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( 42 ) " to him that loved us, and waſhed us from our Sins it " his own Blood, and hath made us Kings and Prieſts unto " God and his father, to him Glory and Dominion for “ ever and ever, Amen. 2dly, By holding forth the Love “ of the Saints to Jeſus Chriſt, and teaching us to love “ him in Sincerity, which is the very Joy and Exultation " of Heaven, Rev.v. 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was flair. " to receive Power, and Riches, and Wiſdom, and Strength, " and Honour, and Glory, and Bleſſing. And no other " thing than the Soul, breathing forth Love to Jeſus Chriſt, " can rightly apprehend the joys of Heaven." The laſt words which he spoke at Supper were in the Commendation of Love above Knowledge ; ſaying, "O “ but Notions of Knowledge, without Love, are of “ ſmall Worth, evaniſhing in nothing, and very danger- " ous.” After Supper, his Father having given Thanks, he read the 16th Pſalm, and his firſt Words thereafter were, “ If there were any thing in the World ſadly and “ unwillingly to be left, it were the reading of the Scrip- “ tures. I ſaid I ſhall not ſee the Lord, even the Lord in " the Land of the Living; but this needs not make us " ſad, for where we go the Lamb is the Book of Scrip- " ture, and the Light of that City, and there is Life, e- " ven the River of the Water of Life, and living Springs." To this le added may excellent Obſervations, and mak- ing mention of the 23d Verſe of the xxxi. Pſalm, O love the Lord all ye his Saints, he added, " That where Love " was, it was ſo operative, that it made Fleſh Spirit, and " where it was not, there Spirit was made Fleſh :" There- after he ſung a part of the ſame Pſalm. Supper being ended, he calls ſmilingly for a Pen, ſay- ing, “ It was to write bis Teſtament," wherein he only ordered ſome few Books which he had to be re-delivered to ſeveral Perſons. Не