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had you such a sweet manifestation of divine beauty in the beginning as now. Is not our heaven now two heavens? Since the easential image of God stand the here clothed with the human nature, as our ‘everlasting King, Priest,’ and the. great Lord, ‘Mediator Of the New Covenant' the boundless treasure Of all fullness out of which we shall all be filled and satiated for evermore. Are we not, as it were, constrained betwixt standing back and drawing near? These who behold thee, what can they think of themselves? Yet who can ice and rake rest until they be folded in thy ravishing embrace? Verily thou art both the shame and glory of creatures. Created excellency is exalted in thee to the highest pitch; and all created excellency is beautified, and obscured before thee This is the man, men and angels by whom all things in heaven and earth do flourish and bloom. This is the Tree of Life, the great Vine of Glory into which we are all ingrafted, as so many boughs and twigs: All the glory of his father's house hangs upon him, the Offspring and issue as so many chips and pieces darting out from him. This is he, in whom we have been ordained to this blessedness from eternity; This is he,
