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                                ( 34 ) for the breaking up of all these, and the like unhappy meetings. They met together in a glorious band, to loose all the knots that the devil had tyed. 4. These glorious Attributes of God, do conspire harmoniously; they meet together and kiss each other that they might concert and carry on some happy meetings, and make up some blessed matches. These opposites like Attributes harmoniously meet, that oppofites, and irreconcilable things might meet together harmoniously and kiss each other wither real or seeming opposites. 1st. There are real opposites that meet together harmoniously by virtue of this glorious meeting Particularly these six. 1. These opposite like Attributes meet together harmoniously that opposite natures might meet together, and embrace each other: And there are these two meetings betwixt God and man, that were concerted at this meeting the one is the meeting betwixt God and man in the hypostatical union of the two natures of Christ, our Immanuel God-man in one person. This is the great mystery of Godliness, God manifest in the flesh, and this is the foundation of all other saving and merciful meetings betwixt God and man. The other is the meeting betwixt God and man in the spiritual union betwixt Christ and his members; in one mystical person, by the bond of the spirit, for he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit; and this union is the foundation of all spiritual communion with God. We are not only at an infinite natural distance from God, as we are creatures, but at an infinite moral distance from him, as we are criminals and sinners: But the Attributes of God met together and kiss each other in Christ, that God and man might meet together in a close spiritual union, and kiss each other in a sweet spiritual communion; whatever spiritual communion you have with God, believer, this day, it flows from this glorious meeting of the divine attributes in Christ, and this union and communion is indeed a meeting of opposite natures: God became man, and took on our nature, and he makes us partakers of his nature, &c.