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 if ever your eyes were opened by the Spirit of God, to take up the glory of this Plant, his glory has just dazled your very eyes! You that never saw any glory in him, you never saw him this very day: Pray that the light of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ, may yet shine into your hearts. It would make a heartsome Sacrament, if this Plant were displayed in his glory among us. Sirs, have you come to see him in his glory? O give God no rest, till he make a discovery of himself to your souls. Then,

3. He is renowned for his Verdure, for his perpetual Greeness. Other plants are fading; you and I are fading plants; "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:" He is a Tree ever-green, he never fades, summer nor winter, and shall be ever a green Plant to the Saints as it were to eternity! When millions of ages, yea myriads of ages are past in heaven, he will be as fresh and green to the believer, as when he first saw him, or the first moment the saint entered glory: Therefore it is, that the songs of the redeemed in glory, are ay new songs; and, through eternity, will ay be new songs, because they will ay see matter of a new song; and the more they see, they will more wonder at him thro’ eternity! Again, 4. This