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Thy people toward Him, with perfect abandonment of myself to Him. (Psalm ex. 3). shall be willing in the day of Thy power " Lastly, by this knowledge through the promise of the Gospel, and by the light of the Holy Spirit, I learn to know the Person of the Mediator in His personal glory, being so near to Hint that I can deal with '

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I say, in the promise of the Gospel, to show the difference between a vision of ecstasy like that of Stephen and the conceited knowlThe edge of which heretics speak outside of and against the Word. Word is the only mirror in which Christ can be seen and known by saving faith. And herein I see Him in His personal glory with the eye of faith, For this inso near as I ever have seen any object with the bodily eye. wrought faith and the light of the Holy Spirit shining thereon brings the Person Himself in substantial form to the soul, so that she falls in love My Beloved with Him, and is so enchanted with Him that she exclaims For His love is is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. jealousy is more cruel than the grave the coals stronger than death thereof are coals of fire, flames of the Lord. Many waters can not quench if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it that love would be utterly contemned (Cant. iii. 10 viii. 6, 7) "My beloved, faith embraces not only the words and letters of the Gospel, but Christ Himself in them. Faith converses, not with the letter alone, but with Christ in the letter. Faith has two foundations, the Word and the Substance. It does not build upon the Word alone, which is the letter of the Gospel but also upon the Substance in the Word, viz.,

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