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Rh Spirit in his drawing influences. And now, may you not plead, “Lord, the condition is performed, the time is come, thou art lift up, thou art upon the throne; therefore let the cryſtal river run down out of the throne of God, and of the Lamb?” is this the language of your heart and ſoul? Lord, draw, draw; thou that art the Lamb in the midſt of the throne, draw my heart to thee, according to thy word. Is your heart burning or beating, ſaying, “O I am the blackeſt, the vileſt ſinner that ever matched with ſuch a glorious one; but yet I find my heart beating and burning within me, ſaying, O to be drawn, O to have the Lamb that is in the midſt of the throne to erect his throne in the midſt of my heart, and to rule there in the midſt of his enemies, and to be all in all to me, for, wiſdom, righteouſneſs, ſanctification, and redemption to me?” Why then, we may ſay, your heart is the throne, and the Lamb is in the midſt of the throne. And, if the drawing power of his Spirit hath made up the match between him and you, we are warranted to lead you next to the marriage ſupper, where the Lamb that is in the midſt of the throne ſhall feed you.

EFORE you go, I ſhall conclude this ſolemn work in two words, one directed to the enemies of the Lamb, and another to the lovers of the Lamb in the midſt of the throne.

Firſt, To you who are enemies to him. If the Lamb be in the midſt of the throne, then let ſinners ſtoop to him; O ſink down at his feet, and be