22 THE NATURE OF one in him and the Father ;(z) if we had not all this from the mouth, and únder the hand, of God ! But " hath he said, and shall he not do it ? Hath he spo- ken, and shall he not make it good ? "(a) Yes, as the Lord God is true, thus shall it be done to the man whom Christ delighteth to honour.(b) Be of good cheer, Christian ; the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well de- sire. Thou shalt dwell in his family. Is that enough? It is better to be a door- keeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.(c) Thou shalt ever stand before him, about his throne, in the room with him, in his presence chamber. ZNouldst thou yet be nearer ? Thou shalt be his child, and he thy father ; thou shalt be an heir of his kingdom ; yea, moré, the spouse of his Son. And what more canst thou desire ? Thou shalt be a member of the body of his Son ; he shall be thy head : thou shalt be one with him, who is one with the Father ; as he himself bath desired for thee of his Father, " that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us ; and the glory which thou gayest me I have given them ; that they may be one, even as we are one ; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one ; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."(d) 9. (5) We must add, that this rest,contains a sweet and constant action of all the powers of the soul and body in this enjoyment of God. It is not the rest of a stone, which ceaseth from all motion when it attains the centre. This body shall be so changed, that it shall no more be flesh and blood, which cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; but a spiritual body. " We sow not that body that shall be ;- but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. "(e) If grace makes a Christian differ so much (z) Matt. xiii. 53. Rom. viii. 17. 1 Cor. vi. 2. Rev. iii. 621. John xvii. 21. (a) Numb. xxiii. 19. (b) Esther vi. 11. (e) Psa. lxxiv. 10. (d) John xvii. 21 ---23. , (e) 1 Cor. xv. 37, 38, 44-50,
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