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IN
HIS
SAINTS.
4O
could
turn
such sinners
into saints. O
surprising
scene
of
rich salvation, when these
Corinthian converts, wash-
ed
in
the
blood
of
Christ,
and
renewed
by his
Spirit,
shall
appear
in
their
white
garments
of
holiness
and
glo-
ry! There
is
not
one sinful
creature
to be
found
in
all
the
vast
retinue of
the
holy
Jesus, but there are
thou-
sands, who
have been once
great
criminals,
notorious
sinners, and have
been snatched,
by
the arms
of
divine
love, as
brands out of
the
burning.
What
an
affecting
sight
will
it
be,
when
we
shall behold all
the members
of
Christ
united
to
their
head,
and
complete
in
glory,
and
see,
at
the
same time, a
world
of
vile
sinners doomed
to
destruction'. With what adoration and wonder
shall
we
cry out,
"
And
such were some
of
these
happy
ones,
but
they
are sanctified,
but
they are
justified
in
the name
of
the
Lord
Jesus, and
by
the Spirit
of
our God,"
1
Cor. vi.
11.
"
Not
unto
us,
O
Lord,
not unto
us,
but
to
God,
our
Saviour, be
eternal
honour,"
Ps.
cxv.
1.
In
the seventh
place,
there
is
another
glory and won-
der
added
to this
illustrious scene, and
gives
honour
to
our
blessed Saviour,
and
that
is,
"That
so
many vigor-
ous, beautiful, and immortal bodies should
be
raised
at
once
out
of
the dust,
with all
their
old
infirmities left
be-
hind them
:"
Not
one ache
or
pain,
not
one
weakness or
disease among all the glorified millions
:
As
the
Israel-
ites came
out
of their bondage
in
Egypt,
so
shall
the
army
of
the saints
from
the prison
of
the
grave,
and
"
not
one
feeble
among them,"
Ps.
cv.
37.,
This
is
the
work
of Christ
the
Creator
and the healer.
Here
I
might
run
many sorrowful divisions,
and travel
over
the large
and
thorny
fields
of
sickness'
and pains
that attend human nature,
those
inborn
mischiefs
that
vex
:poor
christians
in
this
state
of trial
and
suffering.
But
these were all buried when the body went
to
the
grave,
and
they are
buried
for
ever;
he
that
has the
keys
of
death, shall
let
the bodies
of
his
saints
but of
prison
;
but
no
gout,
nor
stone, no infirmity
nor
clis,-
temper,
no
head-ache
nor heart
-ache shall
ever
attend
them.
The
body was
"
sown,
in weakness,
but
it
is
raised
in
power;
it
was sown in
dishonour, it
is
raised
in glory,
through the power
of
the
second Adam, and
his
quickening Spirit,"
1
Cor.
xv.
43, 45. Rom. viii.
1
i.
Then
shall
Christ
appear
to be
sovereign and
Lord of
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