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CHRIST ADMIRED
AND
GLORIFIED.
DISC.
IV.
death,
when
such
an
endless
multitude
of
old
and
new
captives
are
released
at
his
word,
and the
grave has
re-
stored
its prey
;
when those bodies which have
been
turned into dust
some
thousands
of
years,
and their
atoms scattered
abroad
by
the winds
of
heaven, shall be
raised
again, in glory
and
dignity, to
meet their descend-
ing
Lord
in
the
air.
Surely
Jesus,
in
that
day,
shall be
acknowledged as a sovereign
of
nature,
when
at
the word
of
his
command, a
new
creation
shall arise,
all
perfect
and
immortal.
It
will
add yet
further
glory to Christ, when
we
re-
member what fruitful
seeds
of
iniquity were lodged
in
that
flesh
and blood
which,
we
wore
on
earth, and which
we
laid
down
in
the
tomb,
and
when,
at
the same time,
we
survey
our
glorified bodies, how
spiritual,
how
holy,
how happily fitted for the service
of
glorified souls
made
perfect
in holiness.
How did
all
the saints
once com-
plain
of
"
a law in
their
members,
that
warred
against
the
law
of
their
minds,
and
brought them into bondage
to
the law
of
sin," Rom.
vii.
2s. But
this law
of
sin
is
now
fer
ever abolished, this bondage dissolved
and
broken,
and these members
are
all
new
-
created for in-
struments
of
righteousness
to serve
God
in his temple,
for
ever
and
ever.
Holy Paul
shall no
more groan
in
a
sinful
tabernacle,
he shall no
more complain
of that
flesh,
wherein
no
good thing
dwelt, he
shall
cry
out
no
more,
"
O
wretched man
that
I
am, who
shall deliver
me
?"
Rom.
vii.
24.
Many
and
bitter
have been the sorrows
of
a
holy soul
in
this world, because
of
the perverse dispositions
of
animal
nature
and the
flesh
:
But
none
of
the saints in
that
assembly shall ever
feel
again the stings
of
inward
envy,
the
pricking thorns.
of
peevishness,
nor
the
wild
ferments
of
wrath and
passion
:
None of
them-shall
ever
find
those unruly appetites,
which
wrought
so
strongly
in
their
old flesh
and
blood,
and too often
over
-
powered
their
unwilling
souls,
those
appetites
which
brought their
consciences
sometimes
under
fresh
guilt, and
filled
them
with inward
reproaches
and agonies
of
spirit.
These
evil
principles are
all destroyed
by
death, they are lost
in
the
grave, and shall
havé no
resurrection. The
new
-
raised
bodies
of
the
righteous,
in
that
day,
shall
be
completely
ebedient
to the
dictates
of
their
spirits,
without
any vi-