your lovely bridegroom will keep his word and his day, he will come and marry you to himself for ever : Therefore ever stand upon the watch-tower, wishfully looking for his appearance ; never Nack thy watch, nor let thy expectation cool, till he come and take thee home to himself, and set you down at the higher table, where he Thall for ever lay aside his vail, and his amiable countenance never more be clouded with frowns; where you shall not have a facramental but a beatifical vision; where you shall not remember him, but behold him as he is; where you shall feed on him without signs, and fee him without a vail ; where all your sorrows shall be turned into joys, where, for every reproach you met with in God's service, you shall reap eternal honour; for every hour of forrow, you shall enjoy endless ages of comfort. “ Make hafte, my beloved, let the day break and the shadows fly away. Even fo, Lord Jesus, come quickly." Take me to that place where mysteries shall be turned into revelations, faith into vision, hope into fruition, espousals into embraces, sorrowful sighs into nuptial fongs, drops of tears into rivers of pleasures, transient glances into the radiant and direct beams of the fun of righteousness, short tastes into everlasting feafting and fulness. How small are the comforts of the lower table, if compared with these of the higher table? How dark are the discoveries believers have here, if compared with these bright manifestations above? But, because I have insisted on this head form. crly, I shall add no more here upon it; but with that we may come at length experimentally to know the difference, to our everlasting comfort, END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Containing Directions how to prepare for a Communion- Sabbath. Direct. 1. Concerning the nature, ends, and uses of the Lord's Supper, and of the work of communi- Direct. II. Concerning the necerity of communicat- ing, and the fin of neglecting tuis duty, Objections made against this duty answered, Direct. HI Concerning the necessity of frequent O"ject.ons against frequency in it answered, Direct. V. Concerning the neceffily of folemn pre- paration before our partaking, Dirret. V. Concerning habitual and actual preparation, 361 Direct. Vi. Concerning the fin and danger of unwor- Direct. Vn. Concerning fequeftrating ourselves from Direct. Vill. Concerning self-examination before 1. Of the examination of our state, 406 Direct. IX. Concerning humiliation and mourning for fin before partaking, 420 440 443 hands, and turning to the Lord, before partaking, 45 death and sufferings of Christ before partaking, 459 464 473 CHAP. II. 476 488 Costaining Directions for the right spending of a Com. munion-Sabbath, when it is come. 475 viewing the sufferings and love of Chrift, 483 491 492 497 ib. 517 mental elements and actions, and hear the words |