you, and back theſe precious means with his powerful bleſſing! He that is in the midſt of the throne hath been ſetting his throne in the midſt of Dunfermline, and ſaying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men! O let him not lift his tent till you be taken in!
Again, O crown him king whom God the Father hath crowned! O might this be his coronation day! A day of eſpouſals with the Lamb in his coronation-day: Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of bis eſpouſals, and in the day of the gladneſs of his heart, Song iii. 11. Happy day, if you could go away, ſaying, Such a day, at the communion of Dunfermline, Chriſt was crowned King; I beheld King Jeſus with the crown wherewith his father crowned him, and saw that the Father ſet him in the midſt of the throne, and I helped to put the crown upon his head; for, through grace, I ſet him in the midſt of the throne of my heart, and crowned him King there: I found in my heart to dethrone ſin, and enthrone Chriſt. O is Chriſt crowned King here! Hath no virtue come from the throne to draw my heart, as the adamant draws the iron? The clucking of the hen makes the chickens to run: goſpel-preaching is the voice of the Lord Jeſus; and much of this you have had theſe days bygone. O have you run under his wings? See what Chriſt ſays to Jeruſalem, Matth. xxiii. 37, 38. 'O Jeruſalem, Jeruſalem, how oft would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, ye would not! Behold your houſe is left unto you deſolate.' May we hope that God will not yet leave Scotland desolate, but that Chriſt will be crowned King in the church of Scotland? though
