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THE HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
;A
CHRISTIAN..
1;
World
shut
him
out
from
them
with
disdain: He
lives,
as
it
were,
hidden in a cave
of
the
'earth; but the godhead
.
dwells with
him
there.
The
high
and
lofty one
that
in-
habits eternity, comes down to
dwell with the
humble
and contrite
soul;
Is.
lvii.
15.
God,
who
is
the
spring
of;
life, conies
down to
communicate
fresh
supplies
of
this
life
continually.
He
that
dwelleth
,in
love,
.
dwelleth
in.
God;
1
John
iv. 16.
He
is
not
atone,
for
the
Father
is
with him
;
John
xvi. 32.
The Father and
the
Scu
corne
and manifest themselves unto
him,
within the
walls
of
that,
hovel,
in
so
divine
a manner,
as
they never
do
to
the men
of
this world, in
their robes and
palaces;
John
xiv.
2
,
3.
And
that
he may have
the
honour of
the
presence
of
the
blessed
trinity,
his body
is
the temple
of
the
Holy
Ghost;
i
Cor.
iii.
16.
and
vi.
19.
0!
the
wonderful condescensions
of
divine grace,
and
the sur-
prising honours
that
are
done
to
a
humble saint
!
How
is
this
habitation graced
!
Heaven
is
there,
for
God
and
Christ are there
;
and
who knows
what heavenly guards
surround
him
!
what
flights
of
attending
angels
?
Are
they
not
all
ministering spirits, sent down
to
minister
unto
them
that
shall
be
heirs
of
salvation?
Heb.
i.
1
.
But our Lord
Jesus
Christ
is
now
unseen,
God
and
an-
gels
are unseen;
the christian's company belong to the
invisible
world: He
lives
a
hidden,
but
adivine
life
his life
is
hid
with
Christ
in
God.
lid
Instruction.
See how
it
comes to pass
that
chris-
tians are capable
of
doing such
wonders,
at
which
the
world stands amazed. The, spring
of
their
.life is
Al-
mighty
;
it
is
hid
in
God.
It
is
by this
divine
strength
they
subdue their
sinful.
natures, their stubborn
appe-
tites,
and their
old
corrupt
affections:
It
is
by
the power
of
God, derived through
Jesus. Christ, they
bend the
powers
of
their
souls
unto
a
conformity
to all
the
laws
of
God
and
grace;
and.
they yield
their
bodies
as
instruments
to
the
same
holyy
service,.
while
the
world
wonders
at
them,
that
they should
fight
against
their
own
nature,
and
bé
able to overcome
it
too.
And
as
they
deny,
themselves, in all
the
alluring in-
stances
of sinful
pleasure,
under
the influence
of
al-
mighty grace,
so
they
enduresuflèrings,
in 'the
sharpest
degree, from
the
hands,
of
God, without murmuring.
And
when they have
laboured
night and
day,
and per-