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 3 glory; yea, were this world Myriads of Myriads of Stages, and ever o many times greater than it is, one ray of thy countenance, one glance of thine eye would enlighten, and adorn it all. What tho' we could view and comprehend at once, thouands of thouands of created paradies of beauty; one fight of thy God-like viage would wallow up all angels, had you uch a weet manifetation divine beauty in the beginning, as now? Is not our heaven now two heavens? Since the eential Image of God tandeth here, cloathed with the human nature, as our' everlating King, Priet,' and the great Lord 'Mediator of the new Covenant,' the boundles treaure of all fulnes, out of which we hall all be filled and atiate for evermore. Are we not, as it were contrained betwixt tanding back, and drawing near? Thee who behold thee, what can they think of themelves? Yet, who can ee, and take ret until they be folded in thy ravihing embrace? Verily thou art both the hame and glory of creatures: created excellency is exalted in thee, to the highet pitch; and all created excellency is beautified and obcured before thee. This is the man, men and angels, by whom all things in heaven and earth do flourih and bloom. This is the Tree of life,' the great Vine of glory,' into which we are all ingrafted, as o many boughs and twigs; All the glory of his Father's houe hangs upon him, the 'Offspring and Iue,' as o many chips and pieces darting out from him. This is he, in whom we have been ordain'd to this bleednes from eternity; This is he, who was promied to the people, under the firt dipenation of the gopel; who was held forth by Types and Shadows unto them. This is he, by whom the carnal and beggarly Elements of the world were detroyed,