each PhBSÖN 285 love, he will joy over thee with finding, which is a full defcription of de- light in all the parts of it ; joy, and exaltation, ref and complacence. I rejoiced, faid he, in the habitable parts of the earth, and mÿ delights mere' with the fans of men, Pray. viii. 3t. The thoughts of communion with the faints, were the joy of his heart from eternity. On the compa& and agreement that was between his father andhim; that he Ihould divide a portion with the Prong, and favea remnant for his inheritance, his foul rejoiced in the thoughts of that pleafure and delight, which he would take in them, when he fhould a&ually.take them into communionwith hitnfel£ Therefore in the precedingverfe it is faid he was by him as VCR; fay we, as one brought up with him, alumnus, the Seventy. render it teaaó;eu2 ; and the Latin withmoil otlrer'tranfations ; cunbla componen:, or difponens. The -word taken aftively ftgnifies himwhom another takes into his care to breed up, and difpofeth of things for his advantage, fo did Chrift take us then into his care, ,and rejoiced to the thoughts of the execution of his truf. Concerning them he faith, Here will I dwell, and Here will I make my ha- bitation for ever. For, them bath he chufen for his temple and his dwel- lingplace, becaufe he delighteth in them. This makes him take them fo nigh hitnfelf in every relation. Ashe is God, they are his temple, as hi is a king, they are his fubjefts; he is the king of faints; as he is a head, they are his body, he is the Lead of the church ; as he is a firfl born he makes them his brethren, He is not alhamed to call them brethren. I than choofe outone particular from among many as an-inflance for the proof of this thing, and that is this, Chrift reveals his fecrets, his mind unto his faints, and enables them to reveal the fecrets of their hearts to him. An evidentdemonftration of great delight. It was Sampfon's carnal delight inDalilab, that prevailed with him to reveal unto her thofe things which were of greaten concernment unto him, he will not hide his mind from her, tho' it coil him hislife. It is only à bofom friend unto whomwe will unbofom our felves. Neither is therepoífibly a.greater evidence of delight in chafe communion, than this, that one will reveal his heart unto lain whom he takes into fociety, and not entertain him with things common and vulgarly known. And therefore have I chofe this infante fromamongft a thoufand that might be given of this delight of Chrift in his faints. He then communicates his mind unto his faints, and unto them only, his mind, the counfei of his love, the thoughts of his heart,. the pnrpofes of his hofont for our eternal good, his mind, the ways of his grace, the workings of his fpirit, the rule of his fcepter, arid the obedience of his gofpel. (a) All fpiritual revelation is by,Chrif. He is the true light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the world, John i. q. He is the day fpring, the day War, and the fun. So that it is impotffble any light should be but by him, fromhim it is, that the ferret of the Lord iswith them tiat fear bim, andbe Thews them his covenant, Pfal. xv. v. 14. as he exprelfe's it at large, Job. xv. 84, 15. (b) Te are my friend: ifye do whatfoever I com- mandyou. "Henceforth I call you not fervants, for the fervant knoweth not what his Lord doth, but I have calledyou friends, for (c) all things that I have heard of my father, I havemade known unto you. He makes them as his friends and ufeth them as friends, as bofom friends, in whom he is delighted. He makesknown all his mind unto them, every thing that his father hath committed to him as mediator, to be revealed, All. xx. 24. (a) Mai iv. n. Luke i. 78. a Pee. i. so, (6) Voioti arem dei no&quifquam defiderae ? fiat amicua deo, quia G volunracembrain. nofiè veil., cujus arnicas non elf., omnes clue' impudeneiam&=kit= deridereac, Aug h de Gen. Cont. Man lib. a. rap. a. (e) Vox adora ex fubjefti mutata, reftrìftione nad doetrinam Wilds regular, Tarnow, in lee. Cccc And
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