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                                ( 26 ) himself pursued to death at the instance of divine justice, and the truth and veracity of a God engaged against him, according to the threatening of the law. O how unexpected a rencounter is it ? when he finds Mercy and Peace meeting with Justice and Truth and stopping the pursuit, according to the promise of the gospel to the credit of the opposite parties, saying, deliver his soul from going-down to the pit: I have found a ransome, and so all odds are made even, all opposites reconciled, to the infinite surprise, and beyond the expectation of all created beings. No wonder then, upon this meeting discovered, the poor soul cries, Is this the manner of man, 0 Lord? 0 who is like unto thee ! Nay, there is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, that rides on the heaven for their help, and in his excellency on the skies. 10. It is an everlasting, indissovable meeting, other meetings will adjourn their meetings from time to time and from place to place : yea, other meetings must part, and when they part, they may never meet again, and we that are here met, must part, and never all meet again, in time, even as fome others that met together with us the last year, are away to eternity. But, O this meeting betwixt Mercy and Truth, Righteousness and Peace, it is a meeting where there is no parting, the meeting is from everlasting to everlasting, their meeting together, and kissing each other, is an eternal and unchangeable meeting, and an eternal and unchangeable kiss. It is every way like God, without beginning, without ending, and without succession. Whatever beginning, issue, or increase it hath with respect to its manifestation to us, yet in itself, it is still the same in Chrift Jesus, Who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, Heb. xiii. 8. without any variableness or shadow of turning. The meeting never breaks up, it is a continued meeting, never to be dissolved, and there they kiss one another to all eternity, for his mercy endureth for ever, and his righteousness to all generations; and becaufe of truth, meeknefs and righteousness, In his majefty he shall ride prosperously, and of the encrease of his government and peace there shall be no end. I have faid, Mercy shall be built up forever, and I