Ezekiel 43

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XLIII.—The different visits which God makes to his people are much alike, and serve to confirm one another; and it is but for a small moment he withdraws, when he returns in kindness. His glory manifested in his church is her principal ornament, furniture, and source of felicity. But it is through Jesus Christ, as with us, that we can have communion with y men in ‘a own temple, its church, is worship, and their ‘wonder that he is highly provoked herewith. But such as improve his goodness received to his glory, and to their own self-loathing and debasement, shall experience it more and more.—The whole of our salvation is of God. And no society is a church of his but so far as true holiness prevails in it. None of our performances can be accepted, unless our persons be accepted and sins pardoned through Jesus’ blood. Nor can any performance be religious unless it spring from, and be seasoned with, real grace. There is great need for ministers to be equally prepared for their important work. And dreadful is the profaneness of 9 R those who rush at random into the sacred function. Blessed be God that Jesus Christ, by offering his own blood, has consecrated himself as our great High Priest, and as our Altar, upon which we are ordained to offer spiritual sacrifices, well-pleasing to God