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                                    (43)                                                                      [No.IV.]

THE HARMONY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. From PSALM Ixxxv. 10. Mercy and Truth are met together, Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other. HENCE we may see what is the fountain-head, and foundation of all true communion and fellowship with God and man. This glorious meeting is the foundation of all other happy meetings : fellowship with God, and an happy meeting with him, is a stream that flows from this fountain. We could never have met with God, or got a kindly kiss or embrace in the arms of his favour and love, if this divine meeting and embracement had not made way for it. Fellowship with man, or the communion of saints, is a rivulet that flows from this spring. When saints meet together for prayer or praises under the influence of the Spirit, and under a gale of heaven, when their hearts are fired with love to God, and to one another in him; What is this? It is just a live coal cast in among them, from the altar, Christ Jesus, where all the Atrributes of God meet together, and kiss each other; and hence true fellowship with God, and with the saints^ are both declared to be in and through Christ Jesus, 1 John i. 3. That which we have heard and seen, declare we unto you, that ye may have fellowship with us: And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Christ. The harmony of the Attributes of God in Christ, is the fountain of all the harmony among the saints: The little harmony that takes place among them in our day, and the rarity of holy fellowship meetings, flows from F 2