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AND
JOY AT THE RESURRECTION.
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in the grave
at
his
Father's command,
and
he
arose with
joy at
the
appointed hour
at
the
head
of
the
new
creation;
as the first born from
the
dead
;
and
he has
orders given
him
by
the
Father
to summon
every
saint
from
their
graves
at
the long
appointed hour. Because
Jesus
arose
and
lives,
they shall arise and live also. O may
my flesh
lie down
in the
dúst
with all
courage and composure;
and rejoice to
escape
into a
place
of rest and silence, far
away
from the
noise
and tumult,
the
hurry
and bustle
of
this
present
life
;
being
well
assured
that
the
next sound
which
shall
be
heard
is
the voice
of
the
Son
of God,
"arise
ye
dead
!"
Make haste then, O blessed
Jesus, and
finish thy-
divine work
here
on
earth
:
I
lay down my
head
to sleep
in the dust, waiting for thy
call,
to awake
in the morning."
Observation VI. God
takes delight
in his
works
of
nature,
but
much more
when
they
are
dignified
and
adorn-
ed
by
the
operations
of
divine
grace."
"
Thou
wilt have
a
desire,
saith the good man
in
my text,
to
the work
of
thy
own hands."
Thou
hast
moulded
me
and fashioned
me
at
first
by
thy
power,
thou hast
new
created
me
by
thy
Spirit,
and
though thou hidest
me
for a season
in
one
of
thy
secret
chambers
of
death, thou wilt raise
me
again
to
light and
life,
"
and
in my
flesh
shall
I
see
God."
When
the Almighty
had created
this visible
world, he
surveyed
his works on the
seventh
day,
and pronounced
them
all good,
and
he took
delight
in
them
all
before
sin
entered and
defiled them
And
when he
has
delivered
the creatures
of
his
power from the bondage
of corrup-
tion and
has
purged our
souls
and
`our
bodies from sin
and
from every
evil
principle,
he
will
again
delight
in
the
sons
and daughters
of
Adam
whom he has
thus cleansed
and
refined by
his
sovereign grace, and
has
qualified
and
adorned
them for
his own
presence.
"
He
will
sing
and
rejoice over them, and
rest
in
his love
;"
Zep.
iii.
17.
He
will
love
to
see
them with
his Son
Jesus
at
their head,
diffusing
holiness
and
glory
through
all
his
members.
Jesus
the
Redeemer
will
love
to
see
them
round
him,
for
he has
bought them
with
his
blood,
and
they
are a treasure
too precious
to
be
for
ever lost.
He
will
rejoice
to
be-
hold them rising
at
his
call
into a splendour
like
his own,
and they
"
shall be satisfied when they
awake from
death
intQ
his
likeness
;
Ps.
xvii.
15.
and
appear
in
the