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IN HIS SAINTS.
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pressed
by
things
sensible:
When
we see
a train
of
human
pomp
and grandeur,
and long ranks of shining garments
and
equipage,
it
is
ready
to dazzle.
our
eyes,
and,
attract
our
hearts
:
Vain
pomp,
and poor
equipage,
all
this',
when compared
with
the
triumph
of
our
blessed
Lord,
at
his
appearance,
with
an endless army
of
his
holy
ones;
where every
saint
shall be vested,
not
in
silks
and gold,
but,'
in
robes
of
refined light,
out-
shining
the sun,
such
as
Christ himself
wore
in
the mount
of
transfiguration..
Millions
of
suns in one
firmament
of
glory.
Think
on
that
day,
and the illustrious
retinue
of
our Lord
:
Think
on
that
splendor
that
shall
attract
the
eyes
of
heaven
and
earth,
shall
confound the proud
sinner,
and astonish the
inhabitants
of
hell
:
Such
a
meditation
as
this
will
cast
a
dim shadow over
the brightest
appearances
of
a court,
or
a
royal festival;
it
will
spread
a
dead colouring over all
the painted vanities
of
this
life; it
will
damp
every
thought
of
rising ambition and
earthly
pride, and
we
shall have
but little
heart
to
admire or
wish
for any
of
the vain
shews
of
mortality. Methinks
every gaudy scene
of
the
pre-
sent
life,
and
all
the
gilded
honours
of
courts
and
armies
should
grow
faint, and fade
away
and
varnish
at
the medi-
tation
of
this
illustrious appearance.
Use
IV.
This text
will
give
us also two
hints
of caution.
First,
"
You
that
are rich in this world,
or
wise,
or
mighty,
dare not ridicule or
scoff
at
those
poor weak
christians,
in
whom
Christ
shall
be
admired and glorified
in
the last
day.
".
You
that
fancy
you
have
any advan-
tages of birth or
beauty,
of
mind,
or body,
here on earth,
dare not
make a
jest
of your poor
pious
neighbour
that
wants
them,
for
he
is
one
of
those persons
whom
Christ
calls
his
glory,
and
he
himself
has given you warning,
lest
you
incur
his
resentment
on
this
account;
Mat.
xviii.
6.
Whoso shall
offend
one
of
these
little
ones which
believe
in me,
it were
better
for
him
that
a
millstone
were
hanged
about
his neck,
and that
he
were
drowned
in
the
depth of the
sea.'
Perhaps
he good
man has
some
blemish
in his
outward
form, or,
it
may
be,
his
countenance
is
dejected, or
his
mien
and
figure
awkward
and
uncomely;
perhaps
his
garments
sit wrong
and un-
fashionable upon
him,
or it
may
be,
they
hang
in
tatters;
the
motions
of
his body,
perhaps, 'are ungraceful,
his
speech
improper, and
his
deportment
is,
simple,.
and