Vj the SEND 1 No Sermon 7 . But, it isnottheplace(thoughneverfdcommodlous) makes on~ To<nr;tain< dwell, asdoth rhe good ufage, or;efpect of thofe,in the midfi of whom itis.1 ~:o H1m. ~ wtllI dwell, for I have" deltght(fa1th He.) It would befuch, as to delight Him ('f . 1 Y"fe •6. might be:) burfuch,asat no hand togrieveHim. For then, He is gone aaain• -l~/ I gremH< hine firaighr, and we force H1m to ir. Fot·, who woulddwell, where,hc •– Rot dwell, bur with continual! griefe ~ can– And, what is there, will foonergrievc Him,and make Him to quit us thand'[. cord or dif-union ~ Among divided men, or mindes, Hee will not divell.' Nor b 1 where unicie and love is. In vaine, we ralke of rhe Spiiir without rhefe. Aaro.s',; ';r mmt, and the dewof_ Hermon(borh types of Hun)ye know what Pfalmerhey beio~ · J'C:d.•ll·'· to: It begins wirf.*abitare fratres in ttnttm. It is in t[lis Pfalmebefore (Verfi 9 g where men are of one minde in an~hou(e, there He delights to be. This very day th .J that received Him, were ;f',e"f'"J'lv, with one 4Ccord, i~: 011epl.ce.- That '~''e,~,;;; isr~ Adverbof the Feaft. And the Apojfle, in his comment on this vcrfe: No better wa (faith he) eopreferve the tmitieof tbe Spirit (or the Spirit of unitie,choofe you wh[. ther) than inthebondof peace. To Gty truth; who would be hired to dwell in lMe- ¥,f~~;·:~:$. fech, where nothing is bur conrinuall jm-cs and quarrells ~ Such places,fuch men.are even as torrida Zona, not habitableby rheSpirit, by rhis Spirit. But for theother fpi– rit, the fpirit of divifion, they are : Vt ha6itet d<tmon inter eos, a fit placeforrhe De– vil!, to dwell among fuch. Thinkc of this ferioully, and fer it downe, that al Sa/em i5 HiJ tabernacle.' and Salem ispeace, and fo theFathersreade it, In pace foc1ru tjll~e1" E]U<. M1ke H1m that place, and He wlil fay, here 1S my reft,hert~~cll!dwe!l,fur 1 have delight therein. · l)jl We faid even now: to dwell among u<, He mufidwell in"'.- And,inlloJ', He will dwell, if the fruits of His Spirit be found in us. And, of His fruits, the veryfir!! is Love. And thefruit is, as the tree is. For, He Hirnfelfeis Love, theelfemiallLove, and Love-knot of theundividedTrinitie. Now,to work love{the undoubted bothfigneand meanes of Hisdwelling) what better way, or how foonerwrought, than by the Sacrament of love, at the Ftajlof love, upon theFe.jl.day of Lo-ve; when Love defcended with bo;h his hands full of tifts, for very love, to take up His dJVelling with us~ You thall obfervc: rhere ever was and will be,a neere alliance, berweenc Hisd•– na dedit hominibm, and His dona reliquit hom.inibtu; The Gifts He fenr, andtheG•fu Hdift us. Heleft HS rhegifts of His body andbloud. His body broken, and full of the characters of love, all over. His blortdjhed, every drop whereof is a great drop of Love. Tothofe which wercfcnt, thefe which wcrekfr <love,joy,pe.ce) haveafptCJ· all con-naturall reference, to breed ,md to maintaine each other. His body, theSpirit of flrength; Hisbloud,theSpirit of comfort : Both,rhe Spiritof L_ove. . I This Spirit (wee faid) we are to procure, that it may abzde wnh us,andbttP#S, ( And what is more intrinfec:t\1 in us, abideth furer, growerhfafierro us, than what l we ear and drinke ~ Tben,if we could ger a JPiritua/l meat,orget to drinkeof rheSp~o ·, Cor.r•. •4 rit, there were no way ro that•. And behold, here they be. For,here is(}irituaUme•t, ~Cor. " ·'l thar is, breeding the Spirit; and here we are all madedrinkeof oneSpirit, rhatthere may be but oneJPirit in us. And we arc all made onebread, and onebody, knead toge– ther, and pte!fed to"'ether into one (as theSymb9les are, rhebread,andthe f!>tne;) SI John !-ll· many a,.re partaker~ of one bread, and o11e cup,thebreadof lifi,and theCIIf of bleft~~ 1 Cor.•o.r6. theCommunionof the Body :tnd bloudof CH R 's T. And,in figure of thts,even Kng ! Chron.r 6 .3' David dealt rhefe two (bread :tndwine) in a kinde of refernblance to ours, whenrhe Arke was to be brought home, and feared among them; rh~ Arke in type- And w~o · doe thef.1me, this day, when rhe Arkein rrurhdid come,and will come to take up ' 5 refi in us. d /1 · l (the r perfe';;i~~~f~~~ ~~~:~) ~~~e~~d~v~\\tn;~::hi~~~~nll~~tfd~;,~;lh7; (~:~~:~ ~~; highefi perfection of the life to come.) I'or,with whom Go v d,vellethhere,fo , . !hall dwell wirh him rhere,ce naioly. Grace He doth give, that Hemaydwell 11111 :nd
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