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CHRIST ADMIRED
AND
GLQRIFIED
mDIsc.IT.
to pluck
out
a
right
eye,
and to
part
with
my
darling
vices;
and behold me
here
a
monument of
his saving
mercy."
" I
was
envious against
my
neighbour,
shall
another
say,
and
my
temper
was
malice
and wrath
;
revenge
was
mingled with
my
constitution, and I
thought it
no ini-
quity: But
I
bless the
name
of
Christ,
my
Redeemer,.
who, in
the day
of
his
grace,
turned
my
wrath
into
meekness
;
he
inclined
me
"
to love even
my
enemies,
.
and
to
pray for them
that
cursed
me ;" he
taught
me
all
this
by
his own
example, and
he
made
.me
learn
it
by
the
sovereign
influences
of
his
spirit.
I
am a
wonder
to my-
self,
when
I think what I
once was: Amazing change,
and almighty grace
!"
Then
a third
shall confess,
"
I
was
a profane
wretch,.
a
swearer,
a
blasphemer;
I
hoped for
no heaven,
and
I
feared no hell
;
but
the
Lord
seized me in
the midst
of
my
rebellions, and sent
his
arrows
into
my
soul;
he
made
me feel
the stings
of an
awakened conscience,
and
constrained-
me
to
believe
that
there
was a
God and
a
hell, till
I
cried
out astonished,
"
What
shall
I
do
to
be
saved
?"
Acts
xvi.
O.
Then
he led me to
partake of
his
own
salvation, and, from
a proud rebellious
infidel, be
has made
me
a
penitent and
an
humble
believer,
and
here
I
stand
to shew
forth the
wonders
of
his
grace,
and
the boundless
extent of
his
forgiveness."
.
A
fourth
shall
stand
up,
and acknowledge
in
that
day,
"
And
I
was
a poor, carnal, covetous creature,
who
macle
this
world
my
God, and abundance
of
money was
my
heaven; but
he
cured
me
of
this vile
idolatry
of
gold,
.
taught
me how to
obtain treasures
in
the heavenly world,
and
to forsake all on
earth,
that I
might have an inhe-
ritance
there;
and
behold he has
not
disappointed
my
hope
:
I
am now
made
rich indeed,
and
I
must
for
ever
speak
his
praises."
There
shall be no
doubt
or dispute,
in
that
day,
whe-
ther it
was
the power
of
our
own
will,
or
the
superior
power
of
divine grace,
that
wrought the
blessed change,
that
turned
the lion
into a
lamb, a groveling
earth
-worm
into
a bird
of
paradise, and
of
a
covetous or malicious
sinner, made
a meek
and
a heavenly saint.
The
grace
of
Christ
shall
be
so
conspicuous
in
every glorified
be
liever in
that
assembly,
that, with one
voice, they
shall-