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THE
PRACTICAL
USES
[SEAM. XXXVI.
It
is
Christ that
died,
yea,
rather
has risen
again;"
as
a
complete
conqueror
over
death. And
is
not
Christ
thy
Head,
.thy
Redeemer, and
the
Captain of
thy salvation
?
"
Let
me
call
to
minci
the
solemn seasons
of
transac-
tion
between
Christ
and my
soul.
Have
I
not
resigned
myself
to
him as
an all-sufficient Saviour, to deliver
me
both
from the guilt
and
the power
of
every
sin
?
Have
I
not
trusted
in
the blood
of
his
atonement,
and felt
the
quickening power of
his
Spirit
as
the
fruit of
his blood
?
Has
he
not
raised
me
to
a
new
Iife
?
What if
the
mortal
body
must
die, because
it
has sin
in
it,
yet
my
spirit
shall
live
because
Christ
is
my
righteousness.
Fear not
then,
O
my
soul,
but
go
chearfully through the gates
of
death
when
he calleth thee.
Jesus
has
taken
aWay
the.
terrors
of
that dark
passage.
He
has
deprived death
of
its
sting,
and sanctified the grave for
a
sweet sleeping place.
Awaken all the powers
of
thy faith,
and triumph
over
the
conquered
enemy.
The justice of God
is
become thy
friend, and
death
can
do no
mischief to the friends
of
God,
reconciled
by
the blood
of
Jesus. Look
forward
and behold thy
great Fore-
runner
ready to introduce thee
into
the presence
of
"
his
Father and
thy
Father,
his
God
and
thy
God,"
with
exceeding
joy..
Bid
a
joyful
farewel to
flesh
and
sense, those busy
tempters
?
fare
-,
wet
to time
and
this world,
and
all things
that
are not
divine and
holy.
Turn
thy back
oh
all visible objects,
close thine eyes
with
a smiling
countenance,
forget
earth
for
ever,
and
enter
into the heavenly
mansions."
XI.
The
view
of Christ
as
our propitiation,
is not
only
a safe
defence
against
the
terrors of
death,
but
it
is
a di-
vine
allurement
toward the
upper
world.
There
lives
our dear
Redeemer, our
blessed
and beloved
Lord,
who
ransom
our
souls
from
sin
and
hell.
There
he reigns
on the
throne
as king
of
glory, who once
hung
on the
cross
as
our
sacrifice of.
atonement
:
The
Lamb
of
God
in the
midst
of
the throne,
with
the signals
of
his
death
upon
him,
The
sight
of
these signals shall open
all
our,
springs
of
love
:
Joy,
love,
and gratitude shall
fill
the de-
departed
spirit:
As soon as
we
,are
absent
from
the
body,
we
'are
present
with
the Lord
who died
for
us.
Reflefztion.
".
O
happy day
and.
happy hour
indeed,
that;
hall finish
the
long absence
of
my beloved,
and
glace
me
within sight
of
my
adored Jesus
!
When
shall