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Man hath feen God at any Time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his Love is perfected in us, 1 John iv. 12.

God is visible and acceffible only to Love; it is by that alone, that we poffefs him in himfelf, and find him in our Neighbour. No Perfon is affured that God dwelleth in him, but he who is certain that he loves his Neighbour as himself; and the only Way to be certain of this, is by Works. Love is perfect in this Life, when it is the prevailing Principle of our Actions, when it renders God abfolute Master of the Heart, when we prefer Him to all other Things, and through the Virtue of this Love spare no Pains nor Coft in order to relieve our Neighbours.

O that the Spirit of our Lord

Might fet his Prifoners free,
Might fpeak the Sectaries reftor'd
To glorious Liberty.
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O that the Catholick Love divine,

Shed in our Hearts abroad, Might all our jangling Parties join, And all wrapt up in God.

A Fter this I beheld, and lo, a great Multitude, which no Man could number, of all Nations, and Kindreds, and People, and Tongues, ftood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white Robes, and Palms in their Hands. And cried with a loud Voice, faying, Salvation to our God, which fitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb, Rev. vii. 9, 10.

A true Christian in this Life is difengaged from the Earth, confecrated and devoted to God, lives in his Prefence, and fights valiantly under the Infpec-. tion of CHRIST, to preferve the white and precious Robe of Righteousness. In Heaven he is a victorious Creature, who receives for his Crown, a continual Emanation of the divine Holiness and Glory, who praises Ged, and pays an eternal Homage to JESUS CHRIST, for his Victory over the World and Sin, and for the Work of his Redemption and Salvation. Can a Heart, full of God, and of his Mercies, forbear pouring itself forth in Acts of Adoration, and manifefting its Joy and Gratitude in the moft confpicuous Manner. JESUS is worthy to receive Let all that dwell above the Sky,

Honour and Power divine,
And Bleffings more than we can give
Be, Lord, for ever thine.

And Air, and Earth, and Seas,
Confpire to lift thy Glories high,
And speak thy endless Praise.

BUT Chrift as a Son over his own House: whofe Houfe are we, if we hold faft the Confidence, and the rejoicing of the Hope firm unto the End, Heb. iii. 6.

We ought to hear Mofes, and all the Minifters of Jefus Chrift, as those who deliver to us the Will of God; but we must put our Trust and Confidence in Jefus Chrift, as in Him who accomplifhes it in us. Affume, O Jefus, all the Authority which Thou oughteft to have over my Heart, fince it is thy House and thy Work: Give me that perfect Confidence in thy Grace for the prefent Life, and that immoveable Hope for the good Things off the World to come, which makes us triumph over the present Evils.

Trafting in our God alone,

A great High Priest we have, JESUS, GOD's eternal Son, Omnipotent to fave!

With the Virtue of his Blood,
Afcending to the holiest Place,
Pafs'd the heavenly Courts, and stood
Before his Father's Face.

FOR OR we are made Partakers of Chrift, if we hold the Beginning of our Confidence stedfast unto the End, Heb. iii. 14.

What Oppofition to Sin ought the Part we have in Chrift to produce in us? For in vain do we flatter ourselves that we are admitted to a Communion of his Grace and of all the Bleffings he has purchased for us by his precious Blood, unless we perfevere therein. If to fubfift in Christ, to be washed in his Blood, to be animated with his Spirit, and to be nourished with his Flesh, is only a rough Draught, a Sketch, a Seed of that which we are one Day to be in Him, good God! how can we poffibly fet our Affections upon the Earth? How can we for so small a Trifle hazard fo vaft a Felicity?

Help me, Saviour, to hold fast
My Confidence in Thee,
Art thou not the first and laft,

Who lov'd and dy'd for me?

Thou, on whom I dare depend,

Wilt fill me with the Life divine, Love me ftill when Time shall end, Thro' endless Ages mine.

WHILE it is faid, To-day if ye will hear his Voice, harden not your Hearts, as in the Provocation, Heb. iii, 15.

Let us take Care, that this To-day, wherein God fpeaks to us in his Mercy, be not followed, in refpect to us, by a To-morrow of Silence, of Wrath, and of Indignation. Difobedience, Forgetfulness of God's Benefits, the Remembrance and the Defire of the falfe Delights of Egypt, led the Jews to Hardness of Heart. Let us take Care not to fall into the fame Misfortune, by the fame Degrees.

The Lord JEHOVAH calls,

Be ev'ry Ear inclin'd,
May fuch a Voice awake each Heart,
And captivate the Mind.

If He in Thunder speaks,
Earth trembles at his Nod;

But gentle Accents here proclaim
The condescending GOD.
Almighty God, pronounce

The Word of conqu'ring Grace;
So fhall the Flint diffolve to Tears,
And Scorners feek thy Face.