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 God, as the precious seed of the kingdom, are not only received in their understandings, but into their hearts—into their best affections; here the heavenly truths are nourished, as seed in good ground, and hence they produce in the outward life the celestial fruits of love, charity, wisdom, and peace. The Lord, in one of his parables, represents himself as the sower, and the seed which he sowed, he explains to be the. As these truths are received in good ground, or the honest heart, they put forth their flowers and fruits, the man becomes mentally rich and fertile in everything good and true, and as these truths open to his delighted mind, he perceives heaven to open, and a world of realities destined to be his everlasting home.

If, again, we consider the seed of David as altogether abstracted from person, then this seed will denote all the divine truths of the word; for these are the precious seed of the kingdom which will endure for ever. Those who receive these truths, and live as they teach, dwell in the Lord, and the Lord in them; the covenant is so formed that it cannot be broken; and as the heavenly seed shall be found to grow and flourish in them, they will perceive that the seed will not only endure for ever, but that the truths, by eternal expansion, will open with additional lustre and beauty, corresponding with their advancing states of purity, and that eternity itself will be employed in perpetuating and increasing their bliss.

Happy indeed are those who are ranked among the seed of David! nothing worldly shall stand between them and their onward march to the kingdom, nothing