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x.7
THE ,HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
177
says he,
with
Christ, and bath
made
us
sit
together
in
heavenly
places in
Christ
Jesus.
It
was
through
the
blood
of
the everlasting covenant,
that
Jesus
the
great
Shepherd
of
the sheep, was
brought
again
from
the dead
;
and
it
was
the God
of
peace who
raised
him,
Heb.
xiii.
eo. And
it
is
by
virtue
of
his
own
blood,
and righteousness,
that
he, who
once
took
our
sins
upon
him,
is
now
discharged
:
It
is
through
his own
sufferings
that
he
appears
with
acceptance before
the
throne,
and
enjoys
a
divine
life in
the unchangeable fa-
vour
of God
;
and
all this as
our
head, surety,
and
re-
presentative,
giving
us
assurance
hereby,
that
we,
through
the
blood
of
the
same covenant, shall
be
brought again
f,om the
dead
too; that
we
through the virtue
of
the
same righteousness,
and
all-sufficiency
of
the same sacri-
fice,
shall appear hereafter before God
in glory,
and
stand
in his
eternal
favour
;
and
as
an
earnest of
it, we
enjoy
a
life
of
holy peace and
acceptance
with
God
in
this world,
through the
same
all
-
sufficient
blood and
righteousness
:
For
he
appears
in the
holy
of
holies, in
heaven
itself, in
the presence
of
God
for
us,
Heb.
ix:
24.
He
secures
all
the
glories
and
blessings
of
spiritual
and
eternal
life
for
us, as
he has
taken
possession
of
them
in
our
name.
3.
Our
life
of
grace, and especially
our
life
of
glory,
may be
said
to be hidden with Christ,
because
he dwells
in heaven;
where
God
resides
in
glory
;
God,
in whom
is
our
life.
He
is
set
down on
the
right-hand
of
the
'Majesty,on
high
;
Heb.
xii.
2.
There
our
eternal
life
is.
The
things
which
are above, are the
objects
of
our joy-
ful hope, where
Christ
is
at
the right-hand
of
God,
Col:
iii.
1.
It
is
the
short,
but
sublime
description
of
out
heaven,
that
we
shall
be
present
with
the Lord,
we
shall
be where
Christ
is,
to
behold
his glory,
2
Cor.
y.
S.
and
John
xvii.
24.
And
shall
possess all
that
unknown and
rich variety
of
blessings which
are reserved for
us
in
heavenly places,
whither Christ our Lord
is
ascended.
Thus
I
have
endeavoured
to explain,
in the largest and
most comprehensive
sense,
what
we
are
,to
understand
by
the
life
of
a christian bidden
withChrist
in
God
:
It
is
reserved
in
the
all-sufficiency,
the purposes, and the
en-
gagements
of God, under
the care
of the Mediator, and
in
the
presence
of
Christ.
vol..
I.
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