492 A SERIOUS ADDRESS TO Bless'd and chastis'd, bold, flagrant rebels still! Bald rebels 'midst the thunders of his throne ! Nor we alone ! a' rebel Universe ! Yet for the foulest of the foul he dies. But this is not 'all having through the grace of God tasted death for every man, and perfumed the grave for believers, He rose r He rose ! He broke the bars of death I Oh the burst gates, crush'd sting, demolish'd throne, Last gasp of vanquish'd death ! Shout, earth and heav'n. This sum of good to man; whose nature, then, Took wing, and mounted with him from the tomb: Then, then, we rose ; then first humanity, Triumphant, pass'd the chrystal gates of light. YOUNGD O the depth of the mystery of faith ! O the breadth, the length, the height, of the love of Christ ! All his stupendous humiliation, from his . father's bosom, through the virgin's womb, to the accursed tree: all his astonishing exaltation, from the dust of the grave, and the sorrows of hell, to the joys of heaven, and the highest throne of glory : all this immense progress of incarnate love all, all is ours! His mysterious incarnation re- unites 'arid endears us to God; his na- tural, birth procures 'our spiritual regeneration ; his unspotted life restores us to a blissful immörtality ; his bitterr agony gives us calm repose ; his bloody sweat washes away our manifold pollutions; his deep wounds distil the balm that heals our envenomed sores; his perfect obedience is our first title to endless felicity ; his full atonement purchases our free justification ; his cruel death is. the spring of immortal life ; his grave, the gate of heaven;. his resurrection, the pledge. of glory ; his ascension, the triumph of our souls ; his sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, the earnest of our, future coronation and exalted felicity ; and his prevailing intercession, the inexhaustible foun- tain of all blessings. Come then, conscious sinner, come to the feast of pardoning love; taste with us, that the Lord is gra-
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