The Mountain offat tbings,dïfeovered: + 21 indeed, power indeed, heaven indeed : And then he canadde and fay with the Apof le, Thanks be unto God who bath givenUs viciory through Jefzis Chriß : O death,where is tbyfling? Ohgrave, where it thy vicìory;then hath this corruptible in him put 6n incorruption, and this mortalput on immortality, and then is brought topaffe in him thePaying, as it is written, death is fwalowedup in viaory. Herçin the Saints finde Jeffs Chriflto be their joy, to be their feaft, to be their mountain, tobe their glory, to be their All. In this mountain i hey findeand receive all thefe good things, and are fully fatisfied, and that they are to be had nowhere elfe.: If they look anywhere elfe, they know there is nothingbut fin, corruption , .death, hell, mortality, and the grave. And they having found this mountain,they finde themfelves efcaped, delivered from all thofe things : Aid now theyfit down with Abraham, Ifizac, and Jacob in the. kingdome of Heaven They have found Abrahams bofeme; they havefound the tree ofLife in the mizlf{ of the Paradife of God, they have found the HiddenManna, they have received' the White Stone, with a NewName, uhich none can now but fuch as receive it. They fee themfelves delivered ; 1, and are at rcft from themfelves. They fee their owne wifdome, their owne _power, their owne holinde to be as it is_nothing but fin and hell and mifery , and a delufion. And this they rejoyce in, to fee this Pharaoh overwhelmed in the fea , this makes themfelves fing the fong of Mofes and theLamb, and to fee all this to be done, not by their power, nor by their wifdom,nor by their watchfi.iineffe, nor by any endeavours of theirs, but that the whole work in e- very part of it was Chrifts alone,that tis be alone that is nigh ty to fave, . he that is alfo glorious in apparel, and travelling in the greatneffe ofbisflrexgth , none allìf}ed him, no man food by him, but he alone, made bare his own arme, that fo he might have all the glory : Thefe things Peen and accont- pliíhed in themfelves, is their feaft of Pat things, their Wine on theLees, their keeping the Sabbath, their day of praife and Thankfgiving. Theyhavenoneto praife, nor to (peak well ofbut ofhim alone : They find that he alone was their de- Rev. 3. Efa. 63.1. .2
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