Ezekiel 43:27

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READER, let not an eye be taken off this glorious vision the Prophet saw; but let us look stedfastly and steadily on Him, who came from the way of the east in the glory of God. Hear the well known voice of Jesus, as the voice of many waters. Behold, the earth shining with his glory: and then contemplate under all, the glorious person of the Lord Jesus, teaching and explaining all things, in the great events contained in this Chapter concerning himself.

Was this house a type of the Gospel Church? Do all his people whom he hath made kings and priests to God and the Father, belong to this house? Ask then your own heart, yea, let every Reader ask himself, what entrance hath been admitted to him into this holy house? Have you got boldness to enter into it by the only way in which any can enter, even by the blood of Jesus. By whom did you enter, and who was the porter that opened to your view Jesus and his glory; Jesus, and all his sufficiency; and prompted you to believe in him? What are the sanctifying impressions wrought upon your soul by this allowed entrance? Here you see your own vileness, and Jesus's glory? Are you well pleased for his righteousness sake, and do you repose in it? Are you renouncing all other holiness, and fully determined to be found in Christ's only? These enquiries, when truly answered, are sweet, and precious evidences of being entered in; and that He, whom Ezekiel saw in vision, you have seen also by faith, and are rejoicing now in hope of the glory of God! Precious Lord Jesus! do as thou hast said. Dwell now forever in the midst of thy people, and suffer them no longer to be defiled in their abominations, but be thou their God, and make them thy people; and cause them through thy grace, to separate themselves, and come out from among all the polluted around, that they may touch not the unclean things, but be truly, and in heart, made the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty! Amen.