j!,rol\tng unto ']Jcfu.s'. Chap. 2.Sett. 6. 517 -------------------- ~------------~C~--------~--- he nor wajhed thee with water ? yea·, throllghlywaf{!ed away thy blood ? hathhe not anointed Book IV. threwithoyl, and covered threwah Jilk._, and d"k!dtheewtthgold ~nd Jilver, and made thee cofi'Jely through his comeline(s ~rhichheput "fon thee ? Why, th!s !~the office of the ho– ly Ghoft, and if thou haft but the tn-dwelhng of the Sptrtt, tlus ts thy frare: I ~now thereis a pan of rhee unregenerate, >nd 1t wtll be fo \~htles thou an on ea.rrh, but wtthall there is in thee a new narure, another nature; there ts fomerhmg elfe wtthm rhee whtch makes rhee wre!lle againfl fin, and DJall in rime prevai~ over all fin, and this is the Spirit of Chrift, fanC!ifying of thee; Being fan&ified ( fatth the Apoftle) by the holy Ghoft.l\om. r 5.16; ---Other complaints might be thus brought in, but if we underftand the meanmg, the defign of Chrifl in his Afcenlion, Seffion, aod millionof his Spirir, how might a true faith anfwrr all? oh believe! believe thy part in Chrifl's Af<enfion, Chrifl's Seffion, Chrifl's Million of his holy Spirit, and thou mayeft go linging ro rhy grave! a lively faith infuch particulars would fer a foul in heaven, even whilefr yet on earth. SECT. VI. Of louing refits in that refpeEl. 6. LEt us love [e[ilf, as carrying on the grear work of our falvation for lis in thefe paniculat5 ; much harh been faid already of Chrift's Conception, Birth, Life, Death, RefurreC!ion; fuch Arguments of love as are enou;;h to fwallow up fouls in _love to Chri!l again: 0 the treafures of love and wifdom rhat have been opened in for– mer paffages I bur as if all thofe were not en?ugh for God, fee here new Gold mines, new found out Jewels, never known to be tn the world before, opened and unfolded in Jefds Chrift. Here are the inco_mes of the beam? of lig~t moll: inacceffible; here are the veins of tbe unfearchable Glones of Jefus Chnfl ; as tf we faw every moment a new heaven, a new treafure of love; the Bofom of Chri!t is yet more opened; the new breathiogs and fpirations of love are yet more mmtfefted. See ! Chrifl for us, and for our falvation is gone up to Heaven, is fet down at God's right hand, and bath fem down the holy Ghoil: into our hearrs ; in rhe pouring our of th.efe Springs of Heavens love, how lhould our fouls but open the mouth wrde, and take m the!lreams of Chrift'sNe– dar, Honey, an<\Milk, I mean his fweet, aud precious, and dear love-breathings? We havchetrd of Cbri!t's invirations, Come to me all ye that 11re weary aNd heavy t~den: but foppofe Chrift had never outed his love in fuch a love-expreflion Come to me; yet Chrift Mat.u, 1 s. himfelf in thefe glorious particulars is fuch a drawing objed ; (the very beauty of Chri!l, rhe very fmell of the Garments of Chrifl, the very capacious and wide Heavenof Chri!l's exaltation are inrrinfecally, ~ndof rhemfelves fuch drawing, ravifhing, winning objeds) rhat upon the appre.•eniton of them we cannot chufe but love Chrift: as Gold that is dumb and cannot fpeak, yer the beaury and gain of it cryetb aloud, Come hither poor creature, 11nd bethou made rich; fo tf Chrift Dwuld never open his lips, if he fhould never gemly move, Open to me my jijler, my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head is full of dew, and my lock.! with the drops of the night; yer rhe Glory, the Power, «ant. S•" the Soveraignry of Cbrift; rhe exaltation of his Perfon, and rhe magnificence of his Gifts, fhould even change our fouls into a Globe or mafs of Divine Love and Glory, .As it were by the Spirit of the Lord. 1 Cor. 3· r8. Two things J fh:UI inflance in, which may be as the Load-flones of our love to Chrift; rhe 6rflis his glory, and the fecond his bounty. 1. For his Glory, no fooner was he afcended, and fer down at God's right hand, but John the Divine had a fight of him, and oh whar a glorious lighr! He wauloathed ~ev. 1• i;.r 4, with a ,garment downtothe feet, .tndgirt aboutthepaps with a golden girdle; his head and 1 5o r6. h:s hazrs werewhJtelik.;wooll> MWhiteMfnow, and b;seyeswere Majlameof fire, and hu Jut lik! unto fine brafs,. Mif they bumed in a{~<rnace, and his voice M the found of many waters; and he badu1hH right hand Jeven ftars, and em of hu mouth went.a (harp two dged.Jword, and his counte~ance WM M the Srm that.Jhineth in his jf~ength ;_ when {obn faw btm rhus,he fwoons aflusfeer,but Chrtflfor all Ius Glory holds hts head mhisfwoon faylng,fearnot, I am the firft, and the laji ; I am he that livcth, and wMdead, andbeholdver.r 1 , 1 &, I ..maltve{1Hevermore, -;4>nen, and bath the k§ysof he/land of death. A glorious Chrifl is ' g~od .for fwoon•~g, dyrng Gnners, would !inners but draw near, and come and fee this Ktng tn the chanot of love, and come and fee his beauty, the uncreared white and red in - I i i :1. his
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