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CHRIST ADMIRED
AND
GLORIFIED
IN
HIS
SAINTS.
`395
sentiments,
in
the
matters
of
religion,
and
live
upon
them
as
their
only hope.
Astonishing.
spectacle
!
when
the dark and
savage
in-
habitints of
Africa,
and our
forefathers, the rugged and
warlike
Britons, from
the ends
of
the
earth,
shall
appear
in
that
assembly, with some
of
the polite
nations
of
Greece and
Rome,
and
each
of
them
shall
glory
in
hav-
ing been
taught
to
renounce
the
gods
of
their ancestors,
and the
demons, which they once worshipped, and
shall
rejoice
in
Jesus, the
king
of
Israel, and
in
Jehovah, the
everlasting God. The
conversion
of
the gentile world to
christianity
is
a
matter
of
glorious wonder, and
shall
ap-
pear
to
be so in
that great
day
:
That
those,
who
had
been educated
to believe
many Gods,
or
no
God
at
all,
should
renounce
atheism and
idolatry, and adore the
true God
only;
and those, who
were
taught
to
sacrifice
to
idols,
and
to
atone
for
their
own sins with
the blood
of
beasts,
should
trust
in
one sacrifice, and the
atoning
blood
of
the
Son
of
God..
Here
shall
stand a
believing atheist,
and there a
converted idolater,
as
monuments
of the
almighty,
power
of
his
grace.
There
shall shine, also,
in
that
assembly, here
and there
a
prince and a philoso-
pher, though not
many
wise,
not
many noble,
not
many
mighty are called
;"
T
Cor.
i.
26.
and
they shall be
mat-
ter
of
wonder and glory
:
That
princes,
who love
no
con-
trol,
shall
bow
their
sceptres,
and their
souls,
to
the
royalty
and godhead
of
the
poor
man
of
Nazareth
:
That
the heathen philosophers,
who
had been used only
to
yield to reason,
should submit
their understandings
to
divine revelation,
even when
it
has
something above the
powers and discoveries
of
reason in
it.
It
shall raise
our
holy
wonder
too, when
we
shall
be-
hold
some
of
the Jewish priests
and pharisees, who
became converts
to the
christian
faith,
adorning the
tri-
umph
of that
clay.
The Jewish
pharisees,
who
expected
a
glorious
temporal prince
for their.
Messiah,
that
they
should
at
last
own
the
son
of a carpenter
for their
Teacher, their
Saviour,
and their
King; that
they
should
veil
the pride
of
their
souls,
and
acknowledge
a parcel
of
poor
fishermen for his
chief
ministers
of
state, and receive
them
as
ambassadors
to
the
world.
That
those,
who
thought they
were righteous,
and
boasted in
it,
should
renounce
their
boastings
and
their
righteousnesses,
and