398. CHRIST ADMIRED AND GLQRIFIED mDIsc.IT. to pluck out a right eye, and to part with my darling vices; and behold me here a monument of his saving mercy." " I was envious against my neighbour, shall another say, and my temper was malice and wrath ; revenge was mingled with my constitution, and I thought it no ini- quity: But I bless the name of Christ, my Redeemer,. who, in the day of his grace, turned my wrath into meekness ; he inclined me " to love even my enemies, . and to pray for them that cursedme ;" he taught me all this by his own example, and he made .me learn it by the sovereign influences of his spirit. I am a wonder to my- self, when I think what I once was: Amazing change, and almighty grace !" Then a third shall confess, " I was a profane wretch,. a swearer, a blasphemer; I hoped for no heaven, and I feared no hell ; but the Lord seized me in the midst of my rebellions, and sent his arrows into my soul; he made me feel the stings of an awakened conscience, and constrained- me to believe that there was a God and a hell, till I cried out astonished, " What shall I do to be saved ?" Acts xvi. O. Then he led me to partake of his own salvation, and, from a proud rebellious infidel, be has made me a penitent and an humble believer, and here I stand to shew forth the wonders of his grace, and the boundless extent of his forgiveness." . A fourth shall stand up, and acknowledge in that day, " And I was a poor, carnal, covetous creature, who macle this world my God, and abundance of money was my heaven; but he cured me of this vile idolatry of gold, . taught me how to obtain treasures in the heavenly world, and to forsake all on earth, that I might have an inhe- ritance there; and behold he has not disappointed my hope : I am nowmade rich indeed, and I must for ever speak his praises." There shall be no doubt or dispute, in that day, whe- ther it was the power of our own will, or the superior power of divine grace, that wrought the blessed change, that turned the lion into a lamb, a groveling earth-worm into a bird of paradise, and of a covetous or malicious sinner, made a meek and a heavenly saint. The grace of Christ shall be so conspicuous in every glorified be liever in that assembly, that, with one voice, they shall-
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