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Thirdly, God communicates his mercies more powerfully in the Church then any where else: Psal. ¹133. 3. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. God did not only speak, and said there should be a blessing, but spake in a commanding way; There: Where is that? There in the Church, amongst his people, there God commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Thirdly, God communicates his mercies more powerfully in the Church then any where else: Psal. ¹133. 3. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. God did not onely speak, and said there should be a blessing, but spake in a commanding way; There: Where is that? There in the Church, amongst his people, there God commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

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Lastly, God blesseth more universally with all ¹kind of blessing, and therefore he is more present there: and in that respect the Psalmist says, Psalm 87. 7. All my springs are in thee. This whole Psalm is to set out the excellent condition of the Church, and he concludes the Psalm with this, All my springs are in thee: Now this expression is very emphatical; Spring is taken two or three ways in Scripture: The Law of God, the Doctrine of Gods Law is compared to a spring, and heavenly knowledge is compared to a spring; and then it is thus, All my springs: All the truths I have, all the knowledge I come to be made partaker of, are all in the Church. Again, All my springs; all the comforts of my heart, and that good and joy my spirit receives, and all the graces of the Spirit that I have, and all the quickening and strengthening I have, is communicated to me this way. And upon this ground, the Church is called the very perfection of all beauty,