404 CHRIST ADMIRED AND GLORIFIED EDtSC. vr. We shall, many of us, be awonder to each other, as well as to ourselves, andwe shall all review, and admire the grace of Christ in and towards us all. Among the rest there are two sorts of christians, whóse salvation shall be a special matter of wonder, and these are the melancholy -and the uncharitable. The melancholy chris- tian shall wonder, that ever such a sinner as himself was brought to heaven ; and the uncharitable shall wonder, how Such a sinner as his neighbour came there. The poor doubting melancholy soul, who was full of fears, lest he should be condemned, shall then have full as- surance, that he is elected and redeemed, pardoned and saved, when he sees, bears, and feels the salvation and the glory upòn him, within him and all around him, and be shall admire and adore the grace of God, his Saviour. The narrow- souled christian, who said his neighbour would be damned for want ofsome party-notions, or for seine lesser failings, shall confess his uncharitable mis- take; and shall wonder at the abounding mercy of Christ, which has pardoned those errors in his neigh- bour, for which he had excommunicated and condemned him. Both these christians in that day, I mean, the timorous and censorious, shall stand at his right-hand, as monuments of his surprisinggrace, who forgave one the defects of his faith, and the other his want of love ; and their souls and their tongues shall join together to rejoice in the Lord, and their spirits shall magnify their God and Redeemer: Christ shall have his due revenue of glory from both in the hour of their public salvation. Owhat honour shall it add to the overflowing mercy of Christ, what joy and wonder to all the saints, to see Paul, the persecutor and blasphemer, there, and Peter, who denied the Lord that bought him, and Mary Mag- dalen, that impure sinner ! See what a foul and shame ful catalogue, what children of iniquity, are at last made heirs and possessors of heaven ; 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10. " The fornicators and idolaters, the thieves and the covetous, the drunkards, the revilers, and the extortioners." Such they were in the days of ignorance and heathenism, fit fuel for the fireof hell ; and in those circumstances they are utterly excluded from the kingdom of God, but now they find a place in that blessed assembly ; and the con - verting grace of Christ is admired and glorified, that
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