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AT
THE RESURRECTION.
Kit
or
Isaiah
given
such a
bright account
of
his
own
words
of
prophecy,
as
St.
Paul
has done, in several places
of
the New Testament,
where he cites
and
unfolds them
?
Could
those
illustrious ancients have
given us
such
"
abundant
consolation and hope through
the scriptures,
which they themselves wrote
aforetime,"
as
this
apostle
has done?
Roan. xv.
4.
IIo
you
think
Job
could have
read
us such
a lecture
on
his
own
expressions
in
this text,
or
in
that
bright prophecy
in
the
xix.
chapter,
as
the very
meanest
among
the
ministers
of.
the gospel can
do
by the
help of
the New
Testament
?
For
in
point of clear
dis-
coveries
of
divine
truths and
graces,
the
least
in
the
kingdom
of
the Messiah
is
greater than
John
the
baptist
and
all the
prophets,
and
our
blessed
Jesus
bas told
us
so
:"
Mat.
xi.
11,
13.
And
by
the aid
and
influences
of
his
Spirit
we
may be
taught yet further
to
search into
these hidden
mines
of
grace,
and
bring forth
new
trea-
sures
of
glory.
Reflexion.
"
Awake, O
my
soul,
and
bless
the
Lord
with all thy powers,
and
give
thanks
with
holy
joy
for
the
gospel
of
his Son
Jesus.
It
is
Jesus
by his
rising from
the
dead
has
left
a divine
light upon the gates
of
the
grave, and
scattered
much
of
the darkness
that sur-
rounded
it.
It
is
the
gospel
of
Christ
which casts
a
glory even
upon
the bed
of
death, and spreads
a bright-
ness
upon the
graves
of
the
saints
in the lively
views
of a
great
rising-day. O blessed and
surprizing prospect
of
faith
!
O illustrious scenes
of
future
vision and
trans,
port
!
When
the
Son
of God
shall
bring forth
to
public
view all
his
redeemed
ones, who
had been long
hidden
in
night and dust, and shall
present
them all to
God the
Father
in his own image,
bright,
and
holy,
and
unble,
wished,
in
the midst
of
all the
splendours of
the
resur-
rection
!
O blessed
and joyful
voice, when he
shall say
with divine
pleasure,
"
Here
am I,
and
the
children
which thou
hast given
me
;"
Isa.
viii.
18.
Heb.
ii.
13.
We
have
both
passed through
the
grave,
and I
have made
.
them
all
conquerors.
of
death, and vested them
with im-
mortality according
to thy divine commission
!
"
Thine
they
were, O
Father,
and thou hast
given
them
into
my
hands,
and
behold
I
have
brought
them
all safe to thy
appointed
mansions,
and
I
present
them before the0
without spot
or
blemish
;"
Join
xvii.
6.