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7. There is shelter in a stormy day in his name: "The name of the Lord is a ftrong tower." When ftorms and tempefts are blowing, the believer, when he gets this name over his head, he can fing and fay, "In the floods of great waters, they fhall not come near unto me, for the Lord is my refuge, and my strength, and a very prefent help in time of trouble; therefore I will not be afraid," Pfal. xlvi. This name is the "ftrength of the poor, and the ftrength of the needy in his diftrefs, a refuge from the ftorm, a fhadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. I will lay me down in peace, and fleep, for thou, Lord, makeft me to dwell in fafety. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people, who fet themselves against me round about."

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8. There is honour and preferment in his name: Pfal. xci. 14. "I will fet him on high, because he hath known my name.' Whenever this name is manifefted to a foul, it gets a name and a place within God's houfe, better than of fons and daughters among men; and hence it is, that the "righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: Ever fince thou wast precious in my fight, thou hast been honourable," If. xliii. 4In a word, not to multiply particulars here, falvation is in the name of our God in Chrift: "Our God is the God of falvation; and unto God the Lord do belong the iffues from death." And whenever a poor foul by faith reads the name of God in Chrift, it is capable to read its own falvation, and to fing, as If. xii. 2. 3." Behold, God is my falvation: I will truft, and not be afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, he also is become my falvation. And therefore with joy will I draw water out of the wells of falvation." Thus you fee what matter of joy and gloriation there is in the name of God as it is displayed in Chrift; and therefore let us rejoice in this name, and glory in it all the day long.

The third thing in this use, was to tell you of the proper feafons of glorying and triumphing in this name that our Immanuel bears. Anfw. We should glory in this name "all the day long: While I have a being, I will bless the name of the Lord," fays David. "Thanks be unto God, which always caufeth us to triumph in Chrift." I will only inftance two or three particular feafons proper for it.

1. Whenever we draw near to God in any duty of worship, we should set it before' us, and glory in it as the foundation of our acceptance in his prefence. When you go to prayer, or

praise, or to read or hear the word; whatever ye do, either in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jefus; go about the duty glorying in this name, and it will make you and your duties accepted, and you to rejoice to work righte

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oufnefs, and to remember the Lord in his ways, faying with David, Pfal. xliii. 4. "I will go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy."

2. When you go about duty wanting a frame; for it is not your frame, but his name that must bear you through before God. Or when you have win to any thing of a frame or enlargement, or got duty comfortably difcharged, then is a proper feafon for glorying in this name; for the wicked legal heart is then ready to facrifice unto its own net, and to burn incenfe unto its own drag. Let us learn to fay, when we have win to our higheft frames or enlargements, "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory: Not I, but the grace of God in me.”

3. When his name is flighted and difparaged by a blind world round about you, then is a proper season for glorying in this name. When the daughters of Jerufalem are uttering themfelves flightly concerning Chrift, faying, "What is thy beloved more than another beloved?" Cant. v. 9. this quickens the spouse's zeal for his glory and honour, and makes her run out in his commendation; and when she is done, the con cludes with a holy boafting of him whom they difparaged, faying, "This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerufalem."

4. When you are damped through the prevalency of indwelling fin, then glory in this name: fo did Paul, Rom. vii. 24. he is crying, "Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of fin and death !" but immediately he views the name of a reconciled God in Chrift, and then he gets up his heart, and cries, "I thank God through Jesus Chrift: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus." And fo he goes on triumphing in this name through the whole of the 8th chapter.

5. When you are preffed upon by the temptations and fiery darts of Satan, then glory and rejoice in this name; for if in the name of a God in Chrift you fet up your banner against the devil, he will fly before you; he is not able to hear tell of the feed of the woman that bruifed his head.

6. When you are furrounded with the dark and black clouds of defertion, then fludy to glory and rejoice in the name of a reconciled God in Chrift. When we walk in darkness, and fee no light, we are to truft, and rejoice, and glory in the name of the Lord, and ftay ourselves upon him as our God; this will fill us with "joy unfpeakable and full of glory;" and no wonder, for when by faith the foul reads this name, it cannot miss to read a reconciled God in it.

7. Glory in this name, even in the face of death, and of an awful

awful tribunal. Oh Sirs! this name will bear you through. death, for by it death is deftroyed, and the grave vanquished. Set the name of Chrift before you, and Jordan will divide, and the way to the land of promife will be patent and open : carry this name with you in before a tribunal, and you shall meet a friend upon the bench, who will fay to you, "Come, thou bleffed, and inherit the kingdom prepared for thee from the foundation of the world." Thus you fee fome feasons when we are to glory in this name.

The fourth thing upon this ufe, was to obviate fome objections, or remove fome difficulties that lie in the way of this duty, of glorying in the name of God as it is manifefted in Chrift.

Object. 1. You bid me rejoice and glory in the name of a God in Chrift; but alas! how can this be, for the name of God is just my terror, "When I remember God I am troubled?" I answer, I own indeed his law name, or his abfolute name, is enough to terrify the ftrongeft believer, or the faint of the highest magnitude, while any thing either of the guilt or filth of fin hangs about him; but it is abfolutely impoffible that his name in Chrift can be a terror, but rather a comfort unto any finner on this fide of hell. Can the name "merciful or gracious," can the name, "Lord pardoning iniquity, the God of falvation," be a terror? No, it cannot be. So that when thou fayeft thou art troubled at the remembrance of the name of God, it is plain thou art reading his abfolute name, or his name not in Christ, but out of Christ: and therefore look again toward his holy temple, and view him upon the mercy feat between the cherubims, and thou that fee his name to be," The confolation of Ifrael,"

Object. 2. How can I glory in his name, for alas! I fear I do not know this name of a God in Chrift, "I am more brutish than any man, I have not the understanding of a man; I have not learned this wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the holy?" Anfw. If this be really the exercife of thy foul, it is an evidence thou haft been at the fchool of Chrift, for felf-denial is the firft leflon that he teaches all his fcholars. Whenever the name of Chrift is revealed unto a foul, its own name, its own knowledge, attainments, righteoufnefs, ftrength, and all evanifh, and go as clean out of the man's fight, as the twinkling ftars in the firmament when the fun arises; felf hides its head when Chrift is formed. And therefore, if this fenfe of ignorance of the name of Chrift be accompanied with an earnest defire and longing of foul to be better acquainted with this name, it is a fign thou knoweft it, and fhalt "follow on to know it," and that his goings forth" to thy foul fhall be prepared as

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Object. 3. "I am plagued all the day long, and chastened every morning, deep calleth unto deep" with me, and therefore I cannot rejoice in this name, for through continued affliction my harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep." Anfw. If by this affliction the Lord is "purging away thy drofs," and making thee a partaker of his holinefs," thou haft reafon to rejoice and glory in his name, for thefe "light afflictions" will foon be at an end, and they will "work for thee a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Do but view the name of God in Chrift, and it will lighten thy heart under all the burdens of affliction that lie upon thy back, "They looked unto him, and were lightened." Job, when the waters of affliction were rolling in upon him on every hand, he views this name, and comforts himself with it, being enabled thereby to see a scene of glory opening upon the other fide of death, chap. xix. 25. "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth," &c.

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Object. 4. You tell rejoice in this name, when "reproach has broken my heart," my name is torn, my reputation funk and covered with calumny. Anfw. The name of Chrift was covered with calumny when he was in this world, called "a blafphemer, a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and finners;" yea, he was branded with being in league with "Beelzebub the prince of devils" and can any thing worfe be faid of thy name? And therefore bear it patiently, and rejoice: for as the name of Chrift outfhined all the clouds of calumny, fo fhall thine, if thou be a member of Chrift, and reproached for well-doing: "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory, and of God refteth upon you "

Object. 5. I carry fuch a burden of fin upon me, I have fo many wants, fo many plagues, fo many maladies, hanging about me, that I cannot get up my heart. Anfw. Do but read the name of God as it is in Chrift, and thou shalt find redress of all grievances, ease under all burdens, and healing of all plagues. Is it not matter of joy and triumph under a fense of guilt, that his name is "the Lord pardoning iniquity?" Is it not relief under burdens, that he bids you caft your burdens on him, and he will fuftain you?" is it not matter of joy under all wants, that "all fulness is in him" for thy fupply; and under all the plagues of thy heart, that his name is "the Lord that healeth thee; that there is balm in Gilead, and a phyfician there?" It is the way of faith to reck

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on upon, and to rejoice in what the foul hath in Chrift; under deadness, to rejoice that its "life is hid with Christ in God;" under felf-emptiness and poverty, to rejoice in his "unfearchable riches;" under a fenfe of guilt, to rejoice in his refurrection from the dead as its difcharge; under inability to pray, to rejoice in his interceffion. And therefore, I fay, learn fill to glory in the name of a God in Christ.

Object. 6. I cannot get the Lord ferved as I would be at when I fet about duty, my wicked heart turns afide like a de. ceitful bow, I drive heavily like the chariots of Pharoah. Anfw. Do you know what is the caufe of your driving fo heavily? You turn away your eyes from the name of God as it is fet in Chrift, and then indeed it is no wonder though your heart turn away from the living God. Do but view this name, and you shall be fet upon the high places of Jacob, and thy foul fhall, ere thou art aware, be made like the chariots of Amminadib.

Object. 7. I do not know if ever I believed in this name, how then fhall I glory and rejoice in it? Anfw. If thou really never yet believed in this name, believe in it now, without any longer delay, fot it is manifefted to be believed in. God has fet forth his name in Christ as an object of faith and truft unto all the world: and rejoice, Oh finner ! that thou has this name to fly to as a refuge; for it is glad tidings to men, and the fons of men, that God's name and our name are mingled together in our great Immanuel, and "they that know this name, will put their truft in it." And whereas you fay you do not know if ever you believed in this name, I only afk you, Is not this name precious to thy foul? Well, that is given as an evidence and mark of faith; for " to you that be. lieve, he is precious." Does not thou love him, and all that bear his image? This is another mark of faith; for "faith worketh by love ;" and by this "we know that we are paffed from death unto life, because we love the brethren."

Object. S. This is a lowering day, ftorms are brewing, and the clouds are raking; God feems to be upon his march with the weapons of wrath in his hand; he is making the earth to tremble and fhake with the noife of wars abroad, and divifions at home; and is this a time of rejoicing? Anfw. It is all true you fay; but is there no comfort in that cafe, in the name of the Lord? Yes, there is. Let feas roar, let the nations fhake, let heaven and earth blend into confufion, the name of a God in Chrift is the "river that makes glad the city of God ;" and therefore, I fay, ftill "let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. The Lord fitteth upon the floods; the VOL. II. Lord

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