The harmony of the divine attributes displayed; in the redemption & salvation of sinners by Jesus Christ. Being a sermon preached at Dunfermline on...

"MY friends, at a solemn marriage-supper there is usually a friendly company who meet together; and when, at such an occasion, all things are managed with sobriety and decency, it is very joyful and pleasant to the parties concerned, to see the members of the meeting, with mutual kindness to one another, harmoniously gracing the solemnity: Even so at the marriage-supper of the lamb, I mean, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which we have been celebrating, there is a joyful company, not of men and women, for that would make but a poor earthly meeting; not yet of saints and angels, for that would make but at best a mean creature-meeting; but it is a glorious delightful company of divine attributes and perfections, in the sweetest concord meeting together, and embracing one another. This wonderful conjunction of divine excellencies is the friendly company that meets together, to put honour upon this nuptial solemnity; and to see them thus harmoniously embracing one another in the salvation of sinners, is the sweetest sight that the bride, the lamb's wife, shall ever see at the marriage-supper, whether it be at the lower or upper table. There is a great meeting in this house, but an infinitely greater in this text; a meeting of divine excellencies, to grace the solemnity of the marriage-supper of the lamb: Mercy and..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.