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ST.
iACL'S
DI:'tNE
COMMISSION.
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practise
them both with
steadiness and constancy,
in
remembrance of Jesus,
who
was
dead, and
is
alive.
Let
us
remember
at
the
Lord's
-
supper
a dying Saviour,
and
call to
mind the
great
designs
of
his death,
as
many
as
we can,
(viz.)
to witness the
truth of
his gospel;
to
fulfil
ancient 'predictions of
his
death and
his
resurrec-
tion
:
to
teach
us
to die
as
an
example
;
but
above
all,
to make atonement for our
sins,
and
lay a
foundation
for
pardoning
grace, and our
hope
of acceptance
with
God.
Let
us
remember
every
Lord's
-day to raise
our
thoughts'
to
the heavenly
world
:
where
Jesus
is
at
the
Father's
right-hand ;
Col.
iii.
1,
C.
7.
Let
us
reflect on
this_
delightful circumstance
ofour
own
death,
and the
new life
of
Christ, that,
in
both
these,
he
was
our
Pattern
and
Forerunner
;
2
Tim. ii.
8,
10
13.
If
we
die
with
him
we
shall
also live with him
:
1`-Ìe&.
vi.
20.
Must
we
lie down
in
death
?
Jesus,
the
Son
of
God,
went through
the dark
valley
before
us,
and
lay
'down
in
the grave,
and sanctified
it
to
us for
a
sleeping place
-;
1
Thess.
iv. 13
-18.
His death
was
attended
with
much
more
terror
from
God
and
man
than ours
is
or can
be.
His death bath
taken
away the sting from ours.
Did Jesus
rise
again from the dead
?
So
shall
we,
if
è
are
his
sincere
followers.
He
is
our Head, the
first-
.born
from
the
dead;
Col.
i.
15.
and our example.
Rom.
viii.
11.
The same
spirit,,
shall
quicken
us,
whatso-
ever nation
we
lived
in,
Rome, or
Jerusalem,
Asia,
or
Corinth,
or
Great-
Britain, or
in
what
age soever
!
1
Cor.
xv. 20,
23,
49.
2
Cot.
iv. 14.
And
it
will be
a
divine
jo'y to
meet
holy
Paul, our great apostle and
our
teacher,
áinong the
holy saints, who has
gone through so many
deaths
and dangers,
to
acquaint
us
with this
gospel.
.
Was
it
so
strange
a
thing
to tell
us,
that
one
dead
than
even
Jesus,
should
be
alive again
after
his
death?
)Flow
strange
and glorious
a
sight
will
it
be, when all the
dead
in Christ,
thousands
and
ten thousands,
shall
be
made
alive, with
their Lord Jesus
at
the head
of
them.
Rejoice
for ever
in
the Lord, and comfort yourselves with
this divine consolation.
Amen.