The Harmony,&c.
From PSALM lxxxv. 10.
Mercy and Truth are met together. Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other. MY Friends; at a solemn marriage supper, there is usually a friendiy company that meet together; and when at such an occasion, all things are managed with sobriety and decency, it is very heartsome and pleasant to the parties concerned, to see the members of the meeting, with mutual kindness to one another, harmoniously gracing the solemnity: Even so at the marriage supper of the Lamb. I mean, the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, which we have been celebrating, there is a heartsome company, not of men and women, for that would make but a poor earthly meeting; nor yet of saints and angels, for that would make but at best a mean creature meeting ; but it is a glorious heartsome company of divine Attributes and perfection in the sweetest concord meeting together, and embracing one another. This wonderful conjunction, of divine excellencies is the friendly company that meets together, to put honour upon this nuptial solemnity; and to see them thus harmoniously embracing one another in the salvation of sinners is the sweetest light that the Bride, the Lamb’s wife shall ever see at the marriage supper, whether it be at the lower or upper table. There is a great meeting in this home, an infinitely greater, greater in this text; a meeting of divine excellencies, to grace the solemnity of the marriage supper of the Lamb, ‘ Mercy ‘ and truth are met together, righteousness and peace
- have kissed each other.’ When God made heaven
and earth out of nothing, he made them by a word without any other ceremony; but when he made man there was some particular solemnity, a grand council, as it were of the glorious Trinity called; Come ' let us make man after our image ' But now, man having
