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18 where God and man may meet together; for, he dwells between the cherubims, on the mercy-ſeat, and over theſe; There will I meet with thee, Exod. xxv. 22. There will I commune with thee. And no communion with God can we have but in him, who is the Lamb in the midſt of the throne, and middle perſon between God and us. —In a word, being in the centre of the throne, he is the centre of all things: he is the centre of all the ſins of the redeemed, for their expiation; for, 'the Lord hath laid on him, [or, made to meet in him,] the iniquity of us all,' Iſa. liii. 6. —And the centre of all their ſervice, for their acceptation; for, we are accepted in the Beloved, Eph. i. 6. And thus he is ſomeway the centre of all things; for, as all things are in his hands, ſo all things in heaven and earth are ſaid to meet in him, Eph. i. 10. Col.i. 20. And therefore, the Lamb who is in the midſt and centre of the throne, ought to be the centre of our hearts and affections, the centre of our love and delight. Thus, among other things, he is the centre of all our proviſion. Which leads to,

V. The fifth, thing propoſed, which was, to view the benefit of feeding that iſſues from the Lamb's being in the midſt of the throne; He ſhall feed them. Whatever other paſtoral care, rule, or government this word imports; yet I ſhall, becauſe this is a feaſt-day, conſider that part of his paſtoral care that is here expreſt by the word Feed: 'The Lamb that is in the midſt of the throne ſhall feed them.' If I were to enlarge upon this ſubject, I might tell you how the Lamb feeds his church and people, with the manifeſtations of his glory, with the intimations of his love, with the communications of his grace, and with the conſolations of his Spirit: but I confine, myſelf to the doctrine of the Lamb being in the