(47) accomplished, and the righteousness and justice of God satisfied? and so mercy and peace vented gloriously, without detriment to any other excellency or perfection of God : Hath nothing satisfied your confidence but the view of this meeting betwix- Mercy and justice in the death of Christ, and kissing each other in his mediation ? Hath God and you met together this way, and made your heart joyfully to kiss and embrace this wonderful device, as worthy of God and suitable to you? Have you seen this glory at this rate? Then in God’s name, I pronounce you a believer in Christ : For God who commanded light to shine out of darkness hath shined into your heart, to give you the light of the knowledge of his glory, in 'the face of Christ ; and Christ and you have met together, and kissed each other; whether it was'in the day of first believing, when you fled to him for refuge, or in the day of after manifestation, when upon the back of dismal biding on God’s part, or grievous backsliding on your’s, the Lord drew aside the vail, and gave you a glance of his glory; whether it was by some word of grace, sweetly and powerfully coming in, and opening your understanding to see this harmonious meeting, or by some sweet droppings of the blood of sprinkling upon your conscience, by which blood, the meeting is cemented together. Have you seen this glory, whether in a secret corner, or public ordinance; whether at the market-cross of the gospel, where this glorious meeting is proclaimed, or at a communion table, where it is sealed ? it is all a matter, it was heaven begun. 2. Have you felt the virtue, as well as seen the glory of this harmonious meeting of the divine Attributes in Christ? 2 Cor. iii. 18. Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord we are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. Surely if you have seen this glory, you have felt something of this virtue, by changing you from glory to glory. It is true, many that have got a discovery of this glory of the Lord, can never think that they have felt the sanctifying virtue thereof, and this keeps them down in the pit of discouragement; It is true, they that are not sanctified and made holy, they discover, that they never beheld this glory of the Lord; for this meeting of
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