ANGEL, and ANGEL of the COVENANT. 285 " SELF, which is confeífedly allowed by all Inter- " preters." CHRIST our Redeemer then, by the Teftimony of GOD and Man, is the ANGEL JEHOVAH, and the ANGEL of the Covenant. He was fent with the bleffed News of Pardon and Peace to his People ; and was cosmnijioned with the full Revelation of that everlafting Compact, which fubfifted between the divine Perlons in JEHOVAH before the World began. In this Com- paJ every Part of our Salvation is ftipulated, and, by the Performance of thofe Stipulations, the Door of Heaven is opened to all Believers. To a guilty, fin-bur- dened, Confcience, CHRIST is the belt Angel or Mel - finger, that ever came into the World. No News, like News from Heaven, to a Heart ready to bunt with the Horrors of Hell. No Peace can be compared to that, which JEsus bath purchafed, and which he brings down for the Support of his People. He is the Am- baffador of Peace ; and hath made Reconciliation be- tween GOD and Men. He flipulated the Conditions as GOD, and performed the StipulatioÑs as the GOD- man. Nothing now remains for his Redeemed, but a free, honorable, unconditional Peace. How fhould thefe Tidings then of eternal Redemption caufe the mourning Hearts in Zion to beat for Joy ! How fhould this welcome Meffage lift up their drooping Heads, and caufe their Bofoms to pant for that unutterable Glory, which their bleffed ANGEL bath manifeftly fet before them ! If our treacherous Hearts were half fo inclined to hear and entertain News fromGOD, as they are to be amufed with the idle Tales of Vanity and Sin; not only CHRIST himfelf, the MjTenger of Salvation, would be more precious to our Souls ; but his Names, his Gofpel, his Promifes, and all that belongs to him, would be the Subjeét of our Meditation by Night and by Day. But fo deceitful are our Hearts, and fo defpe- x GROT. de Fer. Rd. Chrifl. 1. v. §. at. Not. s. and 6. rateÿ
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