•44 Of EM/ion. ~ me; which will be the effect upon all the World of wicked Men at that great BooK II. day, which is called the day ot their vifitation, that they lhall fee unto wh>t. ~ an infinite bleffednefs the S1ints are raifed up unto, through Union with God and Chrifi; and wiTat a glorious Chrifi he will appear to b~, that even they all !hall know that God hafi fent him, and that he is the Chrifi indeed, and has loved thefe his members, united to him as God has loved him. But th.s conviCtion will be too late, for it is to be joyned with depart from mt; and thereforefcck unto God to keep you in tltts Warid, to keep you pure from the evil of it, that the World liethIn; ~hat in the end this Uniori may break forth in you, and upon you, untoypor ·<®n·.'plQrious fenfe of it: And fo Cluifis words run; Holy Father, keep them' t!Jr.ough thy own Name, thofe whom tbott baf/givm me, that thry may be one evm as we: To ftt down with A6ra. ham, ljaac and Jaco6 was the Phra(eOlogy of the Old 'fefiamenr: Though Chrifi ufed it coming in the verge of it, but to lit down with the Vs, the Three, another manner of Three than .116raham, l[aacand Y,lCob, to lit down withGodtheFathtr, andGodtht Son, onciG.dtheHolyGhofl; androhave thefe to dwell in us, and we to dwell in them, this is Chrifis Language, this is New Tefiament Language: Oh! To be bound up jo that bundle of life with the living God, and with Chrifi that bath life in himfdf, Oh let this be the whole of the firength of the aim of our Souls ; and be moved and affected fo with it, fo as not to want a part and lhare in and with this good company : They were fufficient company to themfelves when they inhabited Eterniry,and– fufficient to make themfelves happy one in another; how much more are they fufficient to make us fo, by taking us up into their intimate converfe? Suppofe, ( wee'll make but a fuppolition of it,) that God had chofen but one Soul belides that Man Jeft<s whom he took up into onePerfon with his Son (for we meerCreatures lhould not have been immediately united to God without a Mediator ofUnion, who was more than a Creature, and therefore his prefence is neceffary unto our happinefs, as Vtrf.•4·)Upon this fuppolition, how infi· nitely ble!Ied would th3t one Soul have been in the foie and lingle Society of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghofi, and with the Man Jefus, made one perfon with the Son; he would not have needed to have had the company of Pettr and Pattt to have made that happinefs perfect; But Ji!J thee, aud thot< in me, would have made that Soul perfect in one: It is but an additional and afcititious happinefs which theSamts have from theirOnene(s one with another; but it is, I m them, and thou i11me, that they may be made perfect in one, is their happinels i11 fotido, wherein the fubfiance thereof conlifis: If of that fingle Soul Chrifi had (aid, Father, I will that this Soul alfo whom thou hafi gi· ven me, may be with me,where I am,that it may behold my glory which thou hafi given me; this Soul would have been perfectly happy.Have you had expe· tience at any time any ofyou(! do not fay you have not Grace, it.you have net had it) of that in John '4• 2.1, My Father will love him, and l will love him, and will manifefi my felf to him; i. t. Have you had the Father telling you he loves you? And then again, have you had the Son faying to your poor Souls, how he loves you;and manifefiing himfelf, and his Heart unto you? And have you had the HolyGbofi communicating himfelfin like manner?And this vouch· fafed here in this life in fome fhort converles ofeach of thefe Perfons with your Souls, whichyetarebut imperfectmanifefiationsof them to us in this life? Oh what fweernefs will there one dav be then in Heaven, in the fulncfs of con· verfe and manifefiation of thefe Three Perfons; when it will be, ifl)ot all, yet the greatdifcourfe that will be had and heard in Heaven, with your poor Souls, by all the Three Perfoos, bringing all the delights they have had in you from Eternity, down into your hearts, and making di(coverit)5 of them, ·to Etemity. · oF
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