.266 WORD or THE LORD. Vain-glory, of the hle(h. He can fing of Chri(t with an excellent dying Saint of old; Vivo tibi, ac morior; fpes mea, vita, falus. For Thee I live and die ; my Hope, my Life, my All. He feels the promifed Witnefs within his Soul, giving him the Tcftimony revealed in the Scriptures, but un- known to the World. This Witnefs (as the Arch - bifhop, juft mentioned, obfervcd) can come into the I lean ; " whereas all other Speakers are forced to " hand without. That (till Voice within perfuades " more than all the loud crying without ; as he that is r. within the Houle, though he fpeak low, is better " heard and underftood, than he that fhouts without " Doors." This Witnefs teftilies of Chritt, and de- çlares his effential Divinity, as the con- fub(tantial Word with GOD, and the ever- living Word cf GOD. This Witnefs reveals him to the Believer's Heart, draws out its Affections towards him, and plants himlelf as an abiding Inmate within his Soul. It (hews, that be was made for Cbrift, and that Cbrift is given to him. This \Vitnets carries him fafely through his mortal Lite, and will not leave or neglect him, in the Vifitation of Death. If Maximus Tyrius an Heathen could fay, that " though the Weak deplore Death as an Evil, " and tremble at his Approach ; yet he, who withes to " be united to GOD, expects it with Complacency, " and meets it with Fortitude ;" -r what might a Chriftian, all enlightened with Grace and Truth, pro- nounce concerning it ? Hear what, perhaps, the greatett Chrillian, that ever lived, lays upon the Matter, where he ranks it among the Church's choiceft Mercies : Death (lays he) is yo'ur's, as well as Life, or things pre- fent, or things to come; for all are your's. The Sting being removed, which is Sin ; there is nothing bur Peace to flow from Death to the Believer. Indeed to Wotc. Au LI NC. Mr4L. Ad. vit. Thcol. p. 753. t Da. I. him
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