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SERM:'X
1
THE HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
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unsparing hand
all
those
treasures of
life
which
were
hid
in
God,
and
in the gospel
for them.
The
All
-wise-
shall
please himself
in
making
so
noble creatures,
out of
so
mean materials,
dust and
ashes.
Glorified saints
are
master-
pieces
of
divine skill
;
and
the blessed
original,
or
first
exemplar
of
them, the man
Jesus,
is
the
perfec
-.,
tion
of
the
contrivance
of God;
here
he has
abounded
in
all wisdom,
and prudence.
Then
the
inhabitants
of
upper
worlds shall
see
an illustrious and
holy
creation,
rising
out of
the ruins
of
this wretched globe, involved
all in
guilt,
and
weltering
in
penal
fire.
When
this
scene
opens:
what sounding acclamations
shall echo
from world to world, and
new
universal honours
be
paid
to
Divine Wisdom
!
The
morning-stars
shall sing
toge-
ther
again,
and
those holy armies
shout
for joy.
The
grace
of God
descending to earth,
in days
past,
had
in some
measure
prepared
his
children
for glory
:
But
in
that
day he shall
enlarge
their
capacities,
both
of
sense and
of
mind, to
An
inconceivable extent, änd shall
fill
the powers
of
their
glorified
nature
with
the fruits
of
his
love,
new
and
old.
And what
if
the limits
of our capacity
shall be for
ever
stretching
themselves on
all sides,
and
for
ever
drinking
iu..larger.measures
of
glory
:
What,
an astonishing
state
of
ever-growing
pleasure
t
What
an
eternal advance
of
our
heaven
!
The godhead
is
an
infinite .ocean
of
life
and blessedness,
and
finite
vessels
may
be
for ever
swell-
ing,
and
for
ever
filling in
that
sea
of
all-
sufficiency.
There
must
be
no tiresome
satiety
in
that
everlasting en-
tertainment.
God
shall
create
the joys ,of
his
saints ever
fresh
:
He,
shall throw open
his
endless stores
of
blessing,
unknown
even to the first
rank
of
angels; and feast the
,sons and
daughters of
men
with.
pleasures
a
-kin
to
those
which were
prepared
for
the
Son
of
God.
For
verily he
took
not
upon
him
the
nature
of
angels,
but
the
likeness
of
sinful flesh: And
when
he
shall
appear
the
second time
without
sin
too
our
salvation,
we
Ball
then
be
made-like
him,
for
we
shall see him as he
is.
Amen.