10$$ THE WORLD TO COME. their minds, and brought them into bondage to the law of sin; -Rom. vii. 23. But this law of sin is now for ever abolished, this bondage dissolved and broken, and these members are all new- created for instruments of righteousness to serve God in his tem- ple, for ever and ever. Holy Paul shall no more groan in a sinful tabernacle, he shall no more complain of that flesh, wherein no good thing dwelt, he shall cry out no more, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me ? Rom. vii. 24. Many and bitter have been the sorrows of a holy soul in this world, because of the perverse dispositions of animal nature and the flesh : But none of the saints in that assembly shall, ever: feel again the stings of inward envy, the pricking thorns of peevish- ness, nor the wild ferments of wrath and passion : None of them shall ever find those unruly appetites, which wrought so strongly in their old flesh and blood, and too often over - powered their un- willing souls, those appetites which brought their consciences sometimes under fresh guilt, and filled them with inward re- proaches and agonies of spirit. These evil principles are all destroyed by death, they are lost in the grave, and shall have no resurrection. The new- raised bodies of the righteous, in that day, shall be completely obedient to the dictates of their spirits, without any vicious juices to make reluctance, or perverse hu- mours to raise an inward rebellion : And not only so, but per- haps even our bodies shall have some active 'holy tendencies wrought in them so far as corporeal nature can administer toward the sacred exercises of a glorified saint. A sweet and blessed change indeed ! And Jesus, who raised these bodies, in this beauty of holiness, shall receive the glory of his divine work. The last instance I shall mention, wherein Christ shall be admired in his saints, is this, "they shall all appear, in that day, as so many images of his person, and as so many monu- ments of the success of his office." Is this the blessed Jesus a great prophet, and the teacher -of his church ? These are the persons that have learned his divine doctrine, they have heard the joyful sound of his gospel, and the holy truths of it are copied out in their hearts. These are the disciples of his school ; and by his word, and by his Spirit, they have been taught to -know God, and their Saviour, and they have been trained up in the way to eternal life. Is Jesus a greát;Fligh- priest both of sacrifice and interces- sion ? Behold all these souls, an endless number, purified from their defilements by the blood of his cross, washed, and made white in that blessed laver, and reconciled to God by his atoning sacrifice : Behold the power of his intercession, in securing mil- lions frem the wrath of God, and in procuring for them every divine blessing. He has obtained for each of them grace and glory. Is Jesus the .Lord of all things, and the King of his
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