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Secondly, if it be such a great blessing to be joined in union, and communion with the people of God, hence labour to bless God for this great blessing, that is such an amiable, desirable condition; it is your heaven upon earth, that mercy that should sweeten all other mercies, yea, that should sweeten your afflictions to you. Gods holy mountain, Isaiah 57. 13. is promised as an inheritance opposed to vanity, and promised as the blessing upon trusting in the Lord, Vanity shall take them, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit my holy mountain. Let us not enjoy ¹the world in all their vanity, but bless we our selves in our God, let us rejoice in our inheritance, the mountain of the Lord. Though we beg our bread, says Luther, is it not made up with this, That we are fed with the bread of Angels, with eternal life, Christ, and the Sacraments, &c?

Secondly, if it be such a great blessing to be joyned in union, and communion with the people of God, hence labor to bless God for this great blessing, that is such an amiable, desireable condition; it is your heaven upon earth, that mercy that should sweeten all other mercies, yea, that should sweeten your afflictions to you. Gods holy mountain, Isaiah 57. 13. is promised as an inheritance opposed to vanity, and promised as the blessing upon trusting in the Lord, Vanity shall take them, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit my holy mountain. Let us not enjoy ¹the world in all their vanity, but bless we our selves in our God, let us rejoyce in our inheritance, the mountain of the Lord. Though we beg our bread, says Luther, is it not made up with this, That we are fed with the bread of Angels, with eternal life, Christ, and the Sacraments, &c?

1. 1Men dicato pane hic vivamus, annon hoc pulchrè sarcitur in eo quòd pascimur pane cum Angelis et vita aeterna Christo & Sacramentis. Luth. in Ps. 132.