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ST. PAUL'S
bIVINB
CÓMMISSiON
jbisO.IF.
is
accepted
Of
his
Father
;
and
he has
thereby
manifested,
that
there
is
a
way
opened for the
pardon
of
sin,
and our
salvation.
He
bath conquered death
and the
devil;
he
hath laid a.foundation
for our rising
from
the grave
;
he
will
fulfil in
heaven what he
hath
begun
on
earth
;
his.
throne
shall
consummate
the work
of
his cross.
If
when
we
were
enemies we
were reconciled to
God
by
the
death
of
his
Son
much more being reconciled,
we
shall
be
-,saved by
his
life
;
Rom.
v.
10.
4.
If
Jesus
being dead, and
alive again;
is so
momen.
tous a point,
so
important
an article
in
our
religion,
then
we may
remark,
that
some
of
the chief evidences
of
the
truth of
our religion,
are nearly connected
with
some
of
the chief
glories, benefits,
and
excellencies
of
it;
for
they
are all
built
on this same
foundation, even the resur-
rection of
our blessed
Lord.
These
are not
merely
strange pieces of
history,
but
such
doctrines are built
on
therm,
which
are
the life
of
our
souls.
The resurrection
of Christ
confirms
our
religion ;
-
Tirst,
As
it
gives
sufficient
proof that
God,
whose
prero-
ative
it
is
to
raise from the dead, approves what
Jesus
taught
:
And
Secondly,
As
Jesus Christ
himself foretold
his own
resurrection
;
as
I
said
before.
And
it
lays
a foundation
for some
of the chief
doctrines,
blessings,
and duties
of
our
religion
which
St.
Paul
preaches
without
end;
viz.
our
trust
in
this risen Savi-
our
;
our faith in
his
intercession in heaven, and coming
to
God
by him
:
our
dependance
on
his
government
;
our
resignation of
ourselves
to him
:
our
expectations of
the
Holy
Spirit,
and
his
graces,
from
him; our
courage
in
death
;
and our
joyful
hope
of
a
resurrection and
eter-
nal life.
5.
What
continual
matter for
holy Meditation should
these
two
things furnish
us with,
(viz.)
the death
and
resurrection of
Christ, especially
in
all our addresses
to
God
?
lleb.
x. 19.
and
iv. 14.
How delightful
and
how
encouraging are these
ideas,
in
all
our sacred and
religi-
ous transactions
with
G
d,
in life
and
in
death.
We
have
boldness to
enter
into the
most holy
place
by
the
.
blood
of
Jesus,
and
have such
an
High-
Priest
over
the
house
of
God
to
introduce
us.
How divinely agreeable
in
all
our behaviour,.in our
conversation
in
this
world
Gal. vi.
14.
By
the
death
of Christ
we
are
dead to this
world,