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A GLIMPSE OF GLORY.
'Many O LORD my GOD, are thy wonderful works, which thou haſt done: and thy thoughts which are to upward, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee.' How evidently do I now ſee, I that thy love paſſeth all underſtanding, that thy ways are innumerable; and thy thoughts unſearchable? my eyes are eternally fixed upon thee, O flower of all beauty, and lovelineſs; thou art the center whereto all deſireableneſs and excellency betakes itſelf. In beholding thee, I behold all things. Art thou not love, diſcovered to the full? mercy manifeſted in its higheſt perfection? judgment and righteouſneſs viſibly, in its full ſplendor; what have we, which is not in thee? and what can a creature, want, which is not in thee? Shall we not, O enjoyers, be ſatiate, beautified, raviſhed, bleſſed for ever more, with that infinite fulneſs of all excellencies which dwells in him? 'We behold to the full, the glory, as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth: and of thy fulneſs have we all received, and grace for grace.' We have received thy teſtimony, have ſet to our ſeal that GOD is true: that thou, whom he ſent into the world, ſpeakeſt the things of GOD: for he giveth not the Spirit by meaſure unto thee, O how great is the myſtery of godlineſs? 'GOD manifeſted in the fleſh, juſtified in the Spirit, ſeen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.' If this was wonderful in time, is it not ten thouſand times more now? When the bright day of eternity hath broken up. If a ſight of this by faith, was raviſhing, am I not now paſſed all the limits of ſuch motions? O this frame! O glory, glory! thou art maſſie indeed!
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