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FAITH
IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
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all
his
glories with
a sacred pleasure
;
and lift up
our
eyes
towards
him with
humble confidence,
in
prayer or
in
praise;
for
we
behold him
as
God
reconciled,
and
a
Father,
since
we
have seen
Jesus
the
Mediator
and
trusted
in
his
name.
5.
With what
surprize and
overwhelming fear did
we
once
behold
approaching
afflictions,
when
we
were
with-
out
God, without Christ,
and.
without hope But
now
vve
can look
upon
sufferings
and
sorrows without being
overwhelmed
by
them
;
we
can
look
upon the
huge swel-
ling
waves
without painful apprehensions,
and
s
e
the'
floods rise high
without
fear of
being
drowned
;
for
wo.
have seen
Jesus
as
it
were
walking
on
the
water;
and
we
have
heard'
him saying,
It
is.
I,
be
not afraid.
We
can
look
to him when
we
are afar
off from
our
friends, even
in the ends
of
the
earth, and
find
light
in
darkness,
and
;relief
in
the midst
of
our
distresses.
6.
How formidable
once was
the
face
of
death:
No
pencil can describe the
monster
so
hideous to the
sense,
as
he
appeared constantly
to
our
awakened
souls,
before
we
had seen
Christ.
What horror
did
our
spirits
feel,
and
our
flesh
shuddered at the
thought of
his
approach
!
How
frightfully,
and yet
how
justly, did our guilty
fancy
paint
him,
and
all his
attendants,
in
their terrible
array
!
But
the saint
looks on
death
now
as
a
harmless thing,
for
,
he
has
seen
Jesus disarm
him
;
"Christ
has
abolished
sin,
and taken
away
the
sting from death.
The
lively
chris-
tian can look
on
it
as
a friend, or
rather
as
a slave sub-
dued
to
the
service
of
his
Lord, sent
on a
glorious mes-
sage,
to fetch
him
to
dwell
where
his
blessed
Lord
is.
They
shall
"
be where I
am, to
behold
my glory ;"
John
xvii. 24.
7.
The
man
who
has seen
Jesus with
an
eye
of
faith,
can
look
to
the last
great tribunal
without
terror
;
for
he
knows
and
is
acquainted
with
Christ
the
judge
:
He
has
seen
him,
and
trusted
all the
important
concerns
of that
day
into
his
hands.
I
kno-w,
saith
the christian,
whom
I
have
believed,
and
I
am
persuaded
that
he
is
able
to
keep
all
that
I
have committed
to
him
unto
that
day
;" 2 Tiny.
i. 12.
Therefore
he can see
the
judgement
-seat;
and the
books opened,
without
dismay
or
fearful
expectation
;
for
he has seen
Jesus
cross
out
all
his sins
with the
blood
of
his
sacrifice
:
Christ
has
cancelled
them for
ever from
the
great register
of
heaven, the
book
of
divine
remem-