2 sS I The Trial and \ S.ea ~0 I{a. ix. 7.! Of the increafe of his Govermnent and Peace (there jhaJt be) no End : In regard of Duration, even in !?eaven, there fhall be a growing ofhis Kingdom: . There's not Yefterday, and to Morrow, and the next Year in Heaven ;· }:et there's a negative incn:aie, Glory and Peace Jhall afcend in continuance, & never come to an height: The Sun (never declines, the long Day of ChriH's Glory and Peace lhall never end. Chrift is faying even now, · Father, I mufl have aU my Children up with me, that wbere I am, there they may be alfo: And therefore the Head draws up to hi,m now a "Pin~er, then a Toe: Now an .Arm, then a Leg: He bath been thefe fixteen hundred Years fince his Afcenfi,on,drawing up by Death, wholeChurches, the Saints at Corinth, at Rome, at Phitippi: ThejF'ven Candtejlicks, and the fevetz Stars of .Afla, ar~ long ago up ~ . Orion, and the [even Stars; and are now fh1m~g up before the Throne: This confecrated Captam of our Salvation, will not fleep till his Father's Houfe be filled, till all the.numerot.is Off-fpring, - and the Generations of thejir(l born, be up under 'one Roof with their Father. Heaven is a growing Family, the Lord of the Houfe bath been ga~ thering his Flocks into the fair Fields o~ the Land of Praifes, ever :fince the firft Abet dted ; and down all along, the Believers were gathered to their Fathers. Uje 1. Is That we defpife not the V ay of(ma/J Tbings 5 God's Eeginning of great Works is final). What could be faid of a poor Wornans throwing of a Stool at the- Man wi1o did firft read the new Servjce-Book in Edinbrugb? ~t ~as not looked at as any eminent Paifage of divme Pro"' V
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