JiecíaUO , aftti. 33 . miles of everlafling glory there ? The fiery Law carries an awe with it, as if the thunders and lightnings of Sinai were not yet over : And in the Gofpel the kingdom of heaven approaches and opens it Pelf to believers , as it were in fparkles of glory. Again, there zs a treafitre of Di- vine myf{eries, touching the Jácred Trinity.Nature is mute,but Scripture fpeaks out ; Reafon is but a little child,ari,d cannot pafs this infinite Abyfs, unlefs Faith in the word take him upon his back and carry him over. Touching that Incarnation of the Son of God,never any natural man dream- ed, or fo much as fluted a thought of it ; but in Scripture this and all the train of myfleries in our Redemption break forth in their glory. That book,which hath fuch and the like myfle- ries,infinitely tranfcending all the thoughts and reafons ofman, doth by them thew that it came out of the bofom of God himfelf.Again, there 'is an unparatlel'd purity in it, fuch as is no where elk to be found. This Sun hath no fpots in it this Diamond hath no flaws in it, there is no- thing terrene or carnal in this heavenly piece,as long as it hath flood in the world : not a duff ora dreg can be found therein, neither ever did or will it licence the leali oferratas in man:In its pure fpiritualnefs, it calls a chain upon the very thoughts andffirfl motions of tin, and traces up fin to the black nefl of corruption in lapfed na- ture ; it calls for a pure heart, made from hea- ven in regeneration and nerv-creation and the noblell births of Reafon and Morality will not ferve the turn. Such things as there are not fo D much
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