DISCOURSE IV. Christ admired and glorified in his Saints.'" 2 Thess..i. 10.When he shall come to be gloried in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe. HOW mean and contemptible soever our Lord Jesus Christ might appear heretofore on earth, yet there is a day coming, when he shall make a glorious figure in the sight of men and angels. How little soever the saints may be esteemed in our day, and look poor and despicable in an ungodly world, yet there is an hour approaching, when they shall be glorious beyond all ima- gination, and Christ himself shall be glorified in them. In that day shall the Lord our Saviour be the object of adoration and wonder, not only among those of the sons of men, that have believed on him, but before all the intellectual creation, and that upon the account of his grace, manifested in believers. The natural enquiry that arises here is this, " What particular in- stances of the grace of Christ in his saints, shall be the matter of our admiration and his glory in that day ?" To this I shall pro- pose an answer under the following particulars. First, It is a matter of pleasing wonder, " that persons of all characters should have been united in oae faith, and per- suaded to trust in the same Saviour, and embrace the saine salvation ;" for some of all sorts shall stand in that blessed assembly. Then it shall be a fruitful spring of wonder and glory, that men of various nations and ages, of different tem- pers, .capacities, and interests, of contrary educations and con- trary prejudices, should believe one gospel, and trust in one deliverer from hell and death : That the sprightly, the studious and the stupid, the wise and the foolish, should relish and rejoice in the same sublime' truths, not only concerning the true God, but also,concerning Jesus the Redeemer; that the barbarian' and the Roman, the Greek and the Jew should approve and receive the same doctrines of salvation, that they should come into the same sentiments in the matters of religion, and live upon them as their only hope. Astonishing spectacle ! when the dark and savage inhabi- tants of Africa and our forefathers, the rugged and warlike Britons, from the ends of the earth, shall appear in that assem- bly with some of the polite nations of Greece and Rome, and each of them shall glory in having been taught to renounce the gods of their ancestors, and the demons which they once wor- shipped, and shall rejoice in Jesus the King of Israel, and in Jehovah the everlasting God. The conversion of the Gentile
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