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SECT.
IV.]
THE
HAPPINESS OF SEPARATE
SPIRITS.
made,
that
all the nations should
be
blessed in
their
seed, had no
transporting pleasures
when
they
first
be-
held
that
promised
seed
crowned
with
all his glory
?
When they
saw
their
Son
Jesus
"
ascending on
high,
and
leading
captivity
captive,
and
the
chariots
of God
that
attended
him were twenty
thousand, even an
innumera-
ble
company
of
angels ;"
Ps:
lxviii.
17, 18.
If
upon
this occasion
we
may
talk
in
the language
of
mortals, may
we
not suppose those ancient fathers
raising;
themselves on high, and overlooking the walls
of
para-
dise, to gaze downward
upon
this ascending
triumph
?
May
we
not
imagine them speaking thus
to each
other
in the holy
transport
?
" And
is
this
our great
descend-
ant?
Is
this
our
long
-
expected offspring? How divine
.
his
aspect
?
How
god
-like
his
air
?
How glorious
and
adorable
all
the graces of
his
countenance
?
Is this,
saith
holy
David,
my Son
and
my
Lord
?
the king
of
glory,
for whose
admission
I
called the
gates
of
heaven
to
he
lifted
up,
and
opened
the
everlasting
doors
for him
in
an ancient
song?
Is
this
the man
whose
hands
and
whose
feet they pierced
on
earth,
as
I once
foretold
by
the
spirit
of
prophecy
?
I
see
those blessed scars
of honour: how
they
adorn
his
glorified limbs
!
I
acknowledge and
adore
my
God and
my
Saviour.
I
begun
his
triumph
once
on
my
harp in a
lower
strain, and
I
behold him
now
as-
cending
on
high
:
Awake my
glory, he comes,
he
comes,
With
the sound
of
a
trumpet,
and with the
pomp of
shout
ing angels
;
sing
praises,
all ye
saints,
unto our God, sing
praises, sing praises
unto our
king,
sing praises.
Is
this,
saith
Isaiah, the
child born,
of
whom
I
spoke? Is this
the
Son
given,
of
whom
I
prophesied
?
I
adore
him
as
the
mighty
God, the
Father of
ages,
and
the Prince
of
Peace.
Ì
see
the righteous branch, adds the
prophet
Jeremy,
the righteous branch
from
the
stern
of David,
from the
root of
Jesse. This
is
the king whom
I
fore-
told should
reign in
righteousness: The Lord
my
righte-
ousness
is
his name,
I
rejoice
at
his
appearance, the
throne of
heaven
is
made ready for
him.
This,
saith
Daniel,.
is
the Messiah, the
Prince
who
was
cut
off,
but
not
for
himself:
The
seventy weeks are
all fulfilled,
and
the work
is
done.
He
bath
finished transgression,
and
made an end of
sin,
and bath
brought
in
everlasting
righteousness for
all
his
people.
But
was
this the
person
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