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Rh power, and the Lamb will be a lion to tear them to pieces.

4. Hence we may learn, there is a ſure foundation laid for the faith and hope of life and juſtification by the blood of the Lamb. Since the Lamb is in the midſt of the throne, the throne of grace is the door of hope; and that our hearts may be raiſed and lifted up to a lively hope, the Lamb that was ſlain is raiſed and lifted up to the throne. Did he riſe again for our juſtification? and does his reſurrection ſeal upon our conſciences the ſufficiency of his death, and the acceptableneſs of his righteouſneſs unto God? Much more may our faith and hope be confirmed herein, that he is exalted to the midſt of the throne; for his Father had never put ſo much honour upon him, had he not been infinitely well-pleaſed and ſatisfied with his obedience unto the death. We may now read the dream, that Jacob had at Bethel, Gen. xxviii. 12. Behold a ladder ſet upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; the ladder is the Lamb; the foot of the ladder was fixt in the midſt of the earth when he was here in a humbled eſtate, and now the top of the ladder is fixed in the midſt of the throne; all the rounds of it are compleated, that we may aſcend by this way from earth to heaven.

5. Hence we may learn, what good reaſon there is for having a high eſteem of Chriſt, ſince God hath ſo highly exalted him, to the very midſt of the throne. O believer, ſhould not Chriſt be very high in our valuation, when God hath ſet him ſo high! No wonder then that it is ſaid, If any man love not, nor eſteem our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, let him be Anathema Maran-atha; that is, accurſed until our Lord come, 1 Cor. xvi. 22. Woe will be to them that will not put honour upon him, whom God