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who believe, and have our sins put away, it is given to be present with the Lamb, and to stand so in faith, as if we were among the multitude who were his murderers. We are his witnesses, as if we had seen him die; and while others deride and mock, or slight and disesteem: the Lamb, we worship and minister to him. Our whole business for ever is to plead and offer his death and sacrifice before God, and to blow our trumpets in his praise to the world, and before all the first-born; and in this we do nothing more than mingle with that innumerable company, who now are bowing before him, as he sits upon his throne stained with his own blood, in the office of the High Priest over the whole house of God, and thank and bless him in their language; for we, as well as all the rest now with him, have been redeemed and ransomed by him. "Therefore with angels and archangels, and all the goodly company of heaven, we worship him that sits upon the throne, even the Lamb that was slain, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, and blessed be his name for ever and ever." Amen.

AN HYMN.

1. JESUS, Son of God!

Who loy'd the world so dear,

That thou to save 't, in flesh and blood
Didst in the world appear:

With tears of thankfulness
Our souls remember thee,
In all thy weakness and disgrace,
And pain and misery.

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2. Thee on that night we view,
When Judas thee betray'd:
We see thee with the soldiers go,
With all thy raiment red:
For with thy bloody sweats,
Thy clothes, thou Child divine!
Appear'd like those who tread the fats,
And roll their clothes in wine.

3. Soon thorns thy temples crown'd, Then scourg'd before the crowd, "Till streams of blood from every wound Down thy dear body flow'd:

When sore thy flesh was hewn, That ev'n the bones were seen, Then wast thou to thy people shewn ; One cry'd," Behold the Man!"

4. Thy pain here ended not,

Thou yet thy clothes must wear,
And on these shoulders, raw and cut,
Thy heavy cross must bear :
Then down didst meekly lay,
(O dearest Lamb of God!)
And let them tear thy clothes away,
And with them skin and blood,

5. Thy hands and feet they tore,
Then nail'd thee on the tree;
O then what grief didst thou endure,
What pain and misery!

Oppressed unspeakably

With all mankind's misdeeds;

All unbelief and misery!

Behold he hangs and bleeds.

6. Three long and bitter hours
He groan'd and cry'd aloud;
The rulers of infernal pow'rs
So long afflicted God:

Then fell beneath their stroke

The Prince and Lord of all!

And down death, hell, and sin he broke
In his amazing fall;

7. Thus he for sin aton'd,
Thus paid the ransom-price;

And thus the Lamb of God was bound,
And made a sacrifice;

Salvation to the Lamb!

Through heav'n immediate rung: Salvation to Immanuel's name! Shall ever be our song.

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DISCOURSE XXX.

LOT'S FLIGHT.

GEN. xix. 17.

Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

THESE words the angels spake to Lot and his

family when they had brought them out of Sodom, and were about to take leave of them. The blessed spirits seemed apprehensive of their being yet in danger either of loitering, or looking back, or staying in the plain, though they were out of the city, and therefore puts them in mind their lives were at stake; and to be disobedient now, or to delay, would be to run the risk of being consumed; and, in the most pressing manner, charges them in my text, to make the best of their way, and fly for their lives.

This part of the divine history is really most affecting here we may see at once both the goodness and severity of God; his goodness in saving Lot's house, his severity in destroying the cities of that country in so awful a manner.

It appears, by what precedes my text, that all those unhappy cities, and the country round about, had abounded in all plenty; and pride and fulness of

of bread, as we read in Ezekiel xvi. 49. had made them forget God, and in general they were gone into strange and unnatural lusts; so that "the cry of their sins was gone up to heaven, and the Lord was come down to destroy it." We read in the eighteenth chapter, that three angels came to Abraham the day before, and staid with him all night; but two of them only came to Sodom, and rose up early in the morning; but the third, who no doubt was the angel of the covenant, Christ Jesus, staid behind, and revealed to Abraham what was in his heart to do to Sodom and the adjacent cities. For a good while the faithful patriarch pleaded and made intercession for the city; but at last he submitted; and the "Lord went his way from communing with Abraham, and he returned to his place."

Here we may observe many things worthy our notice: First, how our Saviour would not bring his judgments upon a wicked place; but he would first acquaint his servants, lest they should have been too much surprized at the sudden stroke, or questioned if the righteous were not destroyed as well as the ungodly, and so might have all their life time been in jeopardy, lest he that had visited so heavily those of Sodom, might, by and by, visit them also in the same way? therefore would God set the matter in a right light before his children, ere the vengeance and the storm fell.

Again, we may see how our Saviour humbled himself to stay and lodge in a tent, and disdained not of old to appear in the form of a man: for in the human form he and his angels appeared to Abraham, chap. xvii. 2. We have no right to grudge this happiness to Abraham, Lot, &c. for the same Lord and Saviour yet dwells with his children, and not as a guest that tarrieth for a night, but he comes to make his abode with us; and no doubt many angels

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