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HIDDEN LÍFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
[SEAM.
X
the
days
of
heaven.
Then
when the
covenant of
peace
was
between them both,
as
it
is
expressed
in
Zecli.
vi.
13.
then did the
Father
promise
that
he
should
have
a
seed
to
serve
him,
Ps.
xxii. 30.
and
this
must
be
a
living
seed,
and
they
must
be
raised
up from
among dead
sin-
ners,
and
they
shall
be
made living saints
in the
world
of
grace,
and
in
the world
of
glory.-
Many
of
these promises
are transcribed
as
it
were,.
in-
to the
covenant of
grace, and they
are written
down in
scripture
for
our present
consolation and
hópe;
and
many
others are, doubtless concealed
from
all
but Jesus
the
Mediator
;
they
are hidden
from
men and
angels,
and
reserved
to be known,
by
surprising accomplish-
ment,
in
the
future bright
ages,
beyond the
date
of
time, and
to
entertain
the long successions
of
our eter-
nity.
Now the
truth
and
faithfulness
of
God are
those
'attri -
butes
of
his
nature
which
secure
this
covenant, and
all
the
divine engagements
of
it
;
both those
which
are
re-
vealed
to the
children
of
men,
and
those
that are
known
only to the Son
and the
rather:
But it
is
sufficiently
evident,
that
all
the degrees
and
powers
of
the
spiritual
and eternal
life
of
the saints, with all the graces, glo-
ries
and
blessings
that
shall
ever
attend
them,
are hid-
den and laid
up in these
sacred engagements and pro-
mises.
II.
This
leads
me
to
the second enquiry
;
and
that
is,
what
is
meant
by
these words,
with
Christ,
in my
text?
and
how
the christian
life
is
hid with
Christ?
If
I
would
branch
this
into three particulars
alsó,
I
should express
them
thus
:
1.
Our
life is
hidden
with
Christ,
as he
is
the
great
Treasurer
and
Dispenser of
all
divine benefits
to
the chil-
dren
of
men.
This
is
the
high
office
to which the
Father
bath appointed
him
;
and
this
is
the
character that
he
sustains;
and
he
is
abundantly furnished
for
the
execu-
tion of
this
great
trust.
In
this
sense, all
the stores
of
life
and
blessing,
that
ever shall
be
bestowed on the
sin-
ful
race
of
Adam,
are
laid up
in
the hands
of
Christ, the
Son
of
God.
It
háth
pleased the
Father,
that
in
him
allfulness
should dwell;
Col.
i.
19.
And
he was
full
of
grace and
truth, that
of
his
fulness
we
might receive grace
for grace,
John
i.
14, 16.
That
is,
a variety
of
graces and