Io Matth. 29 ida Rom. 4. 17. so: the Vail fpreadover All Nations,and Chrift may be a mountain to them as he is to him, t rock to them as heis tohim, afeafl to them as he is to him. And they can fay truely, and name this mountaine Jehovah- jireb ; onely in the mount of the Lord , can this óe feen Abrahamcould not facrifice his Son, till he carne up into thismount : once come in to this mountain, then the foule can patt with all things for the Iove of Chrift, nothing is fo dear as thrift. And this is the conclufion wrought by the Spirit inAbraham : Jehovah jireh , faith he, in the mount of the Lord itThal be feen: there is no feeing anyof there things, nor there is no true feafting till we come into this mount of the Lord. What was that going up of Abraham to the mount Moriab think you ? In the truth ofit, it was no other thing but this, his going upfrom himfelf, and out ofbimfelf, forfaking all things for this one thing, and comming up to this mountain ofthe Lord, where theLord alone was all in all : Beloved, know this for truth, there is no wifdome, no righteoufnefîe, no (trength, &c. nowhere elfe, but here, In the mount of the Lord it(hall befeen, and nowhereelfe : There is no felf-denial, no true repentance, no conquering of the leaf} fin, no truepeace,, no joy, no love, no wifdom but onely in this mount ; whatever men pretend, that theyare wife , or holy, and the like,'tis all but deceit and a delufìon, till we come up to theMount, till this Vailc be removed : we can never find thefirong man, we can never cut ofour right hands, orpul out our right eys dl then;wecan never forfake our felvs, we can never deny our own power, wifdome and holinefhe. Herenow is this mountain offirength, here it was that'' Abrahamflaggerednot through unbelief, but wasftrong infaith, givingglory to God. Here he knew and was fully perfmaded that he that hadpromifed was able to performe ; that though Ifaac were facrificed, yet Godwas he who could quicken the dead, andcalleth things which are not as though they were. Here- in was Abraham, the father of thefaithful, and Ifaac the feed of many Nations,andall the faithful are his feed in this : And his going up to the Mountain, is no other but what is done by all the faithful ; that htteral mountain , was not the truth, but onely the figureof this ftrong mountaine Jefus Chrifl
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