theCloud is taken oftheTabernacle. 7'3 cover himfeIfe as to himfelf, fo toothers, and from the face Gen and fight of God hinifelf: and having done this withall the.Ar.t and Cunning he can invent, thtn (he thinks) he bath covcrcd the gulf: he labours having thus fecn him- felfin thisgulf,to forget what manner o fman he is ; he flops the 2dß' z'23 guilt and cry ofhis ow n conference by thefe aprons, coverings 4 and forms, and he begins to be fccure, and he is holy both in his own fight, and in the fight of others, and he thinks he _íhall enter and poffiffe thegood Land flowing with Milk and Exod.3..8 I-loney. Now for this man tobe uncovered and laid open, to be emptied ofall thisgoodneß, and fiript ofall hisforms and holinefß, and to be brought back to theborders of Egypt, and to let him fee he is as far from the promifed Land as the wolf ofmen,nay Publicans andHarlots are nearer then himfelf,this cuts the very caule of big heart, this undoes him , and he is Mac, 21, no more able to abide thefe words then the Pharifees could 3i* thepreaching of Jefus Chrift, who fought in all his Teach- ings to/mil offtheir coverings, and to make them appear as they were, and not to be Inch as they would have the world believe them tobe with their holy fhewes andpretences. Now everyman, the bcft ofmen, being in this condition, if they could but be content tofee themfelvesfo, that they arefls1.y, and abominable in all their works, and that they were utterly loft and dcftroyed and confounded in them- fclves,and knewnot what to do,nor which way to turn them- felves, then indeed would the Lord come in and fhine upon thenwith light and life; and the Tabernacle of the Lord fhouldguide them,and it would thew them theway, the truth and life ; and the holy fpirit wouldguide them I o. all truth ; Joh. r6. The cloud and the darkneffe fhould be taken up, and the 13 Lord hi'mfelfe would be their Sun, their Light, and their Rev. 21. Guide ; then they fhould fee experimentally by the teachings 3 ofthe Father in them, and notby the outward teachings of , Fia.6e. r9 men, that Jefus Chrift is the True,Tahernacle which theL9rd Heb. 8. 2. pitched andnot man,as theApgflle applyes all to Jefus Chrift in theninth ofthe Hebrews, at the beginning , As the Ibid. 9. r, San&nary and all things thereincontained, viz. The Can- &c. dlefrick_and the Shewbread, and theGolden Cenfor, and the L Ark
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