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THE
PRACTICAL
üSES
[SERM.
XXXVI.
death
and
love
of
the
Son
of God,
remember the
price
of
thy forgiveness."
VIII.
Patience under
heavy
afflictions, is
another
di-
vine
lesson
that
we
should learn
from this
doctrine of
the
atoning death
of
Christ
;
and
not
patience
only,
but
holy
joy
in
the midst
of
earthly
sorrows may be
derived
from
the
same, spring. Rom.
v.
1,
2,
3,
8.
Being justified
by
faith
we
have peace
with
God
through our Lord
Jesus Christ,
we
rejoice
in
hope
of
the
glory
of
God;
and
not
only
so,
but
we
glory
in
tribulations
"
because
God
has
commended
his love
towards
us
at
this
rate,
in
that
while
we
were
yet
sinners
Christ
died
for
us."
Reflection.
"
Why then
should
my
spirit
be over-
whelmed
under
the
troubles
of
this life
?
Surely
the
mercies
which
I
enjoy are infinitely
greater than
all
my
sorrows.
God
has
redeemed
my
soul
from
hell by
the
blood
of
his Son.
Lord, I
would
suppress
all my
repining
thoughts
;
I
am
humble,
I
am
thankful
;
and though
thou
,
visitest
me with
chastisements, to
reduce
me
from
my
follies,
thou hast
not
laid
on me
the burden
of
my sins,
.
nor
called
me
to the hard and dreadful
work
of
answer-
ing the
severe demands
of
thy
broken
law.
This
burden
thy
own Son
has
borne
;
this work
he
has performed.
"
The
cup
of
common sorrows which
my
heavenly
Fa-
ther
puts into
my
hand, shall
I not drink
it
!"
It
is
not a
cup
of
such anguish
and
terror
as
the
Son
of God drunk
up
fir
my
sake.
Why should
a creature
saved
from
hell,
be impatient and uneasy
at
any
of
the little
sufferings
which he
sustains here
on
earth
!
" This
is
not
only
a
powerful
argument
to compose
my soul to resignation
under
troubles,
but
even to raise
me to holy joy. Surely he
that
has
loved
me,
and
has
given
his
own
Son
up to
death for
me,
does
not
afflict
me
willingly,
nor
grieve
my
spirit
beyond
what
he sees
necessary.
He transacts
áll his
affairs with me
accord-
ing to
that
covenant
of
love
whereby he
ordained
his Son
to
die
for
me;
and he
will
bestow
upon
me
every good
thing
in its
proper
season
:
"
He
that
spared not
his own
Son,
but
gave him up
to
die
for
us,
shall he
not
with
him
freely give
us
all things
!"
Rom.
viii. 32.
Bless
the name
of
thy
God,
O
my
soul,
let
my
heart
be
filled with
thankfulness,
and
my
lips
with
praise
:
He
has distinguished
thee,
my soul,
by
peculiar blessings