400 CHRIST ADMIRED AHD GLORIFIED DISC. 1V. through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord:" Then shall our blessed Lord shine in the complete lustre of that incommunicable name, Jehovah Tzidkenu, " the Lord our righteousness," Jer. xxiii. 6. And not only the atonement, and salvation itself, shall be the subject of our glorious admiration, but the way and manner how sinners partake of it, shall minister fur- ther to our wonder, and to the glory of Christ. That such a world of poor miserable creatures should be saved from hell, by believing or trusting in grace, when they could never be saved by all their own works; that they should obtain righteousness and acceptance unto eternal life, by a humble 'penitence and poverty of spirit, de- pending on the death and righteousness ofanother, when all their labour and toil, in works of the law, could not make up a righteousness of their own, sufficient to ap- pear before the justice, of God ; Christ will not only be glorified in their holiness as saints, but admired and ho- noured in and by their faith as believers. His blood and his grace shall share all the glory. " Therefore it is of faith, and not of works, that it might be of grace," Rom. iv. 16. Yet this saving faith is the spring of shiningho- liness in every believer. Duties andvirtues are not left out of our religion, when faith -is brought into it. The graces of the saints join happily with the atonement of Christ, to render that day more illustrious. Fourthly, That a company of such feeble christians should maintain their course towards heaven, through so many thousand obstacles: This shall be another subject of admiration, and yield a further revenue of glory to our Lord Jesus Christ, for he who is their righteous- ness, is their strength also. Is. xlv. 24, 25. " In the Lord shall all the seedof Israel glory in that day, as their strength and their salvation." They have broke through all their difficulties, and were " able to do all things through Christ strengthening them," Phil. iv. 13. Behold that noble army with palms in their hands; once they were weak warriors, yet they overcame mighty enemies, and have gained thevictory and the prize ; ene- mies rising from earth, and from hell, to tempt, and to accuse them, but " they overcame by the blood; of the Lamb," Rev. xii. 1, 11. What a divine honour shall it be to our Lord Jesus Christ, the captain of our salva-
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