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»ISO. IV.1
IN
HIS
SAINTS,
various beauties
that
are
dispersed among
all
that
as-
sembly,
are summed up,
and united
in himself
:
"
He
if:
the
chiefest
of ten thousands, and altogether
lovely ;"
Cantic.
v.
W,
16.
One sun
in
the
firmament can
paint
his
oyvn
bright
image,
at
once,
upon a thousand reflect-
ing
glasses,
or mirrors
of
gold
:
What
a
dazzling
lustre
would arise
from such
a
scene
of
reflexions
?
But
what
superior and inexpressible
glory,
above all the powers
of
similitude,
and beyond the reach
of
comparison, shall
irradiate
the
world
in
that
day,
when
Jesus;
the
Sun
of
righteousness,
shall shine
upon
all
his
saints,
and
find
each of
them well
prepared
to receive this
lustre,
and
to
reflect
it round
the creation
;
each of them displaying the
image
of
the original
Son
of
God,-
and
confessing
all
their:
yirtues and
graces, all
their
beauties and
glories,
both of
soul and
body,
to
be
nothing
else
but
were co-
pies and derivations
from
Jesus,
the first and fairest
image
of the Father
!
o
["
Here
this discourse may be
divided.
"]
Use.
The
doctrines and the works
of
divine grace
are
full
of
wónder and
glory
;
Such
is
the person
and
offices
of
Christ, such
are
his holy
and faithful
followers,
and
such eminently
will be
the
blessed scene
at,
his
appear-
ance.
In
the foregoing
part
of
the discourse,
we
have
briefly surveyed some
of
those glorious 'wonders,
we
now
come
to
consider what
use
may be
made
of
such
a
theme.
Use
I.
It
gives us
eminently these
two
lessons
of in-
struction
:
Lesson
1.
"
Haw
mistaken
is
the
judgment of
flesh
and
sense in the things
that
relate
to
Christ,
and
his
saints."
The
Son
of God
himself
was
abused
and scorned
by
the
blind
world, they
esteemed
him as
"
one smitten
of God,
and
unbeloved, and
they
saw'no
beauty nor
comeliness
in
him ;"
Is.
liii.
2,
3.
He
was
poor and
despised,
all
his
life,
and
he was
doomed
to
the death
of
a
criminal and a
slave.
As
for the saints, they
find no
more
honour or
esteem, among men,
than
their.
Lord,
they
are
many
times called
and counted-
"
the
filth
of
the world,
and
the
oí
scouring
of
all things
;"
1
Cor.
iv.
13.
This
is
the
judgment
of
flesh
and
sense.
Rut
when
the great appointed hour
is
come,
and
Jesus
shall
return
from heaven
"
with
a shout
of
the
arch-an-
gel,
and the
trump
of God
;"
1
Mess.
iv. 16.
when he