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XXVIII.
THE CHRTSTIAN'S
TREASURE.
135
may
rise in
the language
of
faith, and
say in
the
words
of
the
blessed apostle,
" How shall
he
not
herewith freely
give
us
all
things;" Rom.
viii. 32.
Thus
having made
it appear
in
what
sense all things
are
yours,
and upon
what foundations this glorious
pri-
vilege
is
built,
I proceed
in
the
Last
place, to
consider what
use may
be made
of
this
discourse.
First Use:
It
affords
a word
of
mourning and
terror
to
obstinate and
impenitent
sinners.
Are
all
things
made
beneficial to the saints
?
Think
with
yourselves
then
what
you lose,
because you
are not of that number.
If
you
live
and
die
in
this sinful state,
you
have
a comfort-
able interest
in
nothing
:
Nothing
works
for
your real
benefit: Your
abuse
of
all
things
that
you have
any
thing
to
do
with,
takes
away
the
true pleasure
and
en-
joyment of
what you possess, and
turns
them
into
a curse
to you
instead
of
a.blessing.
"
Whether Paul, or Apol-
los,
or Cephas, or this
world,
or
life
or death, or
things
present,
or things to
come,
nothing
is
yours;
for
ye
are
not
Christ's"
And
ye
shall
reap
no
final
and lasting
ad-
vantage
from any thing,
if
you
persist
in
a
sinful
and
im-
penitent state;
for
ye
are without God
in
the
world,
without
Christ,
and without hope.
Do
you
sit
under the
ministry
of Paul,
who
spreads the
glorious light
of
the
gospel,
around
you
?
But
the
God of
this
world
hath blinded your
minds,
that
this divine
light
should
not
reach
you
:
Even the preaching
of Paul
is
a savour of death unto
you,
if
you live
and
die
without
the faith
and
love
of
Christ.
Do
you
hear
the zealous
and
pathetic
language
of
Apollos
?
But your
heart
perhaps
grows
the
harder under it
:
You resist
the affec-
tionate entreaties
of
the gospel, from
the
lips
of that
elo-
quent
preacher. And
even Apollos, whose soul
is
wont to
melt
with
compassion for perishing sinners, shall rise
up
in
judgment
against
von, And
as
for the plain and
Conde,
scending ministry
of
Cephas, you despise the man
and
his serinons
together
;
therefore
you can
get no benefit
by them.
Neither
Paul, nor
Apollos,
nor
Cephas
is
yours.
Well,
if
spiritual
things are
not
yours, you hope, how-
ever,
that
you have
a
property
in things
temporal
:
If
the.
blessings
of
the
church
do
not
belong
to you,
yet you
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