his everlasting love towards them. Mofes was put into a clift of the rock, and covered, or protected by the Lord while this glorious difcovery of JEHOVAH's name was made unto him. This fhews us, that our whole fecurity from divine juftice and avenging wrath, is in the wounds of our Lord Jefus, who was wounded for our tranfgreffions, and bruifed for our iniquities, by whose fripes we are healed, whofe blood is our cleanfing, whofe life is our ranfom, and who has loved us, and washed us from our fins in his own blood. All the gracious discoveries which the Lord makes of himself to his people, are wholly and only in Chrift. In him they behold God reconciled, and at everlasting peace; and in Jefus he is everlastingly well pleased with all his chofen and beloved ones. In Chrift it is, that believers fee and feel themfelves to be interested in all the bowels of JEHOVAH's mercy: for, as God to finners out of Chrift is a confuming fire; fo in Chrift he appears to his people, as he did to Mofes in the bush, all in flames of love, which warms their hearts, inflames their fouls, melts their affections, and most powerfully attracts and draws them to cleave unto, to live in, and depend upon the Lord, as the fountain of living waters. Mofes being put by JEHOVAH in the clift of the rock, and here covered and protected by him, the Lord paffed on before him, and proclaimed himfelf to be gracious and merciful; an account of which you have in the following chapFrom hence we learn that God reckons it a part of his highest glory to proclaim himself in his dear Son, our adorable Mediator, in all the fulness.

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of his love, in all the freeness of his grace, and in all the riches of his fovereign mercy. So that I would here afk you, do you want to fee and behold God's glory, the glory of his free grace, everlasting love, and endless mercy? He proclaims all, difcovers all, caufes the glory of all, to pafs before his people in our Lord Jefus Chrift. And here I would again repeat it, that the very uttermoft of God's glory, fhines forth in the God-man, JEHOVAH's fellow, who is God over all, bleffed for ever. God the Father beholds the man of his right hand with tranfporting pleasure, complacency, and delight. Angels behold JEHOVAH's highest glory manifested in him. When Mofes faw Chrift on the mount, all former difcoveries of God's glory were loft and fwallowed up thereby. He fhines now more gloriously at the right hand of the Majefty on high, than when on the mount transfigured; and he will fhine with more dazzling beams of glory ftill, at the laft day, and in the ultimate ftate of blifs throughout eternity. And what will the effect of this be? Why, as Mofes's face fhone in confequence of his being in the mount with God, and as the fouls of believers fhine in confequence of their perfonal communion with Jefus, in his holy ordinances; fo the redeemed of the Lord, being more glorious in body and foul, and being clad with immortality and endless life, having been presented before the presence of JEHOVAH's glory with exceeding joy, clothed in the everlafting robe of Chrift's righteousness, and completely cleanfed from every fpot and ftain of fin in the blood of the Lamb, they

will shine as the fun in the kingdom of their Father. Chrift, the Sun of everlafting righteoufnefs, light, and glory, will fhine with all his glory upon their perfons, will fill their bodies and fouls with eternal glory, and cause them to fhine for ever and ever. They will fhine forth in his glory, and be like him, for they fhall fee him as he is; and there all God's goodness will pafs before them throughout eternity! And here I clofe, having gone through the text, attempting to fhew that JEHOVAH's nature, perfons, and perfections, are his glory; that Mofes defired a further discovery of the Lord's glory than he had hitherto had, and that his request was granted; he being put in a clift of the rock, while the Lord paffed by, and proclaimed himself to be the Lord God, gracious and merciful: I pray that what is truly agreeable to the Lord's revealed will may be accompanied with his bleffing, that what is amifs may be forgiven, that what is deficient may be fupplied by the Holy Spirit's teaching, and the whole praise fhall be ascribed to the Three in JEHOVAH, to whom be equal and everlasting glory.

Amen.

SERMON IV.

CHRIST'S DEMAND OF HIS FATHER ON THE BEHALF OF THE GIVEN ONES.

JOHN, Chap. xvii. Ver. 24.

Father, I will that they alfo whom thou haft given me be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou haft given me : for thou loved me before the foundation of the world.

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HIS chapter prefents us with a view of our most adorable Jefus, the Son of God, the great High Prieft of his church and people, praying for his whole myftic body. Zanchy calls this prayer, "The founda"tion of the church from the beginning of the world to "the end of it." And certain it is, that like as the facrifice and death of Chrift extend their influences and efficacy from the beginning of time to the end of it, and reach all the elect of God, and they are faved in confequence of it: fo this wonderful prayer, which may well be ftyled, The Lord's Prayer, extends its influence to all the people of God, who are equally interested in it, and as truly benefited by it, as they are by his death. We have in it a pattern and copy of Christ's interceffion for his church, in the

Holy of Holics. Our Lord Jefus had glorified his Father upon earth, by his moft perfect obedience unto the law, in the room and stead of his people; and he was now about to offer up the facrifice of his finlefs humanity, upon the altar of his Deity, to atone for, purge, cleanse, fanctify, and deliver his people from all their fins before the Lord. And he, having as it were the price of redemption in his hand, ready to pay down to the fatisfaction of law and juftice, here prays to his Divine Father in confequence of it. It may be truly faid, that this is the greatest chapter in all the New Teftament. The 53d chapter of Ifaiah, is the greateft chapter in the Old Testament, and this is the choiceft in the New: the former reprefents our adorable Meffiah, as the fin-bearing, and the curfefuftaining Saviour; and this reprefents him as our interceding high-prieft, wearing the names of all his fpiritual Ifrael upon the breaft-plate of his heart, appearing in the prefence of God for them, and pleading, in confequence of his facrifice offered upon earth, for the communications of grace and glory unto them.

In this facred Scripture now before us we have the following particulars.

First, the perfon praying, and that is our adorable high-prieft, who is the Son of God, and who for our fakes became the Son of Man.

Secondly, here is the perfon prayed unto, and that is God the Father, the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

Thirdly, here are the perfons for whom this prayer