of the lamb, when I shall be presented as a chaste virgin to my heavenly bridegroom. How can I but long earnestly for this full enjoyment of thy everlasting love. Come Lord Jesus, let me see thee as thou art. Come, and make me like unto thee. I do love thee, I am now happy in thy love, but not so as I hope to be. I am often interrupted here, and never love thee so much as I desire; but these blessed Spirits standing now round thy throne are perfected in love. Oh! that I was once admitted to see as they do, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ! Is not that the voice of my Beloved, which I hear answering, Surely I come quickly! Amen, says I, even so come, Lord Jesus. Make haste, my Beloved, and be thou like to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Are not these, believer, the breathings of thy soul? Since the time for them is short, may they grow warmer, and more affectionate every day! Thou wilt wait but a little while before thou shalt see the King in his perfect beauty, and thou shalt be a blessed partaker of his eternal glory. And if he make these few lines any means

of bringing thee to ty at present, to liv ness, and to be har thou and I shall, th him soon, and give glory of this and of To the Lord I com: thou hast believed. and establish thy fa grow exceedingly u the end of it, and ad numerable company blessing, and honour er, to Him that wa deemed them unto

whom, with the Fa Spirit, three Persons equal and everlasting

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more of his beau more upon his ful er in him; I hope gh his grace, meet im to eternity the his other mercies nd thee, on whom May he strengthen daily, that it may l he bring thee to it thee into that in who are ascribing nd glory, and pow slain, and hath re od by his blood: t er, and the eterna n one Jehovah, be praise. Amen.