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SECT.
IV.]
THE CONQUEST
OVER'
DEATH.
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triumph
of
Christ for absolute conquest
over all his
enemies
;
for
there
is
scarce any
glory
given to
Christ,
considered
as man,
but
the
saints are
said to
be
humble
partners
in
it, or at least
to enjoy
the resemblance.
Is he
appointed
the
judge of
all
?
It
is
promised
.
also to
the
saints
that
they shall
judge
angels,
and the
twelve
tribes
of
Israel.
Do
we
suffer
with
him
?
we
shall also
reign
with him.
If
we
conquer death
by
faith,
we
shall
rise
and triumph.
Here
we
labour
and fight with
many
ad-
versaries,
and
we
think
we
have routed
them,
but they
rally
again,
and
give us
fresh
vexation,
so
that
we
hardly
know how to
attempt
a
song
of
victory on
this'side
the
grave.
Besides,
death
still
remains for
our trial
and
con-
flict; but there
we
shall rejoice over all
our
enemies,
subdued, destroyed, and abolished
forever.
Then God
will be
all in
all
to his saints.
This
is
a
consequent
which
St.
Paul
mentions
in
the
verses
where
my
text
is
:
God
will
manage the
affairs
of
his
heavenly
kingdom
in
a
more immediate
way,
than
he has
managed
his
kingdom
on
earth. Christ
having destroyed
all
the
enemies
of
his
church, and presented it
safe
before
the
Father,
has finished all those divine
purposes fbr which
the
mediatorial
kingdom
was
entrusted
with him
;
then
he shall resign his
commission to the
Father
again
;
and
the
ever blessed God
shall
in
a
more
immediate and
ab-
solute
manner
reign over all the
creation. He shall
more immediately impress
devils
and damned spirits
with
a
sense
of
infinite wrath
;
and
with
a more immediate
sense
of
his love
and
eternal
favour, shall
he
for
ever
bless
áll
the inhabitants
of
heaven.
So
much
as
this
seems
to be
implied
in
the words
of
the
apostle
;
1
Cor.
xv.
24,
25,
&c.
But it
is impossible
that
in this
state
we
should
know
either
the
full
extent, or the
just
limitations
of
that
promise,
God
shall
be all in all.
Our
honoured
and
departed
friend had these words dwelling upon
her
heart;
these were often
in
her
lips
in
the days
of
her faith
and
hope,
and
in
the hours
of
her passage
through the
dark
valley
:
She enjoys
part
of
the pleasure
of
them in
her present
heaven,
and
with
pleasure
she
expects the
more absolute accomplishment,
when the
resurrection
shall
complete the
blessedness
of
all
the saints.
Another consequent of
the
destruction
of
death,
is
the
employment of
all the
powers
of
human
nature in
the
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