'192 THE WORLD TO COME: made a meek and a heavenly saint: The grace of Christ shall he so conspicuous in every glorified believer in that assembly, that, with ohe voice, they shall all shout to the praise and glory Of his grace ; Not Unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy name be all the honour ! Ps, cxv. 1. 'thirdly, It shall be the matter ofour wonder, and the glory of Christ in that day, " that so many thousand guilty wretches should be made righteous by one righteousness, cleansed in one laver from all their iniquities, and sprinkled unto pardon and sanctification with the blood of one man Jesus Christ. See the great inültitude that no man could number; Rev. vii. 9, 19. They all Washed their robes, and mode them white in the blood of the Lamb, Verse 14. It is a matter of wonder to us hold on earth, that the blessed Son of God, who is one with the Father, should stoop so low as to unité himself to a mortal nature, that he should become a poor despicable man, and pass through a life of sufferings and sorrows, and die an accursed death, 4o redeem us from guilt and deserved misery : But when we shall see him in his native glory and lustre, his acquired dignities, and all the honours of heaven heaped upon him, it will raise Our wonder high, to think, that such a one should once humble himself to the death of the cross ; the death of the vilest slave, that he might save our souls from dying ,; that he should pour out his own blood, to wash off the stains of millions of sins, that we might appear righteous before a God of holiness. Then shall the multitude of the saved join in that song, To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, be glory and dominion for ever ; Rev: i. 5. 6. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches, and honour, for thou hast redeemed us with thy blood from every kindred, tribe, and nation; Rev. v. 9, 12. Then shall those blessed Words of scripture al$near, and shine in full glory, howsoever they are often passed over in silence, and tiro much forgotten in our age ; Rom. v. 17, 19, 21. If by one man's offence, death reigned by one ; much snore they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteous- ness, shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. For us by one man's disobedience many were made sinners : So by the obedience of one, shall many be snade righteous. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Then shall our blessed Lord shine in the complete lustre of that incommunicable name, Jehovah Tzidkenu, the Lord our righteousness ; Jet.. xxiii. 6. And not only the atonement, and salvation itself, shall be the subject of our glorious admiration, but the way and manner how sinners partake of it, shall minister further to our wonder, and to the glory of Christ. That such a world of poor miseta-
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