ready in the worldling. O Sirs, beware of a beguile here: the intenfe natural knowledge of divine myfteries, with the overflowings of love and joy arifing therefrom, may dazzle our own eyes, and the eyes of the fpectators: look that you have heaven indeed within you, elfe you cannot enter there. O to be partakers of the divine nature! Q for the noble mind of Christ! O to be transformed in the spirit of our minds! caufe thy wind to blow on our dry bones, and we shall live. Be not beguiled, Sirs, as ye fow, fo fball you reap: have you the immortal feed within you look well to it, let it not be choked with cares, anxieties, and vanities; though the beginning appears fmall and inconfiderable, the end will be wonderfully glorious and excellent: the wonders to be manifefted upon thee, will be the perfection of what thou haft got already: If the Spirit of him that raised up Fefus from the dead be in you, he shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by the Spirit that dwelleth in you.

25. All things invite to this excellent study, and no argument against it.

We heartily befeech you, to ftep up to the top of mount Pifgah, and take a view of our ravishing Country: what have you to fay against the bufiDefs? Come and fee, will anfwer all your objections: whatever you can fay against the matter, will prove it. Speak ye of melancholy? O what fweetness is here! of inability, and dimnefs of knowledge? O the lightness of this city! all things are obfcure and fmoky below. Speak we of hindrances from our neceffary worldly affairs? O how doth the fight of this glory oil the wheels, and cheer up to every duty? Will any term it an unknown fubject? Nothing more fruitful, and fuller of varieties; nothing more lightfome than glory..

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glory. Art thou worldly-minded? O then ftudy heaven; the excellency of the one will cause the other to disappear. Thinkeft thou hell and destruction are more to be confidered by thee? Come, and thou shalt behold, that the difcovery of glodifcovers all things, fince there is no danger for a trembling broken-hearted finner: the way to glory is the path of life, the new and living way. We are not come unto the mount that might not be touched, and that burned with fire; but unto mount Zion, the heavenly Ferufalem, the innumerable company of angels, and to the fpirits of just men made perfect, to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, to God the judge of all, and to the blood of Sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

26. This fkill is only from above, and to be begged of God.

Thou inexhaustible original of all light, life, and fulaefs, draw up our minds to thee, from this proper habitation of the devil and his flaves; and hold us ever with thee, left we fall down to this dunghill again: Then fhall we be joyful in glory, we fball fing aloud on our beds, we shall speak of the greatnefs of thy kingdom, of the excellency of thy majesty, and of the glory of thine inheritance in the faints in light: then shall we go out with joy, and be led forth with gladness: the mountains and the hills fhall break forth before us into finging: then shall we renew our ftrength, we fball mount up with wings, as eagles: we fball run, and not be weary; and walk, and not be faint.

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Ere Tabor's tops, furmounting far the marches
Of those etherial moft majestic arches,

Reaching beyond the azure canopy,

Which envious mafk hides glory from our eye,
Into the new creation, whofe bright glory.
Would caufe earth's fplendor vanish, make us forry
We've plac'd a grain of love on things below,
Since only 'bove this world all fweets do flow.
Afcend the mount, afpiring fouls, and enter
Within the cloud, 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 thefe, I ftraitly you command,
In my Lord's dreadful Name aloof to stand.
There fhall you see your lover's lovely face,
His heav'nly gesture, his divineft grace:

There fhall his voice melodious charm your ears,
And from your heart fhall banish quite all fears :
There shall the fmell of 's garments, all perfum'd,
Refresh your fainting fp'rits, with cares confum'd
There fhall you feast upon the cheering wine,
That crimfon liquor of the only vine.

You and your Lord fhall clasp in one love-tie,
Ne'er to be loos'd through all eternity.

Your thoughts fhall dive into love's deep abyfs,
And fcan, what without all demenfions is:
Your heart (furpaffing joy !) in your love's breast,
And his in your's, eternally fhall rest.
In fine, your fenfes, foul and all fhall ly,
Bathing in fweetness everlastingly.

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GLIMPSE of GLORY;

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A Gospel-discovery of EMMANUEL'S Land.

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HOU glory and beauty of the higher paradife, fulfil thy promife upon me, in letting me fee thee in thy beauty, and that land that is very far off a difcovery of thine excellency, a tafte of thy fweetnefs fhould cause me overlook all fublunary things, fhould enable my glory to proclaim thine aloud before the fons of men. Let thy ftrength appear in weaknefs; thou canst perfect glory and praise by babes, and nothings; get thyfeif glory, and I have all I can defire.

2. All joys! am not I exalted on the high places of the earth? Wonderful! what strange things are these? What hath GOD done? Shall I write, or fhall I not? What avails earth's idiom here, which falleth fhort in the full expreffion of earthly things? Shall I not debafe my Lord's glory, if I endeavour to reprefent it by the low, bafe, and childish expreffions of earth's idiom? But fince our condefcending Lord is pleafed, in borrowed terms, to exprefs thefe inexpreffible enjoyments,

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which neither eye hath feen, nor ear hath beard, or the heart of man conceived, we will follow his footfteps; being certain, though our expreffions reach not the brim of that ocean, yet they may furpass moft mens efteem of it. May we not then, in borrowed fpeeches and dark emblems, delineate the glory of his kingdom, the excellency of his perfon, and the riches of his inheritance in the faints in light, until we come unto the fulness of the ftature of Chrift, when we fhall fee and exprefs him as he is?

3. The foul must be elevated on the wings of heavenly meditation, before it get a fight of the promised land.

Now my foul, thou art got up to the top of this fublime and majestic mountain, overlooking the celeftial Canaan. Ah, my fenfes are not celestial! yet do the things I fee and hear fill me with joy. unfpeakable, and full of glory: I cannot tell what my faculties are filled with. Words are narrow for fuch high and wide things. But, fhould we not exprefs these things according to our measure? 4. Glory is rather to be admired by mortals, than understood.

I am quite amazed, confounded and ravished at once. O eternal dwelling-place of bleffed men and angels! and of the man infinitely more excellent than all! How am I affected with thy various beauty, excellent glory, and delightfome sweetness! What appeareft thou now, O lower world? Thou art the dunghill; this the palace royal: thou art the footstool; this the throne. Were the curtains betwixt the higher and lower world drawn aside, all lower glories would difappear; all glories are here, and only here: this is the world. Where fhall we find emblems any where elfe, fufficient to repre

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