DT5C. Iv.] IN HIS ,ntNTs.. 411 have no spot nor blemish found upon them, and the, work of Christ upon their souls has formed and finished them in the perfect beauty of holiness. The saints shall reflect glory on each other, and all of them cast supreme. lustre on Christ their head : " The people shall be the crown and glory of. the minister in that day, and the mi- nister shall be thejoy and glory of the people, and both shall be the crown, joy, and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;" l Thess. ii. 19, 20. 2Cor. i. 14. 2Thess. 1.1 '2. He shall appear high on a throne in the midst of that bright assembly, and say, " Father, these are the sheep that thou hast given me in the counsels of thy eternal love : All these have I ransomed from -hell, at the price of my own blood ; these have I rescued by my grace from the dominion of sin and the devil ; I have formed them unto holiness, and fitted them for heaven ; I have kept them, by my power, through all the dangers of their mortal state, and have brought them safe to thy celestial kingdom : " All thine are mine, and all mine are thine ; I was glorified in them on earth;" John xvii: 10. and they are now my everlasting crown and glory." Then shall the unknown worlds that never fell, worlds of angels and innocent creatures, and the world of guilty devils and condemned rebels, stand and wonder together at the recovery and salvation Christ has provided for the fallen sons ofAdam. They shall stand amazed to see the millions of apostate creatures, the inhabitants of this earthly globe, recovered to their duty and allegiance, by the Son of God going down to dwell amongst them : Millions of impure and deformed souls, restored to the divine image, and made beautiful as angels, by the grace and Spirit of our Lord Jesus. Those spectators shall be filled with admiration and transport, to see such a multi- tude of criminals pardoned and justified, for the sake of a righteousness which they themselves never, wrought, and accepted as righteous in the sight of God, by a co- venant of grace unknown toother worlds, and by faith in the great Mediator. They shall wonder to see such an innumerable companyof pollutedwretches, washed from their sins in so precious a laver as the blood of God's own Son : And he that hung upon the cross, as a specta- cle of wretchedness at Jerusalem, shall entertain the superior and inferior worlds with the sight of his adorable
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