Gen.3.5. Efay 5.2o J Prov.9.2. Rev. 2. The Vail fpreadover All Nations, and himfelf, never turned outward , but all is under this Cove- ring ; and while fo, hebleff s himfelf and faith I am laic, all is well, there is no death nor hell can come freer mc , I am a reform'd man, I walk exaly, I prefle after the ftri &cft rules of the word, I am under the purefi Ordinances ; here now, man eates death, and tails of theforbidden tree,and the tree is frreet to him, and to be defired. But nowwhen Chrift comes into the foul ready, all thefe thoughts are turfed, damned, thrown to hell , and the man becomes vile, abominable in his own fight : inftead of teeing himfelfan heir of glory , as before , his thoughts are clean altered : the vail, the Covering is removed, and he now fees himfelf an heir of hell , a poor deluded undone creature : He fees THE A S S E thefie/h, muff not goe up into the mountain with Abraham,but muff be left below,let that bear the burden, as fit and meet it fhould, let it bear thewrath of God, it nano be deftroyed , it muff be condemned, it mull goe to hell ; All theglory ofman,all the excellency of na- ture, all the holineffe ofman, the wifdom of man, all mull be left below with the Affe, the flefh , at thebottomof the hit I, and there mull be agoing out of our felves , a loofing of our felves,that we may goe up to the mountain,and there be feafled , and there fee vifions, there fee firength,there fee glory, there fee power, there feeriches, righteoufiaefíe , and all good things ; then man fhall feehow he called evil good, and good evil, darknefre light, and light darknefje; there he (hall be feafled with all delights, therehe fball fee howwif- dom bath furnifbed her table, there the fcales are removed ; here he beholds Jacobs ladder ; here is the valley of Achor, here he enjoys his hopes, herehe fees vifions, and the third heavens opened,and here he feeds upon the hidden Manna,&c. Butknow this, that all thefe thing arenot done atonce, but by degrees ; as man leaves theAffe behind,fo heafcends the mountain : as man goes out of himfelf, fo he enjoyes Jcfüs Chrift, and is made one with him; as man is made nothing, fo Chrift comes to be.madeall ; man becomes all in Chrift, and nothing in himfelf : fo far as man' utterly denies himfelf, fo far he eats of thefe fat things ; when he fees
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