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SAFETY
IN
THE
GRAV,E,
.
[DISC.
$I.
image
of
his
own.
glorious
body, fit heirs
for the inherit-
ance
of
heaven,
fit
companions for the
blessed angels
of
light, and
prepared
to dwell for ever with himself.
Reflexion. And shall
not
we
who
are the
work
of
his
hands
have
a desire
to
him
that
made
us
?
To
him
that
redeemed
us
?
To
him
that
has new
created and
moulded
us
into
his own
likeness
?
Do
we
not
long to
see
him
?
Rave
we no
desire to
be with him,
even though
we
should
be absent
from
the
body for
a
season
?
But
much more
should
we
delight
to think
of
being
present
with
the
Lord,
when
our
whole
natures,
body
and
soul, shall
ap-
pear
as
the
new
workmanship
of
almighty power
;
our
souls
new
created
in the image
of God,
and
our
bodies
new
born
from the
dead,
into a
life
of
immortality;
g
Cor.
v.
8.
Observation
VII.
The
last observation
is
of
a very gene-
ral nature,
and spreads itself through
all my
text,
and that
is,
"
How
much are
we
indebted
to
God for,the
revela-
tion
of
the
New
Testament,
which
teaches
us
to
find
out
the
blessings which
are contained
in
the Old,
and
to
fetch
out
the glories
and treasures
which
are concealed there
?"
The
writers
of
the gospel have
not
only
pointed
us
to the
rich
mines where these
treasures
lie,
but
have
brought
forth
many
of the
jewels and set them before
us.
"
It
is
this
gospel
that
brings
life
and immortality
to
light
by
Jesus Christ
;"
Tim.
i.
10.
It
is
this gospel
that
scatters the
gloom and darkness which
was
spread
over
the
face
of the
grave,
and illuminates
all
the
chambers
of
death. Who
could have found
out
the
doctrine
of
the
re=
surrection contained
in
that
word
of
grace
given
to Abra-
ham,
I am
thy
God,
if
Jesus, the great prophet,
had not
taught
us
to
explain it
thus
;
Mat.
xxii. 32.
" God
is
not
the
God
of
the dead,
hut of
the.
living."
We
who have
the happiness to
live in
the
days
of
the
.Messiah, know
more
than
all the
ancient prophets
were
acquainted
with,
and understand
the
word
of their pro-
phecies better than
they
themselves
;
for they
"
searched
what
or what
manner of
time the
Spirit
of
Christ;
which
was
in
them, did
signify,
when it testified before hand the
sufferings
of
Christ, and the
glory
which
should
follow
;"
I
Pet.
i.
I. But we
read
all this fairly
written
in
the
gospel.
Do
you
think
that
good David
could have
Explained some
of
his
own
Psalms into
so
divine a
sense,