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THE HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
[SEßM.
X.
ever
dwell
where
my
joy,
my life
is.
All my
springs are in
God, and
I
shall
be
for
ever
with
him."
And
when
the morning
of
the
resurrection
dawns
'upon
the world, and
the day
of judgment appears,
the
body
of
a Christian
shall
be
called
out
of
the dust, and
shall
bid farewel for ever to
death and darkness
;
to
disease
and
pain,
to all
the fruits of
sin,
and all
the
effects
of
the curse.
Christ,
who
is
the
resurrection and the
life,
stands
up
as
a
complete
conqueror
over
all the
powers
of
the
grave: He
bids
the sacred dust, arise
and live;
the dust
obeys
and revives;
the whole
saint appears
ex-
ulting
in life
;
the date of
his
immortality then
begins,
And
his
life
shall
run
on to
everlasting
ages.
Methinks
such lively
views
Of
death
should, incline
us
rather
to
desire
to
depart
from the
body,
that
we
may
dwell
with
Christ.
Death
is
but
the
flight
of
the
soul
where
its divine
life
is.
Why should
we
make it
a
matter
of
fear then, to
be
absent
from
the
body,
if
we
are
im-
mediately present
with
the
Lord
!
Methinks,
under
the influence
of
such
meditations
of
the
resurrection,
faith should breathe, and long for
the
last appearance of
Christ, and rejoice in the language
of
holy
Job:
I
know
that
my
Redeemer livet/i,
and
that
he
shall stand
at
the
latter
day
upon
the
earth,
Job
xix. 25.
A
christian should
send
his
hopes
and
his wishes
for-
ward to
meet
the
chariot-
wheels
of
our Lord Jesus
the
Judge;
for
the day
of
his
appearance
is
but
the display
of our
life,
and
the
perfection
of
our
blessedness.
When
Christ,
who
is
our
lye,
shall
appear, then
shall
we also
appear
with
him
in
glory,
Col.
iii.
4.
My
thoughts kindle
at
the
sound
of that
blessed
pro-
mise, and
I
long
to
let contemplation
loose on a theme
so divinely glorious.
If
ever the pomp
of
language
be
indulged, and the magnificence
of
words,
it
must
be
to
display this
bright
solemnity, this
illustrious
appearance,
which outshines
all
the pomp
of
words,
and
the utmost
magnificence
of
language.
Come, my friends,
let
us
meditate the sacred con-
formity
of
the saints to Christ,
first, in
their
hidden, and
then
in
their
glorious
life;
as he was
on
earth,
so
are
they;
both hated
of
the
world,
both unknown
in
it. The
disciples
mint
be
trained up
for public honours,
as
their
I4laster
was,
in this
hideous and
howling wilderness, in