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of the Lamb, by which alone we have a rightto enter through the gates, into the city. Rev. vii. 14. Upon this foundation we are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. And yet again,

It is the work of the Holy Spirit, who has produced faith in us, so that we die in faith. It is through the power of the Holy Ghost, that we are kept in the love of God. He that shows the things of Christ to us here, will show them hereafter, as we find by the apostle's argument; the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. We all with open face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor. iii. 17, 18. Indeed, these words relate to the great discoveries of the Gospel, as transcendant to those of a legal dispensation. But they will never have their full sense, till we see no longer through a glass, but face to face. And if the Spirit is the author of those visions, by which we are brought into the church below, it is from him we shall have those of a superior kind above.

The whole passage is a quotation from Exod. xxxiv. 33, 34. Till Moses had done speaking with the children of Israel, he put a vail on his face; but when he went in before the Lord, he took the vail off. Well, saith the apostle, we do not, as Moses, put a vail upon our faces; that was an emblem of the imperfection of their fellowship with God; that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly, to the end of

that which is abolished. Their minds are blinded; for until this day, remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away (to us) in Christ. Nevertheless when it [that is Israel] shall turn to the Lord, then shall the vail be taken away. They are now, as Moses was out of the mount; but they shall be as he was in it, with no vail upon them. He went without a vail to see the Lord. Now, saith he, the Lord is the Spirit, whom they are to see; and we are changed into the glory of the Lord [or Jehovah] the Spirit.

7.) Our entertainment in heaven, is from each person in the divine nature; from him who is, and was, and is to come, from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness. Rev. i. 4. In that day we shall know that Christ is in the Father, and the Father in him, and he in us. John xiv. 20. He presents us to the Father in these words, behold here am I, and the children whom God has given me. Heb. ii. 13, He presents us to himself a holy Church, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. Eph. v. 27. We have no higher notion of that happiness, than to be with Jesus: Phil. i. 23. for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed us, and lead us to fountains of living water, and God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes. Rev. vii. 17. And, will not the Spirit, who bids us come, make us welcome? Shall we not have above, what we so often hear of below, the grace of our Lord Jesus

Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost? 2 Cor. xiii. 14.

Now, is any one able to suppose, when all the glories of the new covenant are laid down in this promiscuous language, as the gift of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that they are not equal in power? Why should the scripture ensnare us, by making no difference in the direction of our faith and hope, if there was a difference of nature, among the persons upon whom we depend?

3. They are declared to be equal in the glory we give them, of which baptism is a part and a pledge. It signifies no less than dependence, worship, profession, and eternal praises.

(1.) In baptism we profess our dependence on that God, by whose name we are called. We give up ourselves or our little ones, to be the Lord's. And is this to any less than Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Do we not desire an union to each of them? In stating the covenant that is ordered in all things and sure, David tells us, what the Spirit of the Lord spake by him, and what the words were that he put into his mouth. 2 Sam. xxiii, 1.

It is plain, that we are given up to the God and Father of us all, who is above all, and with all, and in us all. Eph. iv. 6. And yet, how often is Christ Jesus called our hope, 1 Tim. i. 1. which is too great a name for us to give, or for him to take, if he is not God. Cursed be the man that makes flesh his arm; Jer. xvii. 5. and blessed alone is he whose

hope is in the Lord his God. He is the hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof in a time of trouble. Ver. 13. They used to call God the hope of their fathers, and yet the promise of a Redeemer is that hope, to which their twelve tribes serving God day and night expected to come. Acts xxvi. 7. Our rejoicing is in Christ Jesus, though the salutes are only, to be joyful in the Lord. In him we have believed, and are persuaded that he is able to keep, what we have committed to him against that day. 2 Tim. i. 12.

It is the Spirit we depend on, for that bles sing without which, the flesh profits nothing. John vi. 63. What is it that we trust to, for the communion, the holiness, the security, the heaven, that are signified in the ordinance of baptism, but the Holy Ghost dwelling in us? For if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Rom. viii. 9. Until he comes and blows upon the garden, our beloved has nothing to invite him thither. If this Spirit is vexed, as he was of old, Is. Ixiii. 10. he will turn against us, and be our enemy; but where he dwells, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

(2.) Worship is another thing signified, performed, and confessed in baptism, and we pay it to all the three. In giving up ourselves, to be the Lord's, we engage to a newness of life, in a perpetual covenant, that shall never be forgotten, that if he quickens us, we will not turn back, but call upon his name. Ps. 4xxx. ult.

Now, is it not the Spirit who quickens? We live and walk in the Spirit; and do we not adore that God who works in us both to will, and to do of his own good pleasure? Phil. ii. 14. He that creates us anew does it to good works; and if our works are wrought in God, John . 19. shall they not be devoted to him? Must he live in a temple, and not be served there? Are you the temple of the Holy Ghost, and is not the Holy Ghost to be worshipped, in places of his own consecration, in the house that is called by his name?

We trust in Jesus; we pray to him; we derive from him; we have communion with him; and is not this worship? if not, it is idolatry. Shall we give up ourselves to him, equally with the Father in baptism, and afterwards draw back? Then, his soul will have no pleasure in us. If we take his name upon us, it is the name we are to call upon, in every place. 1 Cor. i. 2. He makes the proclamation; look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else. Is. xlv. 22, 23. I have sworn by myself, that to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear. The Apostle gives us no other exposition of that passage, than that in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord or Jehovah. Phil. ii. 9.

(3.) Another glory we pay in baptism, and oblige ourselves to go on with, is a couragious profession of the name we have owned,

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