'DISCOURSE Ilf. 223 among these divine transactions, as will elevate our souls into higher raptures of gratitude and joy, and furnish our tongues with pleasant and everlasting hallelujahs. The saints in that day shall ehearfully and thankfully re- count the awful voice of God in the commands and terrors of his law, since these are the blessed means of awakening their stupid consciences, and of stirring them to a hasty flight to Jesus and his gospel, as the only and all-sufficient refuge of sinful and guilty souls. Happy creatures ! who turned their eyes to his grace, when they were thus self-condemned, and trembling for fear of the immediate execution of the divine threateuings of his law. How glorious and delightful will be the moments of these souls, when they shall review the first glimpses they had by divine grace, of the salvation and hope which was to be found for them, in the encouraginglanguageof the gospel and the pro-. mises ! What new songs will arise to the Redeemer, in this review of those past events ! What echoes of praise to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, while the inhabitantsof the blessed world are pursuing, and tracing out backward, the ancient steps of the grace of God, towards their recovery front the sin and ruin of the first Adam, and their entering into the covenant of salvation, through Jesus Christ, the second? He was the ever-blessed anti -type of the first Adam, the great Head and Lord of life and everlastingblessedness, to all who are sane- tiled and saved. Honour and glory, and power, be to his holy name, for ever and ever. Amen. C`
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