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 2. These opposite-like Attributes meet together and kiss each other, that opposite wills might meet, and embrace each other. God’s will and ours are opposite; this is indeed a branch of the former, but our wills are the great sorts of corrupt nature, that stands out against God and his will: We are enmity against God, and not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Now, how comes the will to be reconciled to God's will ? It is only by Christ, in whom the perfections of God meet together: Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. 3. These opposite-like Attributes meet and kiss each other, that opposite persons, Jews and Gentiles, man and man, that were enemies and haters of one another, might meet together, that Jews and Gentiles might meet together, and men at variance with men might meet together; hence it is said of him, in whom the Attributes of God do meet. He is our peace, Eph. ii. 14. who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition : Having abolished in the flesh the enmity, &c. If any man slay the enmity to God or man, this is it. 4. These opposite-like Attributes of God meet and kiss each other, that opposite climates might meet together. I mean, that heaven and earth might meet together, the church militant, and the church triumphant. Heaven and earth were at variance by our sin, but now in Christ, saints in heaven, and saints in earth meet together. Hence we are said to become the general assembly, and church of the first-born, that are written in heaven, to the spirits of just men made perfect. All believers are said to be thus, Come to mount Zion, to the heavonly Jerusalem, Heb. xii. 22. Yea, in Christ, angels in heaven, and men on earth, do meet together. Hence believers are said to become to the innumerable company of angels; and the angel of the Lord encamps about them, &c. Yea all things in heaven and earth do meet together, and kiss each other in Christ the meeting place. Col. i. 20. Having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself: whether things in heaven or things in earth, Eph. i. 10. See how upon the back of this meeting in the text, heaven and earth E2