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and the Lily of the vallies. ——He is as the apple tree among the trees of the of the wood.” He is renowned, I say,- for his beauty and his glory; for the glory of a God is in him. Is there any glory in his eternal Father? Why, that glory shines in our Immanuel in the very brightness of it. He is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of his person,” Heb 1, 3. Now sirs, If ever your eyes were opened by the spirit of God, to take up the glory of this Plant, his glory has dazzled your very eyes. You say they never saw any glory in him, you never saw him to this very day, pray that the light of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ, may yet shine in your hearts. It would make a heartsome sacrament if this Plant were displayed in his glory among us. Sirs, have you come to see him in his glory? O give God no rest, till he make a discovery of himself to your souls, Then.
3. He is renowned for his verdure, for his perpetual greenness. Other plants are fading, you and I are fading plants.——All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.” He is a Tree ever green; he never fades, summer nor winter, and shall be ever a green Plant to the saints, as it were, to eternity: When millions of ages, yea, myriads of ages, are past in heaven, he will be as fresh and green to the believer as when he first saw him or the first moment the saints entered into glory: and therefore it is, that the songs of the redeemed in glory
