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Rh 7. Here is comfort againſt the fear of judgment; that awful day needs be no terror to the lovers of the Lamb, becauſe when the fiery tribunal will be erected, the Lamb will be in the midſt of the throne; and the friends of the Lamb will be received into his boſom, while all his enemies will ſtand trembling before his throne.

8. Here is comfort in the view of a long eternity, that the Lamb, that is for ever in the midſt of the throne, will for ever feed you, and lead you unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away all tears from your eyes. O! who can tell the happineſs of the a higher houſe, the glorious feeding and leading you ſhall have there, the everlaſting and everliving fountain of divine conſolation, wherewith ye ſhall be for ever refreſhed! The fountain is God, and his glorious attributes; Christ, and his inexhauſtable fulneſs; the Spirit, and his everlaſting conſolation; a glorious Trinity: God, who is now a promiſing God, will then be a performing God. Who can tell the ſweetneſs of that bleſſing, his wiping away all tears from your eyes? He that hath a bottle for your tears now, hath a napkin to wipe them all away then; for, 'ye ſhall obtain joy and gladneſs, and ſorrow and fighting ſhall flee away.'

Secondly, I offer a word of advice to you. O Sirs, i! the Lamb be in the midſt of the throne, 1. Then be quiet amidſt all the male adminiſtrations of men, amidſt all the miſmanagements of churchmen and church-judicatories; becauſe, though men cannot be juſtified in their church ruining projects, yet the Lamb being in the midſt of the throne, hath a juſt, holy, and ſovereign hand in ordering theſe evils, when he hath a controversy to plead with us. Let us ſee the hand of God in leaving men to themſelves, to rob the church and people