Stm.• ~o · Triumph_ of Faith; · · -~ J 11 :Door-keeper in his Houfe, Pfal. lxxxiv. 10 He putteth a Happinefs on the Sparrow and 'the Swallow, that may build their Nefts bejide the Lord's Altar: Then the Fragments and Crumbsthat his Doos eateth, muft be the Dainties of Heaven, and Chrift's Water the Wine of Heaven.. Now, if any the loweft Thing ofChrift, the Morfel of his Dogs be defireable, how iweet muft himfelfbe, if the Parings of his Bread be fweet ? What muft the great Loaf Chrift himfelf be ? Chrift himfelf is fo taking a Lover, he bath a Face that would ravifh Love out ot Dev2ls, fo they he.d Grace to fee his Beauty ; he could le;.ad captive all Hearts in Hell, witl~ the Lovelinefs of his Countenance, whicb is white and ruddJ', and pleafant as Lebanon, if they had Eyes to behofd him. 0 he himfelf is an unknown Lover ; he hath neither Brim nor Bottom, his GofpeJ is the unfearchabte Riches r;fChrift ; his Go(pel is but a Creature : How unfearchable muft he himfelf be? The ·wife Man, Prov. xxx. 4 putteth a Riddle upon all the wifeft on tee Earth, Solomon and all : What is his Name ? We know neither Name nor Thing, Jfoi. 53· 8. Wbo jhatt preach his Generation ? 0 what a Mercy ! that -he will give finners leave to love him! Or honour us fo much, that we may lay our black and fpot -· ted Love on fo lovely and fair a Saviour! That fuch an infinite a,nd defireable Love as Chrift's Love, lhould come (to borrow that Expreffion) within the fides of thy Love an~ Heart, is a Wonder ' Alas, 'tis a narrow Circle, and not capacious to contain him and his Love, that paffeth knowledge,. Eph. iii. 19. [Genonas te ten hyperbattufan tes gno.fooos agapen] It overpaffeth and ' I
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