Centuries of Meditations

5

The counsel which our Saviour giveth in the Revelation to the Church of Ephesus, is by all churches, and by every Soul diligently to be observed: Remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent. Which intimates our duty of remembering our happiness in the estate of innocence. For without this we can never prize our Redeemer’s love: He that knows not to what he is redeemed cannot prize the work of redemption. The means cannot there be valued, where the end is despised. Since therefore by the Second Adam, we are restored to that we lost in the first: unless we value that we lost in the first, we cannot truly rejoice in the second. But when we do, then all things receive an infinite esteem, and an augmentation infinitely infinite, that follows after. Our Saviour’s love, His incarnation, His life and death, His resurrection, His ascension into Heaven, His intercession for us, etc., being then seen, and infinitely prized, in a glorious light: as also our deliverance from Hell, and our reconciliation unto God.