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DISCOURSE IV.
CHRIST
ADMIRED AND GLORIFIED IN
HIS SAINTS.
2
ThESS. i.
to.
When
he shall come
to
be
glorified in
his
saints,
and
to
be
admired
in all
them
that
believe.
HOW
mean and contemptible
soever
our Lord Jesus
Christ
might
appear
heretofore
on
earth, yet there
is
a
day
coming, when he
shall make a glorious
figure in
the
sight
of
men and angels. How
little
soever the saints
may
be
esteemed
in
our
day,
and look
poor
and despi-
cable
in
an ungodly world,
yet there
is
an
hour approach
-.
ing, when they shall
be
glorious beyond all'imagination,
and Christ himself shall
be
glorified in them.
In that
day shall
the
Lord
our Saviour
be
the object
of adoration
and
wonder,
not
only
among
those
of
the
sons
of
men,
that
have believed
on
him,
but
before
all
the
intellectual
creation, and that, upon the account
of
his grace,
mani-
fested
in believers.
The natural
enquiry
that
arises
here,
is
this,
"
What
particular
instances
of
the grace
of
Christ, in
his
saints,
shall be the
matter of our admira-
tion,
and
his
glory, in
that
day
?"
To this
I
shall
pro
-
pose
an
answer
under
the following
particulars.
First,
It
is
a
matter of
pleasing wonder,
"
that per-
sons,
of
all
characters, should have been
united
in
one
faith, and persuaded
to
trust
in
the
same Saviour,
and
,embrace the same
salvation
;
for
some,
of
all
sorts,
shall
stand
in
that
blessed assembly.
Then
it
shall be
a
fruitful
'spring
of
wonder and
glory,
that
men,
of
various
nations and
ages,
of different tempers, capacities,
and
interests,
of
contrary educations
and
contrary preju-
'dices,
should believe
one gospel,
and
trust
in
one deli-
verer
from
hell and death
:
That
the sprightly, the stu-
dious and the 'stupid, the
wise
and the
foolish, should
relish and
rejoice
in
the
same sublime
truths, not
only
concerning
the
true
God,
but
also
concerning
Jesus,
the
redeemer;
that
the
barbarian
and
the Roman,
the
Greek
and
the
Jew
should approve,
and
receive the same doc-
trines
of
salvation,
that
they should come into
the
same