nisc. kl. AND Joli AT THE RESURRECTION. Kit or Isaiah given such a bright account of his own words of prophecy, as St. Paul has done, in several places of the New Testament, where he cites and unfolds them ? Could those illustrious ancients have given us such " abundant consolation and hope through the scriptures, which they themselves wrote aforetime," as thisapostle has done? Roan. xv. 4. IIo you think Job could have read us such a lecture on his own expressions in this text, or in that bright prophecy in the xix. chapter, as the very meanest among the ministers of. the gospel can do by the help of the New Testament ? For in point of clear dis- coveries of divine truths and graces, the least in the kingdom of the Messiah is greater than John the baptist and all the prophets, and our blessed Jesus bas told us so :" Mat. xi. 11, 13. And by the aid and influences of his Spirit we may be taught yet further to search into these hidden mines of grace, and bring forth new trea- sures of glory. Reflexion. " Awake, O my soul, and bless the Lord with all thy powers, and give thanks with holy joy for the gospel of his Son Jesus. It is Jesus by his rising from the dead has left a divine light upon the gates of the grave, and scattered much of the darkness that sur- rounded it. It is the gospel of Christ which casts a glory even upon the bed of death, and spreads a bright- ness upon the graves of the saints in the livelyviews of a great rising-day. O blessed and surprizing prospect of faith ! O illustrious scenes of future vision and trans, port ! When the Son of God shall bring forth to public view all his redeemed ones, who had been long hidden in night and dust, and shall present them all to God the Father in his own image, bright, and holy, and unble, wished, in the midst ofall the splendours of the resur- rection ! O blessed and joyful voice, when he shall say with divine pleasure, " Here am I, and the children which thou hast given me ;" Isa. viii. 18. Heb. ii. 13. We have bothpassed through the grave, and I have made . them all conquerors. of death, and vested themwith im- mortality according to thy divine commission ! " Thine they were, O Father, and thou hast given them into my hands, and behold I have brought them all safe to thy appointed mansions, and I present them before the0 without spot or blemish ;" Join xvii. 6.
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