the press; so, beholding his glory, be you changed to the same image, by receiving Mercy for Mercy Truth for Truth, Righteousness for righteousness, and peace for Peace, out of his fulness do you receive grace for grace, holiness for holiness, and an holy virtue suitable to every holy perfection that is in him ; and all these harmoniously meeting together, and kissing each other you. Let no heavenly grace or holy duty be excluded but of the meeting. Let faith and repentance meet together, let love and new obedience kiss each other; let knowledge and practice meet together, and prayer and praises embrace each other; yea, let opposite-like graces meet harmoniously in you :let humility and boldness meet together: let godly sorrow and holy joy embrace each other. Here is the gospel holiness we call you to a suitableness to these harmonious Attributes of God in Christ: if the world call you Antinomians, know it is the will of God, &c. Pet. ii. 15. Let the mouth that reproacheth the gospel, be stopped by the power of it in your walk. The world will surely reckon you the greatest stars that give the greatest light: therefore let your light to shine before men, that others seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is in heaven, by shewing cut of a pure conscience the works of mercy, truth, righteousness, and peace, hand in hand together; and thus for the sake of the glory of God, the honour of Christ, and the credit of the gospel, let the world know, that you have seen the glory and felt the virtue of these perfections of God, harmoniously meeting and embracing each other in Christ. Here is your duty and work, believer in the wilderness; and now in all your shortcomings therein, still look again to God's holy temple, to Christ the meeting place of these divine perfections: this is the mercy-feat of which God says, Excd. xxv. 21. 'There will I meet with thee, and commune with thee from between the cherubims : and every meeting with God there, will bring in new strength for all your work and warfare in time, till God and you meet together and embrace one another in glory through eternity. And now, believer, I know you would desire, that others should share of the same happiness with you, and therefore, pray that a short concluding word may be
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