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IV.
IN HIS SAINTS.
401
Lion,
that
weak
christians should subdue their strong
core
ruptions, and get
safe
to heaven through
a thousand op-
positions
within
and without:
It
is
all
owing to
the
grace
of
Christ,
that
grace--which
is
all
-
sufficient
for every
saint,
9
Cor. xii.
9.
They are
made
"
more
than con-
querors
through
him
that
has loved
them,"
Rom. viii.
37
Then
shall
the
faith,
and courage,
and
patience
of
the
saints
have
a
blessed review
;
and
it
shall
be
told,
before
the whole
creation, what
strife
and
wrestlings
a
poor
believer
has
passed
through
in
a dark cottage, a chamber
of
long
sickness,
or perhaps in a dungeon
;
how he has
there combated
with powers
of
darkness,
how he
has
struggled
with huge sorrows,
and
has
borne, and
has
not
fainted, though
he
has been often
in
heaviness
through
manifold temptations.
Then
shall
appear
the
bright
scene
which
St.
Peter
represents
as
the
event
of
sore
tri-
als,,
I
Pet.
i.
6,
7.
"
When
our
faith
has
been
tried
in
the
fire
of tribulation,
and
is
found more precious
than
gold,
it
shall shine to
the praise,
honour and
glory
of
the
suffering saints, and
of
Christ
himself
at
his
appear-
ance."
Behold
that
illustrious=
troop
of
martyrs, and some
among them
of
the feeblest
sex,
and
of
tender
age
?
now
that
women
should
grow
bold in faith, even
in
the
_sight
of
torments, and children,
with
a
manly courage,
should
profess the name
of
Christ
in
the face
of
angry
and
threatening
rulers; that
some
of
these
should become
undaunted confessors of
the
truth, and others triumph
in
fire
and
torture, these
things shall
be
matter of glory
to
Christ
in
that
day;
it
was his
power
that
gave
them
courage and
victory
in
martyrdom and death.
Every
Christian
there, every soldier
in
that
triumphing'
irn
,
shall
ascribe
his
conquest
to
the grace
of
his
Lord,
his
leader, and
lay
down all
his
trophies
at
the feet
of
his
Saviour,
with
humble acknowledgments, and
shouts
of
honour.
.
Almost
all the saved
number
were,
at
some
part of
their
lives,
weak
in
faith,
and
yet,
by
the grace
of
Christ,
they held
out
tö the end,
and are
crowned.
"
I
was a
poor trembling creature,
shall one
say,
hut
I
was
confirmed
in
my
faith
and holiness
by
the
gospel
of
Christ,
.or,
I
rested
on
a
naked
promise;
and
found
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