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?ACTH BUILT
ON
KNOWLEDGE.
[DISC.
I.
brance
;
and has shewn him
his own
name
written
in the
Lamb's
book
of
life,
from the
foundation
of
the world.
8.
Then
he may
turn
his
eyes
to all
that
glorious
assembly
on high
;
he may look on the
saints
in
their
robes of
light, as
companions of
his
blessedness, and the
troops of
angels as
ministers
of
fire,
to
execute vengeance
on
all his
enemies
;
and heralds to
prepare
his way
to
the
upper
heavens.
He
may
fix
his eyes
with most intense
and
transporting delight
on
Christ
his
sovereign
Lord,
and
behold
him
hereafter
with
eyes
of
sense,
amidst the
honours
of
heaven, whom he
had heheld here
with
an
eye
of
faith,
amidst the
sufferings
of the
cross,
and
the
agonies
of
the garden.
"
This
is
he, says
the
saint,
"
whose voice
of
mercy
I
heard
in
yonder
perishing
"
world,
ánd
to whom
I
looked
from the ends
of the
"
earth, that
I
might
be saved.
I
believed him then
to
"
have all the fulness
of
the godhead
dwelling
in
him
"
bodily;
and
as
God'manifest
in
the
flesh,
I
worship-
"
ped
him,'
and trusted
in him.
I
behold
him
now
as
"
the brightness of
his
Father's
glory,
and
his
divinest
"
image
:
I
find him to be
a
complete and all-
sufficient
"
Saviour
;
for
I
stand
possessed
of
his
divine salvation.
"
My knee
bows,
and
my
tongue
confesses
that
Jesus
is
"
Lord.
He
is
one with the
Father. To
him
that
sitteth
"
upon the throne, and
to the Lamb, be blessing and
"
honour, and
power,
and
glory,
for ever
and
ever.
"
Amen." Rev.
v. 13.
DISCOURSE
IX.
FAITH BUILT
ON
KNOWLEDGE,
PREACHED
1711.
2 TIM.
i. 12.
t
know whom I
have believed, and
am
persuaded
that
he
is
able
to
keep
that
which I have committed
to
him, against
that
day.
THE
FIRST
P.T.T.
ÎHEN
this epistle
was
written
to
Timothy,
St.
Paul,
the
writer of
it,
was
a
prisoner at Rome
;
there
he lay
'under a
heavy chain, and
was
exposed
to public shame