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CHRIST ADMIRED.
AND
GLORIFIED
[DISC.
Iv.
support,
because
Christ
was
there, and
he shall have
the glory
of
it."
"
In
him
are
all
the promises
yea,
and
in him
amen;
to
the
glory
of
the
Father,"
2
Cor.
i.
Ñ0
-22.
and the
Son shall share in this
glory,
for
he
died
to
ratify
these promises, and he
lives to
fulfil
them.
"
Oh,
what
an almighty arm
is
this,
shall the believer
say,
that
has
borne
up
so
many
thousands
of poor
sink-
ing
creatures, and
lifted
their
heads above the
waves
!"
The
spark of
grace
that
lived many
years
.in
a
flood
of
temptations,
and
was
not
quenched,
shall
then
shine
bright
to
the
glory
of
Christ,
who
kindled
and maintain-
ed
it.
When
we
have
been
brought through
all the
storms
and
the
threatening
seas,
and yet
the raging
waves have been
forbid
to swallow
us
up,
we
shall cry
out,
in
raptures of
joy
and
wonder,
"
what manner
of
man
is
this,
that
the
winds
and the
seas
have obeyed
him
?"
Mark
iv.
41. Then
shall
it
be
gloriously
evi-
dent,
that
he
has conquered Satan, and
kept
the
hosts
of
hell in chains, when
it
shall
appear, that
he
has
made
poor
mean trembling believers victorious over all
the
powers
of
darkness, for the prince
of
peace has
bruised
him
under
their
feet.
Fifthly,
There
is
more work for
our
wonder and
joy,
and more
glory
for our
blessed.
Lord,
when
we
shall
see,
that
so
many
dark
and
dreadful providences
were work-
ing together, in
mercy,
for
the good
of
his
saints;
it
is
because
Jesus Christ
had
the management
of
them all
put
into
his
hands;
and
we
shall acknowledge,
"he
has
done
all
things
well,"
Mark
vii.
37.
"All
things have
wrought together
for good,"
Rom.
viii.
28.
It
is
the
voice
of
Christ
to every
saint
in
sorrow,
What
I
do,
thou knowest
not
now,
but
thou shalt
know
hereafter,"
John
xiii.
7.
I
saw
not
then, saith the christian,
that
my Lord
was
curing
my
pride
by
such
a
threatening
and
abasing providence,
that
he was
weaning
my
heart
from
sensual
delights, by such
a sharp
and painful wound
;
but
now I
behold things
in
another
light,
and
give
thanks
and
praises
to,
my
divine physician.
We
shall
look
back
upon
the hours
of
our impatience,
and
be
ashamed,
we
shall
chide
the
flesh
for
its old
re-
pipings, when
we
shall
stand upon the
eternal
hills
of
paradise, and cast our
eyes
backward upon yonder tran-