The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmouth, August…The staves of beauty & bands opened in a sermon preached at Yarmovth, August…

1. By the Verity of his heavenly Doctrine; When a people are taught of the Lord, then their Stones are laid with fair Colours, and their Foundations with Sapphires, their Windows of Agates, their Gates of Carbuncles, and their Borders of precious Stones, Isa. 54, 11, 12, 13. When the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord, then is his rest, or the place of his abode glorious, Isa. 11, 9, 10. and therefore when Christ was ⟨p. 5⟩^sascended up on high, far above all heavens, that he might fill all things, he gave unto his Church, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers, in order to the perfecting and edifying of his body, and carrying it on unto the measure of the stature of his fullness, wherein alone the Beauty thereof consisteth.

1. By the Verity of his heavenly Doctrine; When a people are taught of the Lord, then their Stones are laid with fair Colours, and their Foundations with Saphires, their Windows of Agates, their Gates of Carbuncles, and their Borders of precious Stones, Isa. 54, 11, 12, 13. When the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord, then is his rest, or the place of his abode glorious, Isa. 11, 9, 10. and therefore when Christ was ⟨p. 5⟩^sascended up on high, far above all heavens, that he might fill all things, he gave unto his Church, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers, in order to the perfecting and edifying of his body, and carrying it on unto the measure of the stature of his fulness, wherein alone the Beauty thereof consisteth.

1. sEphes. 4. 10, 13.