( 16 ) and eternal salvation. Here is the meeting place then of these glorious perfections of God : here is the person in Whom they center, that they may be all glorified to the highest, mercy, truth, righteousness and peace, all are pleased, Mercy is gratified, and constitutes him to be the merey-feat. Truth is satisfied, and centers in him as the way, the truth and the life. Righteousness is contented, and declares him to be the Lord, our righteousness. Peace is perfected, and proclaims him to be : the Prince of peace; yea, not only are all the members of the meeting pleased and satisfied tor themselves, in the advancement of their own particular interests but they are infinitely well pleased in each other; and that the interest of their seemingly opposite parties, are advanced; as well as their own particular claims. Mercy is pleased that truth hath got all its demands, and truth is pleased that mercy hath got all her desire, and righteousness is pleased that peace is proclaimed ; and peace is pleased that righteousness is honoured. Mercy and peace rejoice that they are magnified to the infinite glory of rruth and righteousness, and truth and righteousness rejoice, that they are glorified to the infinite pleasure of mercy and peace : and hence they not only meet together, but kiss One another. Here you see where they meet together. So much for an answer thereto more generally. 1. More particularly, as to the meeting time, you may take these following particulars for further clearing of it Although this blessed meeting, once taking place, is still continued, and so cannot be said properly to adjourn from time to time, and from place to place; for this assembly never dissolves, yet in a suitableness to our weak. capacity and finite understanding, which cannot rightly conceive of a meeting that never had a time to meet, because they met in eternity, and never shall have a time , to part, because they meet to eternity. We cannot conceive of it, I say but by taking it, as it were, into so many : parts, or considering in so many periods, and there are these eight remarkable periods, wherein mercy and peace meet with truth and righteousness and kiss each other.
