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FAITH
BUILT
ON
KNOWLEDGE.
239
III.
When
we
enquire, what
it
is
that
the
apostle
com-
riritted
to
Christ
?
I
think there
is
no
need
to
limit or
con-
fine
the
trust
;
all
that
belongs to
poor
sinful
man, which
God
the
Father
had appointed Christ
to
take
care
of;
may be
included
in this
depositum,
this
important trust.
I
have
committed
my
whole person, soul
and
body,
all my
spiritual concerns
in this world,
and all
my ever=
lasting
interest
in
the world to
come,
into the
hands
of
Christ
;
my
soul, and
the
affairs
of
my
eternity. And
this the
apostleseems
to
havé
chiefly in his eye,
because
he
was
now
ready
to leave
the
body,
and
all
things
of
this
present
life..
So
Christ
on
the cross commits his
soul
into
the
hands
of
his
Father;
Luker
xxiii. 46.
Fa-
ther,
into
thy
hands
I
commend
my
spirit.
So
Stephen,
the
first
martyr, addresses himself
to
Christ
;
Acts
vii.
59.
Lord
.Jesus receive
grey
spirit.
So
David,
by
a
spiT
rit
of
prophecy,
in
evangelical expressions, betrusts his
soul
with
God
his
Redeemer;
Ps.
xxxi.
5.
into
thu
hands
I
commit
my
spirit;
thou
least
redeemed
it,
O
Lord
God
of truth.
IV. What
is
that
day,
thát
great
day,
which the
apos-
tle means
in
the
text
?
Without doubt,
he
refers
to
the
last judgment,
which
is
that
day, by way
of
eminence,
that
day when
the
works of
all
other
days shall be
reviewed, when all
mankind shall
appear
together upon
the earth,
that
have lived
in
several successive
days,
and
'years,
and
ages,
and
a
decisive
sentence
shall be
passed upon
all,
without
a
possibility
of
reverse
:
The
day
on which
the fate
of
their eternity
shall
depend,
and
be
determined.
It
is
the
custom
of
the
apostle
to
speak
of thisday
in such
a
way
of
absolute eminence,
without
particular
descriptions
:
So
he does
twice
in
this same
epistle
;;
chap.
i.
18.
and`
iv.
8.
And
it
is
expressly
evi-
dent
in
'2
Thess.
i.
10.
he
means this
last great
day,
when
Christ
shall
appear
in flaming
fire,
taking
vengeance
on
them
that
obey him
not
:and
shall come
to
be
glorified
in,all them
that
believe.
Though
believers
in
Christ, who have
committed them
-
selves to
his
charge,
find
their
souls safe
in
the
moment
after
death,
and the
beginning
of
their intellectual hea-
ven, yet
this
is
more insensible
to
other
men,
and unseen
to
the world
:
The
day
of
judgment
is
a
more
remark-
able
and
conspicuous day
in
the
eves
of
all
fte
creation,