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Rh where the Lamb is. You may have boldneſs to go as far in as the Lamb goes; and you will find this the moſt pleaſant exerciſe in the world, and the moſt profitable alſo: for grace and mercy is about the throne of grace; it is a mercy-ſeat, becauſe the Lamb is there.

4. O believer, if the Lamb be in the midſt of the throne, even the Lamb, your head, your huſband, ſee that you live upon him by faith; let the Lamb be your feeder, and the Lamb your food every day, and beware you do not diſgrace your honourable huſband. Are you married to the Lamb in the midſt of the throne? We read that Bathſheba ſaid to her ſon, Prov. xxxi. 4. It is not for a king, O Lemuel, it is not for a king to drink wine, nor for princes ſtrong drink. So it is not for believers in Chriſt to drink and tipple, to ſwear and cheat; he graceleſs world do so. But, O believer, have you been at a communion-table? Hath the Lord graced and honoured you with marriage to the Lamb in the midſt of the throne? Do not diſgrace yourſelf; it is below your rank: ſee that you live as becomes theſe that are matched and married to the prince of the kings of the earth.

I remember ſome years ago, after certain diſputing in the church about the doctrine of the goſpel, we had a ſolemnity here, on which occaſion I was to ſpeak of the ſubſtance of GOSPEL-DOCTRINE, Chriſt given of God to be a covenant of the people, and now I am obliged to remark, that after ſome contendings, or rather in the midſt of ſome contendings in the church about the government of his houſe, I have been led, without any deſign in me, but only as the text was pleaſant to my own ſoul, to ſpeak of the very ſum and centre of ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT, the Lamb in the midſt of the