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and sublime elixir, that transmutes our nature 

 into divinity, time into eternity, and our souls 

 into himself; from which supereminent hea- 

 venly state, there's no relaxation, but an intire 

 unity and community with God, for ever and 

 ever to all eternity. For as light is inseparable 

 from it self, nor can darkness co-mingle or in- 

 corporate with it ; such is the soul that is truly 

 sanctified and sprinkled with the blood of this 

 miracle of mercy, that never for the future can 

 be separated from its Saviour : but as sin hates 

 the light, because the light discovers its dark- 

 ness ; so light, because it's the standard of truth, 

 not only discovers but dissipates the darkness. 

 The Lamb of God is the light of the world, that 

 for ever shines, and for ever frees the penitent 

 soul from the shades of darkness. How great, 

 therefore, must that Light be, that enlightneth 

 the world, and every man that cometh into the 

 world ? 



Now the true state of felicity is only att^in- 

 able by faith in Christ ; and faith directs to the 

 portals of humility ; humility to piety ; and pie- 

 ty leads on to the duties of charity, by a reli- 

 gious resignation of our inglorious will, to the 

 glory of his will that bore our burden of sin on 

 the Cross. Here let us sigh down, if possible, 

 the sins of the age, as Christ by the virtue of his 

 pure divinity depress'd those mountains of sin 



