nasc.tv.} IN HIS SAINTS,, ,39,9 all shout to the praise and glory of his grace ; " not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name be all the ho- nour !" Ps. cxv. L Thirdly, It shall be the matter of our wonder, and the glory of Christ in that day, '" that so many thousand guilty wretches should be made righteous by one righter ousness, cleansed in one laver from, all their iniquities; and sprinkled unto pardon and sanctification with the blood of one man Jesus Christ. See the great multitude that no man could number, Rev. vii. 9, 10. Theyall " washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb," verse 14. It is a matter of wonder to us now on earth, that the blessed Son of God, who is one with the Father, should stoop so low as to unite himself to a mortal nature, that he should become a poor despicable man, and pass through a life of sufferings and sorrows, and die an ac- cursed death, to redeem us from guilt and deserved mi- sery: But when we shall see him in his native glory and lustre, his acquired dignities, and all the honours of heaven heaped upon him, it will raise our wonder high, to think, that such a one should once humble himself to the deathof the cross ;, the death of the vilest slave, that hé might save our souls from dying; that he should pour out his own blood, to wash off the stains of millions of sins, that we might appear righteous before a God of holiness. Then shall the multitude of the saved join in that song, "To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, be glory and dominion for ever," Rev. i. 5, 6. " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches, and honour, for thou hast redemedus.with thy blood from every kindred, tribe, and nation," Rev. v. 9, 12. Then shall those blessed words of scripture appear, and shine in full glory, howsoever they are often passed over in silence, and too much forgotten in our age, Rom. v. 17, 19, 221. " If by one man's offence,' death reigned byone; much more theywhich receive abund- ance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life byone Jesus Christ. For as by one man's disobediencemany were made sinners: So by the obedi- ence of one, shall many be made righteous. That as sin hathreigrnedunto. death, even so might :grade reigi
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