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world,
by
the death
of Christ
crucified
to
it,
and
the
world
crucified
to
us. Col.
iii.
1.
We should
live
as
those, who
are
above, whose
hearts are
on
high,
where
Christ
is
at
the
right
-hand
of
God.
Under
:our
carnality and earthly-mindedness,
let
us
govern ourselves
by
these
meditations.
Let
us
remem-
ber
we
are
dead
to
sin.
Under
all
our temptations
to
sin'; Rom.
vi. 2.
let
us
be upon
our
guard, remembering
our
being
united to
Christ;
in
his
death and
his
life.
If
at
any time
we
fall
under
doubts
of
the
truth of our
religion,
let
us
look
up
to a
risen
Jesus.
What better
supports
can
we
have
under
all
our
afflictions,
sorrows,
fears, weaknesses
?
Rev.
i.
18. 11e,
who
was
dead,
is
alive,
and
lives
for
evermore. Amen.
Under
the
ap-
prehensions
of
death;
1
Cor.
xv. 57.
Thanks
be
to
God,
wbo
giveth
us
the
victory
over death
and the
grave
bya
living
Christ. O what
a shame
is
it for professors
of
a
dying
and a
risen Saviour
to
be
dead- hearted in
religion, which
is
our
sublimest hope
;
to be
carnally
minded,
or
to
be
afraid
of death
?
6.
If
Jesus
being dead, and being alive
again
is so
great and important
an
article
of
our religion, and
as
it
were
the foundation on
which
it
stands, then how
wisely
'bath
he
ordered it
in his gospel,
that
we
should have
a.
constant
memorial appointed
us
both
of
his
death,
and
his
resurrection? Of
his
death
in
the
Lord's-
supper;
1
Cor.
xi.
24, 25.
and
of
his
resurrection
in
the
Lord's
-
day;
Rev.
i.
10.
it
is
the rising
of
Christ
that
gives
a
blessed name to this
day; Acts
xx.
7.
John
xx.
19,
26.
1
Cor.
xvi.
2.
On
the first day
of
the
week Christ
ap-
pears
in his holy
ordinances,
and
saith,
Peace
be
unto
you,
as
he did to
the apostles.
The
primitive christians celebrated both these
institu-
tions
on every first day
of
every week,
that
is,
the
chris-
tian
sabbath, and the Lord's- supper.
We all agree
to
celebrate
one
of
these,
(viz.)
his
resurrection,
every week on
the
first
day;
but
how few
are
there
that
celebrate the memorial of
his
death
in
a
constant attendance at
the
Lord's
supper,
in
comparison
of
the
multitudes
who call
themselves
christians
?
O
let
us
take pleasure
in these sacred
memorials,
and
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