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CHRIST
ADMT,
AND
GLORIFIED
[DISC.
1V.
conflict,
many
a
dreadful
battle,
,
and they
are at
last
made
"
more
than
conquerors,
through
hirn
that
has
loved them," Rom.
viii. 37.
They
attribute
à1l
their
victories
to the
wisdom,
the
goodness,
and the
power of
their
divine
Leader, and
even
stand
amazed
at
their
own
success
against
such mighty
adversaries
:
But
they fought
under
the banner, conduct and
influence
of
the prince
of
life,
the
king
of
righteousness,
who
is
always
victorious,
and
has
a
crown in his
hand
for every
conqueror.
Is Jesus
the
great
example
of
his
saints?
Behold the
virtues and
graces
of
the Son
of God
copied
out
in all his
followers.
As he
was, so
were
they
in this
world,
holy, harmless, and undefiled,
and separate
from
sin-
ners
;"
Heb.
vii.
2G.
As hé now
is,
so
are
they,
glorious
in
holiness
and
divinely beautiful, while
each of
them
re-
flects
the
image
of their
blessed
Lord, and
they
appear
as
wonders to all the beholding world.
They were
un-
known here
on
earth,
even as
Christ himself
was
un-
known
:
This
is
the day
appointed
to
reveal
their
works,
and their
graces.
Jesus
is
the
"
brightness
of
his
Fa-
ther's
glory,
and the
express image
of
his
person
;"
Heb.
i.
3.
and
all
the
sons
and daughters of God
shall
then
appear
as so
many pictures
of
the
blessed
Jesus,
drawn
by
the
finger
of
the
eternal
Spirit.
And not their
souls
only,
buttheir
glorified bodies also,
are framed
in his likeness.
What
grace and
grandeur
dwells in
each countenance,
"
As
thou art,
O blessed
Jesus,
so
shall
they
be, in
that
day,
"
all
of
them resem-
bling
the
children of a
king
!"
Judges
viii.
18.
Vigour
and health, beauty and immortality
shine
and
reign
throughout
all
that
blessed assembly.
The adopted
sons
and
daughters
of
God
resemble the original and only-be-
gotten
Son
:
Christ
will
have
all his
brethren and
sisters
conformed unto
his glories,
that
they may
be
known
to be
his
kindred, the children
of
his
Father, and that
he
"
may
appear
the
first
-born among many brethren
;"
Rom.
vrü.
29.
When
the
Son
of God breaks
open the
graves,
he
forms
the dust
of
his saints
by
the
model
of
his own
glorious aspect and
figure,,
and "
changes
their
vile bo-
dies
into the likeness
of
his
own glorious body,
by
that
power whereby
he
is
able
to
subdue
all
things to himself;'`
Phil.
iii. 21.
He
shall be
admired
as
the
bright
original,
and each
of
the saints
as
a
fair and glorious copy:
The