2 Thou art near in their mouth, and far from
Sacramental Meditations.
• thee : There be millions of menandwomenin the world, naturally as good as thee, that shall have no interest in it,
• or benefit by it: But for thee, it was shed, and for the re- •mission of thy fins ; my blood was the only thing in the • world that was equal to the desert of thy sins, and it hath made full satisfaction to God for them all: Thy sins, which are many, are therefore forgiven thee : My blood hath pur- • chased the eternal inheritance of glory for thee ; and this
•day I am come to deliver the seals and pledges thereof into thine hand.
Take then the seals of eternal salvation this • day, take thine own Christ with all that he is, and hath ; in thine arms .
Whatever I have suffered, done, or procur- ⚫ed for any of my faints ; I have suffered, done, and procured the same for thee."
Why, all this is here to be done, as really and truly, tho' in a more spiritual way, at this table. And shall not such business as this is, fully fix and engage thy heart ? What then shall do it?
Awake, faith; awake, repentance ; awake, love ; yea, let all the powers of my foul be thoroughly awakened this day to attend the Lord.
THE SECOND
MEDITATION,
UPON JER. xii. 2. Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their T reins.
HIS scripture gives us the character and description of an hypocrite : And he is here described two ways ; viz.
1. By what he hath .
2. By what he hath not.
First, The hypocrite is describedbywhat he hath : He hath God in his mouth ; " Thou art near in their mouth ;" i. e.
They profess with a full mouth, that they are thy people, faith Pifcator ; or, they speak much about the law (as another explains it) ; God, and his temple, religion, with its rites, are much talked of among them ; they have him in their prayers and duties ; and this is all that the hypocrite hath of God; re