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'CHRIST ADMIRED
AND
GLORIFIED
[DISC.
Iv.
learn
to
expect
salvation and
life
for
themselves, from
the
death and righteousness
of
another
:
That
they, who
once called the cross
of
Christ, folly
and
weakness,
should
come to
see
the
wisdom
and power
of
God
in
a
crucified
man,
and
believe
him who
hung upon a
tree,
as an
accursed creature,
to be
Emanuel,
God
with
us,
God
manifest
in the
flesh,
and the Saviour
of
mankind,
Mat.
i.
23.
1
Tim.
iii. 16.
Surely,
shall men and angels
say in
that
day,
"
These
were the
effects
of
an
almighty
power,
it
was
the
work
of
God
the Saviour,
and it
is
marvellous
in
our
eyes.
With united
voices shall all
the
saints
confess,
"
Flesh
and blood
has
not
revealed
this
unto
us,
but
the Spirit
of
our Lord Jesus Christ;" and
of
God
the Father. We
had
perished
in
our
folly,
but
Christ
has been made wisdom to
us;
we
were
in
dark
-
ness, and lay
under
the shadow
of
death,
but Christ
bas
given
us light,"
1
Cor.
i.
30.
Eph.
v. 14.
Come, all
ye
saints of
these
latter
ages,
"
upon
whom
the end of
the world
is
come," raise
your heads
with
me,
and
look
far
backwards,
even
to the beginning
of
time,
and
the days
of
Adam
;
for the
believers
of
all
ages,
as-
well
as
of
all
nations, shall
appear
together
in
that
day,
and
acknowledge Jesus,
the Saviour: According
to the
brighter
or
darker
discoveries
of
the
age
in_
which
they
lived, he has been the common object
of their
faith.
Ever
since
he
was
called the
"
seed
of
the woman," Gen.
iii,
15. till
the time
of
his
appearance
in the
flesh,
all
the
chosen
of
God
have lived upon
his grace,
though mul-
titudes
of
them never knew
his name.
It
is
true,
the
greater
part of that
illustrious
company, on
the right
-
hand
of
Christ, lived since the time
of
his
incarnation,
"'for
the
great multitude
which no man
could number,"
is
derived
from the gentile
nations, Rev.
vii. 9.
Yet
the
ancient patriarchs,
with
the Jewish prophets
and saints,
shall make
a
splendid
appearance there: "
One
hundred
and
forty
-four thousand are
sealed among the tribes
of
Israel,"
ver. 4.
These
of
old
embraced the
gospel in
types
and shadows; but
now
their
eyes
behold Christ
Jesus,
the substance
and
the
truth. In
the
days
of
their
flesh,
they
read
his
name
in
dark
lines,
and
looked
througtl,lhe
long
glass
of
prophecy
to
distant
ages,
and
a
Saviour to
come, and now
behold, they find complete
and certain
salvation and
glory
in
him.
"
These all
died