Cevenant of Grace. l · of the Lord ? Or who hath been his c;ounfeller !$' Ver. 34·. (4.) 'Tis more than .five thoufand •yeai·s fince this building rofe above grr.mnd. Arid the firfr fione ofit that appeared, was a promift, a promife.~f ' a Saviour, made in paradife, after the fall, 9en. m .. 15. namely, that the feed ofthe woman fhou~d b'r:_uife the head of the ferpent. Here was mercy. And mercy-was laid upon mercy : upon promijing mercy was laid quickning mercy, whereby our lofi firfi pa– rents were enabled to believe the promife : and upon · quickliing ·mercy was laid pardoning mercy to them ; .and upon that again /anBifying and eflab~ijhing mer– cy, and at length glorifying mercy. (5.) The ce?Jfent is blood, the blood of jefus Chrifi the :Mediator,which is the blood of Go,d, Acts xx. 28. No f?iving mercy , for finners could conjifi, ne>r cou1d one mercy ly firm up~ another in the building, without being cemenJ. ted with that precious blood : but by it the whole building confifis, and fiancJs firm for ever. Heb. ix .. 22, l3. ari.d vii: 24, 25. (6.) Ever · fince the time it appeared above ground, .it has beengoing on. And many hands have been em,ploy'd, to ferve in carrying on the wotk: in the firfi ages · of the world, ,Patri- - archs were employ'd k it, fuch as Adam, Enoch and Noah; in the middle ages,. prophets, priefls, and Le– vites ; in thefe the lafl: ages, the apojlleJ, and other extt:aordinary officers, and ·ordinary miniflers of th~ gofpel. Great has been the oppofrtion made to the builq~ng from the beginning, by Satan and his agents, both m the way of violence and deceit : yet has it all along been· goihg on fiill. And now 'tis come far above mid·'height; 'tis drawing towards the top and the time when the Jah: fioq.e thall be laid thereon~: for . 'ti~ evident, we are fa~ advanced in ' the days of the VOle: of the fev~nth angel,' wherein the myflery of G~d IS to ~e jillijhed, Rev. x. 7. (7.) The r;opejione w1ll be latd pn It, at the Jafr day; at which time the promife will receive its full accompli!hmen!, in the . A 3 .'COffi "'
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