy everlaſting love and' delights is ever inthy 


preſence. O my Redeemer, thou loft thy liſe, yet 


thou haſt not loſt it; behold, thonitart alive' for ever. 
more. The price of all doth eternally remain, elſe 
ſhould the things boughts be nothing. Let no erei 
tate peak of 3ts:evcelleney/or acts; What can they cn 
quer 2: What ean they punchaſe 1 Our ENMTuNUEL bett 


pürchaled all things: Iadeed by birth- right he is ti 
ekernal and eſſential heir of allʒ yet hath he added a new 


right, and niade all his over again by congueft, Not un 
6 ur, not unte us, but unto thee: be all the plaryyids 
rninlon , and praiſe; for ever and ever. Vet, O wonder 
ful bounty, Condeſcenſiong and love !: Thou haft 
on our heads che crons of conquerorszthe: lauielad 
triumph: Thou haſt put in 'our hands tlie ever ifadiof 
palms of victory. Halt chou done alle nd ſhalb ue 
bear the honour of well and: beroicully Winery: for tht 


great and maſſy diadem of glory? Haſt thou co¹n 


OE GL OK'Y... I53 


And Wes —and ſhall we triumph as purchaſers of heaven and 
rince n? Haſt thou ſuffered, —and ſhall we enter into this 


a td olory, as having undergone all the affaults of hell and 
time: death, in our own proper ſtrength ?—This is a ſweeter, 
ch the more condeſcending, and wonderful diſpenſation, than if 


ture into this Rate: of glory, or created us in the midi 
of this incomparable happineſs. O ſweet, ſweet! to think 


vegan Wl that grace hath uſhered in glory; a life of believing, 
ch the Hz life of immediate viſion; a life of labour and diffi- 
' theſe WW culty, this life of eternal repoſe; a life of ſhame and 
over {MWreproach, this life of immortal glory and renown; a a 
ehen life of fighting, this life of everlaſting triumphing; a 
bd and life of tears, pain, and ſadneſs, this life of boundleſs 
eng joys and delights ; a lite of fears and weakneſs, this life 
z the {Wot perfect ſecurity and might. How wiſely hath my Loxp 
in thy connected all things together, that our glory might 


ever: Whzppineſs | This glory, this incomprehenſible! glory and 
1, (elle renown will he have to refit for ever upon out heads.— 
rei Worlds of amazement ! to hear our Loxp ſay, in the pre- 
y can ſence of all, to every one, Well done, good and faithful 
bat ſervant, thou haſt been faithful over a few things, I 
is the will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou in- 
u e to the joy of thy Loxp : Heroically done, for this 
Vot an. "ally diadem of glory: Worthy art thou to walk with 
e me in white; for thou haſt kept clean garments, in the 


onder midſt of a polluted world: Thou haſt valiantly fought. 


z(b aol and overcome; and art thou not worthy to triumph 
dels with me throughout the vaſt ages of endleſs eternity? 
facing WM As I have done, fo thou haſt ſuffered patiently, even 
dall ue unto the death; and therefore, it well becomes thee 
for the to enter into this unſpeakable glory. — What, Lox5p! 
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154 A GLIMPSE 

done I,—muſt even I poſſeſs this undefiled, uncorruyy 
tible, ne ver fading inheritance? What have J done, 
what have I ſuffered for thy; excellent name? Vea, wha 
have T not done, endeavoured, and defired againſt thy 
holine&'? Vet even I muſt enter here as worthy: of all! 
F muſt wear the conqueror's crown I muſt bear: the 
palms of victory! Even thus it muſt be, thus it-ſhaulf 
be; ſince it is the good pleaſure of my Lozp the?King 
le our bridegroom hath made his ſpouſe the perfect 
tion of beauty: How is his myſtical body compoſed d 
various members, every  oneiendowed with it! own:r; 


per beauty? Every one is not graced with thei ſame me- 


ſure of excellency, fince every member conduceth{to the 
Penny: of the whole: ; Varieties of glories in the ſane 
Wondoifar; & Ta vinings, 25 284 J pleaſant. Even on earth the 
ſpouſe was derne d with various excelleneies; eniefly la 
beauty; and not for meceſſit y „nav, the he avens and th 
earth are not defeckive herein: Were every ſtar like ie 
fan, or all the ſtars of equal glory, or the whole expai 


| fion adorned: with-equal glory; or were every part of the 


earth covered over with the fame beauties, ſo that nothin) 
did excel another Were all heaven; or all earth, or wen 
earth of equal glory with heaven; or were all afun; 
were the higher and lower world nothin g differing in g 
all would be every way the ſame; and ſo nothing! 
beautiful as it is. Indeed, the head is loving to all the 


members, and is alike affected with them all; yet, ever 
member is in its own order, according to his good p 


ſure, which from eternity he purpoſed in himſelf s R 
diſtributed, after divers degrees and manners, his gil 
and graces, to his choſen in time; ſo doth he make th 
harveſt correſpondent to the ſeed- time, the manly cos 
ſtitution to the infancy, the vigour and blooming to tit 
budding and firit ſpringing forth; according to tit 


Gf: GLORY. I55 


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rrup Wl erace given unto us in time, and the improvement 
e thereof in acting or fuffering tor his glory, accord - 
what ingly is every one of us rewarded : As he did promiſe 


ind teſtify, that as every man ſhould receive according 
io bis works ; ſo they that are wiſe, ſhall ſhine as the fi- 


the rament; and they that turn many to righteouſneſs, as the. 
aul: for ever and ever. The connection bet wixt time 
King end eternity here is not natural, from the nature of 
exfecings, as if ſo much grace deſerved ſo much glory; 
ſed of much or ſo long acting or ſuffering, ſuch or ſuch a 
n pro, 


diadem of honour : But merely from his good pleaſure 


þ it pleaſed him, he might have diſpoſed otherwiſe; but 
this is the moſt excellent, becauſe he hath done it. All 
ur excellency, and all our acting or ſuffering, was 


in us, both to will and to. do of his good pleaſure. The 


ore we were graced, the more we were enabled, the 


expanWnore we were obliged : Only it hath pleaſed his infinite 
of theWbounty to perfect in eternity, according as he did begin 
thin» time; and to give us the purchaſed poſſeſſion, by 


ray of reward. In our Lonp's diſtribution, of his 


un z ewards, he contiting the multitudes of talents, and the 
in go =ocovement- of them, and way of improvement; as if 
ning l ritn vigour and great fincerity, alſo perſeverance there- 
all te , and duration, with more and more magnanimity unto 


he death; alſo the greatneſs of the oppoſers, is conſide- 
red; as the effects and extending ot talents 96 
he 85 of others; as when the man acts bravely, be- 


18 re ſun and moon, whereby great glory doth redound - 
ke tu e him for whom are all things ; and many are firengih- 
y corned, and converted unto righteouſneſs. Suffering is cops 
to the dered in itſelf, as ſuch, excelling acting; which is more 


or leſs excellent, even as acting according to other ya- 


cho diſpoſeth all things moſt abſolutely and freely: If 


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rious circumitances..-O the wonderful way thos an ho 
taken to beautify thy ſpouſe ! How doth the head ſhine comp 
moſt eminently above all the members; and every mem deem 
ber according to its meaſure allotted from eternity? Helle 
very one of us was appointed, before the foundation d ange! 
the world, to this meaſure of glory, moſt abſolutely A .;#e 1 
freely, without any reſpect to excellency or god tion. 
works in time: And yet, O eternal admiration ! * Hy you | 
* hath rewarded every one of us according to our righ by n 
< teouſneſs, according to the cleanneſs of our hands le hid. 
« recompenſed us; for we kept the ways of the Lom nd 
and have not wickedly departed from our Gop : FolM.1! y 
© all his judgments were before us, and we did not pu pit 
away his ſtatutes from us; we were alſo upright befon of ev 
him, and we kept ourſelves from our iniquity : There your 
fore hath the Loxp recompenſed us, according to ou wick 
righteouſneſs, according to the cleanneſs of our handsif de 
his eye ſight: For with the mercitul, thou haſt ſhew Nati 
ed thyſelf merciful ; with the upri ght man thou halt 2920 
ſhewed thyſelf upright; with the pure, thou haſt ſhey- grac 
ed thyſelf pure; and with the froward, thou haſt ſhey the 
ed thyſelf froward: For thou haſt loved the affficteſilght 
people; and haſt brought down the high looks. A way 
thy promiſes to the overcomers haſt thou perſecth ao 
compliſhed. Boundleſs happineſs for ever-more! in t 
57. All things « are fully diſcovered in LRH, bind 
{ay hid in Time. Gd 
All things are laid open before the eyes of all: Honor 
paſſing clear and evident is the light of glory? Do Ind 
know you all and every one not only according 90 hey 
your proper eſſences, and weight of glory; but ali: 
What manner of perſons you were in time, as to all theſ er 
circumſtances, by which men were differenced from orie 
another? So that we may fay, This, and this is the mut 


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OF GLORY. | 157 
lll no was ſuch and ſuch an inflrument in time, for the! in- 
ne comprehenſible glory of our never enough ex:1ced Re- 
deemer ; who will manifeſt all the good works and ex- 
cellency of every one before his Father, and before bis 
n di angels. He from eternity knows by name, and hath ma- 
n nifeſted the name of every one, before the whole crea- 
goal tion. Are you not eternally aſhamed and confounded, 
He jou haters of the only excellent one? You are declared 
rige by name before all and every one in ſingular ; the moſt 
ds be hidden things of darkneſs are now laid open for ever 
00 :nd ever: All your thoughts, your words, your deeds ; . 
Toi n your inclinations, your purpoſes, your projects, your 
t pu impieties are made known perfectly to the conſciences 
efo ot every one of you, to one another, and to us all. Hide 
here yourſelves now, if you can neither yourſelves nor your 
to oor vickedneſs ſhall ever henceforth eſcape our view. Now 
nds ul we are inconceivably elevated above all natural ſagacity. 
ſnew ii Natural illumination was wonderfully diſcovering, as the 
u hal agacity of man in his firſt eſtate did ſnew; the light of 
ſhev-Werace was more piercing, as diſcerning things far above 
hey the reach of nature: But all are ſcarce emblems of this 
Vited light of glory. How juft and holy art thou, in all thy. 
A, O my holy One! Thou haſt for ever unmaſked the 
tly reo great companies of men and angels; all now appear 
in their genuine colours: Our innocency is manifeſted, 
ad their wickedneſs is laid open. How many things 
did we refer unto this day, as indiſcuſſible by dim- eyed 
mortals, who judged according to externals, conjectures 


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glory, ftower and excellency of the generation : How 
many of 'the moſt excellent of the earth were cried out 
againſt on every fide, becauſe of their ſingular holineſs, 
and ferveney of ſpirit for the intereſts of CurraT, and 


power of Godlineſs, above others, — becauſe of their 


teſtifying againſt the proper fins of their generation, 

that even ſome of the weakeſt of the ſaints did caſt foul 
aſperſions on them; did hate and perſecute them as 
* troublers of the N And how many were accoun- 


ted by the generality true and fincere ſaints, becauſe of 
their ſelfiſh prudential way of carriage, in all exigencies, 


and among all ſorts of perſons ; becauſe of their large 
recommendations of all, and baſeneſs of ſpirit in the py. 


blic intereſts of Gop, though rejected, deſerted, bla. 


phemed and trodden upon by almoſt all ; becauſe of their 
compliance with the humours of moſt; and inſinuating of 
themſelve s npon both good and bad, in an humble and lo- 
ving manner; becaule of their finful reſervedneſs in the 
matters of Gon, in a declining time; becauſe of their 
keeping themſelves free from groſs outbreakings ; be. 
cauſe of their counterfeiting of real ſaints, by acquiring 
a fine outward carriage, and a huge literal, notional knoy- 
ledge of divine things, that they might pray, write and 
diſcourſe like men much in the intimate fellowſhip of 


Ixsus; as alſo becauſe of their outward proſperity, which 


gave men a brave luſtre in the eyes of dull mortals, All, 
all is now unmaſked. Now, now it is manifeſt, who 
were excellent, who were not; who have been the real 
friends of the bridgroom, and was have been counterfei. 
How ſweet is the righteouſneſs of Gop, now vindicated: 
What delectation to behold all things drawn out of dark: 
neſs! My hatred. to impiety and helliſh madneſs is 
great; and my zeal for the glory of my never enouph 
exalted Lozp and Redeemer, is fo violent and hoy 


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here be ſwallowed up to nothing. To ſeethe glory 
of divine vengeance manifeſted on father, mother, ſiſter, 


brother, ſon, or daughter, now black and ugly lumps of 


hell, and hatred againſt the fountain of all lovelineſs and 
ſweetneſs, is a fight eternally delighttul. Yell 


58. Among the many pendicles of the fair 3 


the ſweet fellowſhip of men and angels, 1s very con}ider- 


able. 
O how ſweet a Efoeniiion ? How wounded] is di- 


vine Providence! You who were ſweet and profitable 
company to me in my pilgrimage; for ever walk with 
me on the tops of glorious and majeſtic mount Zion. 


dirs, I efteemeed and loved you above all then, as the 


only excellent ones of the earth, in whom was all my de- 
hght : But now, love is in its bloom and full perfection. 
What a golden life would I eſteemed it on earth, to live 


in the company of the moſt wiſe and excellent in all a- 
ges? O now! All the excellent of the world are my 
companions ; every one of which tranſcends, by millions 
of ſtages, in wiſdom and excellency, the moſt excellent 


mere man on earth. O ye beloved ones, is not our fel- 


lowſhip far changed? Old things are paſſed away, all 
things are become_new ! All earthly ties are broken a- 
ſunder, which did much hinder the fellowſhip of ſaints 
on earth: We are every way free] Spiritual relation 
bath ſwallowed up all other. No obligation betwi xt us, 
but that of love: We hold not any thing mediately ; ; 
Jesus the firſt. born of the Almighty King is our imme- 


| diate ſuperior in all things.—O glorious magnific king- 


dom! O let the crown for ever flouriſh on the head of 
the conqueror What tho? all this aſſembly of men and 
angels ſhould be abafed, if he be exalted ? What tho? 


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and chief excellency of all created glory ? Hei th 
beauty and triumph of all creatures, the head and firſt. 


born of every creature, infinitely more than all creatures; 
he is Jenovan. 


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59. The ſaints are 3 equitted ; 8 all their 
Jaculties are filled with his raviſhing voice. | 
All things are eternal: The ſaints are eternally ac- 
quit ted and juſtified ; and all the wicked are ever in. 
paneLed and condemned. In how raviſhing a manner 
doth our Wellkeloved ſmile upon us? For ever doth 
he firetch forth the arms of his love to embrace us? 0 
the ſweetneſs of his lips! The lovelineſs of his voice 
Honey and butter is under his tongue, and the ſmell of 
bis noſe is as the ſmell of Lebanon: His eyes are ever 
fixed upon us; every look, every beckoning of the 
hand manifeſts a love ever to be admired and never to 
be comprehended. O his voice, his voice! Is he not 
ſaying, Behold, and for ever behold your Loxp, your 
bead, your huſband, your king, your maker, your 
* cnly Wellbeloved, who loved you with an eternal love, 
© waſhed you, when polluted, in mine own blood; and 
made you kings and prieſts to my Father, and your 
Father. Did I love you, when vile and abominable! 
© and ſhall I ever hate you when made fair and loveh 
through my perfect comelineſs? Come, my fairek 
DS Cube, come my lovely one, let us ſatiate ourſelves 
* with raviſhing loves, while the heavens remain. Be- 
hold theſe arms, that were ſtretched out upon the 
* croſs for your ſaxes, are ever ready to embrace you: 
With defire have I deſired this golden day of mutuil 
© loves and delights, even this day of my eſpouſals aul 
© gladneſs of heart; and therefore I have put on m 
* marriage robes, actual myſelf with glory and majelly, 
Das with a garment: And you alſo have 1 decked 
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even when thou waſt black, thou waſt precious in my 
eyes: Sin and vileneſs is nothing in the way of my 
infinite love. I loved thee, becauſe I loved thee: And 
becaule I loved thee z therefore haſt thou become ex- 
ceeding lovely. Are you not dear unto me ? Are you 
not my delights and rejoicing ? You are the fruit of 
my labours, ſufferingsz ſad hearts, tears, fighs, groans, 
fear, pain, ſhame, reproach : In feeing you, I be- 
hold my ſeed, the travail of my ſoul, and am ſatiſ- 
fed: Enjoy me now, as much as your ſoul deſires, 
All mountains are removed, all ſhadows are fled a- 
way, — the occaſions of your doubtings, jealouſies, 
deſpondencies, are no more: We ſhould enjoy one a- 
nother to the full. Love ſhall be no more pained and 
fek of delays. Have I not haſted to this eternal day 
of enjoyment? How have I diſpatched much in a 
ſmall time? I have come ſkipping over the moun- 
tains, leaping over the. hills. I {\wimmed through ſeas 
of blood, oceans of tears, worlds of woes and griefs; 
trode the wine-preſs of the wrath of Gop Almighty ; 


cruſhed the people in mine angel, and trampled them 


in my fury; made my name to ſound throughout the 
whole world; filled the earth with the knowledge 
of my name; erected a glorious church-on earth, of 
Jew and Gentile 3 put away time and days; cried 
down for ever all earthly pleaſures, pomps, glory, 
that we might enjoy this eternal day of love's fulleſt 


manifeſtations; And behold, I am become all in all un- 


to you for ever-more. Reſt, my deareſt ſpouſe, in my 


boſom ; reſt in your love unto me; behold, I reſt in 
my love unto thee, end rejoice over thee with ſinging. 
Haſt thou laboured with me? Here is an eternal repoſe. 


* Haſt thou mourned? Partake of . boundleſs j joys: 


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Faſt thou ſuffered for my name's ſake ? Tha 
* eternally ride with me in my majeftic, triumphant 


* chariot of glory: Thou ſhalt no more be fick of love, 
„through abſence and want of the light of my coun- 
tenance; whence ill thoughts, and doubtings of mine 
* unchangeable love. Kiſs, and kiſs for ever, and take 


* thy fill of love-embraces. His banner ef love ſhall 


ever overſpread us! *Tis nothing what thou haſt been; 


* '{ince I have elected thee, and waſhed thee, and made 


* thee paſſing beautiful and excellent, and thou haſt be: 
come mine: "My life, my blood, my ſoul, did I give 
for thee : I have become like thee, and made thee like 
* unto me; that our fellowſhip might be moſt intimate 
* and ſweet: And what, my fair One, could I hav? 
done more to make thee ſuperabundantly bleſſed! 
Have I not fitted thee for my fellowſhip? Have Thot 


* adorned thee with ſuper- excellent beauty, glory, and 


* majeſty ? Nothing can ſhew forth thy pleaſantneſs, thy 
* furpaſſing excellencies : 
* roſes, and lillies, all the beauties that adorn. the ſpang: 
© Jed heaven, would bluſh to contend with thy ſur- 
« paſſing beauty; all their perfections are but emblems 
© of that ſubſtantial excellency wherewith I have beau- 
* tifed thee. Thine eyes would overcome me; I could 
not look upon thy beauty, if thou didit not draw 


© near, that love may be ſatisfied with full enjoyment | 


Can there be greater bleſſedneſs? Can there be more in-. 
timate fellowſhip? O what love-embraces ! What love- 
kiſſes! What overcoming ſmiles! We bathe ourlſelyes 
in the oceans of pure unmixed love! The very ſmell 
of thy garments, my fair One, raviſh my heart; they 


exhale a fragrancy like a field which the Loxp hab 


bleſſed! Even my Father hath bleſſed thee, and thoi 


art bleſſed for èvermore. All who have curſed these 


All trees, all flowers, all 


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alt have been curſed; and all who have bleſſed thee have 
nt bee bleffed. The eternal Gop is thy refuge x and un- 
ve, Wl derneath are everlaſting arms: And he hath caſt out 
un: Wl the enemy from before thee; and hath ſaid, Deſtroy 
ine them. Thou dwelleſt in ſafety, alone; the fountain 
ke of jacob is open unto thee. O people ſaved of the. 
all i Losp, the ſliield of thine help, and who is the ſtrength 
en, of thine excellency; and thine enemies have been found 
ade lars unto. thee, and thou haſt trodden them upon their 
be- high places. O! are you not bleſſed, eternally bleſſed, 
ive ho have been appointed to ſo great things? Glory, . 
ike cellency, ſtrength, beauty, honour, and all are yours! 
ate WI Behold, behold, ye children of my everlaſting loves and 


cevils and wicked men, thus is it done eternally unt 
the majeſty I clothe them with, who have loved, feared, 
i the kingdom, theſe are the glorious manſions I have 


ſet them down into. I ſpake not to you, my fair ones, 
of earthly kingdoms and poſſeſſions: Theſe celeſtial ha- 


crowns, and ſceptres, and cities, and glorious manſions z 
and behold inconceivably more than I promiſed. Yea, 
did you not inherit time alſo 2 Did you ever want jour- 


for your good, I did not laden you with the thick clay 
lor the earth, Jever cut out that lot which was beſt for 


had been otherwiſe, I ſhould have made you the only 


hill earth was far below your divine minds. How degra- 


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delights, theſe precious me theſe garlands of glory, . 
wherewith I adorn you! . Behold, behold, all creatures, 


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ding had it been, to ſee my fellow-heirs vexed, tormoil. 
ed, and diſtracted with dunghill conceraments? No, yaur 
generous ſpirits were exerciſed with high and excellent 
things, and were not brought down by the empty con- 
cernments the ſons of the earth were only occupied 
with. My way to this unſpeakable glory was through 
conteinpt, reproach, afflictions, poverty, ſhame. I could 
not dignify you more than by maxing you partakers of 
my lot, my excellent ones. If I had plunged you inthe 
midſt of earthly proſperity and abundance, yon ſhould 
have miſſed the greateſt glory, which is ſuffering for my 
name's fake, —your crown ſhould not have been fo mal. 
ly and glorious; and where would have been the 'exer- 
ciſe and trial of all your graces? Your patience in ti. 
bulations, your meek, quiet, and contented ſpirit, when 
the vileſt of men were exalted, and did, abound in tem- 
poral enjoyments, ſharing the earth among them, as if 
they alone had only derived their pedigree from Adam! 
Where had been manifeſted your confidence in your 
heavenly Father, if ſenſe had not ſeemed to contradid 
the promiſes ? Thus was the draught of my infinite wil. 
dom, that your way to the crown ſhould be through all 
manner of trials, afflictions, and oppoſitions. Great was 
your agony with devils, with wicked men, with your in. 
. bred corruptions, with many external diſaſters, even ut 
to hunger, thirſt, nakedneſs, and fore trouble for your 
daily bread : And ſhould it not have been thus? For, if 


no enemies, no fighting; if no fighting, no victory 5 and 
if no victory, no triumphing. s not here a golden chat 


of wonderful wiſdom and love? Poſſeſs for ever this glo- 
rious kingdom, my valiant ones, a kingdom ordained for 
you moſt freely and abſolutely, without reſpect to work 
or excellency; yet, poſſes 1 it by way of conqueſt : My 
free grace, given to you in time, do J crown with.th 


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eternal and exceeding weight of glory: All this king- 


all of you are poſſeſſors of all things. I have redeemed 
you from eternal wrath, miſery, and ſinning; I have 


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ied Wl purchaſed all things for you; I have prayed to my Fa- 


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ld Wl with me, where I am, to behold my glory, which he 
s of Wl hath given me; for he loved me, before the foundation 
the Wl of the world. Theſe, Io! all theſe are your portion. 
2uld Earth was a portion for the baſtards only; and there- 


my MW fore, I divided it moſt largely amongſt them, caſting 


mal. Wl crowns and principalities, and the greateſt earthly things 
xer- Wo! time, to the vileſt of them: To indulge your chil- 
tei. aihneſs, I gave ſometimes to ſome of you large portions 
rhen of the earth, for many ends, known only to myſelf, and 
tem- zor giving you a breathing time, leſt the ſpirit that I had 
as if made ſhould have been brought to nothing. But earth- 


Jam? My portions were only fit for baſe ſpirits; poor and emp- 
ty were the donations I vouchſafed upon them, in com- 


pariſon of this. When I give to you, I give like a king 


oy captive, I ſhare no leſs among my friends than e- 
verlaſting, ever-flouriſhing kingdoms and, principalities z 


her-ſtone of the earth was laid: Here, as every where, 


your Moth my abſolute ſovereignty ſhine. I am Alpha and 
or, if nega. No cauſe of my actings without myſelf: By 
- and ne, through me, and for me are all things: For you 
chain gave I choſen veſſels of glory and honour, that on you I 


right ſhew forth that infinite bounty, e and com- 
aſton that dwelieth in me. 
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How doth our holy One fill the fenſes of oe” res 


probates with his dreadful voice, wherewith ten thou. 


ſand worlds might be ſhaken to nothing! How doth the 
Lion of the tribe of Judah roar forth, Be eternally 
confounded, from my amiable preſence, vile wretches; 
you are a ſmoke in my noſtrils, a fire that burneth al 
the day long. Your foul abhorreth me, O prodigious 


monſters ! And my ſoul abhorreth you. Betwixt us thi 


unquenchable hatred ſhall encreaſe throughout eternity: 
As your helliſh violence and monſtrous abominations do 


encreaſe, eternally will I kindle the flames of my fur 


upon you; fo ſhall I be eaſed, refreſhed, and comforted; 
I have been wearied with refraining: Now is this un- 
quenchable fury that burned in my breaſt broken forth 
and my foul is delighted. Did ſuch an helliſh madneſt 
poſſeſs you, as to think you might eſcape my avengeſil 
hand? And knew ye not yourſelves, bits of creature 
revelling againſt me, the omnipotent Sovereign of al 
things? Let your own ſelves accuſe yourſelves of your 
horzid villany aganſt me, the boundleſs original of al 
excellencies, lovelineſs, and ſweetneſs, which you er. 
perienced, ungrate wretches ; Did you prefer, and love, 
and defire, only yourſelves? Shall the creature be ie 
up above the Creator! The monſtroſity of this doth « 
ternally affright you; yourſelves are intolerable torment 
to 1 ; for you behold your vileneſs as it 1s 

Did you not think, becauſe of my filence, that I * 
like to bafe you? But now I will eternally reprove yo 
and ſet your fins before your eyes: Now you fee yall 
wretchedneſs. What think you of your holding tit 
truth in unrighteouſneſs ? So that you became vais i 
our imaginations, and your fooliſh heart was darkentd; 
profeſsing yourſelves wiſe, you became fools, and change 
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re. of your deſpetately deceitful hearts; ſtill looking upon 
ou- WM him as one like yourſelves. What think you ofdelight- 
the ing more in created enjoyments than in me the fountain 
ally of all? Your affections bended moſt to nothings and va- 
es; I nities; the fountain of all bleſſedneſs you abhorred.— 
n all bid you not ſay, Let him depart from us, for we defire- 
ion Wo; tbe £nowledge of his name? What profit is there in 
trving him? What pleaſure, in being in his fellowſhip ? 
Yea, what a wearineſs is it? Let us have earthly en- 
joyments, and we deſire no more; theſe are the only 


fury Mlthings we delight in. What think you, that you are 
rted: born enemies, haters of me from your very firſt original? 
1s u With your firſt breathings of life, did you breathe forth 
forth nalice againſt your Creator, Preſerver, and Benefactor; J 


and ala can you do eternally, but roar with your ma- 


wgefulWlicious blaſphemies ? But what availeth either your ma- 
tures ice or goodneſs? I am infinitely above all creatures. 
of What is that to me, whether creatures obey or diſobey ? 2 
f your hat are you, that I ſhould be mindful of you, and bring 
of al 


you into judgment? What are you, that my anger ſhould 
urn eternally againſt you ? Yet is it my pleaſure, that 
pon you be manifeſted the glory of my avenging juſtice : 
\s I have ſworn, fo have I performed, that every tnee 
ball bow to me. Yau ſtiff.necked wretches, would 


rmen ou not yield to the ſceptre of my government? I will 
it 15-"Wnzke you ſtoop, and lick the duſt, like ſerpents, under 
t Ii feet, and the feet of my choſen, whom you hated 
ve J0Wnd deſpiſed, in a vain world. I alone will be exalted, 


ind my glory will I not give unto anothar. Would you 
ng th pot be the actual inſtruments of my glory? I will eter- 
vai ally make you the paſſive proclaimers thereof: Your 
urſings and howlings ſhall ſet me on high, even pro- 


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my blood, my life, my kingdom, and all things ; an 


of the church. I have found you, O mine enemies, yu 


168 A GLIMPSE | 
ſerve and obey, and glorify me, ſhall I not recompenſe bee 


your hafred, and rebellion upon your own heads? Shai MW *© 


not my foul be fully avenged upon you? You are the © 
abomination of my ſoul; and therefore vengeance ſhall WM n. 
be my eternal delight; J am of purer eyes than to he. che 
hold iniquity : Triumph I not? 7, the righteous Lob, ar 
love the righteous; my countenance doth behald the up. | fo 
right: But the wicked, and him that loveth violence, my, pr 


foul abhorrethb. According to my abſolute ſovereignty! en 


might I have made of you any thing I pleaſed ; but thy 
have I done, that the glory of my ſpotleſs holineſs might ' all 
eternally ſhine forth: But as I ſaid, ſo have I done; let 
and it is known whoſe word ſtands, yours or mine. 


we will no more come unto thee: And ſhall you not 
find, to your eternal miſery, who is the great former, ' ſha 
and abſolute ſovereign of all things? And you the vile ; bo! 
of all vileneſs, to whom moſt lovingly I offered my heart W 


yet you ſlighted and neglected all, as things of no gres ty 


excellency: O mine enemies, mine enemies! ſlain an 
deſtroyed ye ſhall be eternally before mine eyes: I hart der 
no enemies like you, unto whom I moſt condeſcending '* 


revealed my will, appointing your lot within the pal 


haters of my. holineſs, and deſpiſers of mine excellency, 
who at the moſt loved a form of godlineſs, but deniel 
the power thereof. Did I riſe up early and late, cn 
ing unto you? Did I beſeech, intreat, proteſt, obtel, 
ſigh, weep and groan over you, that you would cont 
out from your vain converſation, and partake of a ble 
ſed communion with my Father and me? And ſhall! 
not cauſe you howl, and roar, and weep, and gnaſh yol 


OF GLORY. 1690 


ba entreated long! ? Should I wait for. ever upon greatures, 
madly furious againſt me ? I have ſworn by my holi- 


© hath gone out of my mouth, it cannot be recalled ; I 
be. 
am not a man, that I ſhould chan ge. I appointed a time 


; a for every thing; a time of forbearance and a time of 
, my © puniſhment,; This is the eternal day of wrath ; the 
ma g endleſs day of vengeance is in my heart; the year of 
th Y redee med ir come: I curſe you, bitterly curſe you; 
night {all the woes that ever I pronounced fall upon you; 


let them be written upon your forcheads*and on your 
hands, and fill all the powers and faculties of foul and 


nous (body: Wo, wo, wo! World of woes and curſes fall 
rd don inceſſantly and eternally upon you all, according 


' to your wickedneſs: As every one of you hath ſown, ſo 
hall you reap. Wo unto you, who have joined houſe to 
* houſe, and field to field, extruding Adam's feHlaw-heirs. 
' Wo unto you that have mingled ſtrong drink. Wo 
unto you that have drawn iniquity with cords of vani- 


great DE who have called good evil, and evil good. Wo 
; * unto you who were wiſe in your own-eyes, and pru- 


dent in your own fight : Curſed be you, that placed 
your confidence in creatures, and not in the Logp Jz- 
xovan, Wo unto you, that ſhut heaven both upon 
yourſe]yes and others. Wo unto you, who devgured 


es, yol 

** the needy, and for a pertence made long prayers. Wo 
Je unt you who compaſſed ſea and land to draw others 
Jl to your faction, under the pretence of the ſalvation 


ties, did caſt a miſt upon all the duties of religion. 


l! and externals of religion, and careleſs of the power and 
life thereof, Wio unto you, who pretended love and 


teeth in utter darkneſs for ever and erer? Have I not 


hat © neſs, that after death no more forbearance; the word 


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* reverence to the dead ſaints, becauſe they could not 
«teſtify againſt you; but maligned, perſecuted and con- 
*. temned the living ones, becauſe of their ſtanding out 
againſt the fins of the generation wherein they lived.— 
O curſed wretches, the flames of my rage ſhall feed 
themſelves upon you. Try your ſtoutneſs and mag. 
nanimity now ; the threatning of my fury and indig- 
nation did little affect you. You gave me the lie, 
and faid, It rs not the Lob, neither Dall evil befal us, 
When my hand was ſtretched out, you would not ſee; 
but now you ſee, and feel, and are everlaſtingly aſha. 
med: Your atheiſm is quite done away; know ye not 
now, that I am a Gop of truth and equity? Have! 
not performed all upon you that I ever ſpoke ? Are 
you not filled with wrath ? Is not foul and body tor. 
* mented with the dreadful flames of my fury? Shower 
I not down upon you inceflantly fire and brimſtone, 
and an horrible tempeſt of all manner of pains, griets 
© and torments ? Devils and wicked men, tear and tor. 
ment, and curſe one another; you concurred bravely in 
5 ſinning, concur in your puniſhing ; you lovedthe fel. 
© lowſhip of one another, be eternally together: Com- 
5 Panions in time, and . companions in eternity. The 
* felowſhip of my holy ones you little eſteemed; | 
have made betwixt them and you a vaſt gulf of eternal 
© ſeparation. Had you known their dignity, you ſhould 
have wondered that I ſuffered you to abide in the fame 
| © world with them. What think you now of provoking 
me, vile wretches ! Are you the creatures that thought 
+ highly of finning } ? Are you able to deſpiſe and mock 
* at the juſt puniſhment thereof ? No more vain lavgh 
< © ing and jollity ; the fewel of your baſe finful delight 
© have I taken for ever from y ou: Not one ſmile of ji 


* from henceforth, All the mercies I vouchſafed up 


' OT*G'L'OR Y. 171 
* you did ye ule againſt me; the more I continued my 
bounty, the more you rebelled and vexed my holy 
Spirit; tho' in me you lived, moved and had your be- 
© ing, yet you forgat me, and minded your own world- 
© Iy things, more than my glory and intereſts through the 
« world, All your actions were ſubordinate to baſe 
* ſelf; even your moſt excellent like actings and ſuffer- 
© ings for my cauſe, were ever out of one {elaſh defign 
or other: I will fill you with your own ways. You 
© ſhall not be troubled with offers of mercy any more, 
* or with the exerciſes of godlineſs any more: Nothing 
put blaſphemy fills your helliſh mouths. You ſhail 
not be vexed with the company of my ſaints any more: 


© Youſhall have your fill ofone another's helliſh ſellow- 


* ſhip throughout eternity: Your choice and delight (hall 
not be taken from you. Know you not. who I am? 
Am I not he whom you deſpiſed and forgot? Am 1 


not he, whoſe yoke you brake aſunder from your necks? 


Am I not he whom you defied, and proclaimed war a- 
gainſt? Gird up now your loins; like men, and main- 
* tain your quarrel valiantly; ſhew, by your magnani- 
* mous deportment, the juſtneſs of your enmity againſt 
m 
; ws neither are you able to ſtand againſt one bil- 
low of my indignation. It was plainly-manifeſted-un- 
to you, all would come to this; but your minds were 
filled with vanity : I am free from the ruin and un- 
© ſpeakable miſery of you all; only yourſelyes have deſ- 
* troyed yourſelves. Madly and deſperately have you 
run to your own deſtruction; and who was-obliged to 
tand in your way? Who hath firuck you with ſuch 
a monſtruous hatred to all good, and inclination to all 


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ſee my ways are equal, to your eternal torment and 


glory? Shall I not for ever cauſe you to drink the 


felves and one another; that every thought may bring 


earth, who became greater in wickedneſs than in your 


ruin of thouſands thall fall upon your heads. Did you 


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* Had ye not from the beginning a ſtrange averſenel 
from my ſpotleſs holineſs? Blaſphemous wretches, you 


confuſion; your mouths are for ever ſtopped, and you 
are found guilty : Nothing have you to. ſay for your. 
ſelves; your monſtrous helliſh frame is as a thouſand 
witnedes againſt you. Should not I alone be exalted? 
Should I not cruſh to pieces all the deſpiſers of my 


pure and unmixed wrath ofthe Almighty, that is pour. 
ed forth without mixture, that ye may be filled with 
my fury and indignation, and may be drunk, and made 
mad, and torment, and tear and devour, and curſe your. 


in a dreadful horror and helliſh pangs. O mine ene- 
mies! mine enemies, whom I made the ſhields of the 


worldly greatneſs: You ringleaders of iniquity, be. 
trayers of the great truſt I dignified you with; the 


tyrannize without law or reaion, alledging, you were 


zccountable to none for outrages but unto me, that ll * « 
you might fulfil your wicked deſires without control- 1 
ment? O vileſt of wretches, whom I ſet over my b 
church to defend her from all external damages, to hold 4 
her in all her glorious privileges that J left her in m 
legacy; and to hold the crown upon my head, in de- 


ſpite of the oppoſers : Did you make havock of her? 
| Did you rob her of her ornaments ? Did you pull the 5 


crown c my bead and put it on your own ? Did yon 
neglect the affairs of my church, and ſubordinate them 0 
to your own temporal, vain, tranſient affairs? Did you 
put the ſword in the bowels of my choſen, which! 
gave you to protect them with? -O mine enemies 13 


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will neither fight with ſmall nor great, in compariſon 
of you; even you I will for ever be avenged upon; you 
and all your paraſites, execufors, applauders, conni- 
vers and conſultors to your horrid rebellion. Durſt 
you, you baſe, you vile wretches, be ſo monſtrouſly 
audacious as to uſurp my prerogatives! Durſt you de- 


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the tides of my excellent ones? What you did to every 
one of them, you did to me; I will recompenſe it. 
It had well become you to floop and lick the duſt at the 
feet of my brethren : It had well become you, to hold 
up the train of my robe-royal, in the day of my woun- 
ding: It had well become you, to have honoured and 


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leaſt: Had you conſidered their dignity, you would 
have wondered I permitted you in my providence 
to dwell in that world they inhabited; far more to 
have had any manner of ſuperiority over them. Here 
I meet you, my curſed enemies; know you with whom 
you contended ? Am I not he, whom you contemned 
deſpiſed, impoveriſhed, impriſoned, baniſhed, malign- 
ed, and ſpewed out the venom of hell againſt ? I'am 
he whoſe blood you efteemed as water ; my brethren 
you hated becauſe they bare my image; for my ſake 
even for my ſake you perſecuted them ; whatever was 
your pretenſions, the power of godlineſs was the butt 
of your malice: Durſt you maligu the exerciſing of 
my ſpirit of grace in its higheſt aQtings, as a ſpirit of 
ſedition, and rebellious ' combinations ? Did you take 
it upon you to ſhape out the government of my church 
according to your foolith fancy, as an indifferent thing? 
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174 a A GLIMPSE 


+ will I place eternally in the brunt of my ary Be 


* eternally confounded, all mine enemies together; ſectz, 
ranters, civilians, devout naturaliſts, formaliſts, carnal 
* golpellers, latitudinarians: You have I choſen, be. 
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0 F long: ſuffering, power of my wrath, 
* purity of my holineſs, and infinite perfection.“ 


61. All the creatures are ſharers of this eternal dey 


of joys except reprobate men and angels. 

Clap your hands, and be exceeding b Othou 
creation: of Gop, who art for ever looſed from vanity 
and bondage: This is the day which the Log made; te- 
zoice' and be glad in it: This is the eternal day of the 
reſtitution of all things: Shout and cry aloud, ye 
Jower » heavens, and dance, thou earth: Sing melodi. 


_oully, O ye heavenly hoſts, ſun, moon and ſtars: 


O ye mountains, are ye not eternally ſKkipping like 
lambs? You vallies, you pleaſant fields, are you not 
ever ſmiling, aud ſhouting for joy? You have been wes 
ried, and worn out, ip ſerving finful creatures, you 


have. been defiled, and written over with vanity ; but 


now are you renewed, and made pure and clear. | How 
.carneft, was your expectation of the manifeſtation ol 


the ſens of Gop; for you were made ſubje& to vanity, 
not willingly, but by reaſon of him, who had ſubjected 
you in hope: Becauſe you were alſo to be delivered 


from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liber 
ty of the children of Gop.. O fair, beautiful and de 
ghiſome creation, all things now are thouſands of its 
| ges more excellent than at the beginning! Nothany 


dwells here but righteouſneſs! Thou art not now, 0 


earth, tlie ſtage of all wickedneſs and rebellion again 


aby Creator . thou groaneft not under the weight d 


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Oo MOR... 173 
finful abominable wretches. You fields, you are 


eds, not divided, and poſſeſſed by the vileſt of men who 
unal WM by the benefit of the revenues that were caſt out of 
be- your fruitful womb, were in their own eyes, and 


in the eyes of filly ſools like themſelves, excellent 
and conſiderable perſons ; you furniſh not fewel for their 
ſtinking pride, tyrannizing and villanous pleaſures : It 
was by you, under the appointment of your Creator, 
the vile worms of the earth appeared ſomewhat ; being 
clothed over with the ſcenical garbs of riches, and titu- 
lar honours, elfe they had been vile in one another's eyes, 


anity I as now they are to all eternity; having no internal, real 

e3 re- Wi or perſonal excellency worthy to be accounted of, —Qut. 

f the WW of thee, O earth, do not come the precious fruits, 

„ e ſor filling the bellies of wretched miſcreants; who 

lodi- WM did eat and drink largely, and wallowed in all earthly 

'S:— WM delights 3 when the only excellent of the earth, through 

like Bi oppreſſion, were ſometimes pinched in the neceſſaries of 

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wes Wl cruelty, the weapons of war, with which the feed of the ©: Dy 0 
„ you i ferpent did kill, and torment, and perſecute the Blood. 
; but i Roye! of Heaven: Out of thee do not come the beaſts, £72 
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liber. cous from the earth, and have none to ſtand in the way 

id de of their kelliſh endeavours, their monſtrous triumphing 

of fta and ty rannizing, as abſolute ſovereigus of all. The ſheep 

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gain WW rag to cover their nakedneſs : No filk, and brave em- 

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tion, the day of the reftitution of all things. 


ſuch a majeſtic, glorious fabric out of the aſhes of 


170 A GLIMPSE 
excellent creatures are not now lain to hold in the life of old 

baſe miſcreants, ten thousand ſtages below the loweſt of Lon 
beaſts. Thou air, thou art not an inſtrument any more, pleal 
whereby the wretched ſouls and carcaſes of curſed fin. Veri 
ners are kept together, in a tolerable condition; baſe and Wl high 
treacherous enemies of Gop and man do not now defile thin, 


| thee, by drawing thee in and out for the conſervation Vee 
of theic abominable life. Thou water, thou art not now MW :05a 
ufed, by the devil and his flaves, as inftruments of their Wl tate 


cruelty againſt the only princely and noble perſons theco- Was 
heirs of heaven and earth, and all things. Thou art not, O g1n21 
fire, compelled violently, againſt thy nature to reduce to | with 
aſhes with great torment the precious bodies of Zion's fanci 
children, comparable to fine gold. You ſun, moon and cart] 
ſtars, you ſhall not ſhine upon the wicked as well as the Miche 


riphteous any more: You do not loſe your ſweet influ. not? 
ences upon the abomination of heaven, and earth, and hold, 
all things: Are you not in your own kind happy by be. {Wn th 


ing freed from ſuch grievous bondage; more grievous 
than to be corrupted, deſtroyed, and broken in a thou- 
ſand nothings ?—O what joys ! All dance, and rejoice! 
All are in a melodious frame! The virtue of my Well: 
beloved's ſuffering and exaltation extends to ſuperabun- 
dance to all things. No wonder we are plunged in the 
oceans of unſpeakable joys and delights : 'Tho? all were 
in a mourning Spare! we could not but eternally ſupet- 
abound in joys! This is the eternal day of our an 


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annibilated. 
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dunghill! O heavenly earth! Or earthly heaven 


Wonderful ! Not a new creation, but a renewing of the e 


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OF "GLORY, :. 177 
ald that periſhed by the fire of his indigration ! O my 
of WH Lozo thou canſt make any thing out of any thing thot 
re, pleaſeſt : Beings, and no beings, are all alike to thee ! 
: verily this is a change, wherein infinite excellency 1s 


nd WM highly manifeſted. What joy to behold the face of all 


fe WM things! Our ſeeing of the firſt temple will not cauſe us 
jon Wl veep) becauſe of this ſecond. Here is a magnificent 
ow royal palace reared up, in the place of a dungeon; a 


join A tately, majeſtic city, in the place of a few poor cottages. 
co! was the former fabric real, or was it not rather ima- 
0 einery? Were they not fools, who were only delighted 
«to rich it? Were they not bewitched, and led away. with 
ins MW fancies, night dreams and vanities? I thought the former 
earth in the days of my mortality, full ofthe glory, bounty, 


not? Yet, was it a dark ſhadow, to what mine eyes be- 
hold, This is a change could never have entered with- 
in the conceptions of the moſt excellent creatures ! "Chis 


manifeſt, my Almighty One, thou canſt create never 
ſv many worlds, differing altogether in excellency from 


Tell: None another: But thou haſt done it, becauſe it ſo pleaſ- 
Dun: ed thee : Juſt, and holy, and wiſe, and true art tho "i 
| the Wi all thy ways. This is the ſtage whereon thou aQeſt 


various diſpenſations, which will fill eternity with ad- 
niration: Here didſt thou diſplay the banner of thy 
nerey and juſtice, in the very ſame traces of provi- 


eps; here thou wroughteſt the never enough admired 
« of 1 Pork of our redemption ! Here thou wooed thy bride ; 


ven! re tou prepared thine. enemies for the time of ven- 
feance; there thou madeſt all things ready, for this e- 


riches and excellency of the great former; and was it 


is materially the former, and yet not the former. It is 


moſt wonderful things, as a prelude to this endleſs daß 
eternity z whereon thou ran an inconceivable maſs. 


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over the works of thine hands: Thy glory endureth The 
for ever. Thou doſt rejoice in all thy works; ſhall rict 
not then rejoice in them? ſhall not I, confideting then, 
be eternally raviſhed * Might it not repder a creatun e 
eternally bleſfed, to Sade thy infinite glory and per. I be 
fections, written on thy handy work? Even in the _ 
days of my childhood, I could not open mine eye; il ©” 
on the molt ordinary productions of thine excellency, 110 
without ſtrange ſtirrings, love, joy and admiration. 0 ul 
the raviſhing ſweet ſights, that even then J have ſeen a 
thee, through the glaſs of the creature! How have 1 8 


. 3 thoughts run a maze of raviſhing delights and {weetnel Wy 
£ i . in conſidering the vaſtneſs and enpan eit of the canopy by | 
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F 57 in the waters; the Hoods thy chariots whereon thou 4 
4 be didſt gloriouſly ride; the winds, the pavement whereot 15 
Eq thou walkedſt; thy omnipotent power, in laying fo fim. 0 
Iy the foundations of the earth, that it cannot be moved; 4 

the prodigious overfiowing of the waters, when they © - 

verwhelmed the earth; the unſearchable manner "iy . 

| bounding the W waves of the raging ſea, by la 8 

dy bulwarks; thy wiſdom in watering the vallies fon A 

the mountains, and the mountains from the ſea, and her : 

vens, —that the fowls of the air, and the beaſts fm fr 


Held might drink abandantly : The excellent virtue 
of baſe dunghill earth! manifeſted in its rich, pleaſat, 
ſweet, various and lively offspring; as grafs, ket 
flowers, ſhrubs, trees, and - innumerable multitude 0 


3 filling all the ſenſes with paſſing delectation 


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”_ and ſubſervient to all the defects of indigent mortals ; 
ove. 28 nutriment, medicine, clothing, and habitation : The 
nd wonderful eye of thine omniſcient providence over the 
then moſt inconſiderable creatures; as the cony and goats, 
ade cho were provided with refuges from all dangers : 


urell The. exact ordinances of fun, moon and ſtars; — the 
fall! viciffttudes of light and darkneſs, for the ſeveral exigen- 
then ll cis of men and beaſts.— In the midſt of fuch raviſhing 


thoughts of thy power, wiſdom and goodneſs, how have 
been filled, according to the meaſure of mortality, with 
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to the deep contemplation of the greatneſs of the ſea, 
its innumerable progeny of ſmall and great animals ; 
thy wiſdom in the appointment of navigation, and pow- 
er in the Leviathan's playing them; thy rich bounty, 
in holding a well furniſhed table to ſo numerous a fami- 


ly as the people of heaven, earth, and ſea ; their neceſ- 


aha ſary dependence on thee, every inſtant, in their living, 
d im moving, being; ſo that they are not, if thou draw in 
novel thyſelf, and the vivifying ſpirit thou communicates unto 
thy 6 them. Have I not, O my Gov, been in many ſuch ſweet 
A meditations, until IJ have been wrapt up in a frame of ſpi- 
by ſa tit inutterable, inexpreſſible? And ſung forth, in the 
es kran midtt of ſuch ſweetneſs, The glory of the Lord ſhall en- 


ud hes re for ever; the Lord ſball rejoice in all bis works : 


z of thi I will ing unto the Lord, as long as I live; I will ing 
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lan tation of him hall be fweet ; I will rejoice in the Lord. 


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pleaſant ? what muſt the inland be ? Is there ſuch ra- 
viſhing variety of beauty, glory, and ſweetneſs, all along 


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in my pilgrimage? what can I imagine to behold in 


my native country ! Is the habitation, where devil . 
wicked men and beaſts inhabit, fo excellent and glorious? : 
what can I think of the place where Jesvs, the Ex. _ 
MANUEL, With his fair, white company of ſaints and an. FI 
gels everlaitingly abides ? Is my Gop's footſtool ſo glori. n 
ous? what mult. his throue be? Is the under vault of 
this baſe dungeon ſo majeſtic ?, O the higher hall of glo. a 
ry, where the glorious King, and his magnificent court 0 
remain! Doth the habitation ſymbolize with the inha. ll be. 
bitants ? The higher world muſt inconceivably tanſcend bh 
this lower. And is this earth ſo ſweet, when curſed ... 
and defiled, becauſe of its abominable inhabitants! 1 0 
what ſhall it be when renewed, and made only an habi. Wl g. 
tation of righteouſneſs ? Shall not every place excel E. 0 
den, and Eden the celeſtial camps? Indeed, O lower Will . 
world, we might, in our mortality, conceive ſomething Wl g. 
confuſedly of thy renovation z but could never have e, 
imagined, thou ſhouldſt have been thus: O earth, thu WM e. 
appeareſt to be placed after the former manner, to be of 1 
the former magnitude and figure, as to every point cor- Bill -, 
reſponding to the fame points of the heaven of heavens; e 


alſo the lower heaven differs not in magnitude, fituz- 
tion, and number of tapers, from the former; and only 
herein do the old and new world agree : Now, the. 
ſmalleft ſtar would have confounded the inhabitant 
of the old, and made the very ſun to evaniſh in 
its light: The beams of light darting every whert 
are ſubſtantial ; filling not only the eyes, but all the ſen. 
ſes with paſſing delight; it containing innumerable per: 
fections and virtues not to be perceived by mortals- . 
their ſenſes being few, and capable of little: But now 
every ſenſe is equivalent to ten thouſand thouſand Wil , 
differing in kind from one another: The light of ont 


OF GLORY. © 5 


Juminary confounds not the rays of another, tho? all are | 

1 united and made one: The moon appears to change faces, 1 

lous? by the nearer or further approach of or diſtance from her | 
Ey. King; yet ſhe is evermore glorious than the ſun in his 

dan. former condition. Every ſtar ſhowers down millions 

ori- of millions of various influences, which in a moment 

alt of E would convert the former earth to a lump of gold and 

f glo gems: All are tranſparent, even the ſun, moon and ſtars, 

court though compact, ſolid globes of light : No vail drawn 

ina. betwixt the higher and lower habitation: No ſmoky 

ſcend ſumes betwixt heaven and earth: No winds nor ſtorms, 

urſed tempeſts, pinching cold, nor piercing heat; no viciſſi- 

apts! tudes of ſummer and winter; nothing bi? an eternal 

habi ſpring-tide and endleſs vice, a conſtant harveſt : All 

el L are in their blooming eſtate and fulleft perfection. What 

lomer wonder! Is it not the centre of infinite influences? The 

thing WY (rect influences of Pleiades are never bound up, but are 

* every minute ſhowered down ; the bands of Orion are 

thou 


ever looſed: And is not the heavenly earth fo impreg- 
nate with fach infinite virtues ? Is it not fo lively and 


eng vigorous, fo full of the ſeeds of innumerable excellen- 
Ns cies, as that in itſelf it is beautiful, fruitful and excel- 
ſitua: lent, without inſluences from creatures of an higher na- 

| only; ture? In its own nature doth it contain the virtue and 

15 the, operations of fun, moon and ſtars. How infinitely vari- 
mY ous are the ſenſitive vegitables ? What beauty, and glo- 
iſh in 


ry and virtue is to be found in every one? The ſmalleſt 


where | pile of graſs might alone baniſh darkneſs from the whole 
1e ſen- _ univerſe. O the roſes and likes ! every one like a ſtar 
e Per. in its proper orb: All things are like lamps of light, yet 
tals nothing hindering the varieties of colours, which are in. 
. * finitely various and wonderfully lively: All the rays 
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tenſity, but the more delightſome : And all lights, a 
colours, all excellencies as infinitely extended. O then! 
their paſſing pleaſantneſs; every thing appears endowed 
with all manner of excellencies, as colours, figures, &c. 
and ſo to be a little world. What may be ſaid of this, 
in compariſon of the former? This is beauty, the for. 
mer was deformity— this is light, the other darkneſs. 


this is livelineſs and activity, the other deadneſs and 


laz ineſs— the former was a confuſed, de formed and loath. 
ſome chaos; out of which is made this excellent, beau- 
tiful and glorious fabric. Who can behold, and not 
ſmile and leap for joy, at the bounty and power of IE. 
novan, ſo viſibly manifeſted ? And what ſweet, chear- 
ing breathings do ſo harmoniouſly found among the ſtate- 
ly trees of this univerſal paradiſe ? O what diffuſing of 
delightful, odoriferous exhalations! One gale would 
cauſe death itſelf to be lively, being a thouſand times 
more excellent than the moſt pure and refined animal 
pirits of mortals: One gale of this would have rendered 
the former earth a fertile Eden for many ages. —Eyes 
and ears, and all the faculties are loft in an endleſs maze; 
ta find a beginning, middle and ending, is a*taſk for e- 
ternity. All is one orchard, one pazadiſe, one field, 
one garden of delight The moft curious artifice of ci- 
ties, palaces, or what clic, would be deformity. Na- 
ture nom cannot be bettered by helps; Jenovan hath 
ordered ail in order, above the mventicn of all crea- 
tures : Eden here would be TIS = 
and beautiful face. Every drop of dew tbat dangleth 
on theſc trees of Gon, excels rubies and carbuncles. 
All the nvers run liquors above the moſt precicas quin- 
teJential extractions of the former world. May it cot 
be called indeed the Golden Age? They who behold 
thee ſee the floods of honey and butter. May they not 


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heap up gold as the duſt, and gold of Ophir as the 
ſtones of the brook? How excellent is thy loving-hind- - 


neſs, O Gord; therefore the children of men put their 
truſt under the ſhadow of thy wings ? We are ebundantly 
fatisfied with the fulnefs of thy houſe ; and thou make/t 
us drink of the rivers of thy pleaſures. Thou vifiteht the 
earth, thou watereſt it, thou greatly enrichefl it with the 
rivers of Gov, which are full of water ; thou crowneſft 
the year with thy goodneſs ; aad all thy paths drop fat. 
nfs: The hills, the little hills and vallies, out for joy 


an ing, The LokD is our keeper, the Lord is our ſhade, on 


on our right hand; the ſun doth not ſmite us by day, nor 
the moon by nigbt; we are ſecure for ever and ever: 
All thy promiſes are more than fully accompliſhed. 
Men and angels, the product of his everlaſting counſels 
is all brought forth: It is done; thus it is, becauſe it 
thus pleated bim. Holy, holy, holy, Loxp Gop Almigh- 


ty, which was, and is, and art to come. Thou art wor- 


thy to receive glory, and honour and power; for thou 
haft created all things, and for thy pleaſure they are and 


were created. | 
3. The triamphing over the wicked, is e part of tbe 


feunts £:2ry and baptimeſs. 


O deautiful, glorious and joxtul world! All have been 
ke until roc: Who can open their eyes, and not 
de overjoyed, tho“ they extracted their delights only 
72m creatures mediatei x? But what is This to von, loft 
reiches, ſhut up ina ter dar ness? Your beſt world 
tith entirely exaaiched: This is a black miſerable 
=2Tid to vou. What dare vo to do with this fair crea- 
Ben? It is ours, only ours; for we ere Cr, axd 
LEST 22 Cob. Even the former earth, vou tock for 
Four country, bezven and happineſs, was only yours by 
curpation and opprefion: but now you ſhall uſerp no 


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more. If any thing be yours, it is that bottomleſs lake 
wherein you crawl, like ſo many filthy toads, ſnakes 


and abominable vermins. To behold you would con- 


foand any creature not endowed with immortality: O 
monſtrous ſights! O the infinite power of Jenovau ! that 
can ſhape out after this faſhion ! Your ſtructure ſymbo. 
lizeth with your vileneſs; your countenance corre {ponds 
exceliently to your helliſh minds; and you cannot but 
affright one another with your deſperate helliſh looks 
and minds; blaſphemy and horrid deſperation is writ- 
ten on yeur fore-heads, even the wrath and fury of Jr- 
novau and the Lams. One of ycur ghaſtly looks would 
affright millions of mortals out of their wits : You are, 
Q dreadful vilenefs! extremely miſerable, yet not ob- 
jects of pity : You might ſtirred up compaſſion in the 
most zezlous breaſts on earth ; becauſe then you were 
endowed with ſome ſmall relics of the image of your 
Creatui z but how fully is the ſaying of our Wellbelov- 
ed accompliſhed on you? From him that hath not, ſhall 
be taken away even that which he hath. All the ſpuoks 
or goodneſs are evaniſhed; and what can remain, but a 


mals of all impiety, and direct hatred of Gop ? Nothing 


like this was ſeen on earth. Now you appear in your 


un colours; Gop hath ſtripped you naked of ali, 
Where are all your excellent gifts, your prudence and 
civility, your fine natural diſpoſition, your love to Cop 
vou fo much talked of! Now it appears, that he hear: 
of man is deceiiful above all things, and deſperately vie- 
ted above imagination. On earth, becauſe of natural 
ties, we could not but love you; your eternal rebellion 
not being manifeſted to us: but now you are for ever our 
Logp's ſtated enemies; tho? he would offer you pardon, 
your curſed hearts would no leſs riſe againſt him, your 
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nity. Fools, are you belching out the venom of bell 

againſt him, who for ever tramples you under his feet ? 
Doth not your curſings and horrid blaſphemies ſound 
forth the juſtneſs of his avenging wrath? Not becauſe of his 
wrath and difpleaſure againſt you are you mad againſt him; 
in the midſt of his bounty did you continue in your enmi- 
ty. His holineſs, his ſpotleſs holineſs is the butt of your 
heliiſhjmalice : Your wick edneſs is come to its perfection; 
mortality was not capable of outing the ten thouſandth 
part of what is now manifeſted: Ever were you averſe 


from the tellowthip of the ever-bleſſed Gon : Now you 


directly avouch your enmity, as juit and equitable, in 


deſpite of your conſciences, ſhowing right and wrong. 
Know you not, that he, againit whom you have eternal- 
ly {worn yourſelves enemies, may uſe his power over 
you? And you would do ſo over him and his. What 
would you do with his holy ones, if you had their aver- 
laſting lot at your diſpoſing ? Is not his mercy over 
all 1 works? Since he layeth not upon you the ten thous 
ſandth part of. that puniſhment he could, and his ſove- 
reignty and diſpleaſure carves out the meaſure of your 
puniſi:nent : But is there any meaſure which he might 
not in juſtice inflia ? When it is augmented with never ſo 
many ages, and your ſtrength augmented to bear it; ne- 
ver can it be ſaid, he inflicts more than is meet; fince 
your rebellion is againſt an infinite majeſty, and is 
of an endleſs nature: Since you are ever finning more 
and more, therefore are you obliged to his everlaſ. 
ting mercy and bounty. O my Go, what a delight- 
ſome change is this! I will rejoice, yea, I will for ever 
rejoice in beholding ! What now, you ſome-bodies of 
time, where is your gay clothing? Your fine well pam- 
pered carcaſes? What think you of theſe vile, abomi- 


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and would have fo finely decked, as if they had been 
made of ſome celeſtial ſubſtance, and not of the ſame 
lump that all mankind was made of? What is come of 
the excellent majeſty and reverence lilly flattering fools 
made you believe had been enſtamped upon your very 
bodily viſage? Where is your brave attendants, you i- 
magined followed you, for your real excellency ? Where 
18 chat admiration had of you, beaſtly wretches, becauſe 


of advantage? What think ye, baſe ſycophants, of the 


men yuu truſted to, and adored above Gop allſufficient? 
See you now any majeſty or excellencies in ſuch poor, 
baſe, trembling catives? Are they not the ſame that 
they were ? Only that the fig leaves that covered them 


are taken away. They imagined themſelves ſome-bo- 


dies, while they poſſeſſed earthly abundance : How high- 


ly did they look, becauſe they ſeemed to have ſome 


more ſhovel-fulls of earth than others? But now the 
loity looks of man are humbled, and the haughtineſs of 
man is bowed down; and the Loxp alone is exalted in 
this day. What now, tyrants, filly catives; are you 
the very ſame men that made the earth to tremble ? 
The Loxp hath broken the ſtaff of the wicked and the 
iceptre of the rulers: Your pomp is brought down to 
the grave, and the noiſe of your viols ceaſeth, the worms 


are ſpread under you, and the worms cover you :— 


Are you not deſpiſed in the eyes of all, whether 
in heaven or hel? The Almighty hath laid open 
your nakedneſs, he hath diſcovered your ſecret parts: 


Fools, were you never thinking that it would come 
to this? Did you imagine, that the vileſt of men 
fhould domineer over the moſt excellent, and nothing 
more of it? That the wicked might oppreſs the man more 
righteous than himſelf, and yet no more of it to all eter- 
nity? Did the Almighty create man after his image, to 
eat, and drink, and paſs away an inch of time, and no 


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more? Was it the purpoſe of the wiſe diſpoſer of all 
things, that men ſhould be ranked according to the fan- 
cies of riches and titular honour, acquired by vanity, 
and maintained by folly ? What think you now of thoſe 
you contemned not long ago? Whom you eſteemed as 
the filth and offscourings of all things, —whom you 
thought unworthy of your excellent preſence, becauſe 
they were not laded with the thick clay of the earth ? 
What diſtance and reverence looked you for from fellow 
creatures, as it they had been made for ſo baie an end, 
as to hold up your yeas and nays? As if caping and 
cringing, and ſuch hiſtrionie vanities had been requiſite 


for the ſons of wiſdom ?—O joyful day of eternity! 


wherein all things are unmaſked ; all odds are made e- 
ven! The fore-thoughts of this held up my heart in my 
ſad pilgrimage, Now, wretches, it is evident, who on 
earth ſhould have been moſt honoured and eſteemed, 
who ſhould have had the chief place among men ; who 
ſees not now, that wiſdom 1s the principal thing ? How 
vain was the eſteem of the world ! Were they not fools, 
who in the leaſt regarded it; who conſidered things 
only according to their external ſhews ? Catives, what 
think you of your fools-paradiſe ? Your golden dream 
hath miſerably beguiled you. Earthly riches are cryed 
down; the vain denominations of time are fled away— 
Only wiſdom for ever remains. What then, are you, 
poor wicked wretches, expoſed to the ſhame, contempt 
and mockery of all the world ? Are you not made a ga- 
zing-ſtock to Gov, angels and men? You ſnatched at 
fancies, and neglected wiſdom, which would have ren- 


dered you excellent for ever and ever. They that prac- 
tiled beſt your fooliſh modes and inventions, that could 


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teemed wile and accompliſhed by you: As for the 
truly wiſe (who were ever very rare, and the wonders 
of their age) you contemned and reproached them, as 
the dregs of mankind. How did you triumph over the 
poor and meek of the earth, while your world remain. 
ed which was but for a moment? Aneverlaſting world 
is now come; may we not triumph time about? Which 
of us have choſen the better part, judge ye: Preſent 
things you eſteemed only real, and wondered at our 
folly that lived upon the hope of things to come; yea 
and to come after death, and the diffolution of all things: 
And are you not fools, who negleQed immortality, and 
glory, and honour, tho? you had a miſerab!e, pinipg life 
on earth, earmng your daily bread by ſore labour and 
grief? Could not a frowning, vexing world looſe your 
baſe minds from it? O vile wretches, eſteemed you earth 
in its winter garb, before the eternal enjoyment of the 
fountain of all bleſſedneſs? Verily your mouth is eter- 
nally topped ; wretches of wretches, who were endow- 
ed with the knowledge of the only excellent things; 
| who ſpake, and wrote to the good and admiration of o- 
thers. Wonderful? Knew you fo much of the allſuffici- 
ency of ]Eenovan, the emptineis of all things below him, 
and yet did not put your truſt in him? Did not care for 


a near fellowſhip with him, but placed your love and 


deiights on vanities? You are to be doubly puniſhed, 
who knew your m-«ters will and did it not : Good had 
it been for you, vilest wretches, that you had been idi- 
ots and fots. How did you deſpiſe ſome of the excel- 
lent ones of the earth, becauſe of your more ſagacious 
nature in uptaking? Your heart hath not been upright 
before Gop; your knowledge puffed you up; charity 
hath been away; your gifs and abilities have you not 


uſed to his glory for whom are all things, but ſelf hath 


OF CLORY, 189 
been the end of all your endeavours. What a glorious 
luſtre had you then among weak ſaints ! The rotteneſs of 
your heart was overvailed- with a multitude of natural 
gifts, and education: But he who knoweth all things 
hath found you out; he hath weighed you in an even 
ballance, and you were found wanting. Now, it is ma- 
nifeſt who is the ſearcher of the hearts and the tryer of 
the reins. Were they not wife, who overlooked the ap- 
probation of men, and gave all diligeace to be approven 
to thee ? What thy thoughts are concerning a creature, 
that it is indeed. Many hypocrites have paſſed off the 
ſtage of time with the paſſport of many of the ſaints 
but thy well done hath only landed fair in thy bleſſed 
kingdom. Indeed, Loxp Jesvs, in time thou madeſt a 
brave ſeparation betwixt the righteous and the wicked. 
How oft haſt thou ſifted the church, over andſover a- 
gain, with ſmaller and ſmaller fieves ? So that the differ- 
ence betwixt the wheat and the chaff was very diſcer- 
nable. How oft haſt thou drawn the controverſy be- 
twixt thy friends and thy enemies to ſmaller and ſmal- 
ler concernments? So that many who for ſhame could 
not, in palpably groſs things, comply with the devil and 
his {laves, yet in matters that ſeemed of leſs conſequence 
did they ſide with them; whence their hypocriſy and luke- 
warmneſs in the matters of Gop did appear. O apoſ- 
tates, and betrayers of the intereſts of IEHñOva and the 
Lays, your mouth 1s eternally ſtopped! Many fine 
excuſes did your helliſh minds invent, in the midſt 
of your villany: Your fine ſubtilties drawn from pruden- 
tials and j olitics, are now laid open before fun and moon. 
You were too wiſe and prudent to take the plain way, 
and come to the ſtreets for Gop; you were of too meek 
a nature to hold the devil and his ſlaves at long weap- 


ons; you were of too fine and ſubtile a ſpirit to ſpeak in 


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plain terms of the controverſies of the time, and ſins oſ the 


generation you lived in; you were too courteous and 
ſubmiſſive to contend with the very ſhields of the earth 
in every concernment of the prince of the kings of the 
earth: No, you were not ſuch fools as to incur the dead. 
ly feud of thoſe who had authority and power in their 
| hands: Yet would many of you been ranked in among 
the camp of the faints——whereby you were eſteemed as 
excellent amongſt ſome of the weaker ones. Now it is 
evident you were baſe traitors, playing with all hands, 
for your greater ſecurity and advantage; and that you 
have been lukewarm and indifferent in the royal prero- 
gatives and honour of the great and mighty Lonp of all 
things, and the welfare of his ſpouſe. —You ſtated ene. 
mies againſt Jexovan and the Lanz, what think you of 
your deſperate madneſs ! 'Fhoughkt you to conquer aud de- 
ſtroy the friends and darlings of the high and mighty 
One? Imagined you that you were triumphing, when 
you proſpered in perſecuting of his church? Fools, that 
was one of the great ends that the Almighty raiſed you 
up for, that you might ſcour and rub the veſſels of his 
temple: Uſeful inſtruments were you in the hand of 
the great actor; by you he hammered and poliſhed the 
ſtones of his houſe; by you he cleanſed it of filth ; by 
you he pulled it down, in order to a more excellent 1a- 
bric: You, you did the Almighty uſe, as ſlaves, in all 
ſervile employments ; and when he had fulfilled his in- 


tentions with you, he caſt you into the fire. Vile wretch- 


es, is it not a dreadful torment, to look our Loxp Ix- 
sus in the face? How doth his preſence, and the pre- 
ſence of his holy ones, abaſh you? Where are your high 
and lofty looks now? What feared and aſtoniſhed like 
countenances! Are you the men that ſpoke ſo highly a- 
gainſt the work and people oi Gop? Are you the men 


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S&T -GAOKTY,: 191 
c I 5ho mocked his holy ones, or not? Are you the men 
who cared not for our fellowſhip, but thought the world 
ch night be well enough without theſe heavenly creatures? 
Were you weary of our neighbourhood as troubleſome, 


d- becauſe of our ſtoical (as you fancied) and preciſe prin- 
ir ciples, contrary to your looſe and worldly way of walk- 
13 WW ing? Now you have your will, you are no more troubled 


as Wl with our fellowſhip ; the tares and the wheat are eter- 
is WW rally ſeparate : Now your hatred and envy cannot reach 
us; we tread you for ever as dung among our feet.— 
ou What are your curſings and blaſphemies to our Loxp and 
o- s? Could a filthy toad defile the ſun by ſpitting venom 
all upwards ? Could the ſmoke of the lower region darken 
ae. that lamp of light? Could the bluſtering winds make the 
ot WM fars to tremble ? Could the proud ocean with its turbu- 
lent ſwellings beat down the pearly foundation of the 
ity WW higher houſe? Your envy and malice is a vehement 
en fame, burning up eternally your ſoul and body: Your 
own wickedneſs 1s poured upon you, and it burneth as 


ou the fire; it devoureth the briers and the thorns, and kłin- 


dleth in the thickets of the foręſt, and they mount up, like 
the lifting up of ſmoke. Wickedneſs containeth its pu- 
nſhment in its boſom. All our defires are fulfilled : 
The zeal of our Gop's houſe did eat up our heart, in the 
lays of our pilgrimage 3 but now we are overjoyed, in 
beholding of his vengeance : Much of the vengeance 
of the wrath of our Gop did we, with exceeding joy, 
behold, when we lived within time. How oft did he 
pear, for the ſalvation of his people, with garments 
rolled in blood : How did he overturn a whole world 
by an univerſal inundation of waters? How did.he burn 
up countries and cities in one hour ? How did he make 
earth's devouring jaws ſwallow up many of theſe, that 
it was burned with? By ſword, by famine, by peſtilence, 


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by the beaſts of the field, how hath he made the carcaſ. 
ſes of his enemies to be ſpread like dung upon the face 
of earth? What {range judgments have we ſeen upon 
families and perſons conform to their iniquities? How 
ſignal was his providence over the children of men? 80 
that men were convinced, and could not but ſay, Verily 
there is a Gov, that judeeth righieouſly in the earth : 
Verily, there is a reward for the righteous and the wick. 
ed; a difference betwixt him that fearetb Got and him 
that feareth him not. But all was emblems, types, ſha 
dows, and repreſentations of what we now behold : All 
the vengeance inflicted on curſed wretches was juſt no- 
thing. What was mortality capable of ? All the wrath 
inflicted in time compounded in one, was nothing to one 


moment of this everlaſting day of pure and unmixed ven- 


geance. The inflicting of puniſhment in time, was only 
for the ſake of the ſpectators, that the inhabitants of the 
world might learn righteouſneſs. Vile creatures, do you 


not know whom you {ſhould have feared ? What think 


you of your prodigious madneſs, who feared feeble no- 


thing creatures like yourſelves, and forgat and deſpiſed 


the threatenings and judgments of the infinite One ? What 
could all creatures do ? All their wrath and fury, com- 
pared to the vengeance of the Almighty, is like a ſmall 
drop to a boundleſs ocean. Find you not now, that it 
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Gov? 
O what billows of divine vengeance! What oceans of 
wrath hath he treaſured up at his right hand, every 


drop whereof might confound ten thouſand worlds! The 


* Logp hath come out of his place, to puniſh the inhabi- 
tante of the earth, for their iniquity : The earth alſo 
* hath diſcloſed her blood. For behold, the Loxo, a 
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OF GLORY 193 
flowing, doth caſt down to the earth with the hand: 

« The name of the Loxp is come, burning with bis anger ; 
and the burden theresf is heavy : His lips are full of 
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire; and 
his breath as an overflowing ftream, doth ch unto 
the midſt of the neck. How doth the Loxp go forth 
as a mighty man? How doth he fiir up jeal Nv like 
a man of war? He crieth, he prevaileth againſt his e- 
nemies. I have long time held my peace, ſaith the 
Almighty, I have been fill, and refrained - myſelf : 
Now will I cry, like a travelling woman: I will de- 
« ſtroy and devour at once multitudes, multitudes in 
the valley of deciſion. He hath come down, and trode 
upon the high places of the earth; and the mountains 
were molten under him, and the vallies were cleft, 
as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured 
down a ſteep place. The nations ſaw, and were con- 


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holes like worms of the earth; and were greatly afraid 
and confounded, becauſe of the Loxp our Gop: For he 
is jealous, and revengeful ; he revengeth, and is furi- 


* ous: Who can ſtand before his indignation? And who 


© can abide in the fierceneſs cf his anger? Ts fury is 


* poured out like fire; and the rocks are thrown down 


by him. O thou enemy, deſtructions are come to a 
* yerpetual end: But the Loxy's anger endureth for e- 
ver: He hath prepared his throne for judgment. Sing 


* praiſes to the Loxp that dwelleth in Zion. When he 


„maketh inquiſition for blood, he remembereth them: 
He hath not forgotten the cry of the humble; the 
needy have not always been forgotten; ; the expecta- 


tion of the poor hath not periſhed for ever. Upon the 


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horrible tempeſt : This ſhall be for ever the portion 
« of their cup. O love the Lox, all ye his ſaints; for 
the Loxp preſerveth the faithful, and plentifully re- 
« wardeth the proud doer. The Loxzp is righteous, and 
all his works are done in truth. All my bones ſhall 
ſay unto the Lord, Who is like unto thee, who de- 
 livereſt the poor from him that was too ſtrong for him? 
Thy mercy, O Lonb is in the heavens, and thy faithful. 
neſs reacheta unto the clouds: Thy righteouſneſs is 
like the great mountains, thy judgments are a great 
deep. Many, O Logp, my Gon, are the wonderful 
works which thou haſt done; and thy thoughts which 
are to usward, they cannot be reckoned up in order 
unto thee : If I would declare and ſpeak of them, they 
are more than be can numbered. Sing praiſes unto God, 
fing praiſes unto our King, fing praiſes, The heathen 
raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his 
voice, the earth melted : the Lozp of hoſts is with us; 
the Gop of Jacob is our refuge: Selah. Through 
' Gop we do valiantly : for it is he that treadeth down 
our enemies. Surely men of low degree were vanity, 
and men of high degree were a lie: To be laid in the 
balance, they were altogether lighter than vanity. 
* Gon hath ſpoken once, twice have I heard this, that 
power belongeth unto Gop ; alſo unto thee, O Loxo, 
belongeth mercy ; for thou rendereft unto every man 
* according to his work. Thou haſt aſcended up an 
high, thou haſt led captivity captive ; thou haſt re- 
* ceived gifts for men: Thou haſt broken Rahab in 
pieces, as one that is flain : Thou haſt ſcattered thine 
enemies with thy ſtrong arm; but mine horn haſt thou 
« exalted, like the horn of the unicorn. I am anomt- 
ed with freſh oil; mine eyes ſee my defire upon 
mine enemies; and ming ears have heard my deſires 


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© of the wicked that roſe up againſt me. Who is like 


the Loxp our Gop, who dwelleth on high, who hum- 
* bleth himſelf to behold the things that are in heaven? 
He raiſeth up the poor out of the duſt, and lifteth up 
the needy out of the dung-hill, that he may ſet him 
« with princes. I will exalt thee, my Gop, O King; 


I will praiſe thy name for ever and ever: I will ſpeak 


of the honour of thy majeſty, and of thy wonderous 
works: Thy kingdom is an everlaſting kingdom, and 
thy dominion cnderech to all generations: Bleſs the 
Lon, all ye his angels, that et in ſtrength; bleſs 
© the LoxD, all ve his ſaints; bleſs the Loxp, all ye 
his works, in all places of his dominions ; bleſs the 


Loxp, O my foul. Hallelujah.” 
64. Reflections upon the victorigus power of faith, and 


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on the folly of faithleſs worldlings, 


I, thus to triumph over death and hell! am I eternal 
victor over ſo ſtrong and numerous enemies? O ye gates 
of hell, could ye not prevail againſt me ? Might ye not 
have deſtroyed ten thouſand worlds of the like of me ? 
What hath come of all your boaſtings, when you have 
not been able to deſtroy poor me, when aſſiſted and help- 
ed by my Wellbeloved ? Strange! Have not I overcome 
you in the midſt of great weakneſs and infirmity ? O 
the ſtrength of faita ! I laid hold on him who is migh- 
ty; I trufted in him, and therefore I could not be mov- 
ed: I took hold on the Rock of ages; and what could 
ten tuouſand raging {eas have done unto me? Theſe who 
hold grips of him may ſwim ſafely through the lake 
that burneth with fire and brimitone. Devils and wicked 
men, you were fools to aſlault us. Did you think, be- 
cauſe of our weakneſs and mortality, to vanquiſh us, 
and carry away the day? If you might have overturned 
the Rock of ages, then m "gt you have overturned us : 

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for we relied upon him; and it was a repugnancy to 
imagine he might fail us. No wonder, - devils, that 
you ſtrove to bring us to doubtings and diftruſt ; for in 
faith did our ſtrength lie: Had you ruined our faith 
and brought us to diffidence, or preſumptuous, fooliſh 
boldneſs, ye had ruined us for ever: But our Wellbe— 


loved prayed to his Father that our faith ſhould not fail 


s; and he is greater and dearer in his Father's eyes, 
than to be ſaid nay in fo earneſt a requeſt. Now it is 
manifeſt, that all things have been done by believing ; 
it hath been the ſun, original, and king of all other gra- 
ces: Becauſe I believed, therefore I ſpake and did for 
him on earth 3 therefore did I place the flower and vi- 
gour of my love upon him; therefore did I contemn all 
the glory and excellency of time for my portion; there. 
forc did I exceedingly endeavour to do the things that 
are well-plea/ing in his fight, and to be more and more 
3tke bim; therefore did I long to ſee him face to face. 


Men and angels, through faith in his name am I enter- 


«4 this bleſſed place: Not by my holineſs, not by my 
trength and integrity, is this wonderful thing come to 
paſs; but by laying hold on him who 7s mighty to ſave 
unt the uttermoſl, Wicked men and devils, I have van- 
quizhed you; I have thrown you eternally tothe ground; 
not by the excellency of nine own vigour and courage, 
hut by Javing hold en his ſtrength, who ſuſtaineth all 
things, Faith was the /ub/eance of things hoped for, the 


evidence of things nat ſeen ; for by it we have all recei- 
ved an everlaſting name. We believed that what he 


lad promiſed he would perform, tho? we ſaw them not, 
citker intuitively or rationally ;—tho? we had not re- 
ceived the promiſes, but only had a view of them afar 
oF, yet were we perſuaded of them, and embraced them; 
and confeſſed ourſelves firangers and pilgrims on earth, 


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OF GLORY 197 
declaring alainly to worldlings that we were ſecking a 
place of etertial abode, overlooking the wilderneſs as a 

n way-faring place. O faireſt Wellbeloved, how was I 


h ned and raviſhed with thy very name when I had 

h not ſeen thee ! How was I perſuaded of the truth of all 

e- thy promites and threatenings, as if I beheld them fully 

il accompliſhed! How gladly and chearfully did I looſe 

a my heart and love from all temporal concernments, that 
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they might be ſet wholly upon the great things to be re- 
; vealed! I believed all thou ſpoke ; bonnie I accounted 


a- thee both faithful and willing to accompliſh : I conſulted 
or not with fleth and blood to go and reafon, Is it poſſible 
i- ſuch a thing can be? Nay I overlooked all objections, 
mW tho? never fo plauſible and ſtrong, and ſtopped the mouth 


of all earthly, ſenſual and deviliſh wiſdom, with The 
lat mouth of the Lok hath ſpoken it. Rut, O my fair one, 
ho doth beholding inconceivably tranſcend faith! Itruft- = 
ed thou wouldit perform above all I could atk or think; : 3 72 
but how confuſed, general . childiſh were my con. 13 
ceptions of what I now enjoy? T he higheſt I could bend 
my conceptions, was to imagine that eye hath not ſeen, 
tar hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart 
of mortal, what thou Hai prepared for thoſe that wanted 
for thee : All I could conceive of this boundleſs happi- 
refs, was to conſider it as paſſing all conception. How 
have I been vexed with the baſenels and lowneſs of my 
apprehenſions, and have endeavoured to {train them above 


their proper meaſure ? Not confiderivg that a childuh e 9 
he ſtate was not capable of manly conceptions ; and that | 
not, mortality muſt be ſwallowed up of life, ele the creature 
re- cannot behold thy face and live. It was wiſdom to long | 
aſar for this day of immediate fellowſhip, but folly to de- * 
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ment; love letters I received from thee, in earth's chil. 
diſh dialect - Thou told me of kingdoms and cities, dia- 


dems and honours, riches and pleaſures; thou told me 
of thy greatneſs, and majeſty, and lovelineſs —all which 


were things vi the lower world much eſteemed ; but here 
are neither Kingdoms nor diadems, but things foes. 
cently above all theſe triſles. How ignorant have J 
been of my happineſs? Wonderful! That the hope of 
this made me not overjoyed to the death. O ſilly, hun- 


gry wilderneſs, when I caſt back mine eyes upon thee, 


can I but fade at tue childiſh folly of worldlings,— 

who only defirgd, endeavoured, contended fot portions, 

and inheritances out of thee ? They that purchaſed moſt 
have acquired nothing; and they who purchaſed leaſt 
can be in no poorer caſe, What have you gained, baſe 
worldlings ? Enjoy the fruit of your expeRation and la- 
bour; now, when the end of all things 1 is come, gather 
together your purchaſe, and rejoice for ever in it.— 
What? Have you provided nothing for the laſt days? 
Laid you up ro treaſures for this time? Were you not 
thinking on this endleſs day of eternity? Have you 


been all ſuch brutiſh fools as to provide nothing for the 


laſt day? Strange folly and madneſs ! Had none of you 
but that much conſideration as to think, poſſibly there 
miglit be a life after an inch of time? Were ye wiſe, or 
were ye fools who conſunted all your time in providing 
for time? Baſe fools, did Gop create you for en inch of 
time ? Thought you his wiſdom made you only to eat 
and drink, and mind your baſe ſelves ; to provide only for 
your ſenſual decaying life, and never to aim at his glory, 
to whom and through Shel; and for whom are all things? 
Did you imagine it juſt, that the lower creatures mould 


ſerve you; and yet you to neglect the Creator? Did 
Jou ſorget him? And ſaculd he have minded you, and 


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nen, 199 
7 given you rain and fruitful ſeaſons, filling your hearts 
ia- with food and gladneſs! O ingrate wretches!. O abomi- 
ne nable fools ! ſhall we not tread yOu eternally under our 
ch feet, as the droſs you have coveted and deſired 2s your 
ere portion? Droſs you have loved, feared and ſerved and 
en- there fore baſer you are than the baſeſt droſs. Did you 
I W not confider what lay beyond time; and was earth your 
of only deſire? Then have you judged yourſelves unwor- 
un- thy of any more. Did you ſeek for no higher life than 
ee, the dying, evaniſhing, natural life? And have you not 
EE excluded yourſelves this ſublime, excellent and immor- 
ns, tal life? Would you not believe the fauhful and true 
oft witneſs, who teſtified unto you of what excellent things 
alt were laid up in ſtore for theſe who feared, loved, obey- 
ale ed, and walked with Gop in their generation? Would 
la- you not rely upon him for time and eternity, but laid 
ner hold on a preſent vain world? Yea, and in ſuch a baſe 
5 and brutiſh manner, as you did not acknowledge him, 
58? and depend upon him in your earthly enjoyments, but 
not truſted to your witdom, your labours, aud a thouſand 
ou vanities? Reap the fruit of your own ſowing: You have 
the received your choice, and what would you have more? 
ou Had you choſen this endleſs happineſs, you had gotten 
ere it; and immortablife would have been by ten thouſand 
or times more {weet than it was. And did you mock 
ing in your hearts at our folly, who overlooked all viſible 
0 things, and placed our hope, our joy, our portion, our 
eat bleTedneſs on things that neither eye could ſee nor heart 
for conceive? And ſhall we not for ever inſult over you 
ry, now, when your folly is manifeſt, even to yourſelves ? 
48? Our hope hath not made us aſhamed : But what bath 
11d come of all our aims and hopes? Now, we have you e- 
id ternally, as duſt under the ſoles of our feet. O death 


nd . and hell, we have vanquiſhe. you for ever; never ſhall | 


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you be able to riſe again. O grave! O death! Sheyw 
the trophies of your victory. Through Gop we have 
done valiantly; for he it is that hath beat down our e- 
nemies. You ſeemed to overcome us, and hold us in 
pron 3 but through his ſtrength, we have broken all 
your bands, and ruined you utterly. The victory was 
ever ours: But all now is fully accompliſhed ; not one 
enemy is able to ſhake a weapon any more, Everlaiting 
Hallelujah to our Gop, who hath given us the victory, 
through our. Loxp JEsus Chalsr. O what an endleſs 
triumph ! Wicked men and devils, you were ordained 
for the pomp and glory of this day. Our Wellbeloved 
has made our flate every way excellent and glorious ; 
therefore hath he ordained enemies for us to combat 
with, vanquith, and triumph over, for ever and ever; 
that our ſtate might want nothing of the top, and flower, 
and perfection of glory and exaltation; you have we, 
as a foot-ſtool for ever to trample upon: All things are 
ours, and for our honour and glory.—Now it is evi- 
dent who were tie really great ones: Now'doth ap- 
pear what manner of perſons we are. Who, but the 
Lams and his followers! Who but the Firſt-born 
and his brethren !—OQO the height, and glorious dignity 
of a ſaint? Sirs, what think you? Are we not made 
great perſons ? Knew we our dignity, when we were on 
earth? Surely we did not, in the thoufandth thou- 
ſandth part: Mortality could not have borne it. Have 
we not been like young minors, who conſidered not the 
glory and majeſty of the vaſt inneritance we were 
coming. unto; and therefore, we ſometimes degraded 
ourſelves with the familiar converſe of baſe world- 
lings, and erouched ſo creepingly as if ſuch beaſts had 
been fit companions for us: But in our childhood we 
could not. conceive theſe ſuperexgellent royalties. In- 


OF G0 LOR VL. 201 
deed, I ever looked upon all the ſaints as the only ex- 
cellent of the earth; and was oft times ſtruck with re- 
verence and admiration at the ſight of the leaſt of them: 
Yet then I knew them not; mortality could conceive little. 
Worldlings know you not now whom you have deſpiſed ? 
Time was, when a ſaint, as a ſaint, was a deſpicable no- 
thing in your eyes z—pelf, worldly grandeur, and ap- 
plauſe rendered perſons only excellent in your eſteem. 
What was a man's holineſs to you, but ſome imaginary 
fancies and opinions he had learned by education and 
teaching, and entertained, through conceitineſs and fancy, 
ſome preciſe tenets, which were needleſs and ſuperfluous ? 
For religion, in your judgment, was an eaſy and trivial 
matter; the generality were ſaints: A large and wide 
charity had you for every one, not tranſgreſſing the li- 
mits of common humanity ; civilians, moraliſts, forma- 
liſts illuminated, were all in your opinion fit for this 
glorious and majeſtic kingdom, —fit for entering this 
golden city, and converiing familiarly with Jexovan and 
the Lars, in this royal hall of glory. Us you reproach- 
ed as cenſorious and uncharitable; becauſe we looked 
upon holineſs as a difficult, rare, and excellent thing; be- 
cauſe we counted the way to this unſpeakable glory ſtrait, 
and travelled by few; becauſe we looked upon the ſaints 
as ſo many miraculous ſigns and wonders: Who have 
judged right, is now manifeit to the whole creation, 
We have fought, we have vanquiſhed: Glory, glory, im- 
mortal glory to the Captain, the Author and Viatther, for 
ever more. 

65. Ii hat appeared on car th, is really in heaven; for 
there are really coll things. 
O pleaſant and melodious world! The former was jar- 
ring, every part in oppoſition to another: All things 
were full of labour, groaning and travelling until this 


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glorious birth was brought forth. It could not ſtand, be. 
ing divided againſt itſelf, being full of inteſtine wars and 


deſolations; it could not but come to nought, and this 


fair fabric ariſe in its place. Beho!d, nothing now but 
peace and eternal friendilup : Nothing is out of order 
every part agrees with the whole, for founding forth an 
eternal Hallelujah to the great Former. All contention 
and violence are baniſhed out of this bleſſed world into 
utter darkneſs: Nothing but deep peace and ſecurity— 
all things ſeem to kiſs and embrace one another. Theſe 
eternal gales have no flux or change, tho? they are for 
ever blowing. 91:5, is not this gentle breathing paſſing 
delightſome, aiter ſo fore and hot a battle? All is per- 
fumed with myrrh and frankincenſe! One blaſt might 
caule ten thouſand worlds to live. What a life hat thou, 
O blefled ſelf, ho art ſilled with, and drawe ſt in theſe 


full gales of the Spirit, that bloweth where it liſteth 


throughout eternity ! O theſe wells of ſalvation! infinite. 
ly tranſcending the pools of Bacca's vale ! One drop is 


more delightſome and ſatisfying than the oceans of all 


earthly ſweetneſs. What were the broken ciſterns, that 
fools were drinking of? They were inflaming, not 
quenching more phantaſtical than real. O fools! were 
you not aging you were ſwallowing down huge va- 
rieties of all manner of ſweetneſs? But you awaked, 
and behold it was a dream. Are you not confounded, 
when your eyes are opened, to perceive ſo deep a delufion? 
Were you not imaginiag yourſelves enjoying riches, and 
honours, and pleaſures? But now the glorious day of 
eternity is broken up, and where are they? Here are 


realities: This land is filled with eternal ſprings of li. 


ving waters of all ſweetneſs and ſatisfaction. Strange! 
ever drinking, and never cloyed and ſurcharged—the dee- 


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| A L0R:.Y.--: 203 
conceptions on earth! O my enjoyments now! I did 
not in the leaſt conceive them. O my eternally pre- 
ſent enjoyments! And yet I have all I could conceive. 
Whatever pleaſure, ſatis faction, and what can conduce to 
a life filled with all manner of excellencies, delights, and 
ſweetneſs, is here in the top and flower of all perfection. 
When I ſtrained my conceptions to the higheſt pitch of 
mortality, and imagined glory, excellency, and ſweet- 
neſs, augmented and perfected, by myriads of myriads of 
ſtages, above all the glory I could perceive or imagine; 
{111 I have fallen wondertully below this: And yet my 
conceptions in part repreſented this, for all things are here. 
Here is an eternal confluence of all manner of good 
things: Who can imagine any thing which might be 
here and is not? What want we, O inhabitants of this 
wealthy city ? Is not this the centre whither all glory 
and ſweetneſs run like a flowing ſiream ? And what won- 
der? This is the city-royal of the eternal King. Here, 
here he maniteſteth, immediately and in open view, his 
unſearchable riches, tranſcendent glory, infinite power, 
boundleſs goodneſs, and the infinite varieties of his in- 
conceivable excellencies. Were they fools, who over- 
looked baſe earth, and laid out their whole ſtrength, for 
acquiring a right to the glorious poſſeſſion, and the un- 
learchable treaſures of this ten thouſand times bleſſed 
land of Exmanut ? Poor earth, with thy gliſtering, no- 
thing enjoyments, whither art thou gone? O real, ſolid, 
and ſubſtantial enjoyments! All the glories, beauties, and 
excellencies of time were mere ſhadows and reſemblan- 
ces of what I behold. What there was in appearance is 
here indeed; the real ſpring-tide is here: Here are the 
true gardens and orchards of delights ; here are the ſub- 
ſtantial roſes, lillies, and violets; here are the true pearls, 
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204 A CELIMPFPSE * 
feit, and in- appearance ſuch. I ſee the difference be. 5 


twixt things here and what were in time, is ſuch a 
between the bare ſhow and the ſubſtance. I thought 
ſaw crowns and ſceptres, honours and renown; but ther +; 
were vapours, gliſtering after their ſimilitudes, which 


are now evaniſhed eternally to nothing ; and behold the 2 
real diadems, ſceptres and honours! I thought I found 
lome pleaſure and delight, I thought I beheld great il .. 
rieties of all kinds; but the night is gone, and the d, 
is broken up that diſpelleth gliſtering es and vapour, en. 
in diſcovering the real and ſubſtantial things: All thing = 
are here in ſubſtance, which in time were in appearance, FA 
Here are the real dwellings, cities, orchards, hills oi 
frankincenſe, mountains of ſpices. We were far miſ- : 
ken, O inhabitants, to {peak of any thing, as exiſtent am. 
where elſe than here; elle all our ſpeech and concey fl n 
tions, within mortality's region, was merely figurative - 
For, to conceive of things properly, as they were o b. 
earth, there was neither ſun, moon, nor ſtars; neither li - 
lies nor roſes, nor beauties, nor excellencies ; they ar - 


here, and only here for ever-more. Were they wile 
who placed their delights on ſhadows and evaniſhins 
nothings ? Were they tools, who overlooked all the van 
fancies of time, and fixed their minds only on this endys 
ring ſubſtance ? I have found the ſubſtance for the ſh 


D. 
dow; I, even I am poſſeſſor of the world of eternal joj 4 
and ſatisfaction. t 


66. A frowning tormenting TIME, the prelude of EN 


„ N 
All ſhame, and ſorrow, and vexation, you are eternal 


ly gone as if you had not been. Sometimes you poſſeſeel 
us but the fair and white ſide of Providence 15 turueb 
up for ever. I ſee it was the ordination of eternity, tit 
the head and members ſhould be every way conformed: 


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OF GLORY. 205 
All that are here were of no beauty or defireablenefs 
eme time in the eyes of mortals; but were defpiſed and 
rejected of men, perſons of ſorrow, acquainted with 
grief; being deflitute, and afflicted, and tormented.” 


1 * 


went for {ints in the eyes of almoſt all: But one thing 
among 2 thouſand might have diſcovered what they 


were, even that they underwent not the lot of him 
whom they profeſſed to be following; the world ſmiled 
von them, becauſe they were of the world. Other 
entertainments did they meet with, in their progreſs 
through the earth than the Chief of ten thouſand in the 
days of his fleſh. Tho? my Lonp could have brought his 
choſen to this unſpeakable glory through the abundance 
of carthly eaſe, peace, glory, joy and delight; yet 
this hath been the way of his infinite wiſdom. O ye 
angels, could you have found out ſuch a noble draught? 
Could you have invented ſuch an admirable way of 
bringing poor, feeble, finful mortals to glory? O ſweet, 
ſweet diſpenſetion ! Baſe earth, that is now for ever eva- 
riſhed, was not my country, but the place of my exile; 
not my abode, but my pilgrimage ; and therefore it was 
well it frowned upon me, and appeared like the thing 
that indeed it was, a vain, empty gliſtering nothing. 
My Loxp hath been tender of his darlings and could 
not ſuffer night-dreams and fancies to beguile them, — 
which they might, they being in their childiſh and mor- 
tal condition, if they had appeared with a ſmiling plea- 
ant countenance. O my God, the greateſt ſnares that 
ever thou rainedft upon thine enemies, was when thou 
gave them the defires of their heart: Earth they deſired, 
and earth thou madeſt to look kindly upon them; and 
therefore they are ruined for ever- more. I fee the diſpen- 
lation that moſt crofſed my own natural diſpoſition hath 


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206 A GLIMPSE 

contributed moſt for my advantage: My Lord hath 
withheld no good thing from me: It was beſt I ſhould 
have had a life of ſorrow, torment and vexation—jt 
was well I was cut ſhort of earthly enjoyments. My on. 
ly deſire was to finiſh my courſe for this unſpeakable 
happineſs, and that it ſhould be ſwift and vigorous ; and 
how excellently haſt thou fulfilled the defire of my 
heart ? 

67. GLoky cauſeth a total change in all the powers, 
faculties and viriues. 

O my heart, thou art changed indeed! How torment. 
ing a burden haſt thou been unto me in the days of my 
abſence? Even when I kept moſt obſervant and firiq- 
eſt watch over thy frame, thou played me a ſhip, and bend- 
ed oft from the original of all bleff edneſs unto vanity, 
How waſt thou drawn hither and thither by all diſpen- 
ſations ? When I imagined I had got thee wrought up to 
a ſublime heavenly frame, how ſoon didſt thou become 
carnal and earthly again? When thou ſeemed all ina 
flame of divine love and zeal, how didſt thou become 
cold and indifferent ere ever I was aware ? When I re- 
joiced in finding thee in a lively, tender, goſpel frame, 
how quickly didit thou become dead and ſenſeleſs like a 
ſtone ! When I could not but cry out, O my heart is 
fixed, my heart is fixed! I will ſing, yea I will for e. 
ver be altogether for praiſes,” how ſoon waſt thou un- 
fettled, and toffed up and down with the winds of vani- 
ty! When I could fay, I will truſt in him, and not be 
afraid: I will not fear, tho" the earth be removed, thi 
the mountains be caft into the midſt of the ſea ; the Low 
Jenovan is my /trength and my ſong, and he alſo is become 
my ſalvation : How ſoon didſt thou become deſpondent 
and fearful, afraid of worms and nothings, and forgetting 


the Lox thy maker, that ſtretched out theſe heavens! 


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aon 207 
When thou waſt in ſo ſweet a frame, as I could not but 
wiſh, when ſhall I be in the Wellbeloved's immediate 
embraces. I value not that ſmall brook that lies betwixt 
me and him; tho? I walk in the valley of the ſhadow 
of death, I will fear no evil; for he is ever with me: Vet 
how ſoon wait thou overclouded, and darkened with 
doubtings and confuſion; fo that thou wouldſt have given 
ten thouſand worlds, if at thy diſpoſing, for the fixed 
perſuaſion of a CurisT, and a blefledneſs ? How waſt 
thou ſometimes in a ftrong, enlarged and chearful frame, 
running the ways of the Loxp's commandments—thy cry 
was, What is the will of my Loxp? All his command- 
ments are eaſy, becauſe his: Anon thou wouldſt neither 
lead nor drive; his worſhip and ſervice was a burden. 
O my heart, thou art now as I would! O all my facul- 
ties, you are altogether heavenly and divine : All, all 
is ſwallowed up in full immediate beholding: After 
him do ye go, with an uninterrupted, eternal benſel : 
It is impoſfible for thee, my ſoul, now in thy Loxp's 


| immediate embraces, to fall away from this divine frame; 


thou cannot but inceſſantly ſerve and glorify him with 
unſpeakable joy and alacrity, ſince thou 2ternally beholds 
his raviſhing countenance. Can doubting enter this 
noon-day viſion of glory, when we have attained the 
height and perfection of evidence? Who can fear, that 
is encircled within theſe everlaſting arms? This city of 
refuge is ſituate above the reach of ten thouſand worlds 


of wicked men and devils, Who can dwell thus with 
an infinite love, and not be all inflamed with unquench- 


able fires ? The firſt ſight of thy goodly viſage, my fair 
one, hath captivated all my faculties unto thee, | 
68. Heaven the ſweeter, the more dangers we have 
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208 | A Ii 


How have I been choked with the peſtife rous con- 
tagion of a vile world, ſo that I had almoſt loft my 
life? The helliſh ſights and ſounds that have entered my 
faculties againſt my will, made hell and death familiar 
unto me ; I found it one of the molt difficult command. 
ments of my Lozy, to p my cars from hearing of blood, 
and ſhut mine eyes from ſecing of evil : Even when! 
let a guard upon all my ſenſes, my inbred wickedneſs 
betrayed the fort-royal, and inſenſibly received the ſparks 
that fired up all. How could feeble, mortal I, 
but be confuſed and diverted, and deadened with the 
Lurry, and noiſe, and vexation of an helliſh world? How 
oft have 1 complained, fearfulne/s and trembling is come 
upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. O that 1 
pad wings like a dove ; for then would I fly away, and 
beat reſt ; lo, then would I wander far of, and remain in 
toe wilderneſs : I would hajten my eſcape from the windy 
form end tempeſt! Ah! my ſenſes are filled with vani. 
ty and miſchief; the beholding and hearing of blood and 
Evil nath vitiated my faculties, and made folly and mad- 


neis ſeem common and ordinary to my aprehenſions; 


ſo that I cannot attain unto any ſuitable . abhorrence of 
wickedneſs, waen my love and deſire after Gop is faint 
and weak; being high or low according to my abhor: 


rence and hatred of evil. It is wonderful, O my Loxo, 


it is paſſing wonderful, how I have landed 1n this choice 
happy place with my life? The human nature in its in- 
tegrity, might have been corrupted and deſtroyed, in 
ſuch a noiſome and peſlilential air, as filled the lower 


world, while it was the proper habitation of devils, and 


their baſe ſlaves: But who can ſuffer hardſhip, whom 


thou once takeſt into thy tutorage ? Theſe whom thy 
Father hath given thee, baſt thou ſafely preſerved, and 


none could be able to pluck them out of thine hand: 


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oF FLOLY. 260 


The moſt entire and excellent nature, commited wholly 
to its own guidance, could not have beeen able to per- 
{eyere through the ten thouſandth part of the difficulties 
and tentations I have overpaſſed : But what cannot thy 
infinite excellency do? No ſecurity, but in being alto- 
gether thine, and nothing our own, which happy I have 
experienced to my eternal „ O now the dan- 
ger is paſt! O lively and delghtſome air of EMUANUERTL's 
country! Nothing dwells in this world of my Wellbelo- 
ved's conqueſt hut righteouſneſs. You off. scourings of 
all things, I am not vexed with your vileneſs any more. 
Sometimes you vexed and tormented me, that the won- 
derful efficacy of my Wellbeloved's graces might be the 
more evidently manifeſted ; but you are evaniſhed, unto 
ſmoke are you evaniſhed away, O now my ſenſes, you 
are only falled with the only roſe and beauty of this e- 
verlaſting, raviſhing paradiſe! No ſweetneſs, no fulneſs, 
no excellency, but that of the Branch : Yea, could the 
abominable ſmoke of ten thouſand hells aſcend this ſweet 
region, 1t would not be perceived ; but be loſt, like a 
mall drop of bitterneſs in a boundleſs ocean of ſweetneſs. 
And O! the delightfome aſpect df the Lans's fair . 
white company, that follow him whitherſoever he goes ! 
What a golden life in ſo raviſhing a fellowſhip ! No- 
thing but the mutual emanations of ſurpaſsing ſweetneſs, 
nothing but N nog to him that fits upon the throne, 
and to the Lamb, throughout eternity. O my bleſſed 
ſenſes, you are no more filled with vanity and vexation ! 
now, Devil and his ſlaves, what can you do? Your 


tempting vexing world is evaniſhed for ever : Yea, tho? 
it were not, what are you to us? Like baſe cowards, 
you aſſaulted us in our childiſh eſtate ; but what are you 
all to one of us in our manly vigour! Were you all 
drawn up in battle array againſt me, whom once you 


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210 A DBLIMELS 


thought unworthy of the leait of your aſſaults, ſhould ] 
not with one lif.:ng up of mine arm vanquiſh you for 
ever? Nothing iu me can yield to hell—ſin and mortal. 
ity is {ſwallowed up of life. 

69. The inhabitants ſhall not ſay L am srck. 

All thy inficmities and ſickneſs, O my ſoul, are quite 
eradicate, ſince I am in the arms of all life, joy and ſatiſ. 
How have I been, in the days of mine infir- 
mity, ſick of love for my only Wellbeloved ? Strong 


faction. 


love was like to die for want of full and perſonal enjoy. 


ment, even when I had the greateſt manifeſtatnins on 


carth: And no wonder —the clearer diſcoyeries of love- 
lineſs, the more ardent deire of the neareſt and fulleſt 
eajoyment. O my raviſhing Wellbeloved, no ſooner I faw 


tt ace, afar off, by a borrowed viſion, RA J longed and 


deſired for nothing more than to have thee in my arms, 
and Leeternally e in thine immediate embraces: 
No ſooner did I embrace thee, as thou offered thyſelf, 
and was eſpouſed to thee, but I longed with exceeding 
longing for this bleſſed day of eternal marriage. Let- 
ters, love tokens, intercourſes by ambaſſadors, and all 
manner of mediate fellowſhip, could not give full fatif 
faction: Nothing but faintings, longings and defires, un- 
til I have thee in my naked embraces. Apples and fla- 
gons of wine could ſcarce hold up my ſwooning heart 
in thy abſence : The moſt exceNent enjoyment could do 
no more than hinder an eternal delignium : Only thy 


ſelf could cheer up the fainting ſoul. O thy ſelf, thy all 


excellent {elf ! What, but thy noble ſelf is worthy of 
deſire? None but thee, none beſide thee! O flower of 
My fair one, 
fince I have thee in my arms, my tormenting love fick- 


neſs is quite aboliſhed from my mind ! The beholding 
of thee ſace to face, bath ſwallowed up all former things. 


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[ enjoy thee ſully ; and am I not at the furthermoſt of all 


my deſires Thou haſt for ever, my deareſt Load, cut 


of all matter of complaint. Sirs, I need not be a ſup- 
plicant to any, of you, for the uſe, of your moyen with 
my royal Wellbeloved, that ye tell him my love fick- 
neſs through his ſeeming unkindneſs. Can there be 
greater intimacy than now betwixt my Logp and me for 
cyer-more-? I have entered thy very heart; I lie be. 
twixt thy breaſts. Can fickneis, or ſorrow, or infirmi- 
ty dwell within the circle of thine arms. Were there 
any fickneſs it ſhould be through ſuperabundance of o- 
vercoming loves; but the veffels are fitted for the ſu- 
perabundant oil of gladneſs and overflowing of joys. If 
this ambroſe and nectar of glory be ſtrong and ſpright- 
ly, the bottles are new, and of a durable ſtructure. 
What can I ſay more of my happineſs, than that F can- 
not conceive and expreſs the full emanations of thy in- 
finite love and ſweetneſs? 

70. GRACE an eacellent prelude to GTLosx, yet the dif- 
ference betwixt them inconceivable. | 

W ate ver ſweetneſs and delight I enjoyed in time is 
now augmented myriads of myriads of ſtages. By my 
leaving of earth, I have loſt no enjoyment, not only 
becauſe of recompence and enjoyment of an higher na- 
ture, but alſo becauſe all kinds of enjoyments are here 


Thy land, O Exma- 


in an eminent and divine manner. 


xvEL, is ſtored with all manner of precious things new 
end old, which thou hadſt prepared for thy choſen be- 


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of theſe ſubſtantial and enduring pleaſures; . all have 
been flight fore taſtes of this ſuperabounding harveſt of 
eternity® What was then in drops, is now in oceans; 
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212 A GLIMPSE 

and ſatis faction; and what ſweetneſs before I experien. 
ced blockiſhly and in part, I find now in the moſt eyi. 
dent, ſublime and vigorous manner. Even my moſt re. 
fined enjoyments of thy bleed ſelf, were but low, child. 
iſh motions, ariſing from ſhallow improper apprehen- 
ſions, raiſed by the contraction of a multitude of borrow. 
ed ideas, extracted from lower objects; which indeed 
were paſſing glorious and ſweet for the time, filling 
mortality almoſt above its meaſure, appearing childhood- 
glory fallen down in grace's country. But O! the vaſt 
difference betwixt mortality and immortality! Who 
can but ſmile at his former apprehenſions? No wonder 
earthly ſtupid creatures apprehend this unſpeakable glo- 
ry in a ſtupid, earthly manner. Every extraordinary 
may appear above what eye hath ſeen, the ear hath heard, 


or mind can imagine, unto the mind that hath known | 


this more by faith than ſight, more by certain report than 
evident experience: For what can the mortal imagine 
higher, than, by the ſweet outletting of the glory and 
deſire of men and angels, to be filled and over-filled wth 
joy unſpeakable and full of glory ? But a drop that would 
over-fill a veſſel of the narroweſt ſize, would be juſt no- 
thing to the capacity of many worlds. Yet what de- 
light and admiration to look back, and conſider how my 
Lozp- made bits of half-dead clay to be raviſhed with 
the higheſt objects, far above the reach of any earthly 
mortal condition? But creatures of all conditions are 
enamoured, raviſhed, fatiate and overcome, when once 
thou beginneſt in the leaſt to diſcover thy matchleſs love- 


lineſs. What delights to conceive bits of childiſh no- 


things enamoured with thee they never ſaw ! and chant- 
ing forth their love- ſongs of praiſes in the midſt of the 
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conſider with the fame eye my converſe ſometimes with 
thee in time and now in eternity, and to parallel them 


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with the marriage? How nobly doth walking with thee 
by faith uſher in the perſonal following of thee whwther- 


{cever thou got. I find thy dealing to the ſaints in time 


5 2 myſtery above the reach of nature in its higheſt pitch, 
as well as thy way with them in eternity. Little did 
or would the world conſider, what a golden happineſs I 
had in the days of my pilgrimage ina thy fellowſhip : 
lhe cholceſt of their religion was a formal, outſide ho- 
maze they mocked thee with; but a familiar converſe 
with thee, was a thing they had no experience of: They 
worſhipped thee as a dumb idol; for no mutual inter- 
courſe did they know or defire : Thou waſt near in 
heir mouth, but far from their reins. O the golden 
hours I have had in thy raviſhing fellowſhip, within 
the tents of ſorrow, in abſence ! Eternity cannot cancel 
the memory of thy pailing kindneſs to me in my low 
and deſpicable condition. I have moſt ſenſibly found 
thy ſtrengthening, cheering preſence in all afflictions and 
ditficulties; I found thee another manner of Gop than 
the fooliſh world imagined thee to be, even a preſent 
beld in times trouble, and that gave ear to my pray - 
ers, and anſwered them ſpeedily ; both by the influen- 
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then I was a child, yet didft thou teach me to diſcern 
betwixt thy frownings and thy ſmiles, the light of thy 
countenance lifted up and the turning away of thy face: 
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and intimate friend, of whoſe kindneſs and help I was 
perſuaded, and truſted accordingly. I depended and 


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214 A GLIMPSE 
thee; ſo that I was careſul for nothing: I learned to 
know my duty, and the way of its performance, and 
committed the event of all to my Loxp and Sovereign 
ablolutely, without the leaſt reſervation: Being per- 
ſuaded that he would completely full all things fully 
committed unto him; becauſe he lad promiſed, and 
would not make them aſhamed, who placed their con- 
fidence in him. And now I may teſtify before the whole 
creation, that thou haſt been better to me, in my pilgri. 


mage, than I could imagine or defize ; and that the lot 


thou carved out for me in time, hath been beſt for me: I 
would not for ten thouſand worlds it had been otherways, 
as to the ſmalleſt dilpenſation—the moiſt croſs and ruin- 
like diſpenſations as to ſenſe, have been the ſweeteſt, 
having had the nobleſt effects, and neareſt manifeſtations 
of thy love and ſweetneſs accompanying them: If any 
have proven any thing bitter and diſadvantageous, it 
was becauſe I brought them on my own head, by my 


ſacrilegious boldneſs, in diſpoſing of myſelf, and what 


concerned me, without his approbation and conſent: 
Yet even theſe he turned to my good ; his power being 
fo tranſcendently excellent, as to bring light out of dark- 
neſs: and his love being ſo boundleſs to thoſe whom 
he had choſen from eternity, that he would ſuffer no 
harm to befal them, but make all things to contribute 
to their good. O! can we but wonder at, and rejoic: 


in the incomparable condeſcendency, wiſdom and excel- 


lency of our Loxp, who hath contrived and effected our 


eternal happineſs after ſo ſtupendous a manner! Could | 
we ruin ourſelves, ſince it was his will to ſave ? Could! 


we in the leaſt ſtand in the way of our happineſs, fince 
it was his ſovereign eternal pleaſure to make us as hay: 
Py as can be? O eternal aſtoniſhment! The more we 
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OF GLORY. 215 
py; the more we have degraded ourſelves, the high- 
er hatiz he exalted us; the more we have hated and 
provoked him, the more kind and intimate is he become 
to us! Men and angels, could you have found out ſuch 
a way to manifeſt the glory and excellency of free grace? 
Is it not here manifeſted in the higheit manner? 

71. Prarszs to Jenovan for the accompliſhment of his 
promiſes to his people, and of his threatenings againſt the 
wicked. | | | 

Is it not an eternal queſtion, men and angels, whether 
the excellency of our Wellbeloved manifeſted or lying 
nid be more aſtomſhing ? But ſure each of them is an 
everlaſting raviſhment, which would plunge never ſo 
many worlds in an ocean of never-ending aſtoniſhment : 
One ray of his divine excellency, now immediately be- 
held, doth implicitly diſcover that more and more eter- 
nally may be ſeen. What then ſhould be our immortal 
exerciſe, but to bend all our faculties to ſearch, and look 
in, and admire, and flame in love, and extol the tran- 
ſcendent excellencics of him thet fits upon the throne 
and the Lams, throughout all ages; Jenovan, altoge- 
ther excellent, lovely? Jzrovan is a deep we have for 


that we ſhould ſet him on high ? What contribute we to 
the declaration of his infinite glory ? Tho? we ſhould 
wear out to a period endleſs eternity with our inceſ- 
lant Hallelujahs, could we, bits of nothing, conceive 
n the leaſt this infinite one? Did he not bow and humble 
bimſelf infinitely below himſelf, that he may be appre- 
hended as he is by our finite capacities, with his incre- 
ited lovelineſs and ſweetneſs ? 'Tis ſtrange he ſhould ſa- 


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throughout eternity. What ſtretchings of capacities 
What bending of all the faculties! O the beauty, the 
goodneſs, the ſweetneſs, that dwells from eternity toe. 
ternity in him! O the full outlettings upon us! Tho! 
he were not excellent to us, yet are we not conſtrained 
to love, and adore and extol him, who 1s an infinite 
mals of all excellency ? Tho? he be infinitely above all 


the prailes of all poſſible creatures, yet can we but cry | 


bim up te whom all glory is due? Are we not conſtrain. 
ed who ſee his face, to expreſs, and again and again 
throughout cternity to expreis his infinite perfections 
As creatures, we are bound to be all for him; but theſe 
ſtupendous obligations ſuperadded above all produc- 
tion and preſervation, have elevated unto ſuch a frame, 


that common ties are almoſt ſwaliowed up and evaniſhed. 
O his goodnels, his goodneſs? How great is his good- 


neſs, and how great great 1s his beauty ! Every ray, 
every outletting wonJd raviſh never fo many creatures, 
I will extol thee, my Gop, O King, and I will bleſs 
thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Loxn, and 
greatly to be praiſed; and his greatneſs is unſearch. 
* able, I will ſpeak of the glorious honour of thy majeſty, 
F and I will declare thy greatneſs. Yea, all thy works 
* ſhall praiſe thee, O Lond: and all thy nts {hall bleß 
* thee. While I live, I will praiſe the Lox ;.. I will 


* ſing praiſes to my Gov, while I have my being. PrailY 


him all ye his angels; praiſe him all his hoſts ; praiſe 
* him ſun and moon ; praiſe him all ye ſtars of light; 
* praiſe him ye heavens of heavens, ye waters above 
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the Eranch of the Loxp beautiful and glorious, and 
the :ruit of the earth excellent and comely: For them 
thac are eſcaped of Iſrael, and that are left in Zion, 
and chat remain in Jeruſalem, are called holy, There 
hath come forth a rod out of the ſtem of Jefle, and a 
branch hath grown out of his roots; and the Spirit of 
the Lonp doth reſt upon him, the ſpirit of wiſdom and 
underſtanding, of counſel, might, knowledge, and of 
the fear of the Loxp: With righteouſneſs doth he 


judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek 


of the earth; and he {mote the earth with the rod cf 
his mouth, and with the breath of his lips did he ſlay 
the wicked: And rightepuſneſs is the girdle of his 
loins, and faithfulneſs, the girdle of his reins. The 
wolf doth dwell with the lamb, and the leopard doth 
lie down with the kid and the calf, the young lion and 


and the fatling together, and a little child may lead 


them; for the earth is full of the knowledge of the 
O Loxd, theu 


Lokv, as the waters cover the lea. 


at my Gop, I will praiſe thee, for thou haſt done 


wonderful things: thy counſels of old are faithſulneſs 
and truth; for thou haſt brought down all thoſe that 
roſe up againſt thee ; and art for a crown of glory and 
a diadem of beauty to thy people. Judgment doth 
dwell in the wilderneſs, and righteouſneſs remains in 
the fruitful field; and the work of righteouſneſs is 


peace, and the effect of righteouſneſs quietnels and al- 


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lurance for ever. An high way is here, and it is cal- 
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beaſt goeth pp thereupon ;. but the redeemed walk there- 
in, and the ranſomed of the Loxp do return, and come 
to Zion with ſongs and everlaſting joy upon their heads; 


they have retained joy and gladnels, and forrew and 


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* fghing have fled away. We are the everlaſting wit. 
neſſes of thy glory and excellency, O dread Sovereign, 
and thy ſervant whom thou hait choſen : Before thee 
there was no Gop formed, neither ſhall there be after 
thee: Thou, even thou art the Loxd, and beſide thee there 
is no ſaviour: Before the day thou art he; and there is 
none that can deliver out of thine hand: Thou workeſt, 
and who ſhall let thee ? We remember not the former 
things, neither conſider the things of old: Behold, thou | 
doſt a new thing, and it ſpringeth forth and we underſtand 
t: Thou doſt even make a way in the wilderneſs, and 
i vers in the deſert, the beaſts of the field honour thee, 
the dragons and the owls; becauſe thou giveſt wa- 
ter in the wilderneſs and rivers in the deſert, to 
give drink to thy people, thy choſen. Us haſt thou 
formed for thyſelf; we ſhall ſhew forth thy praiſe, 
* Thy righteouineſs is near, thy ſalvation is gone forth, 
and thine arm did judge the people; the iflands did 
wait on thee, and upon thine arms did they truſt: 
The heavens evaniſhed like ſmoke z and the earth did 
did wax old like a garment; and they that dwelt 
therein did die in like manner: But thy ſalvation is 
for ever, and thy righteouſneſs ſhall not be aboliſhes, 
The mountains did depart, the hills were removed; 
but thy kindneſs hath not departed from us, neither 
ſhall the covenant of thy peace be removed from 
* us. I will mention the loving-kindneſs of the 
+ Logp, and the praiſes of the Logs, according to all 


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that the Loxp hath beſtowed upon us. Thou rent the 


heavens, and cameſt down, the mountains flowed down 
at thy preſence; and thou trode down the people in 
"thine anger, and made them drunk in thy fury; and 
didſt bring“ down their ſtrength to the earth. Tho 
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raiment as the clay; yet the juſt put it on, and the in- 
nocent divided the filver : Terrors have taken hold on 
them as waters; a tempeſt hath ſtolen them a- 
vay in the nigbt; for thou haſt caſt upon them, and 
not ſpared: they wouid fain flee out of thy hand. 
We clap our hands at them, aud have hiſſed them out 
of taeir place. But thou haſt delivered us in fix trou- 
bles; yea, in ſeven no evil hath touched us. In fa- 
mine he hath redeemed us from death, and in war 
from the power of the ſword ; we have been hid from 
the ſcourge of tongues z neither were we afraid of del- 
truction when it came. At deſtruction and famine we 
did laugh; we knew alſo that our ſeed ſhould be 
great, and our offspring as the graſs of the earth 
and that our enemies ſhould forever be made our foot- 
tools: For thou haſt deſtroyed them for ever, O God ; 
and haſt made them to fail by their own counſels : 
thou haſt caſt them out, in the multitude of their tranſ- 
greſſions; for they rebelled againſt thee. They are 
brought down, and fallen; but we are riſen, and ſtand 
upright ; for thou haſt faved the afflicted people, and 
haſt brought down high looks: We will extol thee, 
O Logp; for thou haſt lifted us up, and haſt not made 
: Thou haft brought up 
ur ſouls from the grave; thou haſt kept us alive, 
that we ſhould not go down to the pit. Sing unto the 
Logy, O ye ſaints cf his, and give thanks at the re- 
membrance of his holineſs; for his anger endureth 
but for a moment, in his favour is life. 


our foes to rejoice over us 


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and he hath given us the deſire of our hearts: We 
have committed our way unto him, we have truſted in 


him, and he bath brought it to paſs, and hath brought 
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forth our righteouſneſs as the light, and our judg. 


ment as the noon-day. We have not fret- 
ted ourſelves, becauſe of him that proſpereth | 


in his way, becauſe of the man that bringeth 
wicked devices to pals: But we have waited patiently, 
and behold the wicked are not; they are for ever ba- 
niſhed unto utter darkneſs, but we inherit the earth, 
and delight ourſelves in abundance of peace. Many 
have been our afflictions, but the Loxp hath delivered 


us out of them all: He hath keeped all our bones, that 


one of them is not broken: But evil hath ſlain the 
wicked; and they that have hated us are deſolate: 
We were not afraid when one was made rich, when 
the glory of his houſe was increaſed ; for when he di- 
ed, he carried nothing away, —his glory did not de- 
ſcend after him. 'The way of the wicked was their 
folly ; like theep they were laid in the grave, death 
did feed upon them; we have now dominion o— 
ver them in the morning; and their beauty did con- 
ſame in the grave from their dwelling. But Goo 
hath redeemed our ſoul from the power of the grave; 
for he hath received us. Selah. 

O! Sing unto the Loxrp a new ſong, for he hath 
done marvellous things; his right hand and holy arm 
hath gotten him the victory. The Loxo is Gov, his 
mercy is everlaſting, and his truth endureth to all ge- 


nerations. The right hand of the Loxp is exalted, * 


the right hand of the Loxp doth valiantly. Praiſe ye 
the Lord, O Jeruſalem; praiſe thy Goo, O Zion; 
for the Loxp ſhall reign for ever, even thy God, 0 
Zion, to all generations. Hallelujah, 


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band. 

An! Wellbeloved, I am beginning to be afraid that 
[ have darkened counſel by words without knowledge. 
Ah! has this been the effect of my raviſhing view of 
thy ſuperexcellent glory to be revealed, to talk fo 
poorly and childiſhly cf ſuch great and excellent things? 
A ready way to bring down the low thoughts that the 
ſons⸗Oof men have of thee much lower! A deſtruction 
to my deſign here, and the flower of my deſire, which is 
only to raviſh the judgments and affections of the ſons 
of men, concerning the excellencies of thy perſon, the 
greatneſs of thy kingdom, and the glory of thine inheri- 
tance in the faints in light. My deareſt one, let this 
never lee light, if it be apt to produce any other effect. 
Pardon, dear Loxp, my childiſh boldneſs, and accept 

12 will for the deed: 
b thee on high. But ah! my fiupidity ! Ah, my child- 
ih ignorance Fi may ſay in thy Gabe, I am more brutiſh 
than any man; and.have not the uuderſtanding of a man: 
| neither learned wifdom, nor have knowledge of the ho- 


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come to my manly eftate ? How long ſhall my faculties 


be ſtupid, marred and out of order? If, even nav, Iam 


wondering at my childiſh expreſſions of ſuch ſuperexcel- 


lent things, what will my reflections be, when attained 
to the fulneſs of the ſtature of Carxtisr? It quiets my 
mind ſomewhat, that I have expreſſed more, and afcend- 


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ed higher than the conceptious of moſt ; and that all ex. 
preſſions and diſcourſes of ſublunary excellencies ſhall 
bluſh and think ſhame to appear here: And that tho 
whatever I ſhall be able to ſay be unworthy of the 
meaneſt of thy faints; yet, may it be an occaſion to 
ſome of them of ſtirring themſelves up to a more hea. 
venly frame of fpirit, and more ſerious and profound ap- 


prehenſions of the things that are invifible. 


2. The eſſence of a Saint conſiſtis much in he avenly- 


mindedneſs. 
Heirs of glory, what think you of your goodly inhe- 


1itance, the delightſome countries, the pleaſant habi- 


tations, the unſpeakable joys, the everlaſting pleaſures, 


the inconceivable felicity, that lie a little before you, 
and to which you are poſting? Are you not amazed 
with the confideration. of your wonderful prerogatives! 
Is it poſſible you can bear the fore-thoughts of what you 
are coming to? Shall you ever be able to pluck your 
minds down from ſuch raviſhing things ? Have not all 
{ablunary excellencies diſappeared in your fight ? What 
are the ſtars, when the fun doth appear? I think I hear 
every one of you ſay, I have done for ever with the 
painted clay-imapes ; for I have ſeen and found the on- 
ly real and ſubſtantial things. O joy unſpeakable and 
full of glory! Yeu delights, you ſorrows of time, you 
are much overlooked by me, while I lie thus, within 
the view of eternal raviſhments. One moment's imme- 
diate converſe with Jeyovan and the Lau, ſhall eradi- 


cate all the impreſſions of ſorrow and grief that I can 


poſſibly undergo. Shall I not ſee him as be is? Am! 
not to ſee him face te face? Theſe arms, even theſe 
very arms ſhall embrace the Chief of ten thouſand ? J 
mall be for ever ſatiate with his infinite ſweetneſs ; e- 


ven drunk and overfilled with his oyercoming loves. C 


OF GLORY. 223 


ex- the frame of my ſpirit! I can ſay nothing; expreſſions 
val! fall me, for repreſenting the high elughts of my 
ho) heart. Where am I now? Am I not almoſt in heaven 
the already ? Heart, and love, and all have fled thither; no- 
1 to thing remains here but this vile clay tabernacle z and 
1ea- ere it be long, it ſhall be there alſo. Verily I am 
ap- come to mount Zion, to the city of the living Gop; my 


converſe is no more here. 


3. Earthly-minded creatures might be convinced M the 
reality and defirableneſs of 8 90 things, by due and 
deep confideration. 

Silly worldlirgs, what think you of our world? Speak, 
men, I appeal unto your own ſtupid ſelves, which of us 
are wiſeſt, wealthieſt, merrieſt, moſt renowned and ex- 
cellent? Are you not beginning to conſider your deſ- 


fooliſhneſs of your bypaſt vanity,” in ſpending your 
ſtrength for tranſient, evaniſhing ſhadows ? Are you not 
almoſt beginning to fall in love with our bleſſed country? 
Yea, are you not content to renounce the love of your 
dunghill for it? Are you not come to ſuch a bleſſed 
change in your thoughts? Come hither, the bargain 1s 
done, heaven is yours; for it is, love and have it. What 


vering? Muſt you not have heaven? II you loſe it, 
wha can you purchaſe ? Is there ary impediment ? Be 
willing, and welcome. Dare any of you doubt the re. 
ality of the only real things ? What ! becauſe they fall 
can. not under your brutiſh ſenſes? Then you may doubt 


m | whether you conceive or not. Are ye ſuch brutes as 
theſe to think there is no uptakings but ſenſual, when the 
d 21 mental are myriads of flages more evident and real? 
3 8 Sirs, can there be any ſo mad as deny all the countries 
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of eye-witneſſes of divers forts and ages? And have 
not numbers, of all ranks and conditions, of the moſt 
encellent in all ages, atteſted their moſt excellent dif. 
coveri-s of this happy world? one of whoſe atteſta- 
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ſands of ordinary men. O Sirs, want of confideration 


cauſeth you look upon the only fubſtant:al things as un- 
certain fancies, But conſider eternity ſeriouily, and 
you ſhall find yourſelves moved in another manner than 
thoſe who are led away with enthutatms. Sirs, enter 


into your own hearts, enquire at your conſciences, and 


you ſhall find heaven and hell written upon them. Speak 
never ſo much, worldling, againſt our happy world, thou 


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but manifeſts thy deſires, not thy real and ſerious 


thoughts; thou fights againſt thy conſcience: The way 


of thy blaſpeming bewrays thee. 
4. Tranſtent thoughts of glory fagiify nothing. 
Ah! Sire, I fear many of you have but taken a view 


of our Wellbeloved's country on the bye, and no more.- 


Will ye not bend wither all your faculties, and conſider 
protoundly again and again what you have ſeen, until an 
enduring imprefſion be left upon your fpirits? What! 
ſhall your thoughts be fo ſuperficial and tranſient, as you 
ſhall undergo no transformation in the ſpirit of your 
minds, but fill remain eartlily ? What, ſtill earthly ? 
And preſently back to earth again! Are you like earth- 
ly exhalations, which by benſel of a flight ery imprel- 
fion, tho? ſeen white aloſt, yet till retaining the droſſy na- 
ture, they fall down again? Shall glory be ſo ſoon forgot- 
ten, as if it were like a nine days wonder? How are you 
affected? Are you not in ſome heavenly frame? And 
will you fuffer it to evaniſh by negligence, vain conceits, 
worldly thoughts and words, and fleſhly luſts? Shall 


ddunghill earth ecliple the ravithing view you have got-v 


OF GLORY. 225 
ten? Will you become as low and creeping in your 


conceptions as you have been? May ſuch a ſad ſentence 
n be faid of you. The glery you have ſeen to day you 
l- ſhall behold no more? Will ye prove like Ba laam, who 
Ta- 


fell to his accuſtomed baſeneſs, after the elevated ht 
of Iirael's comely tents? Shall you be ranked with the 
fallen angels, who fell from the higheſt places of the world 
to the loweſt? Keep your fituation, if you be wile z 
fallen ſtars are moſt abominable : The higher pitch the 
lower fall. Better you had never known ſuch excellent 
things, than to flight and forget them, and be as baſe 
and earthly as if the {ound of ſuch aſtoniſhing things 


had never come to your cars. 


5. An invitation to' exchange earthly for heavenly 
things. 


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Launch out further and further into the depths of in- 
finite excellencies. Ah! what can we ſpeak of ſuch 
maſſy, ſublime things? Tho? we ſhould write as many 


ie volumes as would ll the whole creation, earth's ſhal- 
ore. low diale& is inſigniſicant in ſuch ſubſtantial things; 
lider | 


words here are but ſilent ſhadows of no efficacy: Come 
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hat! any thing to ſay ? Is not the buſineſs paſt all debate ? 
Þ ag Need we ſay any more? Can you be ſo mad as to be in- 
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hly ? ment? Sirs, how long ſhall you halt between two op1- 
arth- nions? Stand no more aback : O! come, come, come 
prel- away, and be everlaſtingly bleſſed ! Are you not out of 
> ack conceit with time's worm-eaten glory? Are you 
rgot- not lamenting your former vanity and madneſs? Are 
vo you not wearied in the things that cannot profit? Are 
And you confidering things never entered within your concep- 
ceits, tion before? What lets you then that you become not 
Shall heavenly and divine? Are you not altogether in love 
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226 A GLIMPSE 

with our Wellbeloved, the Author of all? Are you 
not cloſing with him on his own terms, as he-hath offer- 
ed himſelf in his teſtament ? Are you not heartily em- 
bracing, and ſtriving to grow more and more conform to 
his lovely image, until you ſhall grow up unto the per- 
fect ſtature of his fulneſs? O then, welcome, a thou- 
ſand times welcome unto this glorious world of Emmanu- 
EL's conqueſt : You are come unto the joytul and light- 
ſome ſide of the creation. 


you {hall never repent of ſo ſweet a tranſlation ? Your | 


light ſhall more and more break forth unto the per- 
* feftday:* Your progreſs through all the difficulties of 
time, even death 1tielf, ſhall be chearful and ſweet. 

6. The hope of glory ſwallows up all imaginable for 
row. 

Be of good courage, ye ſaints of the Moſt High, you 
princes of the world; all are yours; for ye are Cusis7's 
and Cugisr is God's. Is it all one whether dunghill 
worms contemn or efteem you: It is below you to fear 
ſuch feeble beaſts. Overlook the ſcenical graduations of 
time; it is below princes, born to ſo great things, to 
take notice of ſuch trifles: Stand to your royal prero- 
gatives ; fall not down from your ennobling exerciſe; 
* ſet the Lord always before you, and you ſhall never be 
moved: Let the world reel to and fro; let the moun- 
* tains be caſt into the midfl of the ſea; let thouſands 

and ten thouſands fall cn every hand ;* vet can you 
undergo no harm. Death, in any garb, is gain unto the 
perſon who is in heaven already. 

7. Farth-worms, who will be ſuch, have nothing 1o 
do with heaven. 

You, who will ſtill be grovelling upon the baſe earth, 
who tho? ye ſhould read and hear never ſo oft of the on- 
ly excellent things, vill back to the dunghill again, and 


I dare pawn my ſalvation, | 


OF GLORY. 227 

0 will vex and torment yourſelves with the cares and vani- 
r- ties of a tranſitory life, who will endeavour, and deſire 
n- to be laden with thick clay; we have only this to 
0 ſay unto you, He that is filthy, let him be filthy ſtill.“ 
er- You have made a brave choice, poor fools, your para- 
u- diſe is baſe, empty, hungry, and tranſient; well befit- 
u- ting ſuch noble and high ſpirits as you, In whatever ac- 
ht- count you ſeem to be in the eyes of a baſe world, you 
on, are vile deſpicable worms. Crawl, and ſet up your creft 
dur on your ſtately dunghill; but know, if ye can underitand, 
er- that theſe vile bodies and ſouls of yours ſhall never a- 
; of ſcend higher; under our feet ſhall we eternally trample 
you; your kingdom being tne office-houſe of our pa- 

or. lace royal. Fill e with duſt, as the ſerpents; 
let your day-thoughts and night-thoughts run out upon 

you dunghill concernments; add houſe to houſe, and land 
sr's WM to land; heap up treaiures for many days; and when 
hill vou . death, or a day of fad affliction, caſt up 
fear MW vour great and precious gains. Have you accounted 


yourſelves unworthy of ſuch unſpeakable bleſſedneſs? 
You ſhall never tafte it ; but be everlaſtingly ſhut up 
in that horrid abominable lake, a ſuitable dwellüng: place 
tor ſuch vile wretches: This dark ſmoky region you 
only affect, and to utter darkneſs ſhall you be driven 
* where there is weeping and gnaſhing of teeth.“ 

8. GnrisT alone to be exalted and cfteemed, who is the 
purchaſer of this noble inheritance. 

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"The majeſtic one upon? All your glory and excellen- 
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another, were too baſe and low a foundation for him te 
trample upon. Men or angels, what have you or can 


you fay worthy of him? Were your Hallelujahs tuned 


up never ſo many ftages higher, yet till they ſhould 
fall infinitely below his matchleſs worth : What can we 
do in extolling ſuch a lofty one ? For ever is he infinite. 
ly exalted above all our praiſes; yet praiſe him we ſhall, 
eternally ſhall we praiſe him: All our ſtrength, ſou] 
and might muſt be fully let forth to his glory; tho? all 
we can do be juſt nothing. Who is worthy of glory, 
except our Wellbeloved? Whom ſhould we love but 
him? Whom ſhould we praiſe but him ? Whom ſhould 
we admire but him? Who but he! none but him. O! 
let all our powers and faculties be eternally filled with 


him. Ah! it's black ſhame the ſons of men ſhould think 


and ſpeak, and write ſo much of empty nothings, and 
lo little of this only excellent one. When ſhall our 
Wellbeloved be great among all nations? Ah! he is 
nothing, or little known among the ſons of men; little 
do they diſcourſe of him; and what they diſcourſe is 
cold and common. Alas! men talk of him as if he 
were a common Beloved: Men eſteem ]xsus ſome or- 
dinary one: They hear of one Jxsus, that was ſlain at 
Jeruſalem ; and they are as little affected as if they read 
or heard of ſome common hiſtory : The news of his 
excelient kingdom have ſmall e upon them; they 
think they hear of new worlds, never ſeen or travelled 
to by any. Cuarisr is an unknown perſon to the moſt; 


the found of his name hath filled the ears of all ; the 
letters of his name are well known, and no more: But 
who have been raviſhed with his good ointments ? Who 
hath been filled with the odoriferous emanations of his 
Lebanon garments? Who hath taſted of his ſoul- over- 
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© all night betwixt their breaſts? Who have found him 
* and held him, and would not let him go? Who have 
been led into his chambers of preſence ? Who cannot 
live (tho? in never ſo great abundance of earthly things) 
without a familiar and intimate fellowſhip with him ? 

9. RELIGTON zs another thing than ſtupid worldlings 
imagine; cloſe walking with God is an hid myſlery unto 
them. 

Poor Worldlings, the beſt of you are but formaliſts, 
eccupied about the outſide and ſhell of religion :— 
through cuſtom and a natural conſcience you go through 
all the bulk of the exerciſes of godlineſs; you hear, 
vou pray, you read, you conter, you meditate, you 
perform duties betwixt man and man, through cuſtom 
and formality, - through ſhame of others, through vain 
glory, through the gnawings of a natural conſcience, 
which you muſt ſomewhat quiet one way or another. 
But know you what it is to do all things to the 1 
of our Wellbeloved? To be afraid that in the beit 
of your performances you offend him, and * ſtir him up 
before he pleaſe ?? Know you what it is to look more to 
the manner of your duties than the H⁰i of them? To 
the principle from whence they flow than any thing elſe; 
to the intention and frame of your heart in duty? 
Know you what it is to watch over your heart, to have 
a. ſtricter eye over your thoughts and intentions, to be 
moſt troubled with, and in guarding againſt theie ſecret 
fins of the thoughts and intentions, which no creature 
can ſee but yourſelves? Know you what it is to keep 
up a near and intimate communion with Ixsus, — to have 
a mutual intercourſe with him? Know you what it is to 
wreſtle with kim, and to lay hold upon him, and to con- 


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OF GLORY. 231 
done to your ſoul. 
who are young ſtudents in Chriſtianity; even to you, 
0 daughters of Jeruſalem, who are enquiring after our 
matchleſs Bridegroom, having only heard the raviſhing 
{ound of his name, but never have ſeen his amiable coun- 
tenance, nor entered his pleaſant beds of ſpices. O 
might we be eternally honoured, in leading you in by 
the hand unto him! Draw near, O draw near! and ye 
all fee more, ten thouſand times more, than ever you 
heard tell of; you ſhall begin to laugh at your putrid 
and childiſh talking of ſuch wonderful things. 

11. The woful fate of worldings, excellzncy of holi- 


neſs, and neceſſity of conver/ton, with marks thereof. 


We have written unto you, worldlings, what we have 
ſeen and found, that you may know that there are excel- 
lentthings indeed which never fell under your brutiſh 
ſenſes; and to let you know, that Godlinels is another 


manner of thing than ever entered within your concep- 


tions, that you may enquire after the reality of ſuch ex- 
cellent things, and ſtrive to get a ſight of him who is 
mwiſible; that in ſeeing you may love him; and in loving 
may be bleſſed for ever-more. Poor worldlings, we can- 
not but pity you, who cannot pity yourſelves : You 
ice not your own baſe and low condition; for if you could, 
your condition were changed. Were it poſſible to de- 
monſtrate your vileneſs and miſery? Are you affected 
with nothing ſo much, as what falls under your ſenſes ? 
What preheminence have you above the brutes of the 
field? The joys, and deſires, and intentions of both are 


confined within an inch of time: Both are earthly, 


both are temporal, —both decay in a moment, and come 
to nought. I appeal to yourſelves, baſe worldlings, if 
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projects are only upon earth, the faſhion of which paſs. 
eth away, as you cannot but perceive with your very 
bodily ſenſes. Ah! Sirs, is it not even ſad, earth is the 
centre of all your love and deſires; earthly glory, earth. 
ly riches, earthly delight affects you moſt ; let, you 
have abundance of earth, and that eternally, and eter- 
pally you can live without the enjoyment of IEHOvau 
and the Laus: The kingdom above theſe vilible hea- 
vens appears ſtrange Utopran-hke inventions, which tho 
ye give an hiſtorical faith to, yet you are affected little 
or nothing with the news of ſuch aſtoniſhing things; 
and labour and endeavour, and project more for theſe 
periſhing things - which ſhews, you are baſe earth-worms 
who have choſen this dunghill for your country, deſpi— 
led and undervalued the enduring ſubſtance, and have 
not ſtirred up yourſelves to the deep perſuaſion of the 
truth and reality of ſuch wonderful things; but em- 
brace earth, and confeſs yourſelves its natives and home- 
born flaves. May you not at laſt fee your own baſe- 
neſs and flavery ? Are vou not aſhamed of your former 
vileneſs? Are you not beginning to perceive, that the 
ſaints are the only excellent and noble perſons ? Are 
you not looking upon it as the greateſt miſery and baſe- 
neſs to be earthly in your mind and affections? Are 
you eccounting it the only dignity and accompliſhment 
to be humble and divine ?—Again we beſeech you to be 
inzenuous, and not to lull yourſelves aſleep in {ccurity's 
lap, with a number of careleſs well-bes and may- bes. 
What Sirs, confeſs you the reality of theſe wonderful 
things to come? Confeſs you, that heaven and hell i 
the eternal lot of all mankind ? Which of them are you 
making for? You know, according to your prepare 
tion here, ſo are you hereafter to be; as you ſow, ſhall 
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reap corruption? And if you ſow to the ſpirit, ſhal 
you not reap eternal life? Whether will you travel 
the way to the one or the other? Choole you: Gopſets 
lite and death before you; beguile not yourſelves; Gop 
will not be mocked. Will you remain earthly, and yet 
think to enter the pure heavenly city? Is there a foot 
breadth for earth worms there? If earthly-minded crea- 
tures remaining earthly may expect to enter the fair 
aud clean Jeruſalem, then thall heaven be filled with all 
forts of cattle, and hell ſhail be for ever empty ; which 
is indeed the opinion of ſtupid worldlings, whole exten- 
fre charity reaches all men that ever were or ſhall be; 
who are of ſo ſweet and mild a diſpoſition, as that they 
dare not, cannot judge any; and are aſhamed to ſay of 
the baſeſt dunghill worldling, It may be he has ſome- 
what good: But believe it earthly mindedneſs is a pal- 
pable groſs vileneſs, to all who have their ſenſes in the 
leaſt exerciſed, Enter your own hearts, poor wretches, 
and behold your owa practice, and the practice of the 
generality of all who are about you; and you ſhall per- 


ceive yourſelves . ſmell ſtrongly of earth. Do not all 


your alms and projects tend earth-ward ? Are not your 
lait thoughts in the evening, your firſt thought in the 
morning, the moſt of your thoughts all the day long, 
running upon lower concernments? Earth, only earth 
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your conceptions of things above: Eternity you make 
your by-aim, and earth your chief deſign, Do you not 
eſteem earthly glory and riches moſt ? Are not theſe, 
who are moſt laden'd with the thick clay of the earth, 
greateſt in your eyes? Had not you rather have the 


wealthieſt, the men of moſt account and power in time, 


to be allied to you, than the afflited people? Can you 
not converſe familiarly with dunghill worldlings,  with- 


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out any troable or antipathy? Yea, have ye not the 
curſed heart, to become one fleſh with a black lump of 
death and hell, if fo be they be laden with the earth's 
worm-eaten traſh, or pleaſe your carnal inclination and 
foolith fancy? Are you not more taken up with your own 
private, petty affairs, than with the great concernments 
of Chriſt and his church? Have you not more delight 
in earthly enjoyments than in the exerciſes of Godlineſs? 
Are you not more ſenſible of your temporal loſſes than 
of your ſpiritual ? Do not your joys ebb and flow accor. 
ding to the ebbings and flowings of worldly things? 
Are you not ignorant of rejoicing in tribulation, be. 
cauſe of the ſmiles of Trnovan's amiable countenance ; 


and of ſorrowing, in the midit of earthly abundance, 


becauſe the Wellbeloved hath frowned, withdrawn him. 
ſelf, and is gone? Worldlings, is it not even thus with 
you? Let your confciences ſpeak, men and women; 
O! hear them, that Gop may hear you. I ſay, is it not 
moſt evident to yourſelves that thus it is with you? 
And are you for glory? Are you for the clean and ho- 
ly city ? Are you for dwelling with everlaſting burning! 
Are you for walking with the Lanz, clothed with the 
white and beautiful garments of holineſs? Are you for 
ſtanding among the ſair delightſome aflembly of ſaints 
and angels, who eternally ſurround the throne of Ixno- 
and the Lams? Ye bale worldlings, as long as ye are 
what you are, you have nothing to do with glory : Stand 
aback, torch not the mount; beaſts are not to meddle 
with ſo great things: Heaven is only for holy ones; {or 
without holineſs no man ſhall ſee the Loxn. Believe it, 
Sirs, you are ten thouſand miles from holineſs ; holinels 
is a ſtrange unknown thing in the world; the moſt re- 
fined moraliſts, civilians, carnal goſpellers, and brave 


ſaith, it is not in me; and the flea faith, it is not 
* with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither ſhall 
{ ſilver be weighed for the price thereof: No men- 
tion ſhall be made of coral or of pearls ; for the price 
of wildom is above rubies.” 

Believe it, holineſs or wiſdom is a rare thing: A ſaint 
is a wonder. Gop hath placed them among the nume- 
rous multitude of mankind, like ſo many ſigus and won- 
ders: So many faints in the world, ſo many miracles 
of nature. A faint, in the calendar of the generality 
of profeſſors, is an ordinary perſon; but in CRHAIST's, moſt 
extraordinary. There are fewer real Chriſtians than 
tne moſt preciſe and ſtricteſt in their cenſures can ima- 
cine, If the nature of holineſs were well known, we 
ſhould wonder that there is among all mortals one ho- 
ly one; for in very truth, a faint is nothing elſe but 
a piece of heaven, a new creature, transformed from the 
image of hell into that of glory; one whole conver- . 
tation is only above, who is come unto mount Zion, and 
unto the city of the living Gor: A ſaint hath not the 
ſtamp and faſhion of this world; his heart and love 


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the formaliſts have ſcarce heard the ſound thereof. There e 
p of is a path that no fowl knoweth, and which the vul- 1 
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and trodden it, nor the fierce lion paſted by it. But where ſhall l 
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not in temporal things; his mind 1s elevated bs above 
the laughings or Gam of a tranſitory world: Its 
ups and downs, its ebbings and flowings, cannot affect 
him: His ſublime mind is ſet upon higher objects; for 
he lool not to the things that are ſeen but to the things 
that are not ſeen : for the things that are ſcen are temporal, 
but the things that are not ſeen are eternal, Heaven 1s his 
ſoil, his element, the centre of his love and deſires : | 
He longs, he prays, he greatly deſires, he weeps to be | 
there. The deſire of the full: and naked embracemeats of | 
the Chiefeit of ten thouland, overtops, and ſwallows up 
his defire and love to all other things. What tho? he hath 
fair pleaſant poſſeſſions of earth, many dear friends, and 
pléaſant companions! What tho' he have an excellent 
wife, and hopeful children! All theſe are but droſs and 
dung unto the very knowledge of the excellency of Js- 
sus his Lozy: They are good and pleaſant, but no- 
thing to the only Wellbeloved. He can leave them all 
gladly, to be with him. O my conſort, my children, 
my friends, my poſſeſſions, my hopes here away, my 
life I could not but with exceeding great grief, be thus 


ſeparate from you, were I not going to one who 1s 


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ſweeter, dearer and more lovely to me above all exprel- 
ſion than you all: The loſs of all things is no loſs, 
if 1 go to the full enjoyment of him whom my ſoul lo- 
veth. Whom have I in heaven or in earth but him? 
Whom do I love and deſire but him? No enjoyments 
whatſoever can quench my longing to be with him : He 
is my all, and only one. Farewell, all lower enjoy- 
ments; the love of my faireſt Wellbeloved ſwallows 
up all other loves. Be cloſed, my bleſſed ſenſes, from 
receiving any more ſublunary objects, that ye may be e- 
verlaſtingly filled with his tranſcendent lovelineſs, {iveet- 
neſs and excellency. And no wonder the ſaint cannot 


FO F 237 N 
Its want CarisT, ſince he is transformed into bis lovely image, i 
Fea a partaker of his divine nature; one who is endued with Þ 5 
for dhe ſame mind that was in him, one who hath Chrift „ 
ings 1 in him, one who hath the kingdom of heaven We 
wat within him; fo that it is natural unto him to tend God- Wit 
s his ward and heaven-ward, even as it is natural for the Wt; 
res: worldling to tend earth-ward and hell-ward. Every bi 15 
1 4 thing hath a propenſity and love to its own centre and pe 
ts of | like, and bond off from its oppoſite : The fire aſcends 1 
rs up WM tow arcs the centre and great globe of fire; every bit of 1 
hath | earth disjoined tends back to the whole again. 'Tho? 7 1 
- nnd there were neither reward nor puniſhment, yet a holy 1 
8 ne muſt love, ſerve, obey, praiſe and adore his Gop: 1 
1 For heaven muſt operate like heaven, even neceſſarily, 1 
. tho ireely, iweetly and without compulſion. Again, 12 
25 worldlings muſt tend earth- ward, though they ſhould find 1 
m all ſo much vexation, torment and grief into it: Tho' 0 
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thus brutiſh way of living; fince he is all ſenſe, earth and 166 
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ſtrange motions of love, and joy, and admiration, above 
all poſſible expreſſion! O the raviſhing perfumes of pal. M * 
{ing joys and ſweetneſs, wherewith the. Reloved fills the 
heart ! It is impoſſible for the faint to put down in black (ons 

and white what he feels on his foul: All the tongues of | 58 
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his Wellbeloved: Other ile. he is angry at the cold, i 1 
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ſhallow and putid manner of others diſcourſing: He 
would have all men {peak nobly, write nobly, do nobly Way 


for Jasos. Nothing vexeth him more than to perceive f les, 
the generality of men forget him: Or when they ſpeak at 
of him, to talk ſo ccldly and creepingly, as if he weren i 

| WE other 


common, ordinary beloved. He would have his lovely 
one filling the hearts and mouths of all: He hates the “e 


fellowſhip where he is not highly eſteemed, loved , praiſed 1s be 

and adored: He greatly honours and loves that, (cho bg 

otherwiſe never so low and deſpicable) where he is prai- 2h 
noble 


fed, worſhipped and much accounted of. It is his conti- 
nual torment and affliction he bath ſo low and unbe- 
ſeeming thoughts of him: He 1s in a great rage at his 
heart, that it ſhould at any time go aſtray from ſuch an 
excellent object after vanity : He lays bands on, watch- 
eth over, and commands his heart, that it have noble 
and excellent thoughts of him, and entertain no other 
beloveds beſides him: He defires nothi ing moꝛ e than ta 
have his heart wholly ſet upon him, and for ever ra. 
viſhed and overcome with his love—And no wonder, 
ſince Chriſt and he are one; one in nature, mind, a 
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Every one of the ſaints reſem- 


bles the children of the King of kings Among all the 
{ons of Adam there are none their like for they are 
da choſen generation, a royal prieſthood, an holy nation, 
da peculiar people; that they ſhould ſhew forth the 


* praiſes of him who hath called them out of darkneſs 
© unto his marvellous light.“ 


is he, in a great part. 


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kind hath, ever from the very beginning, looked upon 


them as ſtrange manner of perſons, and nicknamed them 
with various and ſtrange forts of names, according to 
the iniquity of the times and places they lived in, be- 
cauſe of their rareneſs in number, ſingularity in their 
way of living and practice, preciſeneſs in their princi- 
ples, and oppoſing the fins of the times their lot is caſt 
into. 

Ah, poor worldlings ! do ye not ſee that a ſaint is an- 
other manner of perſon than you imagined ? Do ye not 
perceive, that yu are as far below real holineſs as earth 
i below heaven? Is it not manifeſt to yourſelves, that 
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are heavenly and divine,—that you are not of a more 
noble and excellent ſpirit than your neighbours ? True, 
your own deſperate, deceitful heart will cauſe you ima- 
rine yourſelves rare pieces of excellency ; yet it will 
give you no demonſtration, but only cauſe I, as ſuch, ap- 
pear great; and ſo confound every thing, as you may e- 
ade us one way vr another. So deſperate are world- 
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ons; and when others hold out the light, that they 
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own miſery and vileneſs. But, worldlings, may you not 
le your nakedneſs, if you will but aſk ſeriouſly at your- 
ſelves a few ordinary queſtions, and ſolve them faitiful- 
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Are you ſtrangers to this? Know you not, except a man 
be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Hea- 
ven 2— This is ſtrange: A fſaint—a regenerate creature, 
—a man born over again—and yet without pain or la- 
bour ! Such a great mutation without great ſymptoms 
and concomitants cannot be. Ah! moſt men's religion 
had come to them in a night-dream. 

2. Were you ever at, what ſhall I do to be ſaved? 
Here, bleſſed Jxsus, I ſubſcribe a blank, put in any 
thing thou wilt; and, in thy ſtrength, I will gladly 
endeavour the performance of all; only fave me; 0 
{ave me, elle I eternally periſh. It is ſtrange, you have 
not come this length that many reprobates have come, 
and yet ir igine yourſelves ſaints. 

3. Hath the great ſalvation appeared ſo great in your 
eyes, filled ſo your minds, that it hath overtopped and 
{wallowed up the thoughts of all other concernments !— 
Are you not come this far, that ſome reprobates have 
for a time attained unto? And can you imagine your— 
ſelves partakers of the great ſalvation ? Ah! mad delu- 
fon. | . a 
4. Were you ever ſick of ſin? Have you been more 
burdened under your iniquities than ever you were un- 
der any earthly affliction? Do you not find the 'grier- 
ous weight of a body of death ? Yea, go you not light- 
ly under your iniquities? Only ſome of the groſſeſt 
of them torment your natural conſcience ; as for origi- 
nal ſin, you know it more by ſpeculation than by teel- 
ing: This doth ſhew you are dead in fins and trel- 
* palles, alienated fiom the life of Goo.” Can you then 
magine yourſelf ſuch a noble creature as a ſaint ? 

5. Were you ever ſick of love for Jzesus? Were 
you ever running after him with the tear in your eyt, 


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with your hands upon your aking ſores? Were you e- 


on ver weeping, and groaning, and ſighing at his feet, for 
. nercy, and pardon, and „ and the lifting 
15 vp of bis miable countenance ? Were you ever wreſt- 


la. ling 53th fin as ſor life, and ſaying, Bleſſed Jz=svs, I muſt 
ms have thee, —thee to be my Logp, my Head, my Advo- 
jon MW cate, my King, my Prieſt, my Prophet, my on:y Belov- 
ed, or I cannot live? Ah! Sirs, you who know not ex- 
J ferimentally what I am faying, have your religion to 
leek yet. | 
idly 6. Were you ever crying, as it were, O daughters 
off of Jeruſalem, I charge you, if you ſee my Beloved, 
ave MW that you tell him that J am ſick of love? Have you 
me, been fainting, becauſe of an abſent and withdrawing 

Load? Have you had a weariſome night without ſleep 
your for CerisT, becauſe you could not find him? Know you 
and WM not by experience what I am ſaying? O then you are 


S- rangers to CurisT. | 
have 7. Are not your thoughts of Cuxtsr fo high, that you 
— Cannot, in the ten a part, 3 8 to o- 


tiers? Are not all things droſs and dung to you in com- 
pariſon of CuarsT ? If you can expreſs all your thoughts 
of bim, you want the mind of a faint, 

8. Though an eternal enjoyment of all poſſible creat- 
ed paradiſes of joy and delight, filled with all ſmells, 
all taſtes, all fights, all melodies, all delights the heart 
of man can imagine, were placed on the one hand, and 
the eternal enjoying, praiſing, and adoring 3 and 
the Laws on the other; which of theſe two lives would 
your heart moſt affect and run after? It may be you 
will ſay, 1 had rather eajoy CurisrT than all things.— | . 


How then comes it to paſs 798 long not to be with him ? 
Were How comes it to paſs, you have more delight in earthly 
enjoy ments than in the exerciſes of godlineſs W hy is | 


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meditating on him, the excellency of his perſon, and 
the glory of his kingdom, ſo melancholious and ſeldom 
an exerciſe? Why are you not making it your ſtudy 
and delight to keep up a near and intimate fellowſhip 
with the Father and the Son? Ah! poor things, you 
are altogether ignorant of yourſelves; and therefore 
you talk, and you know not what. | 

9. Find you in your ſoul a ſtrong and ardent longing 
and deſire after Gop, and ſtill to have more and more of 
him, till you be filled with all his fulneſs? Have you 2 
greater thirſt after him than ever you had after cold 
water in an unquenchable thirſt, thro? a burning fever, 
or great heat, labour, and wearineſs? Surely, if you be 
partakers of his nature, you cannot but bend to him 
with a ftrong benſel. Are your deſires after him cold 
and indifferent, and broken ciſterns can quench your 
thirſt ? Be aſſured you are dead, and have not your lenſes 
exerciſed, 

10. Can you diſcern betwixt the n of godli- 
neſs, and Gop in the exerciſe? Are you ſometimes ſeek: 
ing him, and cannot find him? Are you calling unto 
him, and he gives no anſwer? Are you ignorant of a 
mutual converſe with him? Find you not him ſpeak 
ing into your heart, as really as you ſpake up to him 
Know ye not what it 1s to receive an anſwer of prayer! 
Ah! ye are ſtrangers to the myſtery of godlineſs. 

11. Find you more delight in his fellowſhip, when you 
are alone, than ever you found in all your earthly enjoy- 
ments? Have you not been brought into his chambers df 
love, and rejoiced and been glad in him? Have you not 
found his love better than wine, and the ſayour of his 
good ointment moſt cheering and refreſhing? Nay, found 
you not, in ſome meaſure, to your own ſweet experience, 

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ſince you have reſigned yourſelf wholly over to him, with- 
out reſervation ? Dare you contradict a known precept, = 
and can ſacrilegiouſſy cut and carve upon his latter-will, AY 
and put your own carnal gloſſes upon his clear con:- 
mands, tor your own worldly and carnal ends? And yet 
ſaints! And yet man of JIEsus! That's impoſſible. 

13. Doth your * goodneſs reach the ſaints, the ex- 
© cellent ones of the earth, in whom is all your delight?“ 
Is there any, in your eyes, by a thouſand ſtages, ſo great 
as 2 ſaint ? Is not a creature the more lovely, excellent, 
and eſteemed in your eyes, the more wile he is, the more 
he is like all-lovely Jzsvs ? As for the ſeveral fancies of 
riches and honour, you value them not; theſe are not the 
things that heighten and depreſs perſons in your account ? 
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kinſmen, and friends, than to have them wiſe and holy ? 
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of the wealthy and proſperous; and can take a world- 


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of thy life, becauſe of worldly advantages; and can con- 
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thou art a ſtranger to holineſs, It may be thou art a 
tormalift ; that is, a perſon illuminated, who hath a cul- 
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may be with jeopardy ; but the life and marrow of re- 
ligion thou art altogether ignorant of. 

14. Do not the affairs of Cunisr's church throuth 
the world, and eſpecially through the particular church 


ne doth moſt own, lie nearer your heart than all other 
things? May you not ſay, * If I forget thee, O Zion, 
let my right hand forget her cunning ; if I prefer not 

Jeruſalem to my chiefeft joy 2? Are not your own al- 
fairs oftimes forgotten by you, ſo much are you taken 
up with the affairs of CHRIST? That Curisr maybe great, 
his intereſts glorious, and his people exalted, is the 
flower and top of your deſires. You are exceeding 
angry againſt, not only his open perſecuting enemies, 
but all who are indifferent or lukewarm in his mat- 
ters; thou canſt abide none but the zealous ones: Art 
thou not, as it were, burnt up with zeal for the glory 
of the only excellent one, — ſo that thou art crying out, 
Let the ſinners be conſumed from the earth, let the wic- 
* ked be no more, let all his enemies periſh; but let thoſe 
that love him be like the ſun, going forth in his 
* ftrezgth.? But on the contrary, do thine own affairs 
are largelieſt of thy thoughts? Thou art oftimes 
o occupied with them, that the affairs of Zion are al- 
moſt forgotten: It may be thou wiſhes well unto her, 
and had rather ſhe did ſwim than fink ; yea, would un- 
dergo a conſiderable loſe, upon condition ihe might be 
exalted: But wouldſt thou have the affairs of CHRIST 
great, merely out of deſire to his glory and exaltation! 
Dot thou defire the rifing of his intereſts, tho? it were 
upon thy fall and ruin? Are thy great affairs, even 
what concerneth life, and the greateſt affairs of thine 
own, ſmall and of no conſideration in thine eyes, in com- 
pariſon of the ſmalleſt things of Caxrsr? Vea, art thou net 
one who can overlook and cede many things to the en- 


OF GLOR Y. 245 
emy ? * Not an hoof,” is too great preciſeneſs to thee. 
And 1s not thy hatred and indignation at his enemies 
weak and indilcernable ? Thou canſt hear his work and 
people ſpoken evil of unconcernedly, and be little or 
nothing moved: Thou art a very meek and moderate 
man in his cauſe ; and art thou one of his? Hath he the 
flower of thy love ? Is that love burning in thine heart 
which many waters cannot quench ?? Art thou a genu- 
ine fon of Zion? Never think it. Poor deluded crea- 
ture, thou haſt religion yet to ſeek. 


15. Do all earthly things appear dead and crucified - 


like unto thee? Doſt thou look upon this earth as a 
melancholy wilderneſs, and haſt thine heart and eyes 
ſtill upon thy country? Yea, doſt thou look with a diſ- 
dainful eye upon this baſe world, fo full of wickednets, 


vexation, and vanity ; wherein thy Loxp and all his fol- 


lowers have got ſo bad entertainment? But on the 
contrary, doit thou look upon thine enjoyments in a 
lovely and warmly manner, and haft ſweeter and more 
blealant thoughts of them than of the life to come? 
When the world {miles upon thee, doſt thou {mile upon 
it again; and canlt eaſily bear the want of the full enjoy» 
ment of Gop; being ſo well pleaſed with an eaſy, earthly 
life, either in reality or in imagination, as thou art 
ſaying to thyſelf, 7 1s good to be here. Art thou thus, 
and yet a faint, —a pllgrim who is travellling heaven- 
ward, a creature whoſe heart and love is in another coun- 
try, and not here? This is a repugnancy, never think 
it, man; think thyſelf the thing thou art, an home-born 
ave; and then thou art a ſtep in the way to true liber- 
ty. | 

16, Art thou longing to be in the immediate embraces. 


of the © Chief of ten thouſand, to behold him face to 


tace, and be ſatiate with his immediate fellowſhip? Is it 
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as he is, and that white and beautiful company follow 
ing him whitherſoever he goes? When ſhall I ſee the 
bridegroom and the bride kiſs and embrace one another? 
When ſhall he fet his majeſtic head through theſe vifi- 
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patiently without beholding the beloved's face? Ah! 
Sirs, you have not been really eſpouſed to him. Have 
you not received his love tokens, nor been raviſhed with 
the ſmell of his fragrant ointments—and what wonder 
you are as you are? 

17. Are you depending on Gow in every Riez! 
Acknowledge you him in all your ways, and in every ex- 
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him, and truſt in hiin for all things in time and eter- 
nity; ſo that you find your mind greatly eafed, as ha- 
ving one to your father, who is both able and willing 
to carry you through all difficulties and afflictions? 
Are you endeavours to do his commandinents, and com- 
mit the event of all abſolutely unto him, who you know 
brings all to a good ilue ? Have you renounced the dif. 
poſing of yourſelves, and refigned that, with all your 
concerns, even unto him, and dare not do any thing 
without his approbation ? Or,-on the contrary do you 


in the purſe, or calves in the ſtall, then you hope you 


rely on this thing and that thing ? If there be money 


„„ 247 
[all not want. You truſt in human probabilities; but if 
thoſe fail you, you are deſpondeut; thou haſt not the 
confidence in Cop that may hold. up thy heart, in as 
cheeriul a condition as when corn and wine aboundeth 
unto worldlings ; thou cannot lay as much weight on 
the large promiſes in the book of Gop, as worldlings 
on their charters in earthly poſſeſſions; and therefore, 
thou art ever anxious about the event, and commits not 
tie diſpoſing of thyſelf to him: Thou walkeſt by the 
compals of riches, cafe, reputation, &c.—and whether 
it be the will of CERIS＋T is thy laſt conſideration; whether 
it be a courſe that will moſt glority him, and make thy 
progreſs ſwiſter to glory, doth not ſo much trouble thee 
as whether it be a courſe that will render thee proſperous, 
full of eaſe, wealth and efteem in a world. Doth thine 
heart dictate unto thee ſuch an occupation, ſuch a mar- 
riage, and ſuch an enterprize will bring in great wealth, 
much worldly joy, a multitude of friends, greater world- 
ly honour, &c, therefore it 1s to be followed? Ah! 
deluded wretch, walkeſt thou by earthly, carnal rules; 
and yet ſuch a noble creature as a ſaint? Never entertain 
ſuch fancies : The ſaints walk as Currsr walked ; he is 
their forerunner and captain. 

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fleck upon your way of walking; fee what is the con- 
fant frame of your heart, and what your heart affeds 
molt ; what you have been, and what you are aiming at 
and ſeeking moſt; what you rejoice moſt in; what the 
thoughts and intentions of your heart run out muſt up- 
on. O Sirs, be not beguiled in fo weighty a concern- 
ment: If you err here, you are eternally undone. It is 


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Satan's great endeavour to hinder you from conſidering 
yourſelf or your condition; he delights to ſee you pals 
avray your time in conlidering your natural abilities, 
your corporal endowments, your eſtate in the world, 
&c. But he is afraid you conſider your ſpiritual eſtate, 
how it ſtands betwixt Gob and you; whether you be in 
friendly terms with him or not: If not, how you may 
attain unto a near fellowſhip; and how you way keep 
yourſelf in his love and favour, and grow more and more 
familiar with him. He loves, and endeavours to divert 
your mind oft eternal concernments to temporal. But, 
Sirs, ought you not to give eternity the firſt place, the 
firit, and flower, and choice, and might of all your en- 
deavours? Make ſure work in ſo great, great a matter: 
Thy eternal well or woe is upon the wheels, man; what 
ſhall be your lot throughout endleſs ages, is a concern. 


ment above all you can conceive or endeavour. Know. 


eſt thou not how the matter ſtands ? Is not the time 
ſhort thou haft to prepare thyſelf into? Is not thy life 
moſt uncertain ?. Is not the work of ſalvation a great, a 
long, a difficult work? Is it not moſt ordinary that men 
die as they live, and moſt certain that their eternal con- 
dition is as they die? Knoweſt thou not that it is writ- 
ten, To day, if ye will hear my voice, harden not your 
hearts—thou knoweſt not What a day may bring forth; 
Come, O come, and embrace fo friendly a call. Have 
you an excuſe? Are you about any buſineſs of ſuch con- 
cernment ? Is any ſucceeding hour better than now? 
Doth not thine heart draw on a new ſcruff of hardneſs ? 
Why then, fall to work in good earneſt, as for life and 
death: Make ſure work; build not upon ſand, but on 
the rock: Never reſt till you have Carist indeed, and 
not ſome fancy in his place; be ſure you get an intereſt 
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a familiar and lively fe//ow/hip with the Father and the 
Hen; until there be mutual communications of love be- 
twixt Carisr and you; until you have heartily and for 
ever given yourſelf wholly over to him, and taken him 
waolly over to you, to be your King, Prieſt, and Pro- 
phet, —to be your all, and only One; until you be ena- 
moured with his matchle's beauty, overcome with his 
paſſing ſweetneſs; until earth, in its beſt condition, be an 
empty nothing, and vanity in your eyes; until heaven 
become your native country, where heart, and love, and 
all do lie; ſo that it ſhall be as natural for you to be 
heavenly-minded, as for earth-worms to be earthly. O 
then! we ſhall greet you by the excellent and princely 
name of Sainte. O then, you ſhall be no more beaſts but 
creatures of an high and ſeraphic nature, the ſons and mi- 
nions of the high and lofty One, the princes and heirs of 
heaven and earth, and all things; for then a// things are 


are yours, whether Paul, Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, 


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marriage; put time and days out of the way. Great things 
haſt thou to do before thou deſcend viſibly to this lower world. 
Thou haſt been making great diſpatch ſince thou aſcended ; and 
ſtill the nearer thy ſecond com ing, thou ſtill haſteneſt thy work the 
more. Theſe few years immediately preceding, how haſt thou 


put many and great things through thy hand! And now thy king. thi: 
dom is upon the advancing hand; tho? it feem almoſt all tottering ma' 
and decaying. That great and glorious work thou promiſed ot old ouſ 
is juſt now in the birth, and near the breaking forth. Thy grand tho 
enemies have begun to fall before thee, and have ſtill loſt ground; tho 
and though now they ſeem to have the advantage, it is but in ap- cry 
pearance: Thou art but making thyſelf to flee before them, that gat 
thou mayeſt draw them all after thee ; but ere ever they ſhall be jud 
aware, thou wilt make thine zmbuſhcado's to aſſault them on the of 
rear, and in a trice tkou wilt environ them on every fide, give them W not 
an irreparable rout. Thou art, O mighty Captain, as it were re- let 
tiring thyſelf, that thou mayeſt come back on thine enemies with ma. 
the greater force. Thou art at the crying out, Ah! I will eaſe WW mic 
me of mine adverſaries, and avenge me of mine enemies! For be- toc 


told, thou makef the earth empty, and makeſt it waſte, and turn- dit. 
eſt it up-ſide down, and ſcattereſt abroad the inhabitants thereof : ow; 
Thou art coming out of thy place, to puniſh the inhabitants of the pat 
earth for their iniquity; for thou ſhalt riſe up, as in mount Pe- ſho 
razzim ; thou ſhalt be wroth, as in the vally of Gibeon ; that thou ous 
mayeſt do thy work, thy ſtrange work; and bring to paſs thy act, WW the 
thy ſtrange act. At the noiſe of the tumult, the people ſhall flee; WM rev 
at the lifting up of thyſelf, the nations ſhall he ſcattered, and their WM thi 
ſpoil ſhall be gathered, like the ſpoiling of the catterpillers; as the Lo 
running to and fro of locuſts, ſo ſhalt thou run upon them; for thy Wl de 
ſword ihall be bathed in heaven, it ſhall come upon Idumea, and u- wi 
pon the people of thy curſe unto judgment: Thy {word ſhall be a 
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haft a ſacrifice in Bozra, and a great ſlaughter in the land of Idu- 


mea. And the unicorns ſhall come down with them, and the but. - 


locks, with the bulls; and their land ſhall be ſoaked with blood, 
and their duſt made fat with fatneſs: For the day of vengeance is in 
thine heart, and the year of thy redeemed is come. Thou art look- 
ing, and there is none to help; and thou wondereſt that there is 
none to uphold; therefore thine arm ſhall bring ſalvation unto thee, 
and thy fury it ſhall uphold thee. Thou wilt put on righteouſneſs 
as a breaſt-plate, as an helmet of ſalvation upon thine head : And 
thou ſhalt put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and ſhalt 
be clothed with zeal as a cloak: And thou wilt tread down the 
people in thine anger, and make them drunk in thy fury; and wilt 
bring down their ſtrength to the earth., Gird thy ſword on thy 
thizh, O moſt Mighty, with thy glory and thy majeſty; and in thy 
majeſty, ride proſperouſly, becauſe of truth, meekneſs, and righte_ 
ouſneſs; and thy right hand ſhall teach thee terrible things :---Be 
thou a refuge for the oppreſſed, a refuge in times of trouble: When 
thou makeſt inquiſition for blood, remember them: Forget not the 
cry of the humble; that they may fhew forth all thy praiſe, in the 
cates of the daughter of Zion; that thou mayeſt be known by the 
judzments thou executeſt, when the wicked is ſnared in the works 
of his own hands: Let not the needy always be forgotten: O let 
not the expectation of the poor periſh for ever. Ariſe, O Lokp, 
let not man prevail; put thine enemies in fear, O Lox, that they 
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ditch which they have made; let their miſchief return upon their 
own head, and their violent dealing come down upon their own 
pate. But thoſe that truſt in thee, let them rejoice, let them ever 
ſhout for joy; becauſe thou defendeſt them. Even let the righte- 
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wicked : Forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever: Have 
a reſpect unto thy covenant; for the dark places of the earth are 
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aſhamed; let the poor and needy praiſe thy name.” Forget not the 
voice of thine enemies; the tumalt of thoſe that rife up againſt thee 
increaſeth continually. They have taken crafty counſel againſt thy 


people, and conſulted againſt thine hidden ones: They have ſaid, 


Come let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of If. 
rael may no more be in remembrance; for they have conſulted to- 
gether with one conſent; they are canes againſt thee. O 
make them like a wheel, O my Gop, as the ſtubble before the 
wind; that men may know that thou, whoſe name alone is IEHo- 
van, art the Moſt High, over all the earth. O Loxp Gon, to whom 
vengeance belongeth; O Gop, to whom vengeance belongeth, ſhew 
thyſelf: Litt up thyſelf, thou Judge of the earth, render a reward 
to the proud. O Lox p, how long ſhall the wicked, how long ſhall 
the wicked triumph? How long ſhall they utter and ſpeak hard 
things, and all the workers of iniquity boaſt themſelves? They 
break in pieces thy people, O Loxp, and afflict thine heritage :--- 
Yet, they ſay, The Lord ftha!l not ſee, neither ſhall the Gop of 
Jacob regard it. But thou ſhait arife and have mercy upon Zion; 
for the time to favour her, yea the ſet time is come: For thy fer- 
vants take pleaſure in her ſtones, aud favour the duft thereof : For 
thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto 
the clouds. Be thou exalted, O Gon, above the heavens, and thy 
glory above all the earth: That thy Beloved may be delivered, ſave 
with thy right hand. Wilt thou not give vs help from trouble? 
For vain is the help of man. Through thee we ſhall do valiantly 

for thou art he that ſhall tread down our en2mies. Our mouth 
ſaall be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: Thou 
ſhalt put a new ſong in our mouth; each one of us ſhall fiag forth, 

O Lok, thou art my Gop, I will exxlt thee; I will praiſe thy 
name ; for thou haſt done wonderful thi wings, thy counſels of old are 
faithfulneſs, and truth : For thou haſt been a ſtrength to the poor, 
a ſtrength vo the needy in his diſtreſs; a refuge from the ſtorm, 
and a ſhadow from the heat; when the blaſt of the terrible One 
is as a ſtorm againſt the wall, To: this is our God, we have waited 
for him, and he will ſave us: This is the Loxp, we have waited 
for him ; we will be glad and rejoice in his ſalvation, We have a 
ſtrong city; ſalvation will Gop appoint for walls and bulwarks.--- 
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the 
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I cannot but ſmile, and leap for joy, through the fore-thoughts 
of the glorious days we ſhall ſee a little hence. Verily, Wellbe⸗ 
loved, thou haſt perſuaded me with a ſtrong hand, that the glory 
of the ſecond temple ſhall ſurpaſs the glory of the firſt ; and that 
ſuch a day of thy power and excellency ſhall ariſe very ſhortly up- 
on Britain, as ſhall dazzle the eyes of all the beholders, confound 
and put to ſhame all thy adverſaries, rejoice exceeding ly the hearts 
of thy now ſaddened and fainting friends, and have a ſtrong influence 
and reſplendence throughout all the whole earth. We are thy co- 
venanted people,---thine in a more peculiar manner than any peo- 
ple, nation, or language, throughout the univerſal world; thy name 
is called moſt fignally over us; thy glory and renown is moſt efpecial- 
ly concerned in our affairs: Greater mercy, power, wiſdom, and 
ſovereignty haſt thou not manifeſted on any people, fince thou aſ- 
cended on high. How majeſtic and gloriods have thy ontgoings 


been among us, as if here had been the chief place of thy dwelling _ 


on earth ?- Such majeſtic banners of mercy and juſtice haſt thou e- 
rected among us, as have amazed the nations about: And tho?, 
ere it be long, thou wilt pour out our blood, like water, by the 
force of the ſword, becauſe of our horrid apoſtaſies and inventions; 
yet thy Ioving-tindneſfs ſhalt thou never remove from vs, but ſhalt 
erect a banner of love over us, until the day of thine appearance. 
Thou haſt manifeſted that thou art well pleaſed with taine eſpouſ- 


ing of us, and that thou ſtandeſt to the bargain, by thy begetting a 


progeny of ſons and daughters, which appear to exceed in number 
and excellency all others through the habitable world. Though 
our iniquittes teſtify againſt us, and cry for utter deſolation, until 
we be like Admah and Zeboim; yet what wilt thou do for thy 
great name, which will be greatly blaſphemed throughout the 
world, if thou utterly conſume us? Haſt thou begun a work, and 
ſhalt thou not perfect it? Haſt thou laid the foundation, and ſhalt 
thou. not erect it unto the eopeſtone, that all may cry, Grace, 
grace unto it? Haſt thou not ever fruſtrate the cruel and helifh 
intents of thine enemies, and made their devices to fall on their 
own heads; and ſhalt thou not now plunge them into the midft of 
their own miſchiefs, ſo that the inhabitants of the world shall cry 
out, Higgaion, Selah 2 Hafſt thou ſuch a numerous and excellent 
remnant, according to the election of grace; and ſhall they not 
hold thee from removing altogether from hence? Yea, ſo hold thee, 
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double bleſſing. Art thou the hearer of prayer; and ſhall not the 

ſighs, and tears, and groans of thy afflicted, perſecuted ones, prevai 
{trongly with thee ? Are there not thouſands of thouſands of pray. 
ers lying before the throne yet not anſwered? How many ſtrong 
wreſtlers have prayed and weeped for thy vindicating thy work 
and -people, and died praying? Tho? fighs and tears did not move 
thee, yet wilt thou not regard the cry of the ſouls under the altar, 
who teſtified for the very ſmalleſt of thy intereſts unto the death ? 
Is not thy kingdom now upon the advancing hand, and the glori. 
ous days at the cloſe of time, which of old thou haft promiſed, at 
the door? Anon, thou wilt tread upon the high places of the earth, 
and the inhabitants ſhall tremble, and be amazed ; ond the lofti- 
neſs of man ſhall be bowed down, and the haughtineſs of man fhall 
te made low, and-thou alone ſhalt be exalted in that day. Thou 
art coming forth in great fury, and ſhall tread the wine-preſs with- 
out the city, up to the horſe-bridles: And the carcaſſes of the men 
of this generation ſhall be ike dung upon the earth: -“ For the 
word ſhall devour from the one end of the land even to the other: 
No fleſli ſhall have peace, becauſe the earth is defiled under the in. 
habitants thereof; ſince they have tranſgreſſed the laws, changed 
the ordinances, broken the everlaſting covenant : For, from the 
leaft of them even unto the greateſt of them, every one 1s given to 
covetouinels; and from the prophet unto the prieſt, every one 
dealeth falſely. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of thy 
people ſlightly, ſaying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace: They 
be all adulterers, an aſſembly of treacherous men; and they bend 
their tongues, like their bow, for lies; but they are not valiant for 
the truth upon the earth. Behold, thy whirlwind ſhall go forth 
in fury, even a grievous whirlwind, it ſhall fall grievouſly upon the 
head of the wicked. Thou haſt not ſent theſe prophets, yet they 
ran; thou haſt not ſpoken to them, yet they propheſied; there- 
fore wilt thou caſt out the carcaſſes of theſe prophets, and theſe to 
whom they have propheſied, into the ſtreets and the fields, to be 
devoured by the fowls of the heaven and the beaſts of the field: 
For thou wilt cut off from this generation head and tail, branch 
and raſh in one day. And it ſhall be as with the people, ſo with 
the prieſt; as with the ſervant, ſo with his maſter; as with the 
maid, ſo with her miſtreſs ; as with the buyer, ſo with the ſeller; 
as with the lender, ſo with the borrower ; as with the taker of u- 


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as the fire; it ſhall devour the briers and thorns, and ſhall kindle 
in the thickets of the lforeſt, and they ſhall mount up as the lift- 
ing up of ſmoke, Through thy wrath the land is darkened, and 
the people ſhall be the fuel of thy fire: No man ſhall ſpare his 
brother; they ſhall eat every man the fleſh of his own arm,---Ma-» 
trafſeh, Ephraim,---and Ephraim, Manaſſeh; and they together 
hall be againſt Judah; and the {ſtreets ſhall be filled with blood, 
and the fields ſhall be ſoaked with blood and fatneſs; for it is the 
day of thy fury and revenge for the controverſy of Zion : But, yet 
in it ſhall be a tenth, and it ſhall return, and ſhall be eaten as a 
tyle tree and as an oak, whoſe ſubſtance is in them when they caſt 


their leaves: For the holy ſeed ſhall be the ſubſtance thereof. And 


in that day, ſhall the BRaNcn or THE LoRD be beautiful and.glori- 
ous; and the fruit of the earth ſhall be excellent and comely, for 
them that are eſcaped of Ifrael. And in that day ſhalt thon be for 
2 crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto the reſidue of 
thy people; and for a ſpirit of judgmeut to him that fitteth in 
judgment; and for ſtrength to them who turn the battle to the 
gate: For thou in the midſt of us art mighty; thou wilt ſave; thou 
wilt rejoice over us with joy, thou wilt reſt in thy love; thou wilt 
rejoice over us with finging ; and thou wilt gather them that are 
jorrowful for the ſolemn aſſembly, even them to whom the reproach. 
of it was a burden; and thou wilt create upon every dwelling-place 
of mount Zion, and upon her aſſemblies, a cloud and ſmoke by day, 
and the ſhining of a flaming fire by night. For upon all the glory 
ſhall be a defence. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneſt 


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inheritance ? Thou retaineſt not thy anger for ever; becauſe thou 
delighteſt in mercy. O may thou be glorious and exalted through 
Britain and the whole world! When ſhall the night be gone, and 
thou ariſe with healing under thy wings? When ſhalt thou pour 
down the Spirit from on high, and make unto thyfelf a willing peo- 
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1ible ones, according to thy promiſe. Cover us with thy feathers, 
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and buckler. Then ſhall we not be afraid for the terror by night, 
nor for the arrow that flyeth by day, nor the peſtilence that walk- 
eth in darkneſs, nor for the deſtruction that waſteth at noon-day. 
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dut it ſhall not come near us; only with our eyes ſhaH we beheld 
and ſee the reward of the wicked. O ! let us ſee the good of thy 
choſen, and rcjoice with thy nation, and be glad with thy people: 
Let us ſee good, according to the days wherein we have ſeen evil, 
and according to the days thou haſt afflicted us; and perform thy 
great promiſes, now in the end of time and days. As thou haſt al- 
ready pouredout the vials of thy wrath on the ſeat of the beaſt, now, 
eur mighty One, dry up the river, the great river; and let there 
come a great voice from the temple of heaven, from the throne, Ir 
15 DONE: That thou mayeſt have a glorious church of Jew and 
Gentile ; ſuch a day of thy power, and beauties of holineſs, as that 
the cleareſt days we or our fathers ever ſaw were but days of dark. 
neſs and ignorance, in compariſon of them. Haſte, O Wellbeloved, 
that thou mayeſt cry down time and days; and become all in all 
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AREWEL, you beauties of the lower ſtorey 
Of Gop's great all; adieu, thou painted glory 

Of filly earth; farewel, you dreams, you toys, 
Cloth'd in the garb of true delights and joys : 
Yet were you ſuch as to the world you ſeem, 
What place now can you have in mine eſteem ? 
Since all you leſſer beauties diſappear, 
In weſtern point of my heart's hemiſphere ; 
You roſe, ſhone, ſet ; yet fhall you not again 
Shine on my ſoul, while heaven of heavens remain : 
No more ſhall painted loves my ſoul bereave, 
No more ſhall gliſt'ring ſhades my mind deceive, 
No more ſhall empty hopes cauſe diſcontent, 
No more ſhall cracking cares my ſoul tormeut; 
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No more ſhall crackling joys my ſp'rits exhale, 
No more ihall vain conceits my thoughts inthral ; 
No more ſhall vain delights chock ſolid pleaſure, 
No more flall ſtore ef clay appear a treaſure ; 
No more ſhall childiſh rage my blood inflame, 
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No more shall ſilly body cauſe a loathing; 
No more shall't ſtand in need of food and cloathing ; 
No more shall men contemn if theſe fall low, 
No more shall men eſteem if theſe o'erflow ; 


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258 DYING SAIN T'S SONG. 
No more shall fin remain, ſource of all ill, * 
No more shall fin man's glorious ſtructure ſpill; 
No more shall ſin lodge near to heavenly grace, 
No more shall fin eclipſe CHRIS T's lovely face; 

No more shall fin pull heart from things divine, 
No more shall ſin my heart to earth incline. 
Wouldft thou, in short, expreſs all ſaid before ? 
Bleft felf, ſay this, that ſin /hall be no more. 
Welcome, O gentle Death; I think thy face 
Appears not grim, but hath = pleaſant grace; 
What tho” thy looks are ghoſtly, ſad and ſour 

Unto the wicked, whom thou doſt devour ; 

Not ſo tous; ſervants cannot appal ; 

For ours are Death, life, heaven and earth, and all. 
Firſt fight of thee, friend Death, caus'd languid heart 
Leap for exceeding joy, and every part 

To ſpring with floods of pleaſure. I was ſlain 
with ſad delays, but am reviv'd again. 

I'll no more call thee Death, but Life ; I find 

In thee, not death's, but life's ſymptoms combin'd. 
True, Death, thou art unto the wretched band, 
Stark dead in fin, and under thy command. 

O but all things have changed their kind and face, 
Unto the fons of light, and life, and grace ! 

Sweet CHRIST hath turn'd for us all blacks to white, 
All woes to joys, all ſadneſs to delight. | 
He paſt the lifts with foes, and gave the foil, 

And made all foes to friendship back recoil. 

With thee, O Death, he grappled hand to hand, 
And led thee captive from thy native land : 

Now thou art tam'd, and loſt thy fatal fting ; 

Foe3 without harm can no diſaſter bring. 

Enter this heart, friend Death, and thou shalt hear 
Thy praiſes ſung, with a melodious cheer. | 

O! ſweet beginner of all joys and pleaſure, 

Of all content and fulneſs, paſting meafure. 

O! joyful ev'ning-period, without morrow, 

Of wants, and pains, and tears, and griefs, and ſorrow ?_ 
And, which is moſt, O bleſſed outmoſt border 

Of all corruption, ſinning, and diſorder ' 


DYING SAINT'S SONG. 
Once paſt this march, I may with boldneſs cry, 
All fin is gone, adieu all miſery. | 
O ſafe refuge ! O ſweet eternal port, 
To which all wearied pilgrims do reſort ! 
O filver ſtream ! O pleaſant paſſing ſtrand 
From clownish earth to fair EMManver's land! 
O gladſome boatman, giving ſafe convoy 
From weeping earth, unto the land of joy ! 
O quiet ſleep ! which wearied ſenſe affails, ; 
And ſp'rits and powers, with ſweet immortal gales ! 
O juſt umpire, which doth the march deſcry 
Of flying time and vaſt eternity 
O ſkilful ſower of earth's mortal grain, 
That it in heavenly glore may riſe again! 
O noble usher, who by the hand doſt bring 
Us to the hall of the immortal King ! 
Would I thy praiſes in one word expreſs ? 
I'll only fay, O SOURCE oy HAPPINESS ! 
From thee did never-fading glory grow ; 
From thee did ever-blooming joy o'erflow ; 
By thee eternal death was vanquiſhed, 
By thee eternal life did it ſucceed. 

O ſtrange ! The ſource of life did purchaſe more 
By dying, than all creatures loſt be fore; 
Yea, more by infinite tranſcendent ſtages, 
That can be told through endleſs ſtore of ages. 
By thee the ſaints their heritage poſſeſs: 
By thee earth's too too numerous folks decreaſe. 
Thou art more mild, of a more pleaſant nature, 
In theſe laſt ages of the lower creature, 
Than in the firſt, when thou did ſuffer men 
To run a longſome race of fin and pain. 
O ! without thee our ſtrongeſt hope would fail, 
Our joys would die, deſpair would us affail. 
The thoughts of thee brought to my heart relief, 
In all my wand'rings through the vale of grief; 
Indeed my longing foul was ſore oppreſt, 
With ſad delays, when thou ſeem'd not to haſte 
Thy wished courſe, and to forget thy call; 
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60 DYING SAINT'S SONG. 


O now my heart's rejoic'd ! Sweet Death and I 

Are in each other's arms; thrice happily, 

I bravely fly out o'er the march of time, 

Unto that happy, happy glorious chme; _ 

Where ſtore.l are enduring boundleſs treaſures 

Of loves, and joys, and heart-contenting pleaſures, 

All joy, death's chady vale---in drawing near 

Thy dark'ned borders, ſtrange! thou doſt appear 

Another thing than what I did conceive; 

Miſtakes cauſe needleſs fears, and joys bereave ; 

Thee did my thoughts preſent an ugly den, 

O'eripread with horror, ſadneſs, fear, and pain: 

Sight tells the truth, O thrice delightſome place! 

Stor'd with refreshing shades of ſweet ſolace, 

Caſt by theſe ſtately trees of fragrant fume, 

Which do o'erſpread this true elyſium, 

And do adora this trance, which pilgrims bring 

Into the paradiſe, which ever ſprings. 

Now do I ſet my feet within this vale ; 

What gales of joys are theſe, which me aſſail 

In this firſt entry? O! this grave might be 

A ravishing repoſe through all eternity ! 

All here do laugh, and ſmile, and ſpring, and ſing ; 

Were ſadneſs here it could not ſadneſs bring: 

Were placed here all grieſs and woes of creatures, 

Would they not change unto melodious natures ? 
And can, O faireſt One, thy word command 

Death's ſaddeſt vale into a joyful land ? 

How doth the place where thou doſt ever dwell, 

In glory, beauty, and all things excel ! 

But what if this be it? O heavenly frame! 

My mind's enlarg'd, my heart is in a flame! 

O ſweet aſpects: With what a pleaſant grace, 

Do heavenly hoſts ſurround me in this place ? 

I'm ravish'd with the raiment of that One, 

Whoſe fragrancy tranſcendeth Lebanon! 

His voice, his ſoul-tranſport ing emanation 

Strikes me in an eternal admiration! 

No, this is glory's port; I ſee the hall, 

Where lovely CuRIST, with crown in hand, doth call. 


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Come, come my Fair, thy princely head I'll crown 
With theſe green bays of glory and renown ; 
I'll thee adorn in ſuch a brave attire, 
That all who thee behold shall thee admire. 
O Love, thou ever haſt been in my ſight, 
A maſs of beauty, ſweetneſs, and delight! 
But now, my Fair, I'll thee ſo beautify, 
With the reſplendent rays of majeſty, 

And paſſing glory's beauty; PI fo fill, 
With ſtore of heavenly grace, thy mind and will, 
F And all thy powers; thy glore ſo flourish shall, 
And bloom, and shine, and ray, through ages all, 
That moſt envying ſeers shall confefs, 
Thou art a mirror of all happineſs. 
O haſt thou fought thy foes, and vanquished, 
By off' ring violence unto all who did 
Thy courſe to heaven oppoſe, and shall not I 
Put in thine hands theſe palms of victory ? 
O ! didft thou gladly ſuffer and deſpiſe 
All loſſes, pains, and woes, that did ariſe 
For my name's ſake, O Love,---and shall not I 
Cauſe thee to reign in glorious majeſty ? 
Waſt thou to all created things denied, 
Eſteeming them but droſs and dung, and ey'd 
Me as the only one,---and shall not I 
Thee with my matchleſs beauty ſatisfy ? 
O ! haſt thou bid farewel, for ever-more, 
To earthly things, hich thou enjoy'd before; 
That thou mightſt come to mex--and shall not 1 
Give full enjoyment through eternity? 
O then ariſe, my Fair, and come away ; 
Behold the eaſtern beams of this fair day 
Of vaſt eternity dart in thy face, 
Cauſing all ſhades retreat and flee apace. 
O come, and enter this thrice happy place, 
Thou now beholdit ; what ravishing ſolace 
Dwells here, what paſſing joys! what boundleſs pleaſures ! 
Flow in this land, like fountains, floods, and rivers ! 
Nay, nothing here but ſweetneſs ! Every part 
Is fill'd with all delights of mind and heart; 


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Here every ray's a white and joyful day; 
Here every bloom's a fragrant ſmel.ing May; 
If once thou enter here, thy rain is gone, 
Thy winter's paſt, and all thy woes are done. 
This is the holy place within the vail, 
Wherein, once enter'd, shalt for ever dwell; 
This is the place of old I did prepare 
Jo be the ſtage whereon I might declare 
My beauty, glory, and excellency, 
Before this glorious, ſtately company 
Of men and angels, who shall ſee my face, 
And shall for ever in my ſight find grace. 
Lo, here below theſe roſy, fragrant groves, 
We'll ſatiate ourſclves with mutual loves. 
O! here our bleſſedneſs shall bleom for ay: 
Ariſe, my Love, my Fair, and come away. 
Thus ſpeaks my Los, this is his invitation, 
Thus ſounds his voice: O endleſs adrairation : 
Tranſporting all: O fires, dart from above, 
Transforming all into a flame of love! 
His ſoul-alluring voice, his heavenly grace 
That ſhines in every look, his faireſt face, 
His lovely eyes, his countenance divine 
Hath raviſh'd quite away this heart of mine. 
At firſt aſpect, his ſhade, a draught might prove, 
Would quite eclipſe ten thouſand worlds of love. 
Thrice bleſſed ſaints, thrice bleiſed angels, you, 
Who ſtand within the near immediate view 
Of ſuch an one, all in your proper places, 
En circled with eſſential love's embraces ! 
It's like two heavens of joy, to think upo 
That I ſhall be within theſe arms anon! 
Moreiſolid joy the hope of glory brings 
Than all enjoyments of created thin gs. 


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WRITTEN BY 


MR ANDREW WELL WOOD, 


A little before his death. 


A Letter to his Mother. 


DEAR MoTHER, London. 


Ir I were able to dictate, now when I am enterin g 
into eternity, I could tell you the conſolations wherewith I am com- 
forted of Gop, even when the chiefeſt delights of the world, theſe 
trifles upon which the ſons of men doat, can be no comfort to me. 
Alas! what are the comforts that flee away at death---even the 
vanities of time, which cannot convoy a man without the borders 
of time, and far leſs endure with him through all eternity ? My ; 
death would ſeem judicial-like to blind worldlings, who ſee no 
zudgment, but to be deprived of the empty and tafteleſs vanities of 
time; but I ſee that all things work" together for good to them 
4. are the called according to his purpoſe : Even difficulties, 
tentations, griefs, and woes have all an happy end to the godly. 
Out of the eater cometh meat, and out of the ſtrong cometh ſweet- 
neſs: So, even eating and conſuming griefs, ſickneſs, and loſſes, 
which make the outward man decay, renew the inward man, and 
make him flouriſh ; even the ſtrongeſt difficulties, tentations, and 
foes, when overcome, yield the ſweeteſt victory: And the thoughts 
of having ruſhed through fo many enemies, and ſo ſtrong, ſhall be . 
{weet throughout eternity. I ſee clearly, all the ſteps of divine 
Providence toward me have conſpired to a bleſſed cloſe ; even the 
moſt difficult of them, eſpecially this half year. I would not for 
never ſo much but that I die where I die, and am fick in this place; 
for his diſpenſations have a wonderful depth in them, and cannot 
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lings are blind, and vary ſtrangely in their judgment of things; and 
even the ſaints, while here, are much blinded with fin and infirmi- 
ties of this overpowering mortality. Death has indeed a terrible 
face to theſe that place all their happineſs in this life ; but I fear 
it not---it is not death, but an harbinger of glory unto me: It is 
an hard-favoured meſſenger, tent from my ſweet Lord to me; it's 
a dark and ſad chariot carrying to the land of light and joy. My 
LokD hath done to me what he hath determined from eternity; 
and all his purpoſes, even all the thoughts of his heart are full of 
love, infinite love, to thoſe that wait upon him. TI reſolved to glo- 
rify him on earth, and dedicated my life wholly to my Lord's ſer- 
vice; and I know it is all one with him as if I hand done it: And 
I ſhall in another manner exalt and ſerve him above, than I could 
have done here below, weighted with mortality and innumerable 
infirmities. My LoRD hath ſaid to me, It would weary thee, to 
ſtay too long in this vally of tears and miſery; TI take it as if thou 
hadſt done me many years ſervice ; I have abridged thy days, but 


not thy life: I have ſhortened thy toiling, but not thy reward. --- 


And O! what a bleſſed thing it 1s, that he takes the taſk of many 
weary years ſervice off my hand: My warfare is ended; O the 
joyful change I am undergoing ! When ſhall I ſee him as he is? 
when ſhall I get my fill of lovely Ixsus? O his beauty, his beau- 
ty, his beauty! Men and angels may admire the freeneſs of his 
grace, and admire it, and ever admire it; but what can they ſay 
or comprehend of it? O the freeneſs of his grace ! that he ſhould 
admit the like of me to ſtand eternally before him, and to be for e- 
ver in his preſence; to be one of his honourable train; nay, to en- 
joy him as near as can be.---O ! think ye I loſe any thing, who get 


the foreſtart, and become poſſeſſor of that inheritance, the inheri- 


tance of many a more excellent and ancient ſaint than I; nay, the 
inheritance of the Heir of all things? It's little of hawwen I know, 
being obſcured with mortality, and living by faith, and not by 
fight: But O! to think of the expreſſions of ſcripture concerning 
it! „Eye hath not ſeen, no1 ear heard, nor hath it entered into 
* the heart of man to conceive, what Gop hath prepared for theſe 
* that love him: If heaven could be conceived by us, I ſhould 
not ſo much eſteem it. But O! it's a maſly thing! O ſtrange 
that Gop ſhould make bits of mortal men (and what a poor worth- 
leſs thing man is, let any behold in a dying and dead carcaſe) not 
only as happy as we can deſire or conceive, but as happy as can be. 


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O! the beholding of the face of the Ancient of days! But I know 
in whom J have believed, and that he is able to preſent me ſpotlefs 
before the Father, with exceeding great joy. II I periſh, let him 
ſee to his promiſe. I have laid all upon him: If I periſh (through 


the ſtrength of my Lonp, by whom I can do all things) I ſhall per- 


11h believing. I expect much of heaven, more than TI can conceive ; 
But, O! I think I ſhall be exceedingly deceived, (O ſweet deceit 23 
for I ſhall find more than ten thouſand worlds can comprehend. I 
ſhall ſee my Father ere long. Many ſweet days have he and I had 
upon earth: Many innumerable ages ſhall we have in heaven to- 
gether. O heaven: O the difference betwixt this melancholious 
ſmoky inn, and the magnificent hall of glory! O the change I am 
undergoing! I go from the twilight of the ſun and moon to the 
noon-day of the ſplendour of glory ; from a dunghul to a throne ; 
from bodily infirmities, diſtreſſes, diſeaſes and pains, to a land whofe 
inhabitants do not fay, I am ſick; from weariſome labour and toil- 
ing, into an inconceivable ſweet paradiſe, where I ſhall reſt for e- 
ver more; from a mortal company to an innumerable immortal 
company of angels, to the General Afembly and church of the fir}t- 


born, which are <uritten in heaven ; and to Gop the judze of all,. 


and to the ſpirits of juſt men made perfect; and to Ixsus the mo- 
diator of the new covenant. O what think ye, to be eternally, e- 
ven for ever and ever among ſuch ſweet company ? Are there a- 
ny more honourable and amiable company than they ? O what 
ſhall I fay? What ſhall I think? that filthy and unworthy I 
ſhould ſhew my face among ſo glorious an aſſembly. What is here 
but vanity and grief of heart? O do you not long to be gone, to be 
in that ſweet and inconceivable paradiſe ? Caſt your anchor with- 
in the vail, and then you need not fear death, come when it will. 


But O! long life or death rather! For the ſooner at our journey's: 


end the better, and the longer we are clogged with ſin and miſery 
the worſe; but the more we will love to linger in this Sodom. It is 
hard ot get our hearts drawn quite out of time: We look kindly to the 
baſtard's iaheritance ; and therefore we abhor death, and can frift 
heaven longer than any thing elſe ; But if we could get a fight of 
the King in his beauty, and of the land that is afar off; then O to 
be gone ! O to be above theſe viſible heavens, and amongſt theſe 
glittering companies, who enjoy him to the full. O if man knew 
how vain a world this is: O but they are happy, and inconceivably 
nappy, who eſcape fairly the tentations, ſnares and difficuities that 


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are in the valley of tears, and who are fairly landed on that odor. 
iferous, flowery land, on that raviſhing land, which infinite and e. 
ternal love did contiive to be the royal theatre, whereon ſhould be 
ſhown to men and angels, the beighth and breadth, depth and 
length, of that love which paſjeth underſtanding. If you run faſt» 
you cannot be long behind me; and we ſhall ſee one another im- 
mediately: Death is no ſeparation to the ſaints, for time is no- 
thing: For what is it to be ſeparated for a few hours, to them that 
are to dwell eternally together! What 1s tranſient time to never 
ending eternity of joys? Death is far miſtaken by the moſt part 
of ſaints; they have a wrong conception of it; it is a ſweet repoſe 
to a weary ſoul, and looſeth the ſoul from the bands of mortality, 
letting it out from a filthy, ſtinking priſon, unto the ſweet and 
fragrant air of glory; it ends all ſorrow and ſighings, and begins 
unſpeakable joys: It's but a dark cloud uſhering in the bright dawn- 
ing of eternal glory. O bu: my Lox p hath excellently circum: 
ſtantiate my death: OI admire his love ! I could tell many ſweet 
paſſages of providences he hath caſten in my way: But I delay, 
until I be fitting upon the brink of the river of life, and then I ſhal] 
number them: I cannot now praiſe him. Alas! that J am ſo ftn- 
pid aud dull; but I ſhall praiſe him anon, I ſhall eternally praiſe 
him! O be glad, and rejoice in our Gop ! O ſweet! that poor 
dymg, miſerable I was not leſt to uncertainties, not to know 
what to do; but to have ſuch a ſweet and kind LosD to repoſe 
on! Had I ſtayed longer in this wretched life, I was reſolved to 
have ſhewn myſelf as faithful to yon as I could : But I commit 
yOu unto his grace, who hath cared for me, even unto death. Com- 
mit yourſelf to him. He will bring all to a good iſſue that is truſted to 
him. We are not our own; therefore we are not to diſpoſe of our. 
ſelves. CuR1sT is a good tutor and governor, and carries all theſe 
well through that commit themſelves to him. See that Mary ne- 
glect not ſeeking of Gop, praying, reading of the ſcriptures ; let 
her not frequent ill company. O the worth ef a ſoul, and the re 
ward of theſe that are inſtrumental in gaining of a ſoul ! Our bo. 
dies muſt go to the duſt; but our fouls are of more worth than ten 
thouſand worlds. I am not able to ſay more, Lam ſo weak. 0 
run faſt, death 1s at the door. We are all ſtepping into eternity ; 
What is time, but a preparation for it ? Overlook time, and live as 
daily dying, as one that muſt paſs away immediately, and never be 
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r- reſt here: Let worldligs dream of reſt here; ours is above; our "Hh 
Cu hearts are gone; and we are dead to the world. Farewel for a l 
be few days.—Thelſe are the words of 1 
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ins 1 HOPE the laſt words of your brother, who is now 
un- ſtepping into eternity, will have ſome weight with you; and this 
— conſideration will make you not to neglect them. Know you why 
ert you came into the world? I am ſure, and you are as ſure, not to 4 
ay, eat and drink, and paſs away your time in earthly buſineſs; but to 1 l 
all get the work of your ſalvation well wrought and finiſhed, before wo 
"OY Death aſſault you: It is moſt uncertain, and ſteals upon men as a 4 ; 
5 thief in the night, when they are ſecure, never dreaming of ſuch a 0 f 
ag great change: Tho? truly my gracious Lox lets me ſee Death ſtill "nn 
. approaching nearer and nearer; that I may draw ever nearer and 5 
fs nearer him who is Lite. O! it concerns you to try whether you \ 
to ſhall be a baſe miſcreant, crawling in the bottomleſs pit, with un- 1 
8 ſpeakable torments, in the midſt of wicked men and devils, blaſ- 5 
1 pheming JIEHO VA and the Lams to eternity; or a glorious ſaint, 7 
Kro conformed unto the image of the Son of the eternal Gop, loving» a 
r. praiſing, adoring him that ſitteth on the throne, and the LAB, 10 ; 
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"Mi be overlooked, in compariſon of this abſolutely and only neceſſary we 
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8 Cet not the poor name affright you; for holineſs is the ſweeteſt | 0 
ten and moſt eaſy thing in the world to them that are holy): For ih 
0 without holineſs, no man ſhall ſee the Lord : And ſalvation muſt 1 
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e is ments, tho' they were ten thouſand worlds, You muſt know the 1 
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you, Ma GUTHRIE's TRIAL OF A SAVING INTEREST IN CHRIST; 
2nd defire you to read it, till you become ſuch an one as he deſcribes, 
Peleve it, god2rnefs is profitable for all things, having the pro- 
mife of this life, and that which is to come; though it may ſeem 
troubleſome in the beginning,---and though CurrsT's ſweet and 
eaſy yoke may ſeem en hard wreath,---yet, believe me, there is no- 
tuing in the world but it, which can give reſt and full ſatisfaction 
to the foul, All things here are uaſatisfying, tho? you had all you 
can deſire of them. O this is a vain world! "Theſe who are near 
eternity will ſay ſo. O the vaſt difference betwixt time and eter- 
rity! I aifire you, if you had all your heart could with or deſire 


of the pomp, treaſures, and pleaſures of time, you would find no 


contentment in them: And when you ſhall be in ſuch a condition 
am in, hen pale Death ſhall be ſtaring you in the face, then 
all the glory of time will be, in your eyes, nothing but a withered 
nower. I muſt ſay again, and again, O the difference betwixt time 
end eternity! They that get heaven, can get no more; for, alas! 
what are all additions of time? What is a few days eating, and 
drinking, and trifling? Yea, what are all the maſly exerciſes of 
tune, compared with tae exercifes of glory? We place too much 
of our happineſs in this fide of time,---and therefore Death is a 
great diſippointer. But we ſhould be indifferent to all things in 
time, and have our eyes ever fixed upon the thoughts of eternity : 
Then *tis not at all to be regarded in what time of a man's life he 
die, if he die in the LoRD. Yea, 'tis an invaluable blefling for the 
priſoner, or weary pilgrim, to have all his toilings by his hand, and 
to win to his native ſoil. You may think I put a hard taſk upon 
you, becauſe our nature 1s all polluted, and we are accuſtomed to 
do evil: But the ways of holineſs are ſweet, and @7 it's paths are 
p2ace: If you were once acquaint with the ways of it, you would 
lay, that fin is the moſt baſe and vile thing in all the world; and 
holineſs is the moſt noble ornament. And conſider this, the more 
you ſet your mind on holineſs, the more ſweet and eaſy you will 
tind it. As for temporary things, take no care for them ; they are 
but additions to the Son's inheritance. I may ſay by experience, 
he hath made good his word to me in all theſe things of time; he 
hath made it good unto the end of my race, in a moſt ſtrange and 
wonderful way: So that I have taſted more of my LoRp's good- 
2's and wonderful providence in this laſt half year of my life, than 
in many years before. 1 think it a merciful diſpenſation, that he 


LETTERS, | 209 
hath weaned my heart from the world more in this half year's ſick- 
neſs, than in many years health. This whole half year of my life 
hath been a continual. winter for bearing down my corruption» 
both original and actual. And now the world hath no reliſh to 
me.--Farewel, vain world, I heartily ſubmit unto death, if itwere for 


no more, but becauſe it is the good pleaſure of my Loꝝ p, who moſt 


mercifully takes me away from the bondage of my corruption, and 
from the dreadiul evils to come. Meditate ſeriouſly on Death : 
It is a buſineſs moſt weighty, a buſineſs upon which your eternal 
well or wo depends. The end crowns the work; die well; and you 
are well, even well for ever- more. And O! is not Ever-more a 


maſſy word? You ſhall find death eaſy, if you be adiligent fecker © 


of God in your lue-time ;---if otherwiſe, you ſhall find it the ſoreſt 
battle, that ever you fought; and you ſhall quake, when you ſhall 
hear an avenging Gop ſpeaking audibly in your conſcience, He 7s 
not mine, take his evil ſoul, devils, pull him to pieces, and hate 
him away to utter darkneſs: The poor ſoul wreſtles in vain, but 
an avenging Gop leaves it for a prey to devils. Look not on 
death as afar off: Little will be the difference betwixt my death 
and yours. This generation will quickly be gone. Time is a gliſ- 
tering ſtar, appearing ſomething before hand, but indeed it is a tran- 
ſient nothing. And one that dies at fixty years of age, and another 
that dies at twenty years, thinks both alike, their bypaſt time is a 
dream. Short or long time is not to be regarded, but in prepara- 
tion for eternity: And he that is prepared, hath lived long enough. 
I could give you many inſtructions, were I not very weak. Be- 
ware of ill company; never think to (ee Cop, if you walk with ill 


company. Companions in time, and companions in eternity. Lay 


ſome vows upon yourſelf; but remember this, that you vow to do 
nothing in your own ſtrength ; for you ſhall find, that when you 
are weakeſt in your own eyes, then are you ſtrongeſt. I ſa, lay 


ſore vows upon yourſelf, as to pray thrice a-day ſeriouſly and con- 


ſ-ientiouſly,---to read ſo much ſciipture, - and to meditate. Not 
that men are tyed to particular times, bat it is molt profitable to 
lay bands upon our looſe corruptions, which elſe will plead tor too 
much liberty. Imagine not your thoughts to be free; vain thoughts 
are the ſource of vain words, and unprofitable actions; the mind is 
the fpring of all. Beware of the fins of the time, as you would 


ſhun the terrible judgments that threaten an apoſtate generation. 


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Not the LORD; therefore, they w ho hear them are partakers of their 
abeminations. I need ſay no more. You never have rightly fought 
Gep, until it be your chief delight to ſeek him ; thereſore, never 
reſt till you can ſay, Ii go to Gop my chiefeſt joy. O! then 
vou are as happy as Gop can make you, (to ſpeak io with reverence 
of that high and lofty One, who inhabits eternity :) and can you 
bc more happy? I take to witneſs againſt you your own conſcience, 
and the great Judge of the quick and the dead, that if you continue 

in any vain imagination, [iv7ng without God in the world, neglect- 
ing /o greet a ſalvation, you are a trampler under foot of the blood 
of the covenant, and a deſpiſer of all admonitions. But all this will 
co little until he who made heaven and earth regenerate you. It 
may be he will hedge up your way on every fide by affliction, that 
you may be conſtrained to flee unto him, who is a preſent help in 
time of trouble. This, if you follow it, is the beſt legacy I could 
have left vou; for if you knew the danger of the pelf of this world, 
little of it would ſuffice. I would not for a world I had been born 
to be rich: The lighter burdened with thick clay, the better; its 

hard to get up the mount, tho? ye had but a very ſmall weight up- 
on your back; for our corruptions are weighty enough without a- 
ny addition. If you neglect that which not I, but CHRIST com- 
mands you, farewel for ever. If you obey, farewel for a few days; 
and then you and TI ſhall meet in the only paradiſe, the flower of 
the whole creation. We ſhall fit down upon the ffowery banks of 
the river of Life, and raviſh ourſelves for ever and ever, with ever- 
laſting and unſpeakabie joys. —This is from 


Your dying Brother, 


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A Letter to his Siſter He len. 


DEAR SISTER, London. 


I am ſorry I did not write ſooner, before my ſtrength 
and ſpeech did fail; but I would be glad to ſpend my laſt breath 
upon you, if I could do you any good. I cannot forget you, even 
when I have forgotten the vanities of the world ; you are precious 
unto me, ſince I knew you in ſome meaſure a ſeeker of God. O 
what advantages there are in ſeeking of him! I dety men and an- 
gels to number and comprehend them. Endleſs eternity ſhall be 
ſhort enough to lay open the inconceivable gains of godlineſs; If 
you ſeek him diligently, ſincerely, and conſtantly, you ſhall have 
all things. And O! is not that a vaſt word, Al things 2 All ſhall 
be yours, whether the world, life, or death, things preſent, or things 
to come; all theſe ſhall be yours, even the Great All, and whatſo- 
ever is his. O but the ſaints have a long, large, aud full charter: 
If you had a charter for many lands, it were but a narrow thing. 
But now every place where you trade on 1s your's; and what can 
you defire more? Behold the heaven, and conſider even the heaven 
of heavens; for theſe are yours. Is it poſſible, that a ſaint, the 
heir of all things, and joint-heir with the Son of the Eternal; is it 
poſſible, I ſay, that he can want any thing? Nay, the great Eter- 
nal, the Maker of all things, he is yours; and what can you deſire 
more? Is it poſſible, that a ſaint can want any thing, whether 
ſpiritual or temporal? I mean any thing that is good for him: 
And he alone knows what 1s beſt for us. When I look through the 
paſſages of my life, I ſee my LoxD and Guide hath led me the beſt 
way; and theſe have been the {weeteſt diſpenſations, which croſſed 
moſt my natural diſpoſition, and which ſeemed moſt judgment-like 
to carnal eyes. We are like ignorant children, that have no judg- 
ment to make choice of things; but would ſwallow down ſweet 
poiſon; and give away a rich inheritance for painted trifles. No 
wonder then, the world be fools and mad men in their choice. 
My life hath been but a tract of afflictions, and I would not for a 
thouſand worlds it had been otherwiſe; tho' my old man deſired 
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my LoRD hath been kindeſt, when I eſteemed him moſt cruel.... 
The laſt part of my life might ſeem judgment-like. But O! you 
would wonder, if you krew what I know, and what my Lox hath 
done for me, in this laſt half year of my lite, both as to things tem- 
poral and ſpiritual. I cannot underſtand them now, but I ſhall ve- 
ry ſhortly ; and they ſhall be to me matter of eternal praiſe. Tho' 
I had abounded with all the eaſe, delights, pomp, and, glory, and 
riches of time, yet would I be glad to die, and leave the puddle of 
ſwinith pleaſures, and drink of the pure river of everlaſting joys, 
that floweth from beneath the throne of Gop. The worlu quite 
miſtakes death. O! who would not willingly leave ſuch a vain 


periſhing world, wherein we are ſtill diſhonouring our Gop; a 


world wherein the ſaints get bad entertainment; a world wherein 
the Lonp of glory was and is daily crucified ? What is here? All 
the glory and excellency of the creation is up above. A few im- 
perfect ſaints are only here. But it is above, I ſhall ſee and embrace 
all theſe worthies, the courtiers of the King of glory. You need 
not be ſad for my death — and will not, if you poſt hard after me,. 
and follow on to know the LoxDd. For time is juſt nothing. We 
ſhall be glad, and rejoice with joy unſpeakable, and full of glory, 
throughout all eternity, in that land of glory and inconceivable joys. 
O, if you knew but a little of the excellency of that land of bleſſed- 
neſs, you would in a manner envy thoſe who go before you; tho' you 
ſhould paſs never ſo many ſweet days ere you can get thither, you 
would weary. For yourtelf you are yet in a hell of ſorrow and fin, 
while out of heaven, and while they are in an heaven of joy and plea- 
ſure. O ! beware of woridly-miadedneſs, and carking cares. Com- 
mit all to your Father. See fir/t the kingdom of heaven, and the 
righteouſneſs thereof ; and then all things ſhall be added uuto you. 


Fear not, it is your Father's gocd pleaſure to give you a kingdom: 


And he that gives heaven, will give as much earth as will ſuffice 
you; and more than is ſuſſicient, is a heavy weight that will pull 
you down to the mount. O mark this! He that gave his only be- 
gotten Son, out of his hoſom, to be tormented unto death for you, 
will he not alſo with him freely give you all things? even every 
thing that pertains to life and god lineſs. As for things temporal, 
the leſs of the world the better. All the ſaints will teſtify it, at 
leaſt when they are leaving it. TI can put my ical to it now, when 
I am entering into eternity, that it is moſt dangerous to be entang- 
jed either with riches, honours, or pleaſures; and that it is the 


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when afllicted, but when once they got the bag, betrayed CHRIST. 


as much as for any mercy I ever received. Fornowl reap the peace- 


LETTER 273 
ſweeteſt diſpenſation to be afllited, and cut ſnort of them; for 
proſperity is the neck-hreak of the life of godlineſs; as the experience 
of many a deceived profeſſor may teſtify, who ſeemed ſomething 


It's hard for a camel to go through a needle's eye: The more we 
are inveigled with this deceitful world, the leſs do we value heaven. 
Now nothing more glues a man's heart to the earth, than riches, 
which kave weighed many a man down to the pit, where he is 
weeping and gnaſhing his teeth, curſing riches, and tormenting him- 
ſelf that ever he defired them. Whereas, if he had been poor, he 
ſhould have been now (as men conjecture) rejoicing amongſt theſe 
gloriſied ones. Remember, that it is utterly impoſſible to ſerve Gos 
and Mammon; and if your treaſure be not in heaven, neither will 
your heart be there. I bleſs the Loxd for mine afflictions (which 
have been ſtill greater and greater, till now I am leaving them all,) 


able fruits of righteouſneſs. And now thou gh I be weeping while I 
ſow, yet ſhortly ſhall T have as much as Ican bear of the maſly ſheaves 
of inconceivable glory. Weep and how! ye rich men, for your miſery 
that ſhall come onyou: For you now receive your good things, and the 
faints their evil things, therefore immediately ſhall ye be afflicted 
and tormented, and they ſhall be comforted. Bleſſed are they that 
mourn now, for they ſhall be comforted. For the ſaints weep, while 
the world rejoiceth ; but our ſorrow ſhall be turned into joy, and 
their mad mirth into unſpeakable and eternal horror. O! if men 
did conſider this, they would not toil for their eaſe and pleaſures of fin, 
which are but for a moment, nor would they envy the rich glut- 
tons, but rather the poor Lazarus's, that are defpicable in the eyes of 
all, Fret not, when you ſee the wicked proiper ; nor value pover- 
ty, ſhame and contempt ; ſince the only excellent ones, of whom 
the world was not worthy, wandered about in ſheep-ſkins, and goat- 
ſ{xins ; being deſtitute, afflicted and tormented : And the honour- 
able apoſtles and followers of the Lamb, were accounted the oft- 


ſcourings of all things. O if the ſaints would take time, fit down 


and conſider theſe things, they would find it ſweet to be con- 
formed, in ſufferings to their LoRD, who was a man of ſorrows, and 
acquainted with grief: That they might alſo be conformed to him 
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therefore ſtrive moſt againſt it: For how can one ſet their heart 
upon traſh, and earneſtly defire it and heaven alſo? I perſuade you, 


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the only way to have as much of the world as is neceſſary and 
good for you, is to commit your temporal lot wholly to Curisr, 
without the leaſt reſervation. This is beſt; for nothing can be 
committed to him, and go wrong: Try him, and if ye do not find 
that he will carry you bravely through, ſo that you ſhall lack no- 
thing that is good for you, then call him a liar. Yet, never any 


of the faints could ſay, he failed them in a jot of what he promiſ- 


ed them. And how great are his promiſes! as you will find in 
ſcripture. They are all comprehended in this, The Lond is a 
* ſun 2nd ſhield, he will give grace and glory; and no good thing 
will he withhold from them that love him, and walk uprightly.“ 
Truſt all to him; tor whether frould you tutor yourſelf, or he? 
Which of you is wiſeſt! Caſt all upon him, to the leaſt bit of bread; 
and ye ſhall find a great eaſe. They are miſerable, who muſt care 
for themſelves, and what concerns them, and have not a Gop to 
run to, on whom they may lay themſelves and their burdens. O 
learn to truſt in God for all things temporal and eternal. It is an 
hid myſtery to many ſaints, in many things; eſpecially to truſt a- 
gainſt ſenſe, to hope againit hope; when there is no human proba- 
bility, then to rely upon the bare word of him who is true, is a dif- 
ficulty, where his providence ſeems to contradict his promiſes, or 
to make his promiſe a lier. But will you truſt him for heaven, 
and not for a moment of time? Think you will he withold journey- 
bread, if you be a traveller to the higher Canaan? It were a great 
abſardity to command any to go a journey, and not to give what 
is neceſſary for it. Co on to heaven; hold your face ſtill thither- 
ward, and CuRIisT will till be ſupplying all your wants. Indeed 


he will not ſatisfy your carnal diſpofitien, nor give you more than 


a pilgrim needs; ſo that you ſhould forget the race ſet before you 
by being intangled with a number of ſuperfluities. I would tay 
more if breath and ſtrength would permit. You know not what a 
world you are in; it's full of ſnares and difficulties. You will 
find it hard to keep clean garments, unleſs you commit yourſelf un- 
to him, who can carry you as with eagles wings, and ſtrengthen 
and ſupport you when you are ready to fall. Tho? you ſhould be 
the preciſeſt of all round about you, you will find all little enough 
when you come to death---O ! death is a weighty buſineſs. You 
have ſcarce time to prepare for it,---ail our time is little enough for 
preparation, tho' we ſhould cut ourſelves ſhort of our indifferent 
earthly exerciſes. What need had we then to beware to paſs our 


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time vainly ? It's precious, every moment of it having a relation to 
eternity. O! eternity! eternity! Get ſome fight of it, and your 
thoughts ſhall be wonderfully changed : For, I tell you, could you 
get a glimpſe of that maſſy thing called Eternity, all the things in 
time ſhould be no more 1n yovr eyes, than a childiſh toy in the eyes 
of a man. Even the -world decked in its beſt robes ſeems ſuck a 
poor thing to me, that I would not be at the pains to ſtretch out 
my hand, if I had it for the taking up; and ſuch will it ſeem ere 
long to many. Worldlings are but beaſts ; and the richeſt and moſt 
flouriſhing of them, could you ſee them with my eyes, are but mean 
dunghill worms ; their meditations cannot flee over time. Then 
look upon the world as mad---they know not what they are doing ; 
they value only time, and yet they know not how to get it paſt a- 
way. Be a great reader of the ſcriptures ; for there ſhall you find 
inſtruction to make you wiſe to ſalvation; and thereby you may 
guide your ſteps warily in an evil time: There ſhall you find threat- 
nings to rouſe you up, and promiſes to comfort and ſuſtain you in the 
ſaddeſt of conditions. Reverence the ordinances adminiſtered by 
faithful paſtors; for they are the ambaſſadors of the Lorp our King. 
But abhor falſe prophets which lead men into deſtruction. Alas! 
that there ſhould be any of CHRIST's ſervants Who give an ill 
example to theſe that are ſimple, counſelling them, by their prac- 
tice, to follow thieves and robbers, whoſe voice CHRIS T's ſheep 
will not hear. Set at leaſt three times a-day apart for prayer; for 
when we negle& that, our hearts are cold all the day long; and 
then we are eaſily ſnared with any temptation we meet with. Some- 
time meditate; and conſider yourſelf and others, that ſo you may 
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Sort, be of gocd cheer, thy fins are forgiven thee. O!: who would 
not go hence, if it were but to ſtand at one of the gates of the gol- 
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company of prieſts and kings, ſtanding round about the Laws, 
crowned with honour and glory! One hour of heaven, yea, one 
fight of the Ancient of days, would do more than make up all the 
bitter afflictions I have ſwimmed through in time. Nay, I think the 
very fore-thoughts of glory, do already ſwallow up all the impreſ- 
fions of the tribulations of time that have ſeized on me. They are 
nothing now; they are gone, and ſhall never return again; yea, 
they w2 as it they had not been. This ſhall be matter of high 
praiſes, through endleſs eternity, for ever-more. O vaſt elernity ! 
But O filly time: No wonder Paul ſaid, Me 100k not at the things 
that are ſeen, but the things that are not ſeen; for the things that 
are ſeen, are temporal; but the things that are not ſeen, are eter- 
nal: The things that are ſeen, were not from eternity; neither ſhall 
they be to eternity. O then! overJook them. Cloſe your eyes, as 
it were, upon them, and you ſhall ſee ſtrange fights, which ſhall 
make your courſe to glory ſwiſt and chearful. O, what think 
you of CurIsST? Is there any lite him 2 Ts there any but he 2 If 
you have him, you have all things: His worth cannot be told.--- 
What think you of it, to be ſaved from everlaſting burnings 2 What 
think you of it, that finful wretched we, ſhould be as happy as can 
be Even eternally, and incouceivably happy? And all this pur- 
chaſed by the death and b!cod of our kindeſt Lox D JEsus: O! 
who would not love ſuch an one! Surely it is impoſſible to know 
him any way aright, and not to love him. He is the raviſhment of 
men and angels. Increated glory ſaines through the vail of his hu- 
man nature. We cannot enjoy Gop more ſweetly, familiarly, and 
fullk, than through him. He is the bleſſed Days. man betwixt Gop 
and man; the Man CnRisT Jesus Him I wiſh I could declare e- 
vermore. But my laſt words, tho' they were fewer, may have v 
ſtrong impreſſion upou you. Run faft, looſe not the crown ; heaven 
is well worth an inch of time's running. Croſs corrupt nature's diſ- 
poſition ; as you ſow, ſo ſhall you reap. And conſider, that Death 
will teach you, that all you do is fruitleſs, which tends not to the 
great ſalvation. All other mercics are not worth, in compariſon of 
this great ſalvation; and a ſhort time will ſpend them all ; but it 
ſhall endure for ever-more. O but the news of heaven! Such a fweet 
heaven to weary pilgrims, ſuch a ra viſhing paradiſe to theſe that are 
ia this ſmoky dunghill---I ſay, they are the greateſt news that can 


be! And this whiſpered in your ears, Run, for you ſhall have the 
crogun, is another kind of news, than Run, ard qc 4 hall have riches, 


LET EE ERS. 277 
honour, and pleaſures. Bleſs him at all times, who hath diſpoſed 
your lot fo, as theſe only great things have taken you by the heart. 
Be not weary in well-doing; for in due time you ſhall reap, if you 
faint not: And we ſhall ſee one another ſhortly, in the midſt of ſuch- 


Joys as the tongues of men and angels cannot in the leaſt expreſs. 


Therefore, yogghave no cauſe of ſadneſs, but of rejoicing, that you 
have another friend gone before you, who will welcome you ſhort- 
ly into your Loxp's joy. Grace be with you. Account it all one 


as if I had ſpoken all this to you face to face.---Theſe are the 
words of | 


Your dying Brother, 


A. WELLWeop. 


A Letter to his Cousin, Trzomas WELLwoop. 


My DEAR Covsin, 


Tuoven I be almoſt admidſt death's pangs, I 
cannot forget you, becauſe of the fweet friendſhip we have had to- 
gether, and becauſe you are (I'm perſuaded) one of the heirs of glo- 
ry, and among thoſe who wreſtle through manifold temptations, 
unto the land of eternal conſolations. O! if I could tell you what 
my Lokp hath done for me unto this very hour; and much more 
ſince J came hither, than in many foregoing years. I think, if I 
had time, I could fill a whole volume with wonderful experiences 
of his loving-kindneſs, ſtrange providences, and ſweet chaſtiſement ; 
io that an half yezr may be better than an hundred. It's not the 
length of time we are to look to: We have a race to run to hea- 
ven, and when we have finiſhed it we have done. Oh! couſin; even 
a ſaint may live long, and make very ſmall progreſs to glory: Yea, 
many go backward ; and it were better ſor them they died ere that 
be, before they diſhonoured Gop by their backſliding carriages :--- 
Therefore, run faſt, eye the joy that is ſet before you, and patiently 

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endure all the temptations and troubles in time; for your Lord 
hath promiſed that he will never leave you nor forſake you ; and 
none ſhall be able to pluck you out of his hand. Indeed you may 
have ſore trials, both outward and inward, but be of good courage, 
and he fhall firengthen your heart; for you are not to bear your 
own burden, but to caſt it fully over upon him And I promiſe 
you, in my LoRD's name, you ſhall be ſuſtained: He is our ſtrength, 
our wiſdom, our righteouſneſs, and our all---even all that we want, 
all that we can defire. Never notice long or ſhort life, but live to 
die, and then you die to live eternally. O! think much upon eter- 
nity, and you ſhall think nothing of time. Alas! alas! the things 
of time fill our eyes lo, as we never regard eternity; yet time will 
be at a cloſe ere ever you be aware. I have ſomewhat the advan- 
tage of you in getting the fore-ſta:t ; but we ſhall be together per- 
petually, even immediately, and we ſhall have another manner of 
converſe than poſſibly we could have had on earth. In heaven they 
are not confined to moments, days, and years; we ſhall have eter.. 
nity to iejoice and be glad in: O what a life ſhall we have, when 
you and I ſhall follow the Lars whitherſocver he goes! When we 
ſhall Lave ſin, temptations, and miſeries done away! We know not 
the excellency of our invaluable inheritance ; and therefore we are 
ſo much taken up with earthly trifles and ſhadows, that are no- 
hing; which bewitch all the worldlings out of their wits, and 
the ſaints too, in a great meaſure: It were more wiſdom in us, to 
uſe the world as not abuſing it, as not ſetting our hearts upon it. 
Beware of the cares of the world and the deceitfulneſs of riches, 
wherewith you may be intangled in the condition you are in; if you 
take not heed, your courſe to glory will be the more flow, and you 
drive your chariot wheel heavily up to the higher city; yea, the 
thick clay will make them come back upon you. O! conſider, 
how great a buſineſs ſalvation is: we can never conſider it enough. 
You will think fo when you come to death, which you ought to 
look upon as at the door. 


I ſpeak not theſe things as if you knew them not already, but I 


put you in remembrance, deſiring to communicate a little of my 
mind to you, now when I am at the brink of time ; becauſe Pro- 
vidence hath ſo ordered, that we cannot ſpeak face to face theſe 
things which are the true and genuine thoughts of my heart. Be- 
ware of the pollations of the times : : It is comfortable to me that 


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curſed de ſection. Hate the garments ſpotted with the fieſh : Clean 
garments are of great worth; and theſe few in this woful time 
that have keeped their garments clean, all walk with our LoR 
in white ; for they are worthy. To keep clean garments, that is 
to be pious alone, pious in your family, in your worſhip, pious in 
your worldly employments; full of charity, deſpiſing the world, 
walking wiſely towards theſe that are without, and towards theſe 
that are within. And as to the times, let your zeal be wiſe, ard 
your wiſdom zealous. You may believe a dying man, I am fully 
perſuaded that this Prelacy is abominable Antichriſtianiſm; and 
that the prelates and curates are the miniſters, not of CR IST, but 
of Antichriſt and Satan; and that it is utterly unlawful to hear 
them, or do any thing that may ſhew-you eſteem them miniſters, 
or any way ſtrengthen their hands. O the dreadful wrath that is 
hanging over theſe lands like a cloud! wrath will fall down in a 
deluge of divine vengeance: Gop will make this land to ſwim in 
blood; even the blood of all forts, great and ſmall, rich and poor, 
old and young, ſhall be poured out like duft : He ſhall be a ſtrange 
man that ſhall happily eſcape ſuch a conſumption. I vill not ſpeak 
much of the matter; but T ſee fearful things coming. Put, O 
the glorious days ſucceeding theſe! I cannot comprehend the glory 


that ſhall ſhine in Britain, which ſhall enlighten to the ends of the 
earth. 


I fear not death; it's fin only we ought to fear; the ting of 


death is fin; that being taken away, it is moſt harmleſs : it is 
ſweet to die in Chriſt ! O What an exchange do I make: I ſhall 
ſee him, and that glorious company of ſaints and angels following 
him whitherſoe ver he goes: The firſt hour of glory ſhall in a man- 
ner make me forget that ever I was upon earth. My afflictions 
have been greater than the ſpectators could imagine; and ſtill 
greater and greater, until I arrive at the haven of eternal reſt. O 
it's ſweet ! O it's ſweet ! after a great toil and labour. My LoRD 
is taking me in the fitteſt time ; for both body and ſoul are very 
weary and are fore toſſed : But this body ſhall get a ſound ſleep, 
and a raviſhing wakening. O! the great difference betwixt what 
It is now, and what it ſhall be ſhortly! Who can conceive what 
CngrsT hath done for the faints? O: The depth of free, altoge- 
ther free love, and grace-! It ſhall take up eternity to cry up the 
inconceivable love of JEenovan and the Lams. O to think that 
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4 0 tineſs and vileneſs. O admire! Opraiſe! O adore! Let theſe I 
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00 Look upon the world, as a number of mad bodies : They are E 
1 beaſts, whoſe conceptions are confined within an inch of time: t 
. They are poor ſpirits who gape after time's riches, honour and plea- ti 
1 ſures. It the world knew what they were doing, they would won- t. 
| Wl der at themſelves; at leaſt they would begin to queſtton whether 11 
N the life on earth was real, or enly empty, and a night dream. 0 62 
11: ſuch a foht as I have gotten of the world: O it's but vain, vani- * 
1 ty of vanities: The flower and choice of it is curſed, and altogether C 
18 1 vanity, O: It I could tell you the nothingneſs of the world and 11 
ih oi things temporal, and of the maſſyneſs of things eternal! Com- I: 
pare them together, and you will lee the difference! ſp 
The moſt part of profeflors Heng whom I put myſelf) ink an tl 
caly way to heaven: And O: Where will you find the man, or 'S 
woman, that ſtudies to walk with God? It's recorded of Enoch, b. 
that he walked with God three hundred years: But who can N 
tay, he hath walked with God one day? We loſe Cod in the midſt Ta 
vf our worldly employments, and cannot ſay, wwe have ſet the Lord m 
always before us; therefore, we cannot lay, we ſhall not be moved. d 
We approach to him, in the morning, evening, and at other times I 
but we negle& our thoughts: Whereas, to live full of holy, divine ra 
thoughts, is to live a ſaint: As the man is, ſo are his thoughts, ar 
Alas! I may ſay it by ſad experience, unwatched over thoughts of 
Lave made me, many a tune, not to diſlike much from a worldling, h 
5 Keep your thoughts fight, and all ſhall be right: Keep thine heart p. 
4 «with all diltizence (ſaith the ſpirit of God,) for cut it are the le 

; | | ue of life. If your thoughts be right, your prayers will be ſea- 
4 . ſonable; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth ſpeaketh t 
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laying afide every weight that may bear you down. Intangle 
rot yourſelf with the world, have as little ado with it as you can. 
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find hard work: we are ſo full of corruptions originaland actual, holi- 
neſs is quite contrary to our corrupt natures. I mean not the com- 
mon holineſs, which theſe that are ſtrict are thought to haves 
but that which our Lord commands; be that loveth father or mo- 
ther, ſifter, or Brot her, or the world, or himſelf better than me, is 
not worthy of me. O! It is an unknown thing, to deny all, to 
take up their croſs daily, and follow CHRIST. I had a great defire 
to preach CauRIST ; but he will accept the will for the deed. I got 
to better exerciſe, whereof one hour is better than all the preach- 
ings betwixt this and Chriſt's ſecond coming compendized in one. 
All here are but ſhadows; all above is ſubſtance. O! What ele- 
vated divines are above! They are all filled with all the fulneſs of 
God, and do preach and cry up the tranſcendent excellencies of Ix- 
HOVAH and the LAMB. There is a perpetual crying up of CHRIST. 

In Canticles he can never enough ſpeak of his ſpouſe ; up above, his- 
ſpouſe can never enough ſpeak of him. There all are raviſhed with 
the Ancient of days! Who but the Ancient of days! Who but 
Cur:sT! Who but the ſaints! Then let never earth and heaven 
be compared together; for I tell you, earth is but a tormenting 
hell in compariſon of that unſpeakably delightful and altogether 
raviſking land, unto which urworthy but happy I am going. O! 
methinks, I am touching the ſkirts of the fragrant breathings of 
The mountains of ſpices! And O! How TI muſt be raviſhed, when 
I ſhall draw in no other air, but the breathings of the higher Pa- 
radiſe? They have the advantage that get the foreſtart of heaven 
and ſeeing the face of [Eyovan, and being more antient poſſeſſors 
of that excellent inheritance. Why ſhould any be afraid io go to 
heaven too ſoon? Why ſhould any be afraid he be too ſoon hap- 
py ? Let worldlings defire to crawl long on their dunghills: But 
let us ever be longing 75 be diſſolved, and to be with our Lord. 
I commit you, your Mother-in-law, your wife and children to 
the protection of the Almighty ; and pray for temporal and eter- 
nal bleſſings to be poured out upon you. Theſe are the words of, 


Your dying Couſin, 


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85 thought to have been juſt entering into it about half an hour ago, 
1 could not but remember you, and dictate a little of my mind unto b 
75 vou: Not that I intended to write any inſtructions unto you, but 1 
* only ſhew, that Gon is good to them that ſeek him; and that in f 
3 his providence, his promiſes are all accompliſhed to he full to me. 
1H I cannot tell what he hath done for my ſoul; but I think, he hath ; 
17 I Drought me to the end of my days, to the end of my race, by ſuch | 
iy a wonderſul chain of divine providence, that I would not for ten 


thouſand wori.ls he had brought me any other way, or that my 
race had been either longer or ſhorter. He liveth long encugh 
who liveth til he get heaven: All other things are but pendicles. 
He liveth a ſhort while who is unprepared for it, of whatever age 
he be. Therefore my death needs not offend any man; fer what 
can IT get more than the kingdom immovable, undefiled, and that 
fad th not away? 2 2 
Ideſired to live for no ot her end hut to preach my Lond to the 

great congregation: And think you not he will accept the will 

for the deed? I dedicated my life for his ſervice; and I bope he 

will graciouſly take it off my hand, as if I had done him many vears 
| ſervice. And I mutt tell you, he hath many wonderful ways of 
: bringing his children unto glory: I could tell you it by ſweet ex- 
perience, if my weakneſs and breath would permit. I would not 
for all the glory, riches, and pleaſures of a vain world, my lot had 
been another than my LoRDd hath appointed it; yea, my laſt half 
year's providence hath been a golden chain, dick neither I, men 
nor angels can ſufficiently value. 

Would you know what I think now of heaven? Though I were 
out of this ſtate of mortality, I could never think of it enough. 
O! O! O the joy of being with Tenovan and the LAB! O! 
the excellency of the knowleige of CHRIS IEsus, even on this fide 
of time! But to ſee him as he is, O! who can tell what a ſight it 
is! Even thoſe who ſce him face to face, ſee, at it were, but the 


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Kirts of his beauty and excellency : And let them dive ſtill deeper 
and deeper till eternity, as it were, be at an end, they ſhall ſtill be 


but beginning, and yet never well begun. To ſhew my great love 


and reſpect I have ever had to you, both formerly and now, I write 
unto you, even when the dead-rittle is in my throat. And tho? I 
be in a great agony, I find the only way to heaven, that new and 
living way, is only by the blood of the Son of Gon. There is no 
other way, but believe in CERSIT and be ſaved. But it 15a lively, 
purifying, loving, and believing way. „ 

I cannot ſay much; I am in death's pangs. But, O Death“ 


where is thy ſting £ O grave where is thy victory? I am like 


to have a ſharp combat, but I hope, Cuk Ist will not he an indiffe- 
rent ſpectator. The end erowns the work. And if once I were 


within EMMANEUL's ſurpaſſing ſweet land of conqueſt, then ſhould 
I trample death and hell under foot, and triumph over all the miſe- 
ries and afflictions of time, which ſeemed to triumph over me. O! 
death, what art thoa in mine eyes! My Lox. hath ſwallowed 
thee up in victory. And can a free horn ſon and conqueror, through 
the blood of the everiaſting covenant, be afraid of a conquered 
flave? Rev. xiv. 13. Hell, fin, Devil, and death, are conquered 


fſlaves.---I reſt, 
Dear Sir, 


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