If any one might have pretended an ⟨p. 4⟩Excuse from the Exercise of Repentance, one might have thought, it would have been the Prophet Isaiah, when he was favoured with the a Vision of our Holy Lord, and a Rapture into the Heavenly World. What? A man flying and shining among the Angels of God, and yet Repenting in Dust and Ashes before the Lord, and Lamenting his own Impurities! Oh, Wonderful! Wonderful! I dispute not, whether the Man of God were now in the Temple of Jerusalem, or whether he were not rather, (which, with Peganius, I incline to think, he was) taken up to a View of its Original Pattern, that stupendous TEMPLE of God, which there is in the Heavenly World. But, beholding the Majesty of the Lord, the Spirit of Repentance immediately & marvellously falls upon him. O thou Man of God. Why dost thou not now fall into Songs of Triumph, and make thy Boast unto the bright Angels before thine Eyes; Ye Seraphims, I am come in for a Room among you. Admit a Favourite of Heaven to take a place among you▪ No, No The Eyes which thus have the ⟨p. 5⟩Monarch, & the Glory of Heaven, dazzling of them, have the Tears of Repentance presently filling of them. He Cries out, Woe is me, I am a man of Unclean Lips, The Vulgar Latin renders it,I have held my Peace. The meaning may be, Non Libere satis reprehendi Regis ali•umque peccata. Q. D Alas, Alas, I have not so faithfully discharged my Ministry, and spoken up for God and for Truth, as I should have done. Lord, I am so Vile a Sinner, I am unworthy to have my Lips ever Employed in any Message, or Service for thee. He could not be at Rest, until one of the Seraphims, under the Symbol of, Touching his Lips, with a Red Hot Stone taken from amidst the Pire on the Altar, assured him, That God had Pardoned him. The Right Stroke of Repentance! Never to be at Rest, without Assurance of a Pardon. These things spake Isaiah, when he saw the Glory of our Saviour.
If any one might have pretended an ⟨p. 4⟩Excuse from the Exercise of Repentance, one might have thought, it would have been the Propher Isaiah, when he was favoured with the a Vision of our Holy Lord, and a Rapture into the Heavenly World. What? A man flying and shining among the Angels of God, and yet Repenting in Dust and Ashes before the Lord, and Lamenting his own Impurities! Oh, Wonderful! Wonderful! I dispute not, whether the Man of God were now in the Temple of Jerusalem, or whether he were not rather, (which, with Peganius, I incline to think, he was) taken up to a View of its Original Pattern, that stupendous TEMPLE of God, which there is in the Heavenly World. But, beholding the Majesty of the Lord, the Spirit of Repentance immediately & marvellously falls upon him. O thou Man of God. Why dost thou not now fall into Songs of Triumph, and make thy Boast unto the bright Angels before thine Eyes; Ye Seraphims, I am come in for a Room among you. Admit a Favourite of Heaven to take a place among you▪ No, No The Eyes which thus have the ⟨p. 5⟩Monarch, & the Glory of Heaven, dazzling of them, have the Tears of Repentance presently filling of them. He Cries out, Wo is me, I am a man of Unclean Lips, The Vulgar Latin renders it,I have held my Peace. The meaning may be, Non Libere satis reprehendi Regis ali•umque peccata. Q. D Alas, Alas, I have not so faithfully discharged my Ministry, and spoken up for God and for Truth, as I should have done. Lord, I am so Vile a Sinner, I am unworthy to have my Lips ever Employ'd in any Message, or Service for thee. He could not be at Rest, until one of the Seraphims, under the Symbol of, Touching his Lips, with a Red Hot Stone taken from amidst the Pire on the Altar, assured him, That God had Pardoned him. The Right Stroke of Repentance! Never to be at Rest, without Assurance of a Pardon. These things spake Esaias, when he saw the Glory of our Saviour.
