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We have cause to bless God that we might be with Gods people, though in caves, and woods, and banished from all; we have much more cause to bless God when we can be with them thus publicly, and peaceably, and can go from Gods house, to our own houses, and have communion there; this is the rest that the Land of Canaan did typify, for which the ⟨p. 284⟩name of God is to be magnified; God might so have left us, that we should have had communion only with the profane ones, and drunkards; yea, we might have been cast out from God, to have had communion only with reprobates, and that now we may have communion with the godly, it is a wonderful mercy. Rev. 14. we read of Christ standing upon the Mount Zion, and having so many people standing up, to join with him in Churchfellowship; for that is the meaning of that place, there they were rejoicing at the mercy of the Lord, that they were upon the Mount with the Lamb; though there might be time, when our Harps hanged upon the Willows, yet if we be called to the Lamb upon Mount Zion, Let us have our Harps in our hands.

We have cause to bless God that we might be with Gods people, though in caves, and woods, and banished from all; we have much more cause to bless God when we can be with them thus publiquely, and peaceably, and can go from Gods house, to our own houses, and have communion there; this is the rest that the Land of Canaan did typifie, for which the ⟨p. 284⟩name of God is to be mganified; God might so have left us, that we should have had communion onely with the prophane ones, and drunkards; yea, we might have been cast out from God, to have had communion onely with reprobates, and that now we may have communion with the godly, it is a wonderful mercy. Rev. 14. we read of Christ standing upon the Mount Zion, and having so many people standing up, to joyn with him in Churchfellowship; for that is the meaning of that place, there they were rejoycing at the mercy of the Lord, that they were upon the Mount with the Lamb; though there might be time, when our Harps hanged upon the Willows, yet if we be called to the Lamb upon Mount Zion, Let us have our Harps in our hands.