to the perfection of the mystical body, as those of an higher and more illuftrious kind. Bless God for the gifts of others, as readily and ardently as for thine own. It is thus that " GOD will, in "all things, be glorified through JESUS "CHRIST." The Glory of GoD, in its fulleft and highest manifeftation, is in the Perfon of "his own Eternal Son, GOD OF GOD, "LIGHT OF LIGHT." But he is glorified in us and by us, when the Image of his Son is born and formed in our hearts; when the reality of this NewBirth, this living principle of goodness and truth is manifefted to ourselves as well as others, by fuch an inward unfolding of heavenly fenfibilities, and fuch an outward practice of heavenly virtues, as hath been recommended to you, from the words of the Apostle in my text. "Glory, "Glory, Praise, and Dominion," therefore, we afcribe to GOD in the only true and proper sense of these expreflions, when we suffer his glory to be displayed, his praise to be proclaimed, and his dominion acknowledged, in the temple of our hearts. In this only true and proper fenfe, may we all be enabled to afcribe "this glory, praise, and dominion, "to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE "GOD, bleffed for evermore." Amen! |