' ' ~ f2. 'I he 7'ri,•l lmd Sytt: ~o , ..and tranfcendeth far 'the narrow Comprehenfion of created Knowledge either of Men or Angels. To~ feek Grace is defi1:eable : But iuppofe any Perfon were a Mafs, and nothing but compofed of · pure Grace, and yet want Chrift himfelf, he Jhould ~e but a broken, lamed Creature: Put a. Sou'f in /Heaven, and let him be hated of Chrift (if that it were poffible) Heaven Ihould be Hell. _ Imagine Devils were ftanding with their black Chains of Darkncfs, even up in the Heaven of Heavens, and the Plague of being hated of Chrift on their Soul, and that they could fee him that :fitteth on the Throne, and fomewhat of the Rays and Beams of that fi1lnefs of Go~ that is .' in Chrift; yet fhould Devils ftill be Devils, they wanting Chrift the Heaven of Angels and g~orified Men. What a Flower ! What a oie of Love and Light muft CHRIST be, who filleth wi'th Smell, Light, Beauty, the four Sides, Eaft & Wdt, South and North of the Heaven of Heavens, and his Glory ! Suppofe in the Hour of .,our lall: Farewell to Time, all Creatures void of ' Reafon, Heavens, Stars, ·Light, Air, Earth, Sea, dry L9-nd, Birds, Fifhes, Beafts,were in a_ Capaci· ty to lg've us, and they, with 11en and ·Angels, fuould let out upon us the Fulnefs ; yea, the Sea of all their Love (as ~tis a fweet Thi1-1g to be lovely apd defireable to ma'ny) yet this were no. fhing to him who is, Ca11t. v. 16. Att '.JJejires or fill Loves : So Vata!JJus rendereth it, G/Jriflus eft_ 1otus de(lderia : He is a Mafs of Love, and Love-itklf; lovely in 'the W6mb, the Ancient pf Days became young for me; lovely in ~he Crofs, even when defpifed and numbered ~1th P;fhieves; lovely in the Gravt>~lovely at the right · - Rand
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