88 The great Gofpel-Myilery of the Saints comfort andholinef?: 5. Pfa.S 9. 15. meg-. Anftv. an Hypocrite, adiffembler, and (peaksall manner ofevil that can be divifed againft a poore foule for the Name of Chrift; that is thevery time, that Chrift comes for to blefs that foule , then doth Chrift bleffe ; it's a bleffed -fon. In theFift place, The Lord Chrifl does alioBleg,whenat Peo- ple dogracioufly injoy the Ordinances, purely, and Evangelically adminifired. It is faid concerning Zion, There command- ed he his bleffing for ever, Blered are the people that hear the joyful found : they fhall walkin the light ofhis countenance. It is written of the Priefts in the times ofthe Old-Teltament, that when the people, the Congregation were come toge- ther, they Mat them : when the People were come toge- ther, for the injoyment of Ordinances according to Cods own appointment, then the Priefis bleft them. And- did their High-Prieft blare them then ? and ftall not our High Prieft do it now ? their High-Prieft bleffe them when they fate under 1VIefaical Ordinances ? and fhall not our High-Prieft bide the people that fit under Evangelical,and Gorpel-Ordinances purely, 8c Evangelically adminifired ? The people then might make account of the greateft bier- Eng ; and fo may you do alfo,ofthe bleffingofJefus Chrift when thus you do enjoy Crdinances. Only there is this difference : ( other ,differences there are, but this only I fha II fpeak of) Then the Priell did-blefle the people when the Congregation was cliftnift : but now, the Lord jefus Chriti our great High-Prieft, he is blelling ofthe Congre- gation all the while; he is going up anddown in the Con- gregation all the while that the Word is preached, and Ordinances adminifired, and he is biding poor fouls, as they fit longing after him, and,fighing towards him ; he is ,bleffing ofthem all the while. Thus hecloes blefle and though you don't alwaies perceive it, yet he doth'bleffe hispeople. And that's the Feurth thing. But yet you will fay, . How does all this conduce unto our .Contfort,and unto our Holinelli Much every way : Firft, 4
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