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 ſuitable to the longing after a ſo meſtimable, a Pearl worth more than t thouſand Worlds, a Jewel no where elſe be purchaſed, no where elſe to be found. Kingdom of all Pleaſures and Theſe Thoughts made the kingly  to have but a mean Eſteem of Earthly  and grandeur compared with this, when  cried out, ''O how amiable are thy dwellings, O thou Lord of Hoſts! My Soul panteth after thee, as the Hart panteth after the Water Brooks'', &c. and St. Paul compared all things as dung and droſs to the love of Chriſt and couragouſly affirmed, ''that neither height nor depth. Principalities nor powers, things preſent nor things to come, &c. ſhould be able to ſeparate him from the love of God which is in Jeſus Chriſt'', the blefſed and amiable Lord of Life, Glory and immortality; the faireſt among ten thouſand.

here let us conſider, to gain the riches of Chriſt, we muſt give up our ſelves wholly to his Divine Will, both Soul und Body, commiting our ſelves to him, as into the hands of a faithful Redeemer; for ſeeing he has redeemed us from our Enemies that therefore we need not ſtand in fear of them, according to that of Iſaiah xliii. 1. fear not for I have redeemed thee. But as we are taught in the next Words, we ſhould all the Days of our Life worſhip him without fear, and