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6  silent, all creatures, when he begins to peak; cover your faces, all you little glories and beauties, when he doth hew his face: you are nothing, you are vanity compared to him. He is all things. Verily 'in him dwells all fulnes.' Thou art not, O heaven of heavens, worthy to be a foot-tool for his glorious feet. Infinite worlds, erected above one another, were low for him to tread upon. What are you, men and angels, that you hould thus tand beide him? That you hall et your head with in that world, he is pleaed to dwell in? Did he not wonderfully condecend, you might run out without the very creation? What is our trength and beauty? On whoe legs do we tand? Are we able for one moment, to perevere in our integrity without him? Should we not all become deformed in in? Can he draw into himelf what he darts forth? How is this paradie of GOD planted with goodly trees, blooming and flourihing with an eternal verdour? But did they not receive ap and life, and all from this golden 'Branch of the tem of Jee,' how in a moment hould their golden blooms wither, their fruit fall off, their leaves decay, and their root dry up? It is ten heavens of joy, o Well-beloved, to know that thy love is unchangeable; and that thee that are united to thee, by faith, in time, and immediate beholding, in eternity, hall never be disjoined from thee; but hall ever remain cloe locked in the arms of eternal love.

What are your thoughts, 'O ye ranomed ones,' of this atonihing dispenfation? What an inconceivable tranportation is this? that any of the curfed tock of mankind, hould be adopted. co-heirs with the eential Heir of all things! 'Of him are we, in Chrit Jeus, who of GOD is made unto us widom, righteounes, sanctification, redemption,