230 ?ACTH BUILT ON KNOWLEDGE. [DISC. I. brance ; and has shewn him his own name written in the Lamb's bookof life, from the foundation of the world. 8. Then he may turn his eyes to all that glorious assembly on high ; he may look on the saints in their robes of light, as companions of his blessedness, and the troops of angels as ministers of fire, to execute vengeance on all his enemies ; and heralds to preparehis way to the upper heavens. He may fix his eyes with most intense and transporting delight on Christ his sovereign Lord, and behold him hereafter with eyes of sense, amidst the honours of heaven, whom he had heheld here with an eye of faith, amidst the sufferings of the cross, and the agonies of the garden. " This is he, says the saint, " whose voice of mercy I heard in yonder perishing " world, ánd to whom I looked from the ends of the " earth, that I might be saved. I believed him then to " have all the fulness of the godhead dwelling in him " bodily; and as God'manifest in the flesh, I worship- " ped him,' and trusted in him. I behold him now as " the brightness of his Father's glory, and his divinest " image : I find him to be a complete and all-sufficient " Saviour ; for I stand possessed of his divine salvation. " My knee bows, and my tongue confesses that Jesus is " Lord. He is one with the Father. To him that sitteth " upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and " honour, and power, and glory, for ever and ever. " Amen." Rev. v. 13. DISCOURSE IX. FAITH BUILTONKNOWLEDGE,PREACHED 1711. 2 TIM. i. 12. t know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him, against that day. THE FIRST P.T.T. ÎHEN this epistle was written to Timothy, St. Paul, the writer of it, was a prisoner at Rome ; there he lay 'under a heavy chain, and was exposed to public shame
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