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 O if you would be shadowed against the awful terrors of death and God’s vengeance, get in under this Shadow, and you are safe.

8. This Plant is renowned for his Stature. He is a high Plant, he is a tall Plant: You see the heavens above you, but they are but creeping things in comparison of him; for this glorious Plant is, The high and lofty One that inhabits eternity. You can never see his height; your eye will look high, and your thought will reach higher, but neither your eye nor thought will reach unto him; he is taller than all the cedars in the Lebanon of God: "Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man," to think of the height and glory of this Plant of Renown! And,

Lastly, This Plant is renowned not only for his Stature, but for his Extent also: He is a broad Plant; he was planted in the first Promise in Paradise; he spread through the Old Testament Church; he came the length of filling the land of Judea; and, at length, this Plant has spread itself among us: And O that I could open the leaves of this Plant, to take you in; he is a broad Plant, he will serve you all. We read of the Tree of Life being on every side of the river: There is a great river betwixt us and heaven, and that is death; and we are all running into this river of death.—As one well observes on the place. This Tree