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CHRIST
ADMIRED
AHD
GLORIFIED
DISC. 1V.
through
righteousness
unto eternal
life by
Jesus Christ
our
Lord:" Then
shall
our
blessed
Lord
shine
in
the
complete lustre
of
that
incommunicable
name,
Jehovah
Tzidkenu,
" the
Lord
our righteousness,"
Jer.
xxiii. 6.
And
not
only
the atonement, and salvation
itself,
shall
be the subject
of
our
glorious admiration,
but
the
way
and
manner
how
sinners
partake of
it, shall
minister fur-
ther
to
our
wonder, and to the glory of Christ.
That
such
a
world
of
poor
miserable creatures
should
be saved
from
hell, by
believing or
trusting
in grace, when they
could
never
be
saved by all
their
own
works; that
they
should obtain righteousness and acceptance unto eternal
life, by
a humble 'penitence
and poverty of spirit, de-
pending
on
the death and righteousness
of
another,
when
all their
labour
and
toil,
in works
of
the
law,
could
not
make up a
righteousness
of
their
own, sufficient
to ap-
pear
before the
justice,
of God
;
Christ
will
not
only
be
glorified
in
their
holiness as saints,
but
admired and ho-
noured in and
by
their
faith
as
believers.
His
blood
and
his grace
shall
share
all
the glory.
"
Therefore it
is
of
faith,
and not
of
works,
that
it might
be
of
grace," Rom.
iv.
16.
Yet
this saving faith is
the
spring
of
shining
ho-
liness in every believer.
Duties and
virtues are
not
left
out of our
religion, when faith
-is
brought into
it. The
graces
of
the saints
join
happily
with
the
atonement
of
Christ, to
render
that
day more illustrious.
Fourthly,
That
a
company of
such feeble christians
should
maintain
their
course towards heaven, through
so
many thousand obstacles:
This
shall be
another
subject
of admiration, and yield
a
further revenue of
glory
to
our Lord Jesus
Christ, for
he who
is
their righteous-
ness, is
their
strength
also.
Is.
xlv.
24, 25.
"
In
the
Lord
shall all
the
seed
of Israel
glory in
that
day, as
their
strength
and their
salvation." They
have
broke through
all
their
difficulties,
and
were
"
able
to do
all
things
through Christ
strengthening them,"
Phil.
iv.
13.
Behold
that
noble army with
palms
in
their
hands;
once they were weak warriors,
yet
they
overcame
mighty
enemies,
and have gained the
victory and the prize
;
ene-
mies
rising
from
earth, and from
hell,
to tempt, and
to
accuse them,
but
"
they overcame
by
the
blood;
of
the
Lamb," Rev.
xii.
1,
11.
What
a divine
honour
shall it
be
to our Lord Jesus
Christ, the
captain
of our salva-