I9J ro the Lord, when they fuall be able clearly ~o behbld the glory of Chrift, 2 Cor. 3· r~. BUT this caufed them who-were real believe.rs among them, to defire, long, and pray for the removal of thete vails, the departure of thofe fuadows,which made it as night urttothem in comparifonof what they knew would appear, whet1 the Sun of .Righte8ufnefsJhould arife with healing in his wings. They thought it long ere the day .dit! break, and the [ha_dows flee away, Cant. 2. I 7· chap 4· 6. There was an i~Uoltd.g«J'oxJ~ as the Apoftl~ fpeaks, Rom. 8. 19. A thruftingforth of the head with defire and expectation of the ·exhibition of the Son of God in the fiefh;and the accomplifhment of all div~e promifes therein. Hence he was called the Lord whom they fought and delighted in, Mal. 5· I. , AND great was the fpiritual Wifdom qf be~ lievers in thofe days. They rejoiced and gloried in theordinances of Divine Worfhip which they did enjoy. They looked on them as their chiefeft priviledg, and attended unto them with dili~ gence, as an effect of Divine Wifdom and Love; as a]fo becaufe they had a jhadovJ of good things to. come. But yet at the fame time they longed and defired that the time of reformation zver_e come, wherein they fhould all be removed ;· that fo they' might behold and enjoy the goov. things fignified. by them. A:nd thofe who did not fo, but refied in,and trufted UntO their prefent inftitutions,Wefe not accepted with.God-. • Thofe who were really illuminated did not fo, but lived in conftant det fires after the revelation of the whole ~yftery cf th€ WiiQom of God in Chrift ,. as did th~ 0 Artgels \'
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