372 General' direilions for a facrificedfor vs,therefore let vs ke.epe the Feaft, 1. Cor.5.7. The (weenie& and excellencyofthis Feaft, is notably let out andamplified by i . Thebeautiful! garments we put on and weare, wh en weare admitted vnto it: z. The matter,and magnificent pronifion : 3. The muficke : 4. The Franke and bountifull entertainment and plentie : 5. The extraordinary pompe and princelineffe. z. For the firft , meditate ioyfully vpon that rich attire, and thofe Royal!attributes, glorifying and crowning Chrifis bleffed Spoufe., withmoft admirable and rauifhingbeautie, Cant.6.10, Who is fhee that looked)forth ai the morning,faire ae,the Mow, pureas theSunne, terrible as an army withBan. ? And know , that all the effentiall glory and faire- neffe which is to be found in the whole Church, theWoman clotbedwith theSunne; as that ofiuflification and fanetifica- tion,&c. belongs to euerymember thereof, to euery faithful! Chriftian. As the morning.] r. The morning fprings out ofthe grea- ten darkeneffe; the night is moll darke,as they fay,a little be- foreday : the illuminated foule arifes out ofthe nioft darke- forne -and damned graue of ignorance and finne. 2. The beauty ofthe morning is principally feene in her *ruddineffe: 1he foule that is newly deliuered out ofthe horror of Egyp- tiandarkenelle, and hands of thehellifh Pharaoh, is all ruddy with paffing thorow the red Seaof Chrifis blood; that is the ground vpon which all its beauty and bleffednefie is built. 3. The glory of the morning after its firft peeping in the Eaft , fpreads fairer and fairer in all beau tie and brightneffe, vntill themid- day,and full illuNation ofthe World : Grace in the foul; after the firft plantation, grooves fironger and fironger, fhines fairer and fairer, vntill it let in the bottome- leffe Ocean of endleffe Glory. See Prom.4.1 8, Faireas the Moose.] 1. The Moone receiues all her light and luau from_the Sunne all the graces, holinefk., inherent righteoufneire , fhining in a fantlified foule , are the image and impreffions of the Sunne of righteoufnefre. 2. The Moone Reuel. i2. 4' Hence it is, that the Poets call it YokalauXec The Rage fingered worniv.
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