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CHRrSTtAN'S TREASURE.
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than
the least
of
all
the
mercies
of God
?
To
me,
who
in
the
clays
of
sin
and
ignorance, have abused
all
things,
O
my
God, to
thy
dishonour
?
To
me,
who
have
pro-
voked thy
justice
to
strip
me
of
all
the common blessings
of
nature
and
life,
and
to make
me
for ever
poor and
mi-
serable
?
Is
the mercy
of God
so vast
and
overflowing,
as
not
only
to
forgive these'
provocations, and
to
admit
me into
his
favour,
but
to bless me
also
with
so
rich
an
inheritance
?
Fall
down,
prostrate, O
my
-soul,
at
the
foot
of
sovereign
and
all
-
sufficient
grace.
Remember
thy guilt, thy poverty, and thy wretchedness,
and
be
ever
humble before,
God
thy infinite
benefactor.
Mourn
over
all
thy unworthiness, and
maintain
a
constant
tem-
per
of
penitent
love,
and
self
-
abasing
gratitude.
I
de-
serve to
be
cut
off
for
ever,
O
Lord,
from
thy house,
from
thy family,
and from all the
blessings
of
thy
chil-
dren
:
But thou hast called
me
to the knowledge
of
thy
Son
Jesus, thou hast taught
me to
lay hold
on the arm
of
thy
salvation, thou
hast made
me willing
in the day
of
thy power to
renounce
every
sin,
to
subject myself
to
thy
sceptre.
of
righteousness, and to
accept
the grace
of
thy
gospel.
Thou
hast
opened the treasures
of
thy
love,
treasures
that
contain
in them the good things
of earth
and heaven, things
visible
and
invisible,
things
present
and
things to come
:
And
while
these
treasures stood
open
to
my
view,
in
the
voice
of
thy gospel
thou
hast
told
me,
"
All
is
yours."
"
O
for an
enlarged exercise
of
faith,
to survey this
inheritance
!
to
rejoice
in
this extensive
bounty
of
the
.
Most
High
!
to
read
the blessed language
of
this
text,
and
to
believe
it
with a
humble claim
and
appropriation
!
Surely here
is
enough for faith
to live upon,
through all
the remaining years
of
my
pilgrimage,
and
my
hope, till
faith shall
be
turned
into
perfect
sight,
and hope into full
and
final
enjoyment.
I
would
not
change
my
portion
with
the richest
sinner
on
earth
:
My
estate
is
larger,
and
my
interests are more
extensive.
His gold and
silver, his
houses
and
lands
eau
reach
no
farther
than this
world
and time
;
but
my
inhe-
ritance runs
into eternity,
and
my
enjoyment
of
it
has
no
period.
"
My
treasures are
secure
against
all
the invasions
and plunder
of
enemies, against. all
the
rage
of
the