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Iv.
IN
HIS
SAINTS.-
40:
s'
actions of
time,
those
past
ages
of
complaint and infir-
mity.
We shall then, with
pleasure
and thankfulness,
confess,
that
the
captain of our
salvation
was
much in
the right
to
lead
us
through
so
many
sufferings
and
sor-
rows,
and
We
were
much
in
the wrong to
complain of
his
conduct.
Bear
up
your
spirits
then, ye
poor
afflicted,
distressed
souls,
who
are
wrestling
through
difficult
providences
all
in the
dark, bear up
but
a little
longer,
"
he
that
shall
come,
will
come,
and
will
not tarry
r
Heb.
x.
37.
he
will
set
all
his
conduct
in
a
fair
light,
and
you
shall
say,
"
Blessed
be
the
Lord, and
all
his
government."
Sixthly,
That
heaven should
be so
Well
filled;
out
of
such
a
hell
of
sin
and
misery,
as
this world
is,
shall
be
another
delightful
reflection,
.full
of wonder
and glory.
Take
a short
survey
of
mankind,
how
`°
all flesh'
has
cor-
rupted
its ways
before God, and every imagination
of
the
thought of
man's
heart
is
only
evil,
and
that
continually,"
Gen.
vi.
5,
.12.
There
is
none
righteous,
no not. one,
Isom.
iii.
10.
Look round
about
you,
and
see how
ini-
quity abounds, violence, oppression, pride, lust, sen-
sualities
of
all kinds,
how
they reign among the chil-
dren of men:
Religion
is
lost,
and
God
forgotten
in
the
world
;
and yet,
out
of
this wretched world,
Christ
has
provided inhabitants for
heaven, where
"
nothing
cán
enter that
defileth," Rev.
xxi. 27.
Look into
your
own
hearts,
ye
sinners,
see
what a
hell lies
there, and
ye
converts
of
the
grace
of
Christ, look into
your hearts too,
and
see how
many
of
the seeds
of
wickedness
still
lie
hid
there;
how much
corruption,
and how
little holi-
ness
;
look inward, and
wonder,
that
Christ
should
ever
fit
you for
heaven.
by his
converting and
his
sanctifying
grace.
Look round the
world
again, and
survey the miseries
of
this
earth
;
as
many calamities
as
there are creatures,
and
perhaps ten
times more
:
Who
is
there
on
earth
with-
out
his
sorrows? And, sometimes,
a
multitude
of
them
meet
in
one
single
sufferer
:
See how
toil, and weariness,
and disappointment, poverty and
sickness,
pain,
and
anguish, and vexation
are distributed through
this world,
that
lies on
the
borders of
hell;
see all this,
and
Wonder
at
the
grace,of
Christ,
that
has
taken a
colony
out of
this
miserable world,
and made
a
heaven
of
it.
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