when he pours out a Spirit of Grace upon his people Secondly He alwaies and more especially when he is seeking the ruine of his enemies joynes these two a Spirit of Grace and of Supplication Are there not many that can testifie by their own experience concerning the works of these times that the Heart of God in a Spirit of Grace hath bin let down into the Bosom of his beloved ones that thus their hearts have bin by a Spirit of Supplication drawn up into the Bosom of God and have drawn forth these deliverances from the Wells of Salvation there These Wells are Deep the Deep things of God his Love his Wisdom his Righteousness his power his Glory as these lie in the very depths of his Essence and Divine Nature But Saints have had their Buckets their Hearts to draw with and a line a Spirit of Supplication long and sure enough to let down their hearts into these deep Wels of Salvation which are in the Heart of God These Wells are stil ful of living Waters and these Buckets are stil going Saints keep your expectiations stil fresh Secondly The spirit of Grace is a spirit of Prophecy Esai 43. 9. God challengeth al the Nations Let them bring forth their witnesses who among them can shew us former things that is things before they come to pass or things before their times before the world by a spirit of Prophesie Verse 12. I have declared and have saved and I have shewed when there was no strange God among you therefore ye are my witnesses saith the Lord that I am God Hath not the Lord many Witnesses in these Nations yea here present I know he hath In the former daies when ye were with him at your Banquets of spiritual enjoyments on your Bed of spiritual Loves then did he by his spirit before hand signifie within you the snfferings of these times and the Glory which hath risen out of them And as he hath declared so hath he saved us by the same Spirit And now tel me ye that are the Lords witnesses when ye are in your holyest seasons when there is no strange God or Love but Jesus Christ alone shines in the midst of your spirit doth he not stil shew you greater things than these which are yet to come Thirdly The spirit of Grace is a spirit of Holiness Ephes. 1. 13. It is called a Holy spirit Ye were sealed with the Holy spirit of Promise Holiness is the Character and Seal of that spirit of Grace which is promised to the Saints Psal. 99. 8. Thou answeredst them O Lord our God thou wert a God that forgavest them though thou takest Vengeance of their iniquities The Lord testified his presence with the Jews in the Wilderness by his Holiness in taking Vengeance of their Inventions There is a Three fold Vengance which the Lord takes for Sin First On the Persons and this three waies 1. By Casting them off for ever 2. By Cutting of the inward Beams of spiritual Communion between himself and them for a season perhaps for al their life long 3. By Clouding their outward Man with trouble and sorrow God alwaies pardons iniquity to the Persons of his Children in respect to the first of these Vengances He cannot give them over or cease to love them sometimes also in respect to the second and third He continues the sweetness of their Communion with him and the Serenity of their natural comforts un-interrupted Secondly The Second Vengance for sin is on the publike Cause Thus the Lord did forgive the Israelites in the Wilderness and not take Vengeance on the publike Cause For though they al died in the desert yet the Lord kept his cause a live carryed that Victoriously over Jordan into the Land of Canaan and planted it to grow there for many generations The Third Vengance on the Inventions on the Corruptions and Idols of the Heart In this sense the Lord never pardons any The Spirit which hath bin our guide hath Signally declared it self a Spirit of Grace by its abundant Forgivenesses and a Spirit of Holiness by the Vengance which it hath taken for Sin When any have risen up against him his Purity his Progress from the Enmity of the Serpent he hath made the Earth to open and swallow them up into the darknesses below by a Natural or Civil Death he hath made fire to come down from Heaven a spiritual fire of Divine judgement and wrath by which they have bin so withered dryed and burnt up that they have lost al that Greenness of Religion Honor Honesty Morality Natural light which they seemed before to have and have fallen to open Perfidiousness to ranting Profanenesses to a reprobate Sense a stupid Atheisticalness But when the Children of the Kingdom have transgressed by temptations of Covetousness Ambition Fleshliness Passion Delusions Spiritual Pride have fallen to Murmurings Divisions Sensuality Worldly Designs although this Spirit may have pardoned all this to their Persons hiding them in the cleft of the Rock in the wounds of Christ there preserving their Outward their Inward Life and Peace while he hath passed by yet hath he taken open Vengeance of their Inventions by manifest eminent Disappointments in their Expectations and endless confusions in the way of their Designs Yet all this while hath the Holy Spirit pardoned the sins of all Parties to the Cause He hath not suffered that to fall but hath gone on when it seems to faint renewing its strength carrying it up on high as on an Eagles wing enlarging it in Victory Peace Spiritual Liberties at home spreading its Branches over the Seas and to Forraign far distant Lands breaking the Head of the Leviathan the chief strength of Antichrist in the deep Waters Fourthly The Spirit of Grace is a Spirit of Vnity Ephel 4. 3. Endeavoring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Vnity is the Character the most immediate and inseparable Property of the Spirit The Bond of Peace hath its strength and root in the Vnity of the Spirit as the Sympathy and Vnion of all the Fellow members in the Body arise from and is preserved by One Soul by the Vnity of the Soul There is a Twofold Vnity First of Inward Affection Secondly of Outward Effect As to the Latter of these I had rather much speak in silent Groans to God than by words to men bleed inwardly than breath forth outward Complaints for the Breaches of the Daughter of my People But so far as concerns the First of these the Inward Affection to Vnity let me call forth you who have the Testimony in your selves that it hath been the Spirit in the Living Creatures in the Hearts of the Saints quickened by the Life of Christ which hath been in the Wheels that have turned about and carried on this whol work from the beginning hitherto I appeal to you What are the Meltings the Weepings over the Divisions among the Saints What Yearnings and turnings of Bowels after a
it be the Knowledg of the Holy is that alone which comes by the Infusion and Illumination of the Holy Ghost Cant. 1 2 3. For the Savour of thy good Oyntments saith the Spouse to Christ thy name is as an Oyntment powered forth Therefore do the Virgins love thee Draw us and we wil run after thee The spirit of Christ in the brightness and sweetness of its light Purity Love Joy is this Oyntment powered forth No Savour is good to a Virgin-Spirit but that alone of these Oyntments Where there is a Virgin love to Jesus Christ the Soul is drawn to run after any excellency only by this Savor by the light and sweetness of the spirit as this Oyntment is poured forth there As it is in the Objects of sight there is the Material Object and the Formal The Material is the thing seen as a flower a Picture The Formal is the colors by which it is seen Besides these is the Light in the Ayre which actuates these colors and makes them to appear So is it in things pertayning to the understanding and Judgment The outward appearance is but the Materiality of the Object the shinings forth of the inward principle is the Formality the Color But the Holy Spirit is the only Light by which the discoverys of the principles of things are drawn forth and laid open I have done now with the Second Vse and come to the Third Vse 2. This is for Exhortation If God go forth in New waies let us be New that we may be fit to meet him and go along with him We read in the Gospel of the Pool of Bethesda John 3. 2. An Angel at certain times came down into this Pool and troubling the waters infused a healing vertue into them Many sick persons lay round about the Pool ready to step in There was also a House to receive the poor diseased waiters This House was called Bethesda which signifies the House of Free Grace You who have the blackest Guilt the deepest brand of any Lust the darkest despair upon your Spirits behold here a way for you to be made new this very moment The Blood of Christ is before you as a Healing and Clensing Pool Your Savior himself is every moment descending into it from Heaven and ascending out of it to Heaven by the Vertue of his Death Resurrection and Ascention to impart the Efficacy of al these to it himself to take you into his bosom in the midst of these Waters to bath you throughly in them till you become quite new then to carry you up with himself into the Newness of the Spirit of Heaven and of the Glory of the Father But perhaps you wil say you are so sick so dead in sin that you cannot move toward this Healing Pool Let not that discourage you the Father himself is ready to take hold of you and by his strength to put you in He draws us to Christ It may be you wil say that you are under the Wrath of the Father and therefore cannot hope that he should give you his helping hand To answer this he hath built a House of free Grace a Bethesda he hath called this Pool of most precious Blood the Pool of Bethesda the Pool of free Grace The Doors of this House stand continually open day and night All Persons are invited and press'd to come in All whom the Father finds here he himself takes and carries in his own Arms to this Pool and laies them in the Arms of his Son who is alwaies descending into it waiting in the midst of it and rejoycing exceedingly when any sinful sick Soul comes thither to him Open your Eyes and see Oye Sons and Daughters of Men Here now in this place at this very hour is the House of free Grace the Healing Pool before you if you will enter into them Nay even here and now you are already in the house of Free Grace and in the Arms of the Father you are in this healing Poole of your Saviors blood you are in your Saviors Armes he is come down to you he is carrying you up with himself thither where al things are New your being Beauty Life company delights new if only you wil beleeve if only you wil open the Eye of your spirit to see the truth as it is in Jesus The Lord Jesus is set down upon the Throne of Grace and fils the whol Earth with the Glory of his Mediation Only the Eyes of men are held that they see not this Glory Vse 4. This is my last Vse which is for Consolation and Encoragement You have now a warr with the most potent Prince in the whol Christian world who is Cheif staff of the Papal Anti-Christian strength You have reason to expect a Combination of al the powers of darkness and this world Visible and Invisible within and without from at home and from abroad against you But fear them not This warr shal not be like other warrs but after a new manner It shal be with the burning of a spiritual and divine Fire Take notice here for your Comfort that this Fire shal have contrary effects upon the Saints and upon their enemys First This Fire upon your enemys shal have these Propertys It shal be First Dreadful Secondly Irresistible Thirdly Devouring Fourthly Tormenting Fiftly Sodeine Secondly This Fire to its friends shal have these Property It shal be First Cherishing Secondly Enlightning Thirdly Defensive as a Wal of Diamonds Fourthly Heightning Fiftly Transforming into one glorious Heavenly immortal nature with it self Sixtly Separating al dross from the Gold Seventhly Vniting melting the Gold til it al run into one undivided mass I shal conclude this use and my Sermon with an allusion to the story of Eliah who sat upon the top of Mount Carmel when the Captaines and their fiftys in the name of the King commanded the man of God to come down But he answered if I be a man of God let fire come down from Heaven and destroy you with your fiftys Carmel signifies the Vineyard of God This top of Mount Carmel is the Church in the spirit of glory in the glorified person of Christ her head where she is as a flourishing Vineyard to God upon the top of a Mount of spirituality Let Kings with their Armys encompass us if we be men of God the seed of God if this be Mount Carmel on the top of which we stand the cause of God the Church the spirit the Mediation of Christ then shal the Holy Angels the spirit Christ himself come down as Fire from Heaven upon our enemys to consume them but upon us to carry us up on high as in the Charriot of Eliah burning with the Love and Glory of God FINIS Books printed by Peter Cole Printer and Book-seller in Cornhil at the Printing-press Several New books of Mr. Thomas Hooker made in New-England And Attested in an Epistle by Mr. Thomas Goodwin and Mr. Philip Nye To be written with the Authors Own
fade It is before this Newness of Christ at it secretly beames forth into the Creation that Old things shake and fal away Thirdly Jesus Christ comes first in his Desirablenesses to beleevers to those among the Nations who desire him This seemes to be signified by that expression The desire of al Nations shal come He shal come under that formality as the Desire of the Nations The Saints in every Nation stand for the whol Nation in the esteem of God they being the Corn in the heap the rest of the nation as the Chaffe Esa. 43. 4. The Lord saith to his people Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honorable and I have Loved thee therefore wil I give men for thee and people for thy life or as it is in the Margin for thy person Those whom the Lord loves in a Nation are the only Figures there the rest are Cyphers which signifie nothing of themselves James 1. 14. The Children of God are said to be a Kind of first fruites of his Creatures So are they the first fruits of every Nation As the first fruits were presented to God every year at the Tabernacle or Temple by the hands of the Preist in the stead of the whol Lump so the beleevers are presented to God in the spirit by Jesus Christ as filling up the place of the whol Nation Upon this account when the prophet hath said The desire of al Nations shal come he adds He shal fil this House with his Glory Under the Gospel and in the spiritual truth which answers the Judaical Tipe the Saints are the House of God 1 Corin. 3. 16. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God When the Lord comes to work his wonders in the world he first comes into his Church into the spirits of his Saints fills them with that spiritual Glory shining from his own person which is the sign of his outward commings forth before he comes and the inside of them when he is come From hence as from his Temple he shines forth by degrees upon the world from these as the first fruites he sends forth a blessing to the whol Lump of the Creatures Fourthly When these shakings begin to break forth from the Spirits of the Saints into the World they are swift and spreading Yet a little while And I wil once more shake Heaven and Earth As when a stone fals into the Water the Circles in the Water made round about it do in a moment Multiply and as they Multiply grow wider each than other So when Jesus Christ comes with the Newness of a spiritual Glory into his House which is the heart of a Saint from thence he spreads himself in the newness of his Power and mighty works over the Nation round about from thence enlargeth himself in a wider Circle to the Neyghbouring Nations so he goes on til he ouerspreade with his Changes not the Earth only but also the Heavens and al this in a very little space as fire catcheth or the lightning flyeth Now let us look home Our Changes since the beginning of these times have truely been so quick and thick that they may wel appear one continued shaking You then in this Nation whose Souls love the Lord Jesus is your Desire come while others as Cyphers do bear the empty shadow of the outward work in these new and Extraordinary Motions is his presence his person his operation precious and of great value to you Doth he fil you who are his house with the freshness of his light and Glory while others stand without at a distance seeing a throng of changes and wonders but know not what is the matter Where then are your cryes of Joy The voyce of our beloved Behold he comes leaping over the Hils passing with swift changes over the powers of this world he comes consuming al old things the old Heaven and Earth with the heat of his presence but changing his own and al things unto them into the newness and Immortality of the Spirit making them new together with a New Heaven and a New Earth round about them Thirdly The freshness of our Changes Prov. 25. 4 5. Take away the dross from the Silver there shall come forth a Vessel for the finer Take away the wicked from the King and his Throne shal be established in Righteousness The former of these verses is an Allegory explained in the latter Both have a Mystical sense pertayning to every Saint and Typical concerning Jesus Christ Take away the Dross of Corruption out of the Heart from the Silver of Grace and the Saint wil be a King in the Spirit upon a Throne of Glory founded on the Righteousness of God and his Spirit in Jesus Christ this King wil be a pure Silver Vessel for God the finer to set on his table and fil with the Treasure of his Divinity Take away the dross of Corruption from the Silver of the Divine Image in the Creature then wil the whol Creation be a Vessel of honor for the Father to fil with his Wine then wil it be a Throne founded on the Eternal Rock on which Jesus Christ shal sit down as a King This extends it self to Nations and Priuciples also Let us take a view of our selves in the Glass of this Truth If we look to the great Parliament from the beginning of it was there not a Silver there a precious Mettal of excellent principles and Eminent persons But this Silver was mingled with the Dross of much Carnality and Corruption Hath not every change since that time been as a fire to take away the Dross from the Silver Hath not every succeeding form of things when it hath come first out of the fire of the fore-going Change bin as a Vessel for the finer with a greater Preciousness Purity Beauty Lustre Life and usefulness unto God How then is that day of the Lord risen upon us which is to try al things How should our mouths be filled with laughter and praises for this New thing which God doth this New day which God bringeth forth from Heaven Say now to Hypocrites Woe to you But say to the Righteouss It shal be wel with you For the Beams of this day are a Manifesting light a Refining fire to al but they are withal to the Saints a covering gloy and a Cherishing Love Our King is come forth into our Land not only to march through it with his troupes but to establish his throne here in righteousness and to sit down upon it O Dross Dross melt away before the presence of the Lord For his Eyes are a flame of fire They are stil Kindling fresh Furnaces of Change Fourthly The Life in these Changes from which they flow Rom. 12. 11. you have the knot of a three-fold Precept held forth Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the Lord This is likewise a Divine Character upon the Newness of extraordinary Times Works and Persons When the Lord hath any fresh
is our Seal As many as have fellowship with us in the same principle of divine Wisom wil according to the measure of it so farr as they are free from carnal prejudices and temptations to exercise this Principle know and own this Seal The Manifestations of God are in the Flesh but the justification of those Manifestations is in the Spirit And this is that which makes the whol way of Godliness a Mystery 1 Tim. 3. 16. But now it is necessary to interpose two Cautions for the removing of two Objections Object 1. This Principle seems to make the Light of Reason useless even in Civil things and to lay aside in Humane Affairs the common Principles of Natural Light by which we should converse with men as men and approve our selves to them Object 2. This makes a Gap in the Hedg of all Civil Government for Licenciousness and Confusion to break in when every man may alike pretend to an Inward Justification I intreat you therefore to keep your selves close to these Cautions which I shal now add for the cleering of this matter from these Aspersions Caut. 1. It is the duty of every person in every Affair to provide for things honest not only in the sight of God but in the sight of all men This is a Principle and Law in Christianity Rom 12. 19. Provide for things honest in the sight of all men Honest or Beautiful and Comely for so the word signifies in the sight of all men that is in that Light of Nature which shines universally in al men The Natural Light in the Conscience and Understanding of Man is a Picture of the Spiritual Light which is the Life Reason is a Shadowy Figure of Jesus Christ Now as the Life and the Picture if it be true answer one another and that which is beautiful in the one will be so in the other too so the Spirit and Reason mutually give their testimony each to other what is comely in the eye of one is so to both St. Paul prayes 2 Thess. 2. 3. to be delivered from unreasonable men for al men have not Faith It is true that those who are not Spiritual are also unreasonable the wordis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Absurd uncapable of any common place of Reason any common Principles of Natural light In another place Tit. 1. 15. The same Apostle tels us that to those who are defiled and unbeleeving al thing are impure even their minds and consciences are defiled As a Poet cals the light of the Moon when she is Ecclypsed by the interposal of the Earth between the Sun and her that his beams cannot flow freely and purely unto her Lucem Malignam a Malignant light so is it in men meerly natural the prince of darkness and a principle of Corruption inwardly the world with carnal interests and Humors outwardly put in between the Face of God the Fountaine of al light and their Souls to the making of such an Eclypse that the light of their Minds the highest and purest part of their spirits the lights of their Consciences the divinest part of their Minds like the tops of the Mountaine which receive the beams of the Sun neerest first and fairest the light of both these is defiled and become Malignant Upon this account they either are unable to judg a right of that Testimony which the light of Nature inwardly gives or else unwilling outwardly to acknowledg this inward Testimony but do falsify corrupt deny it according to their fleshly lusts and ends They only for the most part in most affaires can understand and submit to the light of Reason and Nature especially there where Jesus Christ comes forth in new and extraordinary waies upon the Face of Nature and Civil things who have the Spirit in them loosing their Reason which Satan hath bowed down for so many years like the Woman in the Gospel Yet notwithstanding al this a Christian is in every thing to follow after whatsoever is praise-worthy of good report comely with God and with men in that which is the true light of men and right Reason So if their Minds be not altogether reprobate and their Consciences seared if there be any spark of Natural light left alive in them you shal approve your selves to the Consciences and minds of men inwardly although they outwardly speak evil of you As the Historian says of the Romans concerning that excellent Person their deliverer Camillus simul oderant et Mirati sunt they wil admire you while they hate you Answ. 2. Caut 2. Let every one that nams the name of Christ depart from iniquity Whoever pleads a Spiritual life and light for the Principle and Seal of his actions ought to beware that he sow not divers seeds in this field that he mingle not Fleshly designes with Spiritual discoverys Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully If you undertake the worke of the Lord to do your own work the better If you make a shew of the work of the Lord or make use of the work of the Lord so farr to cover and to bring forth the works of the Flesh there lies a curse upon you The Name of the Lord Jesus is like the water of Jealousie which the suspected woman was to drink If thou cal the name of the Lord Christ and of his spirit to witness falsly while thou art unchast and untrue to thy spiritual principles and ends while thou knowest thy spirit to have plaid the harlot and to live in uncleanness with this present world this Name wil like that Drink make thy belly to Swel and thy Bowels to rot within thee it wil certainly bring thee to destruction with shame and abhorrency He that sets upon Extraordinary things upon the account of an Extraordinary Principle Seal hath one of these two things to rely upon First A Divine Power in an irresistable way to subdue the spirits and Forces of men to him Secondly or else a Divine Presence in an unexpressible sweetness to support him when he shal suffer in the thoughts of men or at the Barr of Ordinary powers How watchful ought we to be in affayres of so high a nature or consequence that neither Hypocricy nor Delusion shut the Door to these Confidences in us Sixthly The spirit of Grace the principle and Seal of these Changes This is the last Argument of the Newness and Extraordinariness of the way of the Lord Jesus in the midst of us There are five Marks of the Spirit of Grace First The Spirit of Grace is a Spirit of Prayer Zach. 12. 9 10. And it shal come to pass in that day that I wil seek to destroy al the Nations that come against Jerusalem And I wil poure upon the House of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem a Spirit of Grace and Supplication Two things are observable here First It is an Argument that the Lord hath a designe by himself to destroy the enemies of his people
Re-union Do you not in the secret of your hearts in your secret Meetings bleed forth your souls before the feet of your Savior at every breach in his Body as at a Wound or the Cutting off of some Member in your own Body As Jacob lamented over the loss of his Children Joseph is not Simeon is taken away from me you would have Benjamin also all these things are against me So you mourn such Brethren left us at such a change these Saints are not with us in this change and there are others ready to divide themselves from us at the next turn of affairs al these things are against us As the spirit of God spreads it self over the deep of darkness at the beginning of the Creation like a Bird over her naked yong ones till they be hatcht up and fledged to form it to a beautiful and harmonious World Light and Order Do you not after the same manner perceive the Spirit of Vnity on your souls stretch forth it self over all your fellow Members that lie in a Chaos in a Deep of Darkness Division and Confusion As Iesus Christ once wept forth these Words over Jerusalem As a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings How often would I have gathered thee but thou would'st not So he weeps so he speaks the same words in your Souls to all his divided Brethren in these Nations as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wing how long have I called and waited and longed to gather you up into the Vnity of my Spirit that you might not by your scatterings become a prey to the Kite but hitherto you will not Joseph when he thought fit to speak roughly and deal severely with his Brethren with much difficulty concealed his affections was forced to make hast into a private room to weep Hath this been your temper when the wisdom of State or the season hath made it seem necessary to you to handle any one of Christs Flock roughly have your Bowels been turned within you hath it been hard and grievous to you to act this strange part and to hide your affections have you inwardly and privately melted into tears while you have openly thundered out hard speeches Do you not much more contend with God by Spiritual Wrastlings to have the hearts of all his People that differ from you than you do by outward force or policy with them to have the upper hand of them If these things be thus go on and prosper When Esau came with an Army against Jacob his Brother Jacob wrastled with God at Penuel which signifies the Face or Vision of God he conquered his Brother the most excellent way like a Prince in conquering God and carrying away a Blessing by Conquest Esau when he met him instead of drawing his Sword upon Jacob embraced him and offers him those Bands for his Guard which came forth Enemies Could one Jacob thus subdue the Heart of rough Esau and shal not many Jacobs by their strong cries in the Ears of God and tears in his Bosom prevail with God for a Victory of Love over the Hearts of many Jacobs only disguised and concealed under the rough hairy Garments of Esau Yes the hour is coming in which you shall come forth hand in hand in Spiritual Dances and answer one another with Spiritual Songs saying These our Brethren were lost but now are they found in our arms These Brethren were dead one to another but now behold they live together in the Vnity of the Spirit As Joseph and his Brethren so shal you after long Concealments be discovered one to another in a Light of Heavenly Love then shal ye fal one upon anothers Necks and weep for joy then shal you say We meant evil but it was the Lords contrivance who hath turned all to good Thus shal ye receive one another into the Glory of God as Christ hath received you Fiftly The Spirit of Grace is a spirit of love to Jesus Christ It makes his person alone and the Glory of that to be the Mark and Price of our calling Phil. 3. 14. As water wil ascend as high as it first descends so the spirite which is often compared to water is like water in this if it come down from Christ it wil carry the ayme and affections of the soul to Christ That which is the first Principle is the last end If it be Jesus Christ who hath been the first principle of motion in our hearts he wil be our only End we shal terminate and rest no where but in him When Jacob had served an Apprentice-ship of seven years for the Love of beautiful Rachel he was marryed by Laban to bleare-eyed Leah Did this satissie Jacob No He chose to endure the hardship of another service for seven years more to suffer the heats by day and frosts by night in the open fields that he might gain his first Love If it were a Conjugal Love to the person of Christ which moved us to undertake and undergo the hard service of so many years in difficulty danger in a field of warre Blood and Death we cannot now lie down and take up our rest in the Embraces of the blear-eyed Beavty of this World though it be given to us in marriage and be exceedingly fruitful to us No We shal begin another service of as many years more in prayers in conflicts in sufferings of al sorts til he whom our Souls love come and give his own person into our Armes As the Spouse in the Canticles Cant. 3 4. We shal never cease til we hold his glorified person in our Marriage-Embraces never to let him go more until we bring him into our Mothers house into this visible World to make al things new and to raigne here as he doth in Heaven It is not this that a Saint seeks thorow Seas of water and Blood to rob the Nations of their Gold but to communicate to them this God It is not this which is his joy and tryumph to see his enemys drowned in the Floods but to let in the Rivers of Christs blood upon them to over flow them and that they may die the Death of Christ only When Alexander drew neer to Jerusalem with his conquering Army he was met by the High Priest in all his Ornaments his Garment his Girdle his Ephod his Urim and Thummim of Gold Silk Sky-color Purple White all sorts of precious Stones with the most Holy Crown upon his Head which was the Figure of the Glory of Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father in Heaven as he is our true High Priest Alexander seeing him said In this very form did that God appear to me in a Dream by night in Macedonia who commanded me to pass over into Asia and undertake this War Upon this account he used the Jews with all Kindness and Honor My end in bringing in this Story is to make this Application of it If we have had any glimpses in our Spirits of our dear