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PREFACE. 
 
 This work ia not designed as A systematic treatise, but 
 as an humble essay on the great, the inexhaustible sub- 
 ject of the loye of Christ, as manifested to a lost world. 
 
 It was composed during a long period of recovery from 
 a chronic disease, which brought the author to the gates 
 of death, and well nigh terminated his life. 
 
 In the present essay the author has endeavored to 
 notice a few ways in which Christ has manifested his 
 great love to sinners. 
 
 His object in writing this work is to do good; and 
 should this volume be the means of leading any sinner to 
 the blessed Jesus, or of kindling a single spark of divine 
 lore in his bosom, or even of refreshing the soul of any 
 saint— of animating him on his way to glory — ^he will feel 
 amply rewarded for the toil of writing it, when in a state 
 of much pnysical inability ; and most gratefully would he 
 ascribe all the praise and glory to God. He can bless the 
 feeblest instrument; and, without his blessing, all our 
 labors for good must be futile. 
 
 While the author would endeavor to lead others to tho 
 
6 PBEFACB. 
 
 Lamb of God, to tlie bleeding SaTiour, mcst humbly 
 would he himseTf glory in the cross of Christ " God 
 forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, 
 and I unto the world ;" and ever does he hope to pro- 
 claim the love and set forth the praise of that blessed 
 Redeemer, who left the regions of glory to live and die 
 for sinners. 
 
 "Jesus I my Ebeptierd, Husbsnd, Friend; 
 My Prophet, Priest, and King; 
 My Lord, my life, my wsy, my end, 
 Accept tbe praise 1 bring. 
 
 " Weak Is the effort of my heart, 
 And cold my vrarmest thought; 
 But when I see thee as tboa art^ 
 ril praise thee as I ought 
 
 "Till then I would thy love proclaim. 
 With ev'ry fleeting breath ; 
 And may the music of thy naiso 
 Befresh my soul In death, 
 
 Abot!,e, N. T., Nov., 1850. 
 
3 N T E N T S. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 Introductory Essay. 11 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 The Love of Christ in coming into the World to saTe 
 Sinners 19 
 
 CHAPTER m. 
 The Lore of Christ as manifested in His Sufferings and 
 Death 82 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 TheliOTe of Christ contemplated. B3 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 The Lots of Christ m the bestowment of Grace and the 
 gift of His Word ; and in the Institution of Divine 
 Ordinances 68 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 TheLoyeof Christ it: Affliction. ...t 75 
 
8 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER VIL 
 The Love of Christ as manifested to His People in the rAsa 
 Hour of Death. 87 
 
 CHAPTER VHL 
 The Lots of Christ in the Hour of Death, continued. 
 
 The Cloud of Witnesses. 93 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 The Happy Home in View 128 
 
 CHAPTER X 
 The Happy Home contemplated ; being with Christ m 
 
 Glory 141 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 The Happy Home contemplated. The Blessedness of 
 the Saints. 162 
 
 ffifirfst, aim T^tm Sruclfteo. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 The Excellency of the Subject Ill 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 The Person of Christ 186 
 
 CHAPTER m. 
 The Glory of Christ 223 
 
 CHAPTER rV. 
 Christ Ciuiitiiil. 223 
 
CONTENTS. 9 
 
 CHAPTER V. PAoi 
 
 Christ Crucified — ccntinued ...,...,. 243 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 Redemption by Christ > 257 
 
 CHAPTER VIl 
 TheNetr Song in Glory. 272 
 
 CHAPTER VHL 
 Christ, and Him Crncified, the Sum and Substance of 
 
 the Gospel 282 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 Christ and Him Crucified, the only Hope of the Sinner. 294 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 The Cross of Christ, the Glory of the Christian, S09 
 
 Conclusion — Solemn Appeal to the Reader. 880 
 
 Wsriatxlnss of a J^davim. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 This "World a 'Wildemess, and the Christian a Pilgrim . 839 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 Commencement of the Christian's Journey — Difficulties 
 in the Way. 861 
 
 CHAPTER HL 
 Encouragements — ^Provision by the Way 862 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Christian Pilgiim in the Valley of Baca. 872 
 
10 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAsa 
 CHAPTER T. 
 The Christian on PisgaVs Mount , .. 879 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 The Posture of the Christian Pilgrim in coming up 
 from the Wilderness of this World 885 
 
 CHAPTER Vn. 
 Fossage oyer the Jordan of Death. 898 
 
 Smmanuel's SLanV. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 The Place 411 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 The Blessedneaa. 484 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 The Joy 447 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Gloiy. 466 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 The Rest. 462 
 
 CHAPTER TL 
 The Employment 468 
 
 CHAPTER Vn. 
 The Society 475 
 
 CHAPTER TUX 
 Th« Perpetuity of Bliss , , , , 434 
 
 Conclusion — ^Heavenly Meditation. 48f 
 
THOUGHTS 
 
 ( f 0lj£ oi C^nst 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTORT ESSAY. 
 
 God designed from eternity to create this 
 world, and people it with intelligent beings. 
 This design was put into execution in the 
 beginning of time. "In the beginning, God 
 created the heavens and the earth."* He 
 spake, and this earth, with all its multifarious 
 occupants, started into being. It required noth- 
 ing but his almighty fiat to usher a world and 
 its inhabitants into existence. Man was created 
 in the image of God : hence he was a holy and 
 a happy being. Uncontaminated by moral pol- 
 lution, his sen] was one of purity, holiness and 
 
 • Gen. L 1. 
 
12 ISTTBODTTJI JBT ESSAY. 
 
 happiness. He was lord of this lower creation, 
 enjoying the snules of his beneiicent Creator, 
 and the delight of the terrestrial paradise. 
 Primeval beauty mantled all sablunary objects. 
 Paradise bloomed with its richest productions ; 
 and all was peace and harmony between man 
 and his Creator. At length man disobeyed the 
 divine command ; sinned against God, and fell 
 from his original blessedness, by eating the for- 
 bidden fruit, 
 
 " Whose mortal taste 
 Bronglit death into the world, and all our woe." 
 
 ' By one man sin entered into the world, and 
 death by sin; and so death passed upon all 
 men, for that all have sinned." * 
 
 When we contrast man's present deplorable 
 condition, with his pristine state of irinocence, 
 we may well exclaim with the Prophet, " How 
 is the gold become dim I how is the most fine 
 gold changed I"f " The crown is fellen from 
 our head : woe unto us that we have sinned.":]: 
 
 By his fall, man lost all communion with 
 God, and became exposed to the miseries of 
 this life, to death itself and to the wrath of God 
 through eternity. ^From this sinful and lost 
 condition he could not extricate himself, ha 
 
 *E>n. via + lam. iv. 1 1 Lam. v. le. 
 
INTEODUCTORT ESSAY. 18 
 
 could not redeem himself, nor pay unto God a 
 sufficient ransom for Ms manifold transgressions. 
 A broken law was to be fulfilled, tbe justice of 
 God to be satisfied, and a complete atonement 
 to be made for tbe sins of men, or else God and 
 the sinner could never be reconciled. 
 
 Punishment, everlasting punishment and de- 
 struction from the presence of the Lord, and 
 from the glory of his power, awaited all man- 
 kind in the world of just retribution. All was 
 forlorn ; all was hopeless, forever hopeless with 
 regard to man's redemption, had not God inter- 
 posed on our behalf; to give unto us an ex- 
 pected end. It was the grand design of God, 
 from all eternity, to exhibit a magnificent plan 
 of salvation to a lost world. 
 
 And everlasting praise and thanksgiving be 
 unto his most blessed name, that the glad tidings 
 of this unspeakably precious salvation have 
 reached our ears. 
 
 When there was no eye to pity sinners, nor 
 arm to save them, God's eye pitied, and his arm 
 alone brought salvation to them. In infinite 
 love to lost and perishing sinners, he said, " De- 
 liver from going down to the pit; I have 
 found a lansom."* To every redeemed sinner, 
 God says, "When I passed by thee, and saw 
 
 * Job. sxxiii 24. 
 
14 iNTEODUCTOBY ESSAY. 
 
 thee polluted in thine own blood, I said tmto 
 thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live ; yea, I 
 said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, 
 live. When I passed by thee and looked upon 
 thee, behold thy time was the time of love ; and 
 I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy 
 nakedness : yea, I sware unto thee, and entered 
 into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, 
 and thou becamest mine."* God did not leave 
 all mankind to perish in their fallen, miserable 
 and polluted condition. No! his love saved 
 them ; his wisdom devised a way by which we, 
 polluted sinners, might be raised from the 
 horrible pit into which our iniquities had con- 
 Bigned us. 
 
 " When in our blood we lay, 
 He would not let tis die ; 
 Because hia love had fixed a day, 
 To bring salvation nigh." 
 
 The glorious plan of man's salvation ongm* 
 ated in the infinite love of God the Father ; and 
 In this divine plan of redemption, the most 
 marvellous exhibition of the love of God to 
 hell-deserving sinners is clearly seen. Here is 
 love, the love of God : such love as could never 
 have been conceived o^ had it not been so 
 amply revealed and manifested in the gift of 
 
 • Et XTi 6-8. 
 
II>^TRODUCTOBT ESSAY. 15 
 
 his only begotten Son. " For God so loved tlie 
 world (even a world of lost sinners) that he 
 gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever be- 
 lieveth in him should not perish, but have ever- 
 ing life."* " God is love," and our salvation is 
 from the God of love, and is a salvation planned 
 and executed in deep unfathomable love. " In 
 this was manifested the love of God toward us, 
 because that God sent his only begotten Son 
 into the world, that we might live through him. 
 Herein is love ;» not that we loved God, but 
 that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the pro- 
 pitiation for our siiis."f 
 
 "When we contemplate the greatness of God's 
 love to sinners, we are compelled to pause, and 
 exclaim with the admiring apostle, "Behold 
 what manner of love the Father hath bestowed 
 upon us, that we should be called the sons of 
 God."t 
 
 Oh ! the riches of divine grace ! Oh I the 
 depths of di\'ine love. How vast, how glorious, 
 and how adequate to the wants of perishing 
 sinners, is the plan of mercy — of love — of salva- 
 tion, which God has devised to save a lost world 1 
 It manifests the wisdom, the justice, the power 
 but, above all, the love of God. 
 
 *John ii' 16. f 1 John v. 9, 10 
 
 X 1 John iii. 1. 
 
16 INTRODUCTOBT ESSj.Y. 
 
 "Salvation I what a glorious plan; 
 How Boited to onr need 1 
 The grace that raises fallen man 
 Is wonderful indeed 1 
 
 " Twas wisdom formed the vast design, 
 To ransom tis when lost ; 
 And love's unfathomable mine 
 Provided all the cost 
 
 " Truth, 'Wisdom, Justice, Power and Love, 
 In all their glory shone, 
 When Jesus left the courts above^ 
 And died to save his own." 
 
 God has chosen a portion of the human family 
 to be the monuments of his free grace — ^trophies 
 of his redeeming love ; and for them he has sent 
 his own Son to suffer and die. 
 
 In the profound depths of infinite love, the 
 mercy of God to a lost world had its egress. 
 XJnsohcited and undeserved, it was nevertheless 
 e:x;tended to lost sinners: sinners, guilty and 
 polluted, are the objects upon which the mercy 
 and love of God are profusely bestowed. 
 
 Love is God's darling attribute, which he de- 
 lights to manifest most illustriously ; for God is 
 love.* And he has most singularly displayed 
 aU his love to sinful man, in the contrivance of 
 his salvation. 
 
 • 1 John iv 3. 
 
INTECCUCTOKT ESSAY. 11 
 
 Oh I how immeasurably great was that love 
 vrhich saved a world from ruin, and raised mil- 
 lions of Adam's sons and daughters from eternal 
 death and woe, to everlasting life and felicity 1 
 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. 
 
 The promise of a Great Deliverer, who should 
 emancipate captivated man from the thraldom 
 of sin and death, and accomplish his salvation, 
 was early conveyed to our first parents. Before 
 their expulsion from Paradise, when all seemed 
 lost, a gleam of hope shone around them. It 
 was promised that the seed of the woman should 
 bruise the head of the serpent ; that the works 
 of the devil should be destroyed. For this pur- 
 pose, the Son of God was to be manifested in the 
 flesh.* To the patriarchs the same promise was 
 more amply conveyed. Abraham got a glimpse 
 jf the day of Christ, and was glad. Dying 
 Jacob spoke of the coming of a Saviour. " The 
 sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
 giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come."f 
 Moses said to the children of Israel, " The Lord 
 thy God wni raise up unto thee a Prophet from 
 the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me : 
 unto him ye shall hearken.":]: 
 
 Isaiah, wrapped in prophetic vision, eloquently 
 describes the advent and characteristics of the 
 
 • 1 John i . 8. t Gen. xlix. 10. J Deut. xviii. 15 
 2* 
 
18 IITTRODUCTOET ESSAY. 
 
 promised Messiali. " Unto us a cliild is born : 
 unto us a son is given, and the government shall 
 be upon Ids shoulder ; and his name shall be 
 caUed Wonderfal, Coimsellor, The Mighty God, 
 The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."* 
 
 " Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a 
 son, and shall call his name Immanuel."f AH 
 the prophets spoke of Him who -was to come 
 into the world to accomplish our salvation ; "for 
 the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.":]: 
 As the time approached, the promises of a divine 
 Saviour were multiplied. " But when the ful- 
 ness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, 
 made of a woman, made under the law, to 
 redeem them that were under the law, that we 
 might receive the adoption of sons."§ 
 
 Love was the grand principle which prompted 
 the blessed God to give his Son to die for sin- 
 ners ; and love was the impelling motive that 
 brought Immanuel from his throne, to this 
 fallen world, in order to save the lost. How 
 great, how sublime was that scheme of his to 
 save a perishing world I How vast was that 
 love which enabled him ta execute this plan I 
 
 • la. ii 6. f Ib. Tii. 14 
 
 X EeT. xix If g Gel jt. 4, 6. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHBISI. 19 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THK LOVB or CHRIST IN COMING INTO THE WOF.^.D 
 TO SAVK SINNERS. 
 
 "This ia a faithful saying, and ■srorthy of all acceptation, 
 that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."— i 
 1 Tim. si. 15. 
 
 The gospel, as the name signifies, denotes glad 
 tidings. This blessed gospel is sent to us : to 
 you, reader, are these glad tidings conveyed. 
 " That Christ Jesus came into the -world to save 
 sinners," is the best news that ever fell on the 
 ears of a dying world. Life and immortality 
 are brought to light through this gospel of the 
 grace of God. 
 
 Let us now contemplate the glorious charac- 
 ter of our blessed Eedeemer, and the love which 
 he has manifested in coming into the world to 
 save sinners. 
 
 1. In the person of Christ, the human and 
 divine natures are united. His divinity is 
 clearly asserted ia the Scriptures. The Ee- 
 deemer of lo^it sinners is the eternal Son of God 
 — equal with the Father, the Creator of the 
 universe, the upholder of aU things. Indued 
 
20 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 with supreme power, he reigns miiversal Lord. 
 All power is given to him, in heaven and earth. 
 All worlds are his. AH kingdoms are his do- 
 main. He made all things. At his command, 
 worlds started into being. By his power all 
 created matter is upheld in existence. He has 
 caused the sun to shine with undiminished 
 splendor on our globe for nearly six thousand 
 years. It is he " that spreadeth out the heavens, 
 and treadeth upon the waves of the sea ; that 
 maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the 
 chambers of the south."* 
 
 Open the blessed volume, and read the fun- 
 damental doctrine of Christianily, that Christ, 
 •Jie redeemer of sinners, is God. "In the be- 
 ginning was the Word, and the "Word was with 
 God, and the Word was God. All things were 
 made by him; and without him was not any 
 thing madCj that was made."f It is a matter of 
 great consblation for the believer who has in- 
 trusted his immortal concerns in the hands of 
 his blessed Eedeemer, to know that he is God 
 over all, blessed forever. Let him ever bear in 
 mind that the Saviour, who loves him, is the 
 only begotten Son of God, and bears his very 
 image. He is the brightness of his Father's 
 glory, and the express image of his person. He 
 
 » Job is. 8, 9 f John i. 1, 3. 
 
THB LOVE OF CHRIST. 21 
 
 is clothed -with divine majesty, and possesses all 
 divine perfections, and infinite excellences. Ha 
 is equal with God in all his glorious perfec- 
 tions. 
 
 He is called " the Lord of Glory," the " Kiag 
 of glory," " the mighty God," " Jehovah ;" and 
 in the Eevelation he is described as having 
 on his vesture, and on his thigh a name writ- 
 ten, "King of kings, and Lord of lords."* 
 Again, it is said of him that he " is the image 
 of the invisible God, the first-born of every 
 creature: for by him were all things created 
 that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible 
 and invisible ; whether they be thrones or do- 
 minions, or principalities, or powers. All things 
 were created with him and for him : and he is 
 before aU things, and by him all things consist ; 
 and he is the head of the body, the church, who 
 is the beginning, the first-born from the dead ; 
 that in all things he might have the pre-emi- 
 nence. For it pleased the Father, that in him 
 should aU. fullness dwell."f 
 
 There is a transcendant loveliness in the per- 
 son of Christ. He is " fairer than the children 
 of men:" "the chiefest among ten thousand; 
 yea, he is altogether lovely." What glorious 
 and lovely attractions centre in Immanuell 
 
 ' Eev. xix 16. t Col. I 16-19. 
 
22 THE LOVE OF CHSIST. 
 
 Such is the character of Him who came into 
 our sin-polluted world, to shed on Calvary 
 his precious blood for the redemption of his 
 people. 
 
 2. Christ came into the world by being mani- 
 fested in the flesh, yet he lost nothing of his 
 essential glory and dominion. He was as truly 
 "the brightness of his Father's glory," and the 
 owner of the imiverse, when in the manger, and 
 on the cross, as he is now at the right hand of 
 God : " Even the son of man who is in heaven." 
 Yet out of love to sinners, he chose to suffer 
 that glory to be veiled in humanity, and him- 
 self to be made under the law to redeem his 
 people. What amazing love is seen here. " The 
 Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."* 
 "God was manifest in the flesh."f Christ Jesus 
 was in the form of God, and thought it not rob- 
 bery to be equal with God; but he "made 
 himself of no reputation, and took upon him the 
 form of a servant, and was made in the likeness 
 of men.":j: The advent of Christ was the signal 
 of peace on earth. His incarnation was an 
 event of great joy to the world. To the shep- 
 herds of Bethlehem, the glad tidings of his birth 
 were conveyed by an angel of the Lord. To 
 them he proclaim3d : " Behold I bring you 
 
 • John i. 14 t 1 Tim. iiL 16. J Phil iL 1 
 
THE LOVE OP CHRIST. 23 
 
 good tidings of great joy, 'wHch shall bo to aU 
 people. For unto you is born this day, in the 
 city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the 
 Lord."* A new light then burst upon the 
 world. The glorious Sun of Righteousness, 
 emitting his resplendent rays upon kingdoms 
 and nations involved in moral darkness, arose 
 to enlighten, to gladden, and to bless our be- 
 nighted planet. The prince of peace made his 
 appearance. The messenger of reconciliation 
 came, to reconcile alienated man to the friend- 
 ship of his offended Creator, and fit him for the 
 mansions of glory. When such a momentous 
 event had occurred, when the eternal Son of 
 God had invested himself with humanity, and 
 become bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh ; 
 well might the song of the heavenly host re- 
 sound among the hills of Judea, proclaiming, 
 " Glory be to God in the highest, and on earth 
 peace, good will toward men." For unto us a 
 Saviour was born. And never was human na- 
 ture so highly honored and exalted as when 
 Christ assumed it. What blessings are bestowed 
 upon fallen man, through the incarnation of the 
 Son of God I Eternity alone can unfold them. 
 
 Christ came most willingly into the world to 
 do the will of ais heavenly Father His words 
 
 • Luke ii, 10, 11. 
 
24 THE LOVE OF CHEIST 
 
 were " Lo, I come : in the volume of the book 
 it is ■written of me ; I delight to do thy will, O 
 my God."* Christ offered himself a willing 
 victim upon the altar of divine wrath. He came 
 into the world. But oh I wonderful condescen- 
 sion and boundless love, that Christ shovild come 
 into this sinful world. On the matchless con- 
 descension and kindness of Christ, as manifested 
 by his incarnation, a pious writerf has the fol- 
 lowing beautiful remarks: "Earthly princes 
 are only feeble worms ; their loftiest elevation 
 is a molehill, and their brightest splendor a vain 
 show. Yet how rarely do they descend from 
 their thrones, to visit and relieve those who lan- 
 guish in the abodes of poverty and wretched- 
 ness I In our low and lost estate Jesus Christ 
 not only saw and pitied us, but also hastened on 
 the wings of love to bring salvation." ' He was 
 eternally rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, 
 that we through his poverty might be made 
 rich.' " 
 
 He was clothed with light, and surrounded 
 with hosts of happy, adoring spirits; yet he 
 submitted to put on our nature, and sojourn 
 among guilty, worthless mortals. 
 
 Herein is love I love without a parallel, love 
 that exceeds description, and passes knowledge! 
 
 » Ps. xL 7. 8 I Thornton. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIfaP. 25 
 
 The incarnation of the only begotten Son of 
 God is a mystery of wisdom and love, in ■which 
 all our thoughts ought to be absorbed, and all 
 our hearts with it should be enraptured. The 
 wonders of the vast universe, could they be col- 
 lected and presented to us in one view, would 
 lose all their attraction and dwindle into insig- 
 nificance, were we stedfastiy to contemplate 
 the marvellous condescension of the Eedeemer, 
 manifested in the humiliation to which he sub- 
 mitted on our account. When he exchanged 
 his throne for the manger of Bethlehem, the 
 shining host of heaven burst into that sublime 
 song, " Glory to God in the highest, on earth 
 peace, and good will to men." Here is con- 
 descension which we could not have believed 
 possible, had it not been so clearly and amply 
 revealed. The kindness and love of God our 
 Saviour towards man, appeared with pre-emi- 
 nent lustre in the whole of that great work 
 which he undertook to perform for their salva- 
 tion. How ardent was that love which brought 
 the ever blessed Son of God from heaven to 
 earth, that he might save sinners. What but 
 infinite love could' have induced him to come 
 into the world — to be made sin for us — to bear 
 our sins in his own body, that we might be 
 
 reconciled to God, and be brought at last into 
 3 
 
26 THE LOVE OF CHSIST. 
 
 the everlasting mansions of glcxy, to be ever 
 with the Lord. 
 
 Jesus Christ is love itself embodied in a hu- 
 man form: that form once appeared on our 
 earth, and trod the thorny pathway from the 
 manger to the cross, till it was seen to bleed, 
 and groan, and die, on Calvary, for sinners as 
 vile as we are. Eeader ! have you an interest 
 in that great work which Christ, by coming into 
 the world, has finished ? Are you deeply in- 
 terested in his atonement, and righteousness? 
 Is his love shed abroad in your heart ? Is ho 
 unspeakably precious to you? For, says the 
 Apostle, " unto you therefore which believe, he 
 is precious." Can you adopt the language of 
 the poet, and sweetly sing, 
 
 ' Sweeter somids than music knows, 
 Charm me in Immanuel's name : 
 All her hopes my spirit owes 
 To his birth, and cross, and shame. 
 
 ' When he came, the angels snug 
 
 ' Glory be to God on high I' 
 Lord, unloose my etamm'ring tongue : 
 Who shall louder sing than I !" — Newtom. 
 
 By his coming into the world and accomplish- 
 ing our salvation, Christ has opened the gates 
 of the celestial city, through which redeemed 
 sinners may now f-ass into mansions of etema] 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 27 
 
 bliss. O sinner, the gates of Paradise are now 
 wide open for your reception ; enter in and be 
 saved. The arms of Christ are now stretched 
 from heaven for your relief. Look up, then, 
 with confidence to your loving Saviour. He 
 now calls upon you from his eternal throne, 
 "Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends 
 of the earth ; for I am God, and there is none 
 else ; a just God, and a Saviour."* Sinner, 
 have you looked to Christ for salvation? In 
 him you will find an everlasting salvation. 
 Everlasting salvation! precious words I It is 
 the gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 In the incarnation of the Son of God, we behold 
 immeasurably great love manifested to sinners. 
 With love unparalleled, he descends to this 
 sinful world, and lives and dies for the redemp- 
 tion of his people. Love led him to forsake the 
 regions of glory, for this dark abode of sin and 
 suffering. 
 
 "Nothing brought him fi-om above, 
 Nothing but redeeming love.'' 
 
 0, what love is here manifested to a guilty, 
 rebellious world ! " Ye know the grace of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for 
 your sakes he became poor, that ye through hia 
 poverty might be rich." 
 
 * Is. sdv 21, 22. 
 
28 THE LOVE OF CHKIST. 
 
 But why did lie thus veil his glory in numan 
 ity, and come into this world ? It was to save 
 sinners. " This is a faithful saying, and worthy 
 of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into 
 the world to save sinners."* 
 
 3. To save sianers was the very object for 
 which Messiah left his throne ; for which the 
 Son of God became incarnate. " I am not come 
 to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."f 
 " The Son of man is come to seek and to save 
 that which was lost.":]: "When Christ veiled his 
 glory, and left the regions of bliss, it was to save 
 sinners. When he assumed mortal flesh, and 
 became a suffering man, it was to save sinners. 
 When he bled and died on the cross, it was to 
 save sinners. When he burst the fetters of death, 
 and in a glorified form ascended to heaven, it 
 was to save sinners; and now that he is set 
 down at the right hand of the throne of God. he 
 is still carrying on his blessed work of saving 
 sinners. 
 
 It was infinite love that brought Christ into 
 the world to save sinners. What amazing lova 
 is here displayed! In man's redemption th< 
 love of Christ shines with pre-eminent lustre; 
 In his love Christ came to save sinners, anij 
 
 Xitt. i. 16. , f Mat. ix 18. 
 
 X L"ike six. 10 
 
THE LOVE or CHiilST. 29 
 
 most ■willingly does he receive even the vilest 
 sinner that comes to him for salvation. 
 
 Have you yet fled for refuge to the world's 
 Redeemer ? There is but one refuge provided 
 for a lost world : Christ is that refuge. He 
 shelters all that come to him. In him is eternal 
 safety. Happy are they, whose hopes are fixed 
 on him : they are safe ; though all around them 
 are changes and fluctuations, yet their rest ia 
 pitched aloft, far above this sphere of changing 
 and perishing mortality. Onward and heaven- 
 ward will be their course, and glorious will be 
 their destiny ! "When Christ shall appear, they 
 shall appear with him in glory. 
 
 Animated by the hope of immortality, look 
 with holy contempt upon the world and all its 
 delusive pleasures. Let a joyful eternity be ever 
 in your view. Choose Christ as your Saviour 
 and portion, and heaven will be your home. 
 You will quickly ^glide over the tempestuous 
 sea of life, and land on 
 
 "the peaceful shore 
 
 Of hlest eternity." 
 
 Come, sinner ! come and intrust your salvOr 
 
 tion to the blessed Jesus, who came to save sin 
 
 ners. He will not cast you out. Hear his own 
 
 words : " H-'ra that cometh to me, I will in no 
 3* 
 
80 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 wise cast out."* He has a ■willing ear to heai 
 your cry ; a willing heart to receive you ; will- 
 ing arnis to embrace you; almighty power to 
 save you. do not refuse the Lord of glory I 
 Do not contemn the gospel message of love. 
 
 Behold your loving Saviour 1 See what an 
 interest he has taken in your eternal welfare. 
 See him laying aside the robes of his glory for 
 you. See him, though high, becoming low; 
 though rich, becoming poor for you: and see 
 him coming into this world to save you. Attend 
 to his gracious calls. Seek him instantly. May 
 the sweet influences of Christ's redeeming love 
 constrain you to come and partake of the joys 
 of salvation. Salvation by Christ 1 Blessed 
 gospel ; well mayest thou be styled glad tidings 
 of great joy I 
 
 In a word, I beseech you, dear reader, as you 
 value the happiness of your immortal soul and 
 the bliss of eternity, to make sure of your salva 
 tion. "Behold, now is the accepted time; be 
 hold, now is the day of salvation." To-morrow 
 may be too late. To-morrow's sun may set upon 
 your grave. Now " Seek ye the Lord while he 
 may be found, call ye upon him while he is 
 near : let the wicked forsake his way, and the 
 unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him re- 
 
 • John vL 37. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 81 
 
 turn unto the Lord, and he will have mercy 
 upon him ; and to our God, for he will abun- 
 dantly pardon."* 
 
 " Come, lepers, seize the present hour 
 The Saviour's grace to prove : 
 He can relievs, for he has poVr 
 He will, foi he is love." — ^ewtom 
 
 • is. If. 6, 1. 
 
82 THE ^OVK OF CHEIST. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE LOTS OF CHRIST, AS MAOTFESTED IN HIS BCITEB- 
 IKG3 AND DKATH. 
 
 " Greater lovo hatli no man than this, that a man lay down bis life fo» 
 His friends." — Jonn it, 18, 
 
 "Heligion ! thou the soul of happiness ; 
 And groaning Calvary, of thee 1 There shine 
 The noblest truths ; there strongest motives sting 
 There sacred violence assaults the soul ; 
 There nothing but compulsion is forborne. 
 
 Thou my aU I 
 
 My theme 1 my inspiration, and my crown I 
 My strength in agel my rise in low estate I 
 My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth ; my world 
 My light in darkness, and my life in death ! 
 My boast through time I bliss through eternity 1 
 Eternity too short to speak thy praise, 
 Or fathom thy profound of love to man 1 
 To man of men the meanest, e'en to me I 
 My sacrifice ! my God 1 What things are these t 
 Talk they of morals ? O thou bleeding Love ! 
 Thou maker of new morals to mankind 1 
 The grand morality is love to thee 1" 
 
 In the death, of Christ, we behold the most 
 astonishing exhibition of divine love that has 
 ever been manifested to a lost wcrld. Such 
 love as is here displayed is without a precedent 
 
THE LOVE 0/ OJEIST. 83 
 
 — -without a parallel in the annals of time or in 
 the records of eternity. To behold the Son of 
 God, the Maker of worlds, bowing his head on the 
 cross, and yielding up his immaculate soul amid 
 the agonies of death, is the most wonderful, the 
 most affecting, the most melting sight that mor- 
 tals ever -witnessed. Around the Cross of Christ 
 there shine the most resplendent rays of divine 
 love that ever beamed from the Sun of Eight- 
 eousness — that ever emanated from the Deity. 
 
 Here then is the brightest display of love, 
 that Christ has manifested to a -world of per- 
 ishing sinners. "Greater love hath no man 
 than this, that a man lay down his life for his 
 ■friends."* But, oh ! amazing love I that Christ 
 breathed out his precious life, poured out his 
 holy soul unto death, for his enemies, for the 
 ungodly, for sinners. " For when we were yet 
 ■without strength, in due time Christ died for 
 the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man 
 will one die : yet peradventure for a good man 
 some -would even dare to die. But God com- 
 mendeth his love toward us, in that -while we 
 were yet sinners, Christ died for us."f Christ 
 died to save sinners: -without his death, their 
 salvation could not have been accomplished, 
 "Without the shedding of blood, there is no re- 
 
 • John XI 18. t ^°™- ^' 8-8. 
 
34 THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 
 
 mission ;* and witliout the shedding of Christ's 
 precious blood, not a single sinner could have 
 been saved. The salvation of countless millions 
 ■was suspended on the death of Christ ; but, in 
 love, he died to save them. 
 
 Here we may behold a little of the vastness of 
 that love which cannot be measured, and which 
 cannot be told. The Saviour's love met death 
 itself in the face, and triumphed over the grave. 
 0, my soul, look and wonder! Behold thy 
 Saviour bleeding on the cross; bleeding from 
 every pore, that thy sins might be washed away 
 in the flowing stream! See him pouring out 
 his soul unto death, for thy salvation ; and ask, 
 Is not this a manifestation of unparalleled love 
 to thee ? 
 
 0, blessed Jesus ! we come far short of com- 
 prehending the greatness of thy dying love. It 
 is a great deep. It is a fathomless ocean. May 
 we contemplate more and more this mystery of 
 divine love ! 
 
 Christ's suffering and dying for us is a great 
 mystery, a mystery of unfathomable love. How 
 vehement was the love of Christ, that led him to 
 endure death in its most terrible form, even the 
 death of the cross ! " Love is strong as death : 
 the coaZs thereof are coals of fire, which hath 
 
 • Heb. ix 22. 
 
THE LOVE OF CH.tlST 85 
 
 a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot 
 quencli love ; neither can the floo Is drown it."* 
 Such is the love of Christ. All the waters of 
 affliction and suffering ; all the billows of divine 
 wrath that rolled over our blessed Eedeemor, 
 were not sufficient to quench the ardency of 
 that love which he felt for a dying world of sin- 
 ners. It will endure through time. It will 
 shine with undiminished splendor, and glow 
 brighter and brighter through eternity. 
 
 Oh ! the infinite love of the Son of God, to 
 shed his precious blood for sinners. The love 
 of Christ, in dying for sinners, passeth all knowl- 
 edge. It is immeasurable. It is as incomprehen- 
 sible as the duration of eternity. It is as illimit- 
 able as boundless space. "It is as high as 
 heaven ; what canst thou do ? deeper than hell ; 
 what canst thou know ? The measure • thereof 
 is longer than the earth, and broader than the 
 sea."t 
 
 love divine I where are thy limits ? Great 
 God I beyond the sight of mortals, and of an- 
 gels ? The stupendous sun, the brilliant moon, 
 the amazing stars, the extended firmameat ; 
 these have their bounds, but that love has lone. 
 
 Lift up your eyes, and behold this vast world, 
 the product of his power I See its continenta, 
 
 • Cant. vL 6, 1. f Jo^ ^ 3, 9. 
 
86 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 and its oceans extending for tliousands of miles: 
 these continents may be measured ; but not hia 
 love, Avbo, though God, became man, to die for 
 man. Sooner would those unfathomable oceans 
 be fathomed, than the depths of his compassion. 
 
 Lift up your eyes to the heavens ! Survey the 
 countless glories of the starry firmament ; all its 
 fixed or " moving worlds of light !" Let your 
 thoughts rove from star to star. How great is 
 he who formed them all ! How glorious he who 
 has bid them shine with undiminished splen- 
 dor through sjx thousand years, and to whom 
 they are mean as a speck of flying dust ! Yet 
 he who hung out those brilliant fires stooped 
 from his amazing height of bliss and majesty, to 
 assume mortal flesh, and appear a feeble infant 
 and a suffering man. Far sooner should you 
 measure their immeasurable distances, and count 
 their countless numbers, than tell all the vast- 
 ness of his love, and the blessings it bestows. 
 The sun is darkness compared with his superior 
 glory who hung it in the heavens ; and yet he 
 humbled himself to the dark abodes of misery 
 and death for guilty man. 
 
 I when you gaze upon the blue expanse, or 
 when the solemn stillness of night banishes from 
 your mind the thoughts of a vain, departing 
 world ; when you behold the midnight sky and 
 mark the thousinds of its glowing fires; then 
 
THE LOVE CF CHRIST. 37 
 
 think that he who fixed them there once hung 
 on Calvary for you, that you might shine a 
 star, a sun, in heaven, when all those stars shall 
 shine no more. Think that he was once mean 
 and dishonored, stained with blood, and blue 
 with blows, that you might have a treasure 
 greater than a thousand worlds united, and in- 
 finitely more lasting than the countless lights 
 which illuminate the firmanent. Amazing 
 love I* 
 
 Here we must pause, and wonder, and praise, 
 and adore ; and in the midst of our adoration, 
 exclaim, Lord ! what is man, that thou art 
 mindful of him ; and the son of man, that thou 
 shouldst thus visit him ? blessed Jesus ! thou 
 didst visit us in love — in great mercy. Thou 
 didst bleed thy life's blood, that we might be 
 washed from our sins in that blood of infinite 
 virtue. Thou didst die, that we might live. 
 Thou didst wear a crown of thorns, that we 
 might wear a crown of glory, and shine as stars 
 in heaven forever. 
 
 0, to know more and more about the dying 
 love of the Lord Jesus ! The heart of Jesus ia 
 nothing but a heart of love : love to sinners, 
 even the chief It has been well remarked, that 
 " were all the love of all the men that ever were 
 
 • Pikft 
 
88 THE LOVE OP CHBIST. 
 
 or shall be on tlie eartli, and all the lovs of ill 
 the angels in heaven, united in one heart, it 
 would be a cold heart to that which was pierced 
 with the soldier's spear."* O thou loving, bleed- 
 ing Lamb of God 1 come, wash us in that blood 
 which flowed from thy wounded heart, from thy 
 pierced side ; which streamed from Calvary, 3v 
 fountain of overflowing, inexhaustible depths of 
 redeeming blood, " In that day there shall be 
 a fountain opened to the house of David, and to 
 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for un- 
 cleanness."f Blessed be God ! that fountain 
 has been opened these eighteen hundred years, 
 and is as inexhaustible as ever. 
 
 " Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 
 waters ; and he that hath no money, come ye, 
 buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk, 
 without money and without price.":]: What 
 stupendous love has Christ here manifested, in 
 washing away the sins of a lost multitude in his 
 own most precious blood. Well may redeemed 
 sinners shout in songs of praise to their adorable 
 Eedeemer, " Unto him that loved us, and wash- 
 ed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath 
 made us kings and priests unto God and his 
 Father; unto him be glcry and dominion for 
 ever and ever Amen." 
 
 • Madaurin. f Zeeh. xiil. 1. J la. Iv. L 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 39 
 
 " Worthy is the Lamb that -u-as slain to receive 
 power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and 
 honor, and glory, and blessing.- 
 
 Oh 1 the infinite efficacy of the blood of Christ 
 to cleanse from all sin. " The blood of Jesus 
 Christ cleanseth us from all sin."* Through 
 the blood of Christ, pardon and peace flow to 
 guilty sinners. " In whom we have redemption 
 through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, ac- 
 cording to the riches of his grace."f " Chrisi 
 died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.":]: 
 " Through this man is preached unto you the 
 forgiveness of sins."§ " He made peace through 
 the blood of his cross."|| Precious blood that 
 redeems us from eternal misery, and brings us 
 nigh to God I " Now in Christ Jesus, ye who 
 sometime were far off, are made nigh by the 
 blood of Christ."^ Oh ! costly price of man's 
 redemption — the precious blood of Christ. " Ye 
 know that ye were not redeemed with corrup- 
 tible things, as silver and gold ; but with the 
 precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without 
 blemish and without spot."** " For ye are bought 
 with a price : therefore glorify God in your body 
 and in your spirit, which are God's."f f 0, my 
 
 • 1 John i. 7. t 1 Cor. xr 3. J Col. i 20. 
 
 f Eph. i. 7 § Acts xi, 58. T[ Eph. ii. 13. 
 
 •• 1 Pet L 3«, 19. ft 1 Cor. vi. Z.X 
 
40 THE LOVE O^ JHBIST, 
 
 soul I look with astonishment at the f rice paid 
 for thy redemption — the infinitely precious Hood 
 of Christ. 
 
 Deer reader, look and live I Look at the 
 blessed Jesus, bleeding and dying on the cross 
 for your sins. "As Moses lifted up the serpent 
 in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man 
 be lifted up ; that whosoever believeth in him 
 should Dot perish, but have eternal life."* 
 
 ' Upon the cross I seS him bleed, 
 And by the sight fj-om guilt am freed : 
 This sight destroys the life of sin. 
 And quietens heavenly life within." 
 
 A bleeding Saviour, seen by faith, is the sight 
 that gives peace to the guilty, heavy-laden soul. 
 It is the blood of Christ sprinkled upon the con- 
 science, that makes peace between God and the 
 sinner. 
 
 But what intense sufferings our divine Re- 
 deemer endured, when he " bore our sins in his 
 own body ;" when he was made to be sin for us ; 
 ■when he suffered, the just for the unjust. As 
 our substitute, he endured the wrath of God, 
 and suifered for our sins. It was infinite love 
 that led the blessed Son of God to endure all 
 these sufferings, rjid, at last to submit to the 
 
 • Join iiL U, 15, 
 
THE LOVE OF CH II&I 41 
 
 painful deatli of the cross. How brightly did 
 that love shine in the last hours of his life, when 
 he was about to bleed on Calvary 1 "What but 
 infinite love led him to the garden of Geth- 
 semane, to endure that titter agony ; when he 
 said, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto 
 death,"* and where " his sweat was as it were 
 great drops of blood falling down to the 
 ground !"f "What but infinite love led him to 
 the judgment hall, there to be derided, con- 
 demned to death, and crowned with thorns; 
 where " his visage was so marred more than any 
 man, and his form more than the sons of men !"| 
 What but infinite love brought him to Calvary's 
 mount, there to hang a suffering, bleeding vic- 
 tim on the cross, for our sins ? 
 
 There is nothing that shows the love of Christ 
 like Calvary. It is there that all the rays of 
 divine love are blended together. In that dark 
 hour in which our Saviour hung on the cross, 
 he showed to the world that his love was stronger 
 than death : then he exhibited more than human 
 love ; he manifested the infinite love of God. 
 Amidst all his sufferings, divine love shone with 
 the greatest lustre. Who can tell what love 
 Christ felt for a lost world when he suffered on 
 the cross ? Then hs was aboU( to accomplish 
 
 Mark xiv 34. \ Luke xxii. 44. ^ Isa. lii. 14 
 
 4* 
 
42 THE LOVE OF CHEIST, 
 
 our salvation ; and his love became stronger and 
 stronger, Thougli he grappled with the powers 
 of darkness, yet his arm brought salvation. He 
 endured the hidings of his Father's countenance, 
 till he was led to exclaim, in the bitterness of 
 his soul, "My God, my God, why hast thou 
 forsaken me ?'' But he made an end of sin, and 
 brought in an everlasting righteousness ; and 
 amidst the last struggles of his holy soul, there 
 fell from his lips in dying accents, these most 
 blessed words — the most joyful ever conveyed 
 to a sinner's ear, "It is finished I" Yes, your 
 salvation, sinner, is accomplished by this won- 
 drous death — ^by that diviae personage who 
 endured it. 
 
 0, look at this exhibition of love I Was there 
 ever such love manifested to a lost world, as is 
 here displayed before your eyes ? Eeader, con- 
 template Christ crucified. 
 
 How intently was the inind of the great apos- 
 tle fixed on this prohfic theme I His language 
 to the Corinthians is, " I determined not to know 
 any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and 
 him crucified."* You also may look towards 
 Calvary, and with the same apostle, exclaim, 
 "God forbid that I should glory, save in the 
 cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the 
 
 • 1 Cor. ii. 2. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHKIST. 43 
 
 world is crucified unto me, and I unto the 
 world."* Blessed Jesus ! we cannot comprehend 
 the vastness of thy djnng love. 
 
 "The propitiatory death of Christ," says a 
 late pious writer,f "viewed by faith, fills and 
 absorbs the mind, touches and melts the heart, 
 raises and refines the affections, and completely 
 transforms the whole character." 
 
 " Herein is love," says John ; " not that we 
 loved God, but that he loved us, and gave his 
 Son to be a propitiation for our sins." "For 
 the love of Christ constraineth us, because we 
 thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all 
 dead ; and that he died for all, that they which 
 live should not henceforth live unto themselves, 
 but unto him which died for them, and rose 
 again.":]: 
 
 Is it surprising, then, that Christ should be 
 precious to believers ? Can we see his matchless 
 condescension, in stooping from a throne of 
 glory, to a cross of suffering and shame ; can we 
 understand the great end of his amazing humil- 
 iation and vicarious death ; can we feel the 
 sprinkling of his peace-speaking blood upon the 
 conscience, and not love, adore, and magnify 
 him? "O ye cold-hearted, frozen formalists! 
 on such a theme it is impious to be calm. Pas- 
 
 ' GaL vi. 14. + Thornton. J 2 Cor. v. 14, 16. 
 
4-i THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 
 
 sion is reason, transport is temper, here." W hat 
 can elevate and rejoice the soul, if it be unaf- 
 fected with the highest manifestations of etemai 
 love? In the death of Christ, the power, -wis- 
 dom, justice, and mercy of God, shine forth 
 in full unclouded splendor. What language 
 can, with due force, express the tender and 
 lively emotions which spring up in the Chris- 
 tian's breast as he silently muses on the delight- 
 ful subject of redeeming love ? O God ! what is 
 man, that thou art mindful of him? Thou 
 didst not even spare thine own Son, but freely 
 delivered him up for us all. Who am I, that 
 such a price should be paid for my ransom ? It 
 was not with silver and gold, and corruptible 
 things, that my soul was redeemed, but by the 
 precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without 
 blemish and without spot. Why, blessed and 
 adorable Saviour, didst thou look in compassion 
 on me, a worthless worm, a vile apostate, a hell- 
 deserving rebel ? how is my soul lost in ad- 
 miration and delight, when I contemplate this 
 mystery I May thy love ever glow in my heart, 
 and thy praise on my tongue ! May I wholly 
 live to thee, who hast died for me. 
 
 "Oil, Tvond'rous lore! to bleed and die 
 To bear the cross and shame ; 
 That guiltj- sinners, such as I, 
 Might plead thy ^rajfous rivme." 
 
THE LOVE !)F CHRIST. 45 
 
 The death of Christ delivers us from condem- 
 nation. Wlien a sinner, by faith, obtains a sight 
 of the crucified One, he boldly exclaims in the 
 face of all his enemies, " Who is he that condem- 
 neth ? It is Christ that died." By his death he 
 has satisfied divine justice, and reconciled us to 
 God ; and " there is therefore now no condem- 
 nation to them which are in Christ Jesus."* 
 "Being justified by faith, 'we have peace with 
 God through our Lord Jesus Christ;" and being 
 now justified by his blood, we shall be saved 
 from wrath through him. " When we were 
 enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death 
 of his Son."f O, to have an interest in that 
 itonement which Christ made for our sins I " By 
 whom we have now received the atonement.":]: 
 
 Eeader, I would not lead you to Sinai, but 
 to Calvary — ^to the Saviour's bleeding side. I 
 would point you to the cross of Christ ; to Him, 
 who, in his great love, once suffered, and bled, 
 and died for sinners. I would direct you to the 
 bleeding Lamb of God, " which taketh away the 
 sin of the world." May you behold Him with 
 the eye of fiiith ; even Him who so loved -you, 
 that he laid down his own life for you- Then 
 shall the peace of God, which passeth all under- 
 standing, fill voir heart. Then shall heavenly 
 
 • Eom. Tiii. L f Korri. v 1, 9, 10. t ^<^^-T- H- 
 
46 THE LOVE OF CHE, ST. 
 
 joys possess your renewed spirit ; and one un- 
 broken strain of praise shall, througli time and 
 eternity, arise from your purified, exalted, and 
 enraptured soul, to Him that loved you, and 
 washed you from your sins in his own blood. 
 
 Look at Jesus now. Have faith in his aton- 
 ing blood. Endeavor to obtain a glimpse of the 
 bleeding Saviour. 
 
 "A bleeding Saviour, seen by faith, 
 A sense of pard'ning love ; 
 A hope that triumphs over death, 
 Give joys like those above, 
 
 " To take a glimpse -within the vail , 
 To know that God is mine; 
 Are springs of joy that never fail, 
 Unspeakable I divine 1" 
 
 The sufferings and death of the Son of God 
 afford the most illustrious exhibition of divine 
 love that has ever been displayed on this terres- 
 trial globe. Here is exhibited love, such as 
 never before shone on earth; love, surpassing 
 human thought and comprehension. Truly, 
 here the love of Ohrisu passeth knowledge! 
 What wonderful love and condescension are 
 here manifested I Christ dying for sinners I 
 The Son of God nailed to the cross for sinners I 
 The blood of Imrrianuel flowing from Calvary 
 for sinners I 
 
THE LOVE OF CilEIST. 47 
 
 Our blessed Saviour, " who, being in the form 
 of God, tbougbt it not robbery to be equal with 
 God, made himself of no reputation, and took 
 upon him the form of a servant, and was made 
 in the likeness of men; and being found in 
 fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and be- 
 came obedient unto death, even the death of 
 the cross."* 0, wonderful love that made the 
 only begotten Son of God lay down his life for 
 sinners I 
 
 " That such a person as Christ," says an old 
 divine,f "so excellent, so innocent, should un- 
 dergo death, and such a death as that of the 
 cross, so disgraceful, so painful ; that he should 
 submit to such ignominy, and endure such 
 agony, such tearing of his flesh, such pressure 
 in his spirit, with such submission and patience, 
 for strangers and enemies I Here was love, 
 stronger than death. Oh I the height, oh I the 
 depth of this love I There are such dimensions 
 in this love of Christ, as the longest line of our 
 most extended thoughts and imaginations can 
 never be able to reach and measure." 
 
 What amazing love did Christ manifest, when 
 he, who was the brightness of his Father's 
 glory, exchanged that crown of glory which 
 he wore in heaven, for a crown of thorns on 
 
 • Phil ii 6-8, t Vincent 
 
 J 
 
48 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 earth, and bled, and died on the cross for guilty 
 man! 
 
 Sinner, " Behold the Lamb of God 1" Con- 
 template your divine Eedeemer, who has shed 
 his precious blood to save your soul from eter- 
 nal misery. In love he died to save you. 0, 
 then, contemplate this loving Saviour in his suf- 
 ferings and death I 
 
 " Think how on the cross he hung, 
 
 Pierc'd with a thousand wounds I 
 Hark, from each, as with a tongue, 
 
 The voice of pardon sounds 1 
 See, from all his bursting veins, 
 
 Blood of wondrous virtue flow I 
 Shed to wash away thy stains. 
 
 And ransom thee from woe." 
 
 Sinner, flee to Christ. He will receive you 
 joyfully, and save you with an everlasting sal- 
 vation. He win rejoice over you with great 
 joy. He is a loving Saviour, and he loves to 
 save sinners. He, " for the joy that was set be- 
 fore him," (the joy of saving sinners,) " endured 
 the cross, despising the shame, and is" now "set 
 down at the right hand of the throne of God."* 
 " Wherefore he is able also to save them to the 
 uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he 
 ever liveth to make intercession for them."f 
 
 • Heb. xiL 2. f Heb. vii. 25. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 49 
 
 Come, now, and put your trust in this Saviour. 
 Leave witli him your immortal concerns. In- 
 trust fearlessly your whole salvation to him, 
 Think not that he will reject you, if you essay 
 to cast your sin-burthened soul into his com- 
 passionate arms. His atonement is all-sufiicient. 
 He saves to the very uttermost. Despair not; 
 only come and commit your soul to Christ, and 
 salvation is yours. 
 
 There is an infinite eificacy in the precious 
 blood of Christ, to cleanse you from all sin. 
 Blessed be God! that blood which washes away 
 the deepest stains, has been shed; and that 
 atonement which expiates the greatest guilt, has 
 been made. God now says to us, in language 
 the most strong and encouraging, "I have blot- 
 ted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and 
 as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have 
 redeemed thee."* 
 
 In the contemplation of our salvation, well 
 may we exclaim with the prophet, " Sing, ye 
 heavens ; for the Lord hath done it ! Shout, ye 
 lower parts of the earth : break forth into sing- 
 ing, ye mountains, forest, and every tree 
 therein ; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and 
 glorified himself in Israel."f 
 
 Blessed Jesus 1 It is from thy death that we 
 
 • la. xliv. 22. : Is. xL'v 23. 
 
 5 
 
50 THE LOYE OF CHRIST. 
 
 derive eternal life and blessedness. How should 
 our hearts glow with love to thee, and sound- 
 with the high praises of our God I "I will 
 greatly rejoice in the Lord : my soul shall be 
 joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with 
 the garments of salvation ; he hath covered me 
 with the robe of righteousness."* 
 
 Eeader, are you deeply interested in the 
 atonement and righteousness of Christ ? Then 
 go forward in your pilgrimage journey with 
 joy ; leaning upon Jesus, the beloved of your 
 soul. " And walk in love, as Christ also hath 
 loved us, and given himself for us, an offering 
 and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelhng 
 savor."f " Christ also loved the church, and 
 gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and 
 cleanse it with the washing of water by the 
 word ; that he might present it to himself a glo- 
 rious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any 
 such thing; but that it should be holy and 
 without blemish.":|: With their robes washed 
 white in the blood of the Immanuel, invested 
 with his spotless, perfect righteousness, the 
 saints shall at last be presented before God, a 
 faultless church ; and the redeeming love of 
 Christ constituting their unending theme, shall 
 engage their enlarged and exalted faculties, and 
 
 • Is. bo. n. ] 'Eph. V. 2. t Ept. V. 25-27. 
 
THE LOVE OP CHRIST. 61 
 
 employ their ransomed souls in holy mediations 
 through the everlasting sabbath of eternity. 
 
 Sinner, resort forthwith to the fountain of the 
 Redeemer's blood, ^hile it is yet open. Come, 
 without delay : " Wash, and be clean." " The 
 Spirit and the bride say, Come; and let him 
 that heareth say. Come; and let him that is 
 athtrst, come ; and whosoever will, let him take 
 the water of life freely."* If you thus come to 
 the fountain of living water, you will be able to 
 adopt the language of Cowper, and say — 
 
 There is a fountain fiu'd with blood. 
 
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; 
 And sinners, plung'd beneath that flood. 
 
 Lose all their guilty stains. 
 
 The dying thief rejoie'd to see 
 
 That fountain in his day ; 
 And here have I, as vile as he, 
 
 Wash'd all my sins away. 
 
 Dear, dying Lamb, thy precious blood 
 
 Shall never lose its pow'r, 
 Till all the ransom'd church of God 
 
 Be sav'd, to sin no more. 
 
 E'er since by faith I saw the stream 
 
 Thy flowing wounds supply, 
 Redeeming love has been my thenm 
 
 And shall be till I die. 
 
 • Bev. sffiii 7. 
 
62 THE LOVE OP :!HBIST. 
 
 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, 
 
 I'll sing thy pow'r to save ; 
 When this poor lisping, stamm'ring ionglM^ 
 
 LieR silent in the gmve. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 58 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONTEMPLATED. 
 
 "And to know the love of Christ" — Ephesians iii. 19. 
 
 On no otlier subject did the mind of the 
 apostle Paul dwell with so much delight, as on 
 that of the redeemiug love of Christ. This was 
 his favorite theme. It was his ardent desire to 
 exhibit to a lost world the grace of the Lord 
 Jesus, which had been so abundantly manifested 
 to himself, once a great sinner. It was the love 
 of Christ that sustained him amidst all his trials, 
 and distresses, and persecutions, and enabled 
 him to finish a glorious career. 
 
 Neither the threats of the Jews, nor the terror 
 of the Eomans, could separate him from the love 
 of Christ, or in the least abate his zeal for spread- 
 ing the news of salvation, and the wonders of 
 redeeming love through a lost world. 
 
 "Writing to the Eomans, he boldly exclaims : 
 " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 
 Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or 
 famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword ? As 
 it is written, For thj sake we are killed aU the 
 
54 THE LOVE OF CHRIST, 
 
 day long; we are accounted as sheep for the 
 slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more 
 than conquerors, through him that loved us. 
 For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, 
 nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 
 things present, nor things to come, nor height, 
 nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able 
 to separate us from the love of God, -which is in 
 Christ Jesus our Lord."* 
 
 The same apostle, writing to the Ephesians, 
 desires and prays that Christ may dwell in their 
 hearts by faith, that they being rooted and 
 grounded in love, " may be able to comprehend 
 with all saints what is the breadth, and length, 
 and depth, and height ; and to know the love 
 of Christ, which passeth knowledge." 
 
 Let us contemplate the love of Christ in all 
 its extent, and in all its vastness. When did it 
 commence ? In the past eternity. The love of 
 Christ to his people extends from eternity. 
 Though it was manifested in time, yet it existed 
 from eternity, "Then I was by him as one 
 brought up with him, and I was daily his de- 
 light, rejoicing always before him ; rejoicing in 
 the habitable part of his earth, and my delights 
 were with the sons of men."* 
 
 Christ says to each of his chosen ones, 
 
 • Eom viii. 35-39 * Prov. viii. 30, 31. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 65 
 
 " I have loved tliee ■with an everlasting love • 
 therefore, with loving kindness have 1 drawn 
 thee."* 
 
 Oh ! wonderful thought, everlasting love 1 
 "Who can comprehend the import of these 
 words, everlasting love? Christ loves us, and 
 his love is everlasting. Yes, dear believer, 
 Christ loved you before the world was created ; 
 before you had an existence. From all eternity 
 he thought upon your lost condition by nature ; 
 and oh I how willingly, how gladly, he left the 
 tlirone of glory to bring salvation to you. His 
 love never had a beginning. "This river of 
 love began to flow before the world was ; from 
 everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the 
 earth was. Christ's love to us is as old as the 
 father's love to the Son. This river of light 
 began to stream from Jesus towards us, before 
 the beams poured from the sun ; before the riv- 
 ers flowed to the ocean ; before angel loved 
 angel, or man loved man : before creatures were, 
 Christ loved us. This is a great deep ; who 
 can fathom it ? This love passeth knowledge."! 
 
 The love of Christ will reach into eternity ; 
 will extend throughout its immeasurable ages : 
 it has no end. This is the sweet declaration of 
 Christ, with regard to his love, that "the moun- 
 
 • Jer. xsxi. S. f M'Cheyne. 
 
56 THE LOVE OF CHRIS! 
 
 tains shall depart, and tlie hills be removed, 
 but my kindness shall not depart horn thee, 
 neither shall the covenant of my peace be re- 
 moved, saith the Lord that hath mercy on 
 thee."* 
 
 0, to be among that happy number, who will 
 enjoy in heaven the eternal favor of Christ's 
 love, which will make eternity itself one joyous 
 unclouded day of everlasting light and immor- 
 tal felicity 1 
 
 Blessed Jesus 1 Interest each of us in thy un- 
 changing loving-kindness, which is better than 
 life. 0, let one ray of thy most wonderful love 
 light on our benighted hearts : soften them by 
 the manifestation of thy grace. 
 
 Of the vastness of the love of Christ, we can 
 form no adequate conceptions; much less can 
 we, by any power of the understanding, com- 
 prehend it. To use the emphatic language of 
 an old divine, f " it is as if a child could take 
 the globe of earth and sea in his two short 
 arms." The love of Christ is like a great ocean, 
 whose depths are unfathomable. There is a 
 height in this love, to which no human intelli- 
 gence can soar; a depth which no created mind 
 can penetrate. 
 
 In viewing the love of Christ, there lies a 
 
 • Ib. liv. ID. t Samue. Eutlierford. 
 
THE LOY£ OP CHRIST. 57 
 
 wide unbounded prospect before us. The riieu- 
 tal vision wanders at liberty over this illirritable 
 range. The love of Ohrist is circumscribed by 
 no linaits ; it is bounded by no horizon : it is 
 one vast expanse in which the soul may lose 
 itself in wonder, delight, and admiration. 
 
 The pious M'Cheyne, whom we have already 
 quoted, has the following beautiful remarks on 
 the love of Christ. "Paul says: 'The love of 
 Christ passeth knowledge.' It is like the blue 
 sky into which you may see clearly, but the 
 real vastness of which you cannot measure. It 
 is like the deep, deep sea, into whose bosom you 
 can look a little way, but its depths are unfath- 
 omable. It has a breadth without a bound, 
 length without top, and depth without bottom. 
 If holy Paul said this, who was so deeply taught 
 in divine things ; who had been in the third 
 heaven, and seen the glorified face of Jesus; 
 how much more may we, poor and weak be- 
 lievers, look into that love, and say, It passeth 
 knowledge !" 
 
 If we cannot comprehend the love of Christ ; 
 if we cannot fathom it, let us contemplate and 
 admire it. 
 
 It was the love of Christ that led him to as- 
 S"mae human nature, in order that he might suf- 
 fer and die, and thus atone for the sins of his 
 people : it was this love tha induced him to 
 
58 THE LOVE 0? CHRIST 
 
 leave the bosom of his Father, andtheadoraticn 
 of the angelic host, and to sojourn among guilty 
 worthless mortals. 
 
 It was love that led him to exchange the 
 throne of glory for the manger of Bethlehem 
 and the cross of Calvary. It was love thai 
 made his whole life, from the manger to the 
 cross, one of grief and sorrow. Love made him 
 " a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." 
 
 "Well might the blessed Jesus have exclaimed, 
 "Behold and see if there be any sorrow like 
 unto my sorrow, wherewith the Lord hath af- 
 flicted me in the day of his fierce anger."* It was 
 love that made him suffer and die for sinners. 
 Yes, love led him to the gloomy garden of Geth- 
 semane; love drew him to the judgment hall ; 
 love nailed him to the cross ; and love enabled 
 him to exclaim with his expiring breath, "It is 
 finished." 
 
 " Greater love hath no man than this." The 
 love of Christ is wonderful love : it is surpass- 
 ing, boundless love. Look at that amazmg love 
 which Christ has manifested to sinners; and 
 may you be able to comprehend with all saints 
 what is its breadth, and length, and depth, and 
 Sleight ! 
 
 TV hen you intently contemplate that redeem- 
 
 • Lam. i 12. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHKIfeT. 59 
 
 ing love v^tich brought Christ from his throne, 
 to live and suffer, and die for sinners, does not 
 your breast heave with emotions of gratitude ; 
 does not your soul rise in adoration, and is it not 
 lost in wonder, love, and praise ? 
 
 Have you a heart so cold as not to be warmed 
 by such unbounded love ; a heart so hard as not 
 to be softened by such grace as is here set be- 
 fore the eyes of a wondering world ? 
 
 Wo feeble mortal can express the vastness of 
 the love of Christ to sinners ! It is a mystery 
 which eternity itself will never fully unravel. 
 " God only knows the love of God." We know 
 that it is great love, and that it is manifested to 
 sinners, but it is love too boundless for the most 
 capacious mind to grasp. None can comprehend 
 its vastness : none can measure its immensity ; 
 language fails to describe it; human thought 
 cannot fathom it ; time cannot disclose its depths; 
 and vast eternity itself v/ill roll away in its con- 
 tinual and delightful contemplation. 
 
 How transcendent is the love of Christ I It 
 passeth knowledge. 
 
 my soul, art thou not lost in wonder and 
 admiration when thou contemplatest this divine 
 love — the love of Jesus ? And love so amazing, 
 love so boundless as the love of Christ, should 
 call forth ail our loftiest s rains of praise, and 
 exercise our highest powers of, mind in devout 
 
60 THE LOVE OF CUEIST. 
 
 coniemplations. It should be the constant .heme 
 of our meditation here, till we come to possess 
 its full and eternal enjoyment in that world 
 where all is love. And if we possess the love 
 of Christ on earth, it will cheer ou_r hearts, 
 brighten our prospects, alleviate our sorrows, 
 mitigate our afflictions, and emit a ray of hope 
 that will enable us to rejoice with joy unspeak- 
 able and full of glory, even in this vale of 
 tears. 
 
 To be the object of Christ's love is desirable, 
 and it is a blessed attainment to know that you 
 enjoy it ; to say with Paul, " I am crucified with 
 Christ : nevertheless, I live ; yet not I, but Christ 
 liveth in me ; and the life which I now live in 
 the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, 
 who loved me, and gave himself for me."* There 
 is nothing so much calculated to drive from sin, 
 or excite to good works, as a ray of the love of 
 Christ darting into the sinner's heart : this will 
 more effectually melt it, than all the terrors of 
 the law, or the thunders of Sinai. 
 
 The love of Christ fills the soul with immortal 
 joys. There is nothing so reviving to the be- 
 liever, as the sweet thought of Christ's love to 
 him. 
 
 Tl ere is no subject stored with such an exub- 
 
 • Gal ii. 20. 
 
TH3 LOVE OF CHRIST. 61 
 
 erance of divine consolation, and heavenly joy 
 as that of redeeming love — the love of the Son 
 of God to a lost world. Every other subject 
 loses its lustre when toztrasted with this sub- 
 lime, soul-reviving theme ; and nothing tends so 
 effectually to expand, elevate, and purify the 
 soul, as that faith "which worketh by love." 
 And what do we not owe to the love of Christ ? 
 Al l the comforts and happiness of life, and all 
 the joys of a blissful etel'nity flow from this 
 love. 
 
 You should meditate much upon the love of 
 Christ ; and may that love ever glow within you, 
 and be like a perpetual fire burning upon the 
 altar of your heart. " The love of Christ is a 
 subject too lofty for a seraph's harp. The soul, 
 renewed by the spirit, is often incapable of ex- 
 pressing the sublime feelings which pass through 
 the mind, when thinking on this glorious sub- 
 ject. The love of Christ conveys a joy to the 
 believer's heart, which is unspeakable and full 
 of glory. The tongue cannot express the delight 
 of heart which arises from the manifestation of 
 this love. 
 
 "The joy of harvest, the joy of the bride- 
 groom on his wedding day ; the joy of victory, 
 and taking great spoils from the enemy ; the joy 
 of a poor man in finding great treasures; all 
 these are not worthy to be compared with the 
 
62 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 joy and exultation of the believer's heart, on 
 the manifestation of this love to his souL"* 
 
 What does the blessed Jesus deserve for such 
 unbounded love to sinners? AU our hearts 
 should be- devoted to his service, and all our 
 affections should be placed upon him. We 
 should love him, because he first loved ns. 
 " Whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, 
 though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye 
 rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. "f 
 to be made like the adorable Eedeemer, and 
 to praise him throughout the countless ages of 
 eternity, for the wonders of his redeeming love I 
 May this be the desire of every reader ; and may 
 each be enabled to exclaim with the Psalmist, 
 " Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there 
 is none upon earth that I desire besides thee 1"| 
 
 "One there is, above all others, 
 Well deserves the name of Friend ; 
 His is love beyond a brother's ; 
 Costly, free, and knows no end. 
 They who once his kindness prove, 
 Find it everlasting love. 
 
 " Which of all our friends to save us, 
 Could or would have shed their blood I 
 But our Jesis died to have us 
 Reconciled, in him to God ; 
 Tliis was boundless love indeed 
 Jesus is a friend in need." — Newtoit. 
 
 • Via sent f 1 Pet. i. 8. J; Pa. Ixxiii. 28. 
 
THE LOVii! OF .HRIST. 63 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN THE BESTOWMENT 01" CRACE, 
 IN THE GIFT OF HIS WORD, AND IN THE INSTITU- 
 TION OF DIVINE ORDINANCES. 
 
 "The Lord will give grace." — Ps.\lm Ixxxiv. 11. 
 
 "I have given them thy word." — Jons xvii. 14. 
 
 " He gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets ; and 
 some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and teachers." — ^Eph. 
 iv. 11, 12. 
 
 "Thk Lord will give grace."* But will he 
 give grace to sinners? Yes, to great sinners. 
 Paul was the chief of sinners, and yet to him 
 was the grace of the Lord Jesus manifested. He 
 asserts, concerning himself, that " The grace of 
 our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith 
 and love which is in Christ Jesus."f 
 
 Oh I what surpassing, boundless love, has 
 Christ manifested to sinners I And on millions 
 of Adam's lost and guilty race, who were once 
 as vile as sin could make them, has he in his 
 great love bestowed his boundless grace. It is 
 his love that makes sinners saints, and distin- 
 guishes them from th(? rest of mankind ; and 
 
 • Psalm Ixxxiv. 11. ^ \ TIe i. 14. 
 
64 THE LOVE j)F CHKIST. 
 
 every sinner that will enter heaven's gates, must 
 first feel the constraining influence of this luve. 
 How sweet are the words, " By grace (without 
 merit) ye are saved 1" Here is an overflowing 
 fountain of divine consolation for guilty sinners. 
 What wonderful love is here manifested to us ! 
 
 "God, who is rich in mercy, for his great 
 love wherewith he loved us, even when we were 
 dead in sins, hath quickened us together with 
 Christ (by grace ye are saved) ; and hath raised 
 us up together, and made us sit together in 
 heavenly places, in Christ Jesus; that in the 
 ages to come, he might show the exceeding 
 riches of his grace in his kindness towards us, 
 through Christ Jesus."* 
 
 This grace is greatly celebrated by prophets, 
 and apostles, and saints. Paul cries, " By the 
 grace of God, I am what I am." The Psalmist 
 exclaims, " How excellent is thy loving kind- 
 ness, God ! therefore the children of men put 
 their trust under the shadow of thy wings." A 
 good man says, " Nothing but free grace makes 
 
 • Eph. ii. 4-7. " Most amazingly rich mercy 1 most as- 
 tonishirgly great love When dead in sins, blinded by 
 pride to our wretchedness, and fall of enmity against God 
 and goodness, even then he loved us with great love, and 
 of rich mercy quickened us. .ook at, live and feed upon 
 this rich mercy and-great love. Oh . to grace what migl ty 
 debtcrs." — Masok. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 65 
 
 any difference between me and the vilest of sin- 
 ners." One says, "I know no sweeter way to 
 heaven, than through free grace and hard trials 
 together; and where grace is, hard trials are 
 seldom wanting." Another says, "Two things 
 I chiefly know : one is, that I am a great sinner ; 
 the other is, that Jesus Christ is a great Saviour. 
 the riches of divine grace !" 
 
 When Christ shall bring forth the headstone 
 of his living, glorious temple, all the redeemed 
 shall shout " Grace, grace, unto it."* Grace is 
 glory begun, glory is grace perfected. Grace is 
 the first degree of glory. The Lord will give 
 grace and glory too. O what precious words I 
 who can weigh their import ? 
 
 " Amazing grace ! (hoTV sweet the eoundl) 
 That saved a wretch like me 1 
 I once was lost, but now am found; 
 Was blind, but now I see. 
 
 ' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear 
 And grace my fears relieved ; 
 How precious did that grace appear. 
 The hour I first believed ! 
 
 ' Through many dangers, toils, and snares, 
 I have already come: 
 Tis grace has brought me safe thus far. 
 And grace will lead me home. 
 
 ■" Zech, iv. 7 
 
 a* 
 
66 THE LJVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 "The Lord has promised good to me, 
 His word my hope secures ; 
 He will my shield and portion be, 
 As long as life endures. 
 
 " Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail, 
 And mortal life shall cease, 
 I shall possess within the veil 
 A life of joy and peace. 
 
 " The earth shall soon dissolve like snow 
 The sun forbear to shine j 
 But God, who called me here, below, 
 Will be forever mine." — Newtow. 
 
 As soon as sinners are brought into a state 
 of grace, they have need of continual spirit- 
 ual instruction ; and such instruction, Christ 
 in his love has afforded them. He has given 
 them his word. He has favored them with the 
 means of grace, and with the institution of 
 divine ordinances. In the gift of his word, 
 Christ has manifested great love to his people. 
 Whilst journeying through this bleak, arid, 
 wilderness world, to mansions of glory, he re- 
 freshes their souls with the bread of life, and 
 with the living waters of salvation. The word 
 of God, and the ordinances of his grace, afford 
 them abundant provisions by the way. 
 
 "What transcendent love has the blessed Jesus 
 manifested in giving us this unspeakably pre- 
 cious treasure, the holy Scriptures, in which are 
 
THE LOVE OF CHBIST 67 
 
 contained sucli inexhaustible stores of ricli 
 grace. The whole Bible is an epistle of love, 
 unspeakable love, to perishing sinners. It un- 
 folds the way of salvation ; it proclaims a risen, 
 glorified Saviour ; it points to the Lamb of 
 God ; it is full of Christ, full of immortal love ; 
 it leads the sinner to glory. then, may this 
 precious treasure, this precious volume be 
 yours, be mine, to guide us through this dark, 
 bewildering scene of sin and sorrow, to a bright- 
 er world above, " Thy word," says the psalm- 
 ist, " is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto 
 my path."* 
 
 How highly has the word of God been 
 prized by every Christian pilgrim, by every 
 traveller to Zion : it was David's comfort in his 
 affliction ; it was his song in the house of his 
 pilgrimage. " This is my comfort in my afflic- 
 tion, for thy word hath quickened me." " Thy 
 statutes have been my songs in the house of my 
 pilgrimage."! 
 
 How precious was the holy law of God, to 
 this eminent saint, Israel's sacred bard I Hear 
 him exclaim, " 0, how I love thy law ! it is my 
 meditation all the day." " Thy testimonies have 
 I taken as a heritage for ever, for they are the 
 rfjoicing of my heart." " Therefore I love thy 
 
 •Psalm cxix. 105. \ Psalm cxix, SC, 54 
 
THE LOVE ijf CHRIST. 
 
 commandments above gold; yea, above Ine 
 gold." "How sweet are thy words unto my 
 taste I yea, sweeter than honey to my month." 
 "Consider how I love thy precepts." "My 
 soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them 
 exceedingly."* 
 
 Reader, may you also love the word of God, 
 and may it ever be your greatest delight to 
 read its sacred pages. You cannot prize this 
 blessed book sufficiently. Blessed Jesus, what 
 do we not owe thee for the .gift of this precious 
 volume I 
 
 " Let everlasting thanks he tWne, 
 For such a bright display, 
 As makes a ■world of darkness shine 
 "With beams of heavenly day. 
 
 "My Boul rejoices to pursue 
 The steps of him I love ; 
 Till glory breaks upon my view, 
 
 In brighter worlds above." — Cowpee. 
 
 In his love, Christ "has given unto us ex- 
 ceeding great and precious promises."! ^^J 
 you ever contemplate these "precious prom- 
 ises;" and may your prayer be, "Open thou 
 mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things 
 out of thy law." If yo'i ai-e a believer, you 
 
 " Psalm cxix. f 2 Pef^ i. ^ 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST 69 
 
 will love and value tlie word of God ; y^u wiU 
 meditate much on it. It is true of a righteous 
 man, thai "his delight is in the law of the 
 Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and 
 night."* On a dying bed, you will not regret 
 having spent too much time in the study of the 
 Scriptures, but you may lament that you had 
 not devoted more of your time to the diligent 
 perusal of the divine pages. When Salmasius, 
 one of the most consummate scholars of his age, 
 came to die, he exclaimed, "Oil have lost a 
 world of time ! time, the most precious thing in 
 the world I whereof had I but one year more, I 
 would spend it in reading David's Psalms and 
 Paul's Epistles." The immortal John Locke, 
 when asked which was the surest way for a 
 young man to attain a knowledge of the Chris- 
 tian religion, replied, " Let him study the Holy 
 Scriptures, especially the New Testament : 
 therein are contained the words of eternal life ; 
 it has Grod for its author, salvation for its end, 
 and truth, without any mixture of error, for its 
 matter." 
 
 It is from the Bible that we obtain that knowl- 
 edge, which wiU guide us to the abodes of im- 
 mortality which will lead us to the glory and 
 hoD 31 that will endure when sun and stars have 
 
 * Fsalm L 2. 
 
70 THE LOVE OF CHEIST 
 
 lost their light. Then study the word of Gcd. 
 " It embodies all," says an eloquent living writer, 
 " that a Christian in this pilgrimage can need : 
 it is his only chart through this tempestuous 
 life ; in trouble, it is his consolation ; in pros- 
 perity, his monitor; in dif&culty, his guide; 
 amid the darkness of death, and while descend- 
 ing into the shadowy valley, it is the day-star 
 that illuminates his path, makes his dying; eye 
 bright with hope, and cheers his soul with the 
 prospect of immortal glory."* 
 
 Always remember the divine admonition of 
 our blessed Saviour, " Search the scriptures, for 
 in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they 
 are they which testify of me."f 
 
 And " Let the word of Christ dwell in you 
 richly in all wisdom.";]: Let the language of 
 your heart ever be, 
 
 " May this blest Tolume ever lie 
 Close to my heart, and near mine eye ; 
 Till life's last hour my soul engage, 
 And be my chosen heritage." 
 
 En the institution of the ordinances of grace, 
 Christ has manifested the tenderest love and 
 concern for the spiritual welfare of his people 
 
 • Rev. Dr. "Wat ji jnry. f Jchn v. 39. 
 
 t Col. iii. 16. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 71 
 
 while in this world. In his love, "he gavo some, 
 apostles ; and some, prophets ; and some, evan- 
 gelists ; and some, pastors and teachers ; for the 
 perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the 
 body of Christ."* 
 
 A preached Gospel is the gift of Christ — a 
 gift of love to a lost world. The Eedeemer's 
 last command, was, " Go ye into all the world, 
 and preach the gospel to every creature."-)- This 
 blessed gospel, Christ in his love has sent to us. 
 The lines are fallen unto us in pleasant places ; 
 yea, we have a goodly heritage.:]: 
 
 Blessed be God ! that the glad tidings of life 
 and salvation, through a crucified Kedeemer, 
 have reached our ears. 0, happy they, whose 
 lot is cast within the joyful sound of the glo- 
 rious gospel I " Blessed is the people that 
 know the joyful sound ; they shall walk, 
 Lord, in the light of thy countenance."§ 
 "Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they 
 will be still praising thee."|| What a blessed 
 privilege is it, that we enjoy, of entering into 
 the house of God, with voices of joy and praise 1 
 Let us prize this privilege; and let us love to 
 dwell in the house of God. How ardently did 
 David love the sanctuary of God! "Lord, T 
 
 • Eph. iv. 11, 12. t ^I^""'' ^''^- ^°- 
 
 J Psalm xvi. 6. § Psalm Ixxxix. 15. 
 
 H Psalm Ixxxiv. 4. 
 
72 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 have loved the habitatioa of thy house, and the 
 place where thine honor dwelleth."* " One 
 thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I 
 eeek after; that I may dwell in the house of 
 the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the 
 beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his tem- 
 ple."f To David, no spot on earth was so dear 
 as Zion's holy hill ; no service so sweet as that 
 of divine worship. How highly should you, 
 who live amidst the meridian splendor of Chris- 
 tianity, prize the means of grace which you en- 
 joy ! With the Psalmist may you exclaim 
 from the heart, " How amiable are thy taberna- 
 cles, Lord of hosts I a day in thy courts is 
 better than a thousand. I had rather be a door- 
 keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in 
 the tents of wickedness.":|: 
 
 In the institution of the sacramental supper, 
 * Christ has afforded a grand exhibition of love. 
 Li his love, yea in his dying love, he instituted 
 it. The Lord's Supper is the sweetest of all or- 
 dinances; it is, emphatically, a feast of love. 
 The very banner that Christ unfurls over the 
 head of every believing communicant, is love, 
 love written in such legible characters that he 
 who runs may read. " He brought me to the 
 
 • Psalm xxxvi. 8. f Psalm xrviL 4. 
 
 t Psalm Ixxxiv. 1, 10. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 73 
 
 banqueting house, and his banner over me was 
 love."* With what joy does the redeemed sin- 
 ner approach this sacred table, that he may com- 
 memorate the dying love of his blessed Saviour I 
 His language is, " I sat down under his shadow 
 with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my 
 taste."t 
 
 This ordinance, exhibiting as it does a cruci- 
 fied Saviour, vividly displays the vastness of 
 redeeming love and the riches of divine grace. 
 A loving Saviour has spread this table for us, 
 and he cries, " Eat, friends ; drink, yea, drink 
 abundantly, beloved.":]: What blessings are 
 here provided for dying sinners ? the bread of 
 life, the waters of salvation, remission of sins ; 
 yea, an abundant pardon, peace with God, a 
 meetness for heaven 1 
 
 Come and show your love to Christ, at this 
 feast of love ; remember, and obey his dying in- 
 junction, " This do in remembrance of me." Can 
 vou lay any claim to' the name of a Christian, 
 while you live in the utter neglect of this duty ? 
 Surely not. The love of Christ should constrain 
 you to observe it. Surely it becomes a ransomed 
 captive, a captive bought at such an inestimable 
 prioe, to testify his obhgations to his loving Ee- 
 
 • Cant. iL 5. f Cani ii. 8. 
 
 t Cant. V. 1. 
 
74 THE LOVE OF CHRIST 
 
 deemer I " Come, for all tilings are now ready."* 
 Come to the Lord's table, and behold the most 
 amazing love manifested to you, the infinite love 
 of the dying Son of God ! 
 
 O Blessed Jesus I may it be our delight, on 
 earth to confess and own thee as our divine 
 Redeemer before men, and to commemorate thy 
 dying love in this sweet ordinance. Eefreshed 
 by that spiritual provision, which thou hast laid 
 up for us in the gospel of thy grace, may we 
 press onward in our pilgrimage journey heaven- 
 ward ; and at last realize the joys of a blessed 
 home in the world of glory. 
 
 Dear believer, we shall soon exchange the 
 table below for the table above. Te3'a5j our 
 divine Eedeemer, himself shall be a^ th<^ hpr.f' ii 
 that table, and shall feed us, and lead us unto liv- 
 ing fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away 
 all tears from our eyes. Till then, let us en- 
 deavor to be profited by all those means of grace, 
 with which Christ in his love has favored us. 
 " Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To liim be 
 glory both now and for ever. Amen."f 
 
 • LsJte XT . 17 t 2 P«t. iil 18. 
 
THE LOVE 01 CHEIST, 75 
 
 CHAPTER V . 
 
 THE LOVE OF CHEIST IN AFFLICTIONS. 
 
 "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and eoourg'itb 
 eery son whom he receiveth." — Heb. xii. 6. 
 
 " Although afSiction cometh not forth of the dust, neither 
 doth trouble spring out of the ground ; yet man is born unto 
 trouble as the sparks fly upward." — Job v. 6, 7. 
 
 Affliction comes upon all. ISTone are ex- 
 empt from the sufferings incident to our fallen 
 nature. The young, the old, the rich and the 
 poor, alike feel the withering touch of affliction 
 and of sorrow. Disease invades the strongest 
 constitution, and affliction prostrates the might- 
 iest energy. Often those in the prime and vigor 
 of life are laid down on the bed of sickness, and 
 made to feel that they are dying creatures. IIow 
 true it is, that " man that is born of a woman is 
 of few days, and full of trouble!"* 
 
 The children of God are not exempted from 
 the afflictions of this life ; but it is their blessed 
 consolation to, know that they have a Friend to 
 sympaltize with them in all their sorrows and 
 
 * Job ziv. . 
 
76 THE LC y& OF CHB16T. 
 
 Bufferings, while in this mortal state. Yes, Jesus 
 is that friend, who watches over their sick beds, 
 and consoles their desponding spirits amid the 
 frailty of sinking nature. Oh ! how often does 
 the blessed Jesus wonderfully manifest his love 
 to his afflicted ones 1 How often does he whis- 
 per words of peace and love and consolation in 
 their ears ! How often, on the manifestation of 
 his love, do their souls overflow with joy, even 
 when their bodies are racked with severe paiu 1 
 
 Christ will always make that promise good, 
 " As thy days, so shall thy strength be ;" and 
 amidst all our trials and afflictions here, we may 
 rely with unshaken confidence on the promises 
 of our loving Eedeemer, who will not forsake 
 us in the hour of extremfty. Then he will 
 manifest his love to us, and display the riches 
 of his gi-ace In all our trials, his promise runs 
 thus : " My grace is sufficient for thee, for my 
 strength is made perfect in weakness."* 
 
 All the afflictions of the children of God are 
 designed for their good. They come from a 
 kind heavenly Father, from a God of love ; and 
 one of their designs is, the purification and 
 sanctification of believers. "I will turn my 
 hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy 
 dross, and take away aU thy tin."t " By this, 
 
 • 2 Cor. \a ) t Is. i. 25. 
 
THE LOVE OF OHRISI 77 
 
 therefore, shall all the iniquity of Jacob be 
 purged ; and this is all the fruit to take away 
 his sin."* "Some of them of understanding 
 shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to 
 make them -white, even to the time of the end."f 
 " Many shall be purified, and made white, and 
 tried."^: 
 
 Afflictions make us meet for glory : they en- 
 able us to obtain a correct view of the vanity of 
 terrestrial happiuess ; they tend, through grace, 
 to fix our souls on Him, in whom alone we can 
 fiad true happiness and immortal joys. Happy 
 sickness, that leads the soul to Jesus, the only 
 source of blessedness ! 
 
 Afflictions, then, promote our spiritual wel- 
 fare, and are ordered for our good. It is ex- 
 pressly declared, " that all things work together 
 for good, to them that love God, to them who 
 are the called according to his purpose ;"§ and 
 afflictions are among the " all things" that are 
 beneficial to the present and eternal welfare and 
 happiness of God's children. Afflicted believer, 
 Christ says to you, "What I do, thou knowest 
 aot now ; but thou shalt know hereafter."! 
 You will soon know the merciful design, which 
 Christ had in afflicting you. In the light of 
 
 • Is. xxii. 9. \ Dai'., xi. 35. X Dan. xil. 10 
 
 § Rom. viii. 28, Jolin xiii. 7. 
 
 7* 
 
78 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 eternity, you will look back and say that he hie 
 brought you by a way that is right. 
 
 In their afflictions here, Christ manifests most 
 tender love to believers: he renews their faint- 
 ing souls, by the manifestation of his love and 
 the revelation of his grace ; he strengthens them 
 inwardly. "In the day when I cried, thou 
 answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with 
 strength in my souL"* 
 
 It was the manifestation of the love and grace 
 of the Lord Jesus, that supported the Apostle 
 Paul amidst all his afflictions. "For which 
 cause," says he, "we faint not ; but though our 
 outward man perish, yet the inward man is re- 
 newed day by day. For our light affliction, 
 which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far 
 more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 
 while we look not at the things which are seen, 
 but at the things which are not seen : for the 
 things which are seen are temporal, but the 
 things which are not seen are eternal."f 
 
 How greatly will our light afflictions and 
 trials here, add to the weight of that crown of 
 glory, which we shall wear hereafter I How 
 will they sweeten that eternal rest which re- 
 maineth for the people of God, our happy homo 
 in heaven ! 
 
 • Pa cxxxviiL 3. f Col: iv. 16, 18, 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 79 
 
 Were the sun of prosperity always to shine 
 upon us, we would soon forget our Father's 
 house, our heritage above. Christ sends us af- 
 flictions to tell us that this is not our rest, that 
 our blessed home is far above this scene of per- 
 ishing mortality. Here, we miist be fitted for 
 glory ; and Christ says to his followers, " In the 
 world ye shall have tribulation."* It is through 
 much tribulation that we must enter into the 
 kingdom of God. Of that happy .throng who 
 stand around the throne of the Eternal, it is 
 said, " These are they which came out of great 
 tribulation, and have washed their robes, and 
 made them white in the blood of the Lamb."f 
 
 The way to Mount Zion lies through the val- 
 ley of Baca. The road to glory is a rough 
 one. Believers may exclaim with the Psalmist, 
 " Thou, God, hast proved us : thou hast tried 
 us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into 
 the net ; thou laidest affliction upon our loins ; 
 thou hast caused men to ride over our heads ; 
 we went through fire and water; but thou 
 broughtest us out into a wealthy place.";]: But 
 when we come to that wealthy place, even to 
 the heavenly Canaan, Ave will find that it will 
 make amends for all oiir momentary afllictions 
 
 • JAn xri. 33. f K^^- ^^ !*• 
 
 j; Psalm Ixvi. 10-12. 
 
80 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 on earth • that one hour with Christ in glory, 
 wHl make us forget a lifetime of suffering. 
 
 " Though rough and thorny be the road, 
 It leads thee home, apace, to God : 
 Then count thy present trials small, 
 For heaven -will make amends for all." 
 
 Even now, when we are travelling through 
 this vale of tears to mansions of glory, we have 
 our comforts and enjoyments. The love of 
 Christ sweetens every afiSiction ; turns the dark- 
 est night of adversity into the light of day, and 
 the saddest night of weeping into the morning 
 of joy. Come afflictions, come trials, come 
 whatever may, we are assured that all things 
 shall work together for our good. 
 
 Eeader, are you afflicted ? Is it sanctified to 
 you? If so, look upon it as an evidence of 
 Christ's love. Let it ever be remembered, that 
 "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and 
 scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." * 
 And again, " Whom the Lord loveth he cor- 
 recteth, even as a father the son in whom he de- 
 lighteth."f The Lord afflicts his people, be- 
 cause he loves them. "As many as I love," 
 says Christ, "I rebuke and chasten.'':]: He does 
 it " for our profit, that we might be partakers 
 
 * Heh. xi 6. f P™'^- "i- 12 
 
 X Eev. iiL 19. 
 
THE LOVE CF CHRIST. 81 
 
 of his holiness." And though now, " No chast- 
 ening for the present seemetli lo be joyous, but 
 grievous; nevertheless, Mterward it yieldeth the 
 peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which 
 are exercised thereby."* Afflictions are often 
 sent to arrest the wanderer in his course, and to 
 bring him back to God. Many a child of God 
 can say with David, who had often been tried 
 and made to pass through the furnace of afflic- 
 tion, "Before I was afflicted, I went astray, 
 but now have I kept thy word. It is good for 
 me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn 
 thy statutes. I know, Lord, that thy judg 
 ments are right, and that thou in faithfulness 
 hast afflicted me."f 
 
 Afflictions are also designed for the conver- 
 sion of sinners. Thousands have been chosen 
 in the furnace of affliction. Oh I how many 
 saints of God, in every age, can witness to the 
 truth of these words : " Behold, I have refined 
 thee, but not with silver ; I have chosen thee 
 in the furnace of affliction.":]: How many care- 
 less sinners, under the softening touch of af- 
 fliction, have been brought to Jesus, and have 
 found peace in his atoning blood ! How many, 
 without the saving knowledge of Christ, have 
 
 • He: xiL 10, 11. + Psaln cxLx. 67 11, 15. 
 
 J la, xlyiii. 10. 
 
82 THE LOYE OF CHRIST. 
 
 been cast on beds of sickness, and there made, 
 for the first time, to feel that Jesus is precious I 
 Then they enjoyed his love, received his grace, 
 and knew by experience that the Lord is gra- 
 cious. Then affliction became light, Christ pre- 
 cious, and heaven sweet. The manifestation of 
 a Saviour's love dispelled eyerj gloom, and 
 heavenly light irradiated their souls. 
 
 In afiSiction, Christ manifests the tenderest 
 love to his people, and then it is that they get a 
 glimpse of his matchless perfections. He is al- 
 ways near them, and " in all their affliction he 
 is afflicted, and the angel of his presence saves 
 them."* 
 
 How happy are they to whom the love of 
 Christ is manifested in affliction ; in whose 
 hearts the love of God is shed abroad ; and who 
 are filled with joy unspeakable, and full of 
 glory 1 Such are enabled to say, with an ex- 
 perienced apostle, "We glory in tribulations 
 also ; knowing that tribulation worketh pati- 
 ence ; and patience, experience ; and experience, 
 hope ; and hope maketh not ashamed ; because 
 the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by 
 the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."f 
 
 A young lady who had Iain on a bed of sick- 
 ness for many months, once declared to the 
 
 • Is. Ijdii. a i Eom. r. 3-6. 
 
THi! LOVE OF :hrist 83 
 
 writer, that she ■would, rather suffer affliction 
 with the people of God, than enjoy the pleasures 
 of sin for a season. Whence arose this resigna- 
 tion to the will of God, amidst extreme suffer- 
 ings ? From the manifestation of Christ's love ; 
 from that love being shed abroad in her heart. 
 
 "How often does Christ manifest his dear- 
 est love to his suffering ones," said an emi- 
 nent saint* of other days, during her sickness. 
 " Blessed be God for all his mercies, and for 
 this comfort in my affliction. 0, how many 
 mercies I have 1 I want for nothing. Hitherto 
 I can say, the Lord is gracious. He has been 
 very merciful to me, in sustaining me under all 
 my trials. The Lord brings affliction, but it is 
 not because he delights to afflict his children ; it 
 is at all times for our profit. I can say it has 
 been good for me to be afflicted ; it has enabled 
 me to discern things, which, when I was in 
 health, I could not perceive. It has made me 
 know more of the vanity and emptiness of this 
 world, and all its delusive pleasures : for at best 
 they are but vanity." 
 
 Said an amiable and devoted young ministerf 
 in his last sickness, "I do not consider my cir- 
 cumstances melancholy or painful. I am very 
 
 • Hannah Housman. 
 
 f Rev Thomas EawGon Taylor, late of Bradford in Toik' 
 Fhire. 
 
84 THE LOVE OF CHKIST. 
 
 mercifully dealt with. My passage to tlie tomb 
 is easy. I have comparatively little suffering, 
 and I enjoy that peace of God which passeth all 
 understanding. I can truly say, that goodness 
 dnd mercy have followed me all my days, in- 
 cluding these suffering days: and looking up- 
 wards to that house not made with hands, eter- 
 nal in the heavens, I can also add, 'I shall 
 dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.' " Thus 
 afflictions work for our good, and qualify us for 
 the joys and bliss of heaven. 
 
 And now, afflicted reader, remember the di- 
 vine exhortation, "My son, despise not thou the 
 chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art 
 rebuked of him."* " Happy is the man whom 
 God correcteth ; therefore despise not thou the 
 chastening of the Almighty : for he maketh sore 
 and bindeth up ; he woundeth, and his hands 
 make whole. "f "If ye endure chastening, God 
 dealeth with you as with his sons ; for what son 
 is he whom the father chasteneth not? but if ho 
 be without chastisement, whereof all are par- 
 takers, then are ye bastards and not sons.":]: 
 Dear believer, the time is short. Your afflic- 
 tions are nearly over.§ 
 
 • Heb. xiiL 5. f Job. v. 17, 18. J Heb. sdi. 1, 8. 
 
 § "A few more trials ; a few more tears , a few more days 
 
 of darkness, and we shall be forever with the Lord. ' In 
 
 this tabernacle we groan, beinglurdened.' All dark things 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. ' 85 
 
 • Be still, my soul, and knoTV the Lord ; 
 In meek submission wait his will. 
 His presence can true peace afford, 
 His power can shield from every ill. 
 
 "Thy path is strewed with piercing thorns; 
 Each step is gained by arduous fight, 
 Yet wait, till hope's bright morning dawns. 
 Till darkness changes into light. 
 
 " Soon shall the painful conflict ceasa ; 
 Soon shall the raging storm be o'er; 
 Soon shalt thou reach the realms of peace. 
 Where suflfering shall be known no mor«. 
 
 " There shall thy joy forever flow 
 In one unbroken stream of bliss ; 
 Thero shalt thou God the Saviour Know, 
 And feel him thine as thou art his." 
 
 Cleave closely to Jesus ; you sliall soon see 
 him as he is; then your afflictions, and trials, 
 and days of mourning will have ended; you 
 shall reign with Jesus, and be lilce him. The 
 Lord having now " begun a good work in you, 
 will perform- it until the day of Jesus Christ."* 
 
 shall yet be cleared up; all sufferings healed; all blanks 
 supplied ; and we shall find fulness of joy (not one drop 
 wanting) in the smile and presence of our God. It is one 
 of the laws of Christ's kingdom. '"We must through much 
 tribulation enter into the kingdom of Gpd.' "VVe must not 
 reckon upon a smaoth road to glory, but it will be a short 
 one." — MoCheynb 
 * Phil. i. 6. 
 8 
 
86 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Sanctified afflictions are fitting you for neaven. 
 "Blessed is the man ■whom tliou cnastenest, 
 Lord, and teachest him out of thy law ; that 
 thou mayest give him rest from the days of ad- 
 versity, until the pit be digged for the wicked."* 
 Choose Christ now, and you may rest assured 
 that goodness and mercy shall follow you 
 through life, and glory and immortality cro^vn 
 you at death. You will enjoy the love of Christ 
 in health, and in sickness, and when you come 
 to feel your last pain, and draw your last breath, 
 you will shout forth, " death, where is thy 
 sting ? grave, where is thy victory ? Thanka 
 be to God, which giveth us the victory, through 
 our Lord Jesus Christ"* 
 
 • Psalm xciv. 12, 13 \ 1 Cor. xr 6S, 51. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 87 
 
 HAPTEB VII. 
 
 lUB LOVE OF CHEIST, AS MANIFESTED TO HIS PEOPLE 
 IN THE HOUR OF DEATH. 
 
 " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, I will fear no evil : for thou art -with me ; thy rod 
 and thy stafif, they comfort me."— Psalm xxiii, i. 
 
 " And when the closing scenes prevail, 
 When wealth, state, pleasure, all shall fail ; 
 All that a foolish world admires. 
 Or passion craves or pride inspires ; 
 At that important hour of need, 
 Jesus shall prove a friend indeed : 
 His hand shall smooth thy dying bed, 
 His arm sustain thy drooping head , 
 And when the painful struggle's o'er, 
 And that vain thing, the world, no more— 
 He'll bear his humble friend away. 
 To rapture and eternal day." 
 
 It is a solemn trutli that you and I must die. 
 Death will soon overtake us. Before the termi- 
 nation of the present year ; yea, before the sun 
 shall have again passed the horizon, the hand 
 that now writes these lines, and the eye that 
 now reads them, may both have felt the chill of 
 death. 
 
 Oh, what is human life? A vapor; a dream, 
 
88 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 a tale that is soon told; a feeble spark of vital- 
 ity, emitting its light for a moment, and then for- 
 ever extinguished! "Man that is born of a 
 woman, is of few days : he cometh forth like a 
 flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a 
 shadow, and continueth not."* "My days," 
 says Job, " are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, 
 and are spent without hope. remember that 
 my life is windl "f 
 
 Our continuance on earth is but for a short 
 moment. "Our days on the earth are as a 
 shadow, and there is none abiding.":]: "As for 
 man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the 
 field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth 
 over it, and it is gone, and the place thereo. 
 shall know it no more."| " For what is your 
 -ife ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a 
 little time, and then vanisheth away."§ How 
 short, how uncertain is life; but how certain is 
 death I 
 
 How true it is that God will bring us to death, 
 and to the house appointed for all living.^ " It 
 is appointed unto men once to die."** Millions 
 have fallen before the irresistible stroke of death. 
 
 •Job xiT. I, 2. I Psalm ciii. 15, 16. 
 
 f Job vii. 6, 7, § James iv. 14. 
 
 J 1 Ohroi, xxix. 15 ^ Job xxx. 23. 
 
 Hcb. is; 27. 
 
THE LOVE OS CHEIS^T. 89 
 
 All mankind are dying creatures, and are press- 
 ing cnward to the grave. 
 
 Keflect upon the past history of mortality. 
 "Generation after generation," says a beautiful 
 writer, "have passed away. Time was, when 
 they were alive upon the earth, and active amid 
 its busy scenes. They had their joys and their 
 sorrows. They flitted across life's busy stage, 
 and disappeared forever behind the curtain of 
 mortality. They have gone. The winds of 
 centuries have swept over their graves. " 
 
 As it was with them, so it will soon be 
 with us. Look at the future. It is computed 
 that eight hundred millions constitute the popu- 
 lation of our globe : these, in less than a cen- 
 tury, will all be lodged in the grave. The 
 grave receives alike as its victims the inmate 
 of the cottage, and him who sits on his throne 
 and sways the sceptre of nations. The paths 
 of glory and honor lead but to the grave. Here 
 come the nobles with their titles, kings with 
 their crowns, and scholars with their volumes. 
 Here is the home of the mighty hero, who once 
 with his steel-clad millions thundered over the 
 field of battle, and with an arm of power shook 
 the foundations of kingdoms. 
 
 "Ho-w populous, liow vital is the gvayel 
 This is i.-eation'3 nelanchaly vault." 
 8* 
 
90 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 look at the brevity and vanity cf human 
 lifcj and learn a solemn lesson. Thongli you 
 have soared in fame, or have accumulated wealth 
 in abundance ; though you glory in human 
 power, and, like Alexander, could ride triumph- 
 antly over the ruins of desolated nations, yet the 
 time will soon have arrived when the feeble ten- 
 ement of clay shall moulder, leaving its only 
 epitaph upon the crumbHng marble; when it 
 may be pronounced, over your mortal remains : 
 
 "How loved, how valued once, avails thee not, - 
 To whom related, or by whom begot: 
 A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 
 'Tis all thou art, and all the great shall be." 
 
 But death does not annihilate our existence. 
 We are immortal beings. Human life is but a 
 prelude to an immortal state of being. As we 
 close our eyes on the visionary scenes of time, 
 we open them amid the solemn realities of eter- 
 nity ; we enter upon that life which will never 
 end. To die, then, is but to live. 
 
 Oh I how important it is that we should be- 
 come interested in the atonement of Christ ; that 
 we may find redemption in his blood, and for 
 giveness of sius, that we may die in peace. 
 
 All must tread along the dark valley. AU 
 must cross the Jordan of death. But the hum- 
 ble follower of Chr^t is_ through grace, enabled 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 91 
 
 to exclaim, as lie approaclies the dreadful prec- 
 ipice that hides the view of mortality : " Yea, 
 though I -walk through the valley of the shadow 
 of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with 
 me ; thy r^Dd and thy staff, they comfort me."* 
 
 Christ's presence is with believers in the hour 
 of death ; he cheers their departing spirits. 
 They have fled for refuge to him, and he sus- 
 tains them in their trying hour. Then he is a 
 friend indeed ; a friend that sticketh closer than 
 a brother. This love is manifested to them : it 
 enables them to shout forth triumphantly, in the 
 face of the last enemy, " 0, death, where is thy 
 sting ? 0, grave, where is thy victory ? The 
 sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is 
 the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth 
 us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ."f 
 It is to the believer in Jesus, and to him alone, 
 that death comes disarmed of his terrors ; being 
 only a faithful messenger to convey him to hia 
 dear Lord and Saviour : so that in the prospect 
 of dissolution, he can express a desire with Paul, 
 " To depart and be with Christ, which is far 
 better.":]: He knows that Christ is his loving 
 friend, that he is watching over his dying bed, 
 leady to receive his departing spirit, and he can 
 confidently say with Stephen, "Lord Jesus, re- 
 
 • Psalm xxiil 4. \1 Coi xv. 55-57. X ^^'^^- '• 23 
 
92 THE LOVE OF JHRIST. 
 
 ceive my spirit."* witli David, "Into thine 
 hand I commit my spirit ; tliou hast redeemed 
 me, Lord God of truth ;"t " I wHl behold thy 
 face in righteousness : I will be satisfied, when 
 I awake, with thy likeness ;":); and with Simeon, 
 " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in 
 peace according to thy word ; for mine eyes 
 have seen thy salvation."§ 
 
 Such is the peaceful end of the Christian's 
 mortal career. He dies in peace. He passes 
 the swellings of Jordan, cheered by the Sav- 
 iour's presence, and animated by the manifes- 
 tation of his love. It is in the trying hour of 
 death, when flesh and heart fail, that the love of 
 Christ is amazingly manifested to believers. 
 - It is when the swellings of Jordan come al- 
 most over the poor believer's soul ; when he is 
 ready to sink benath the boisterous waves, that 
 Christ reveals to him his wonderful love, which 
 fills his heart with joy ; which enables him to 
 shout forth joyfiilly upon his bed, and be more 
 thaft a conqueror through Him that loved us. 
 
 " Let the saints be joyful in glory : let them 
 sing aloud upon their beds."|| " Precious in 
 the sight of the Lord is the death of his 
 saints." And at that solemn period, when the last 
 
 • Acts vii. 56. f Psalm xxxi. 5. J Psalm xvii. 15, 
 
 § Luke ii. 2P £0. I Psalm oxlis 6. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST 93 
 
 sands of life are running out, when life's last 
 hour is closiiig, he visits them individually, and 
 unfolds the riches of his grace, and the wonders 
 of his love. 
 
 He whispers in their ears his gracious prom- 
 ises. " Fear not ; for I have redeemed thee, I 
 have called thee by thy name : thou art mine. 
 When thou passest through the waters, I will be 
 with thee; and through the rivers, they shall 
 not overflow thee : when thou walkest through 
 the fire, thou shall not be burnt ; neither shall 
 the flame kindle upon thee."* 
 
 And they find him faithful to his promises ; 
 yes, when they tread the verge of Jordan, they 
 find him like the high priest of old, who bore 
 the ark of the covenant, standing in the midst 
 of the waters, that they may safely pass through 
 its proud waves to the heavenly Canaan, that 
 glorious land of promise — the happy home of 
 the believers, the heaven of eternal rest. " Then 
 are they glad, because they be quiet; so he 
 bringeth them unto their desired haven."f 
 Jesus Christ, our blessed high priest, himself has 
 passed through the Jordan of death. He has 
 dipped his feet into this stream. He has rolled 
 back its swelling waves. He has raade a safe 
 and easy passage for all his followers. Christian, 
 
 • la. xlii. 12. t Psalia ovi!. 80. 
 
94 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 wty then are you afraid to die, to plunge into 
 this stream, when you see the very footprints 
 of your Saviour in the bottom ? 
 
 " Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ 
 that died."* His eyes have been closed in 
 death. O, believer ! Christ has been laid in the 
 cold and silent grave before you. He has felt 
 the chill of death. But he has removed its 
 sting. Through death, he has destroyed him 
 that had the power of it. Fear not, death is a 
 vanquished foe. Christ says concerning his 
 people, "I will ransom them from the power ot 
 the grave. I will redeem them from death: 
 death ! I will be thy plague ; grave ! I will 
 be thy destruction."f Christian, death cannot 
 hurt you. It is but a sure step into glory. Are 
 you in bondage through the fear of death? 
 Christ has delivered you from this bondage. 
 " Forasmuch, then, as the children are partakers 
 of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took 
 part of the same ; that through death he might 
 destroy him that had the power of death, that is, 
 the devil ; and deliver them, who, through fear 
 of death, were all their lifetime subject to 
 bondage.":]: Thus, the children of God are 
 safely conducted through death to mansions ol 
 glory, and awake amid the splendors of an im- 
 
 • Eom, viii. S4. f Hosea xiii 14 J Hcb. ii. 14, 1& 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 95 
 
 mortal day. How happy they, whc, when 
 walking through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, find that Jesup is their friend and com- 
 panion ! 
 
 How glorious lie I how happy they, 
 In such a glorious friend I 
 Whose love secures them all the way, 
 And crowns them at the end. 
 
 Thus, while the believer is standing on the 
 verge of the grave, and looking back on his 
 past life, his past conflicts, his earthly pilgrim- 
 age, he can exclaim in the language of the 
 Apostle Paul, "I have fought a good fight, I 
 have finished my course, I have kept the faith ;" 
 and as he looks forward into a vast eternity, 
 and sees the rich" rewards that are shortly to be 
 his, the kingdom that he is going to possess, the 
 crown of glory that is soon to be placed upon 
 his brow, he triumphantly adds, "Henceforth 
 there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, 
 which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give 
 me at that day, and not to me only, but unto 
 all them also that love his appearing. " At 
 least, he hears that happy approbation, and 
 joyful invitation, " "Well done, good and faith- 
 ful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy 
 Lord."* 
 
 The solemn scene closes. The dark Valley 
 
 * Matth. xxT 23. 
 
96 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 is passed. Jordan is crossed. No more strug 
 gles. No more pain. No more tears of sorrow, 
 and affliction. No more death. "He will 
 swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God 
 will wipe away tears from off all faces."* The 
 believer is " absent from the body, and present 
 with the Lord." In the Saviour's perfect love, 
 he rests, and finds his eternity of joy. In his 
 dying moments he could say, " God wiH redeem 
 my soul from the power of the grave ; for he 
 shall receive me." " For this God is our God, 
 for ever and ever ; he will be our guide, even 
 unto death." And he has experienced a happy 
 realization of these promises. That Saviour who 
 loved him in life, also manifests his love to him 
 in the hour of death. His love is abiding, it is 
 not subject to mutation ; it knows no change. 
 " Having loved his own which were in the world, 
 he loved them unto the end."f 
 
 As the believer's mortal career is about to 
 terminate, the Saviour stands by him, and en- 
 circles him with the arms of his love. He sheds 
 abroad his love in the believer's heart. He sus- 
 tains him amid the agonies of dissolving nature. 
 He strengthens him by his grace. The dying 
 Christian cries, " My flesh and my heart faileth ; 
 but God is the strength of my heart, and my 
 
 • Is. XXV, 8. i John xiii. 1. 
 
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 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 97 
 
 portion for ever."* " For wliicli cause we flimt 
 not ; but though our outward man perish, yet 
 the inward man is renewed day by day."f 
 
 Thus he finishes his earthly course with joy. 
 nis end is peace. " Mark the perfect man, and 
 behold the upright ; for the end of that man is 
 peace.":]^ With him all is calm, and peaceful. 
 The heavens are serene; The thunders of the 
 law are hushed. Calvary is in his eye. Around 
 him all is sprinkled with atoning blood. 'No 
 wonder, then, that he should die in peace ; for, 
 " being justified by faith," he has "jDcace with 
 God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." He has 
 obtained the victory over death, the last enemy. 
 Hence, many a dying Christian has been able to 
 say, with Dr. Goodwin, "Is this dying? Is 
 this the enemy that dismayed me so long, now 
 appearing so harmless, and even pleasant?" 
 
 Not so with the end of the wicked. To him, 
 death is terrible ; the grave, gloomy ; and eter- 
 nity, dark. " The wicked is driven away in his 
 wickedness ; but the righteoiis hath hope in his 
 death."§ The death-bed of the Christian is a 
 glorious, happy place. 
 
 "The chamber where the good man meets his fate, 
 la privileged beyond the common walk of virtuous lift, 
 Quite on the verge of heaven." ( 
 
 » Ps. Ixxiii. 26. f 2 Cor. iv. 19. 
 
 J Ps. xxxvii. 31. § Prov. si v. 32. 
 
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98 THE LOVE OF CHRIST 
 
 CHAPTER Till. 
 
 THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN THE HOUR OF DEATH (OOH 
 TINUEd) ; THE CLOUD 01' WITNESSES. 
 
 Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud 
 of witnesses." — Heb. xiL 1. 
 
 A GEEAT many delightful records of the deatli 
 bed scenes of martyrs, ministers of Jesus Christ, 
 and private Christians, who have enjoyed the 
 presence of Christ in a dying hour, who have 
 felt his love manifested to them, and have re- 
 ceived his consolations, might be adduced to 
 corroborate the assertions we have already made, 
 and to confirm the truth, that Christ does thus 
 manifest his love to dying believers. We shall 
 introduce the following : 
 
 1. Lambert, a martyr under Henry Vm., 
 while he was cruelly mangled by the soldiers' 
 halberts, and consuming in a slow fire, raised his 
 burning hands amid the flames, and, with a dis- 
 tinct voice, exclaimed, " None but Christ ; none 
 but. Christ!" 
 
 2. Lawrence Saunders, suffered martyrdom 
 under the "bloody Queen Mary." He kissed 
 the stake at which he was bound, and cried 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 99 
 
 aloud, " "Welcome the cross of Christ 1 Wei 
 come the cross of Christ 1 Welcome life ever 
 lasting 1" 
 
 3. John Knox, the Scottish Eeformer's dying 
 words, were, " Come, Lord Jesus, sweet Jesus I 
 into thy hands I commend my spirit." Again 
 he said, " I have tasted of the heavenly joys 
 where presently I shall be I 'Now, for the last 
 time, I commit soul, body, and spirit into his 
 hands." Uttering a deep sigh, he said, " Now 
 it is come !" His attendant desired him to give 
 his friends a sign that he died in peace. On 
 this he waved his hand, and uttering two deep 
 sighs, he fell asleep in Jesus. 
 
 4. John Welch, the son-in-law of John Knox, 
 was one of the most eminent ministers that the 
 Church of Scotland ever produced. He died in 
 great joy. On his death-bed, he seemed to feel 
 himself on the very threshold of glory : he was 
 filled and overpowered with the sensible man- 
 ifestations of God's love and glory. His last 
 words were uttered in an ecstasy of joy : " It is 
 enough, O Lord, it is now enough: hold thy 
 hand ; thy servant is a clay vessel, and can hold 
 no more 1" 
 
 5. Samuel Eutherford, professor of divinity 
 m the University of St. Andrew's, was one of 
 the most resplendent lights that ever rose in 
 Scotland. He died a triumphant death. In hia 
 
100 THS LO-Vil OF CHRIST. 
 
 last moments, he was favored witli a most ■won 
 derful manifestation of Christ's love. He felt 
 that Christ was with him, and that he man- 
 ifested his grace to him ; and he was, through 
 that manifested love and grace, enabled to ex- 
 claim with his dying breath, " There is none 
 like Christ. I feel, I feel, I believe, I joy, I re- 
 joice, I feed on manna I My eyes shall see my 
 Redeemer, and I shall be ever with him ? And 
 Avhat would you more ? I have been a sinful 
 man ; but I stand at the best pass that ever a 
 mandid. Christ is mine, and I am his ! Glory, 
 glory, to my Creator and Redeemer forever! 
 Glory shines in Immanuel's land I for arma 
 to embrace himl for a well-tuned harp.'' 
 He continued exulting in God his Saviour tc 
 the last, as one in fall vision of joy and glory 
 At length he entered into the joy of his Lord. 
 
 ' In vain my fancy strives to paint 
 
 The moment after death ; 
 Tlie glories that surround the saints, 
 When yielding up their breath. 
 
 "One gentle sigh their fetters breaks; 
 We scarce can say ' They're g:^ne,' 
 Before the willing spirit takes 
 Her mansion near the throne." 
 
 6. Eev. James Durham, on his dying bed, 
 was at first in much darkness of his mind. He 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 101 
 
 said to a friend, " For all that 1 nave preached 
 and written, there is but one scripture that I can 
 think of, or dare to lay hold of. Tell me, bro- 
 ther, if I may dare lay the weight of my salva- 
 tion on it: "Whosoever cometh ^mto me, I 
 will in nowise cast out 1' " " That you may de- 
 pend on," said the minister in reply, " though 
 you had a thousand salvations at hazard!" 
 Having remained some time in silence, he at 
 length came joyfully from beneath the dark 
 cloud, and cried, in a rapture of joy, "Is not 
 the Lord good? Is he not infinitely good? 
 See how he smiles ! I do say it, and I do pro- 
 claim it!" 
 
 7. The noble Marquis of Argyle, on the 
 morning of his execution, while settling his 
 worldly business, was so overpowered by the 
 manifestation of divine love and goodness, that 
 he broke out in a holy rapture, and said, "I 
 thought to have concealed the Lord's goodness ; 
 but it will not do. I am now ordering my af- 
 fairs; and God is sealing my charter to my 
 heavenly inheritance, and is just now sajang to 
 me, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven 
 thee!" 
 
 8. James Guthrie, a godly minister, the com- 
 panion of thg noble Argyle, exclaimed, when on 
 the scaffold, "Jesus is my light and life, my 
 righteousness my strength and salvation, and all 
 
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102 THE ,OVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 my desire ! Him, Him do I commend with 
 all my soul unto you. Bless Him, O ray soul, 
 now and forever! Now, O Lord, lettest thou 
 thy servant depart in peace ; for mine eyes have 
 seen thy salvation." 
 
 9. The pious Hervey closed his life in peace. 
 His last words were : " How thankful am I for 
 death I It is the passage to the Lord and Giver 
 of eternal life. welcome, welcome death 1 
 Thou mayest well be reckoned among the treas- 
 ures of a Christian : to live is Christ ; to die, is 
 gain! Lord, now lettest thou thy servant da- 
 part in peace ; for mine eyes have seen thy sal- 
 vation !" Then he fell asleep in Jesus. Oh, 
 what a happy death ; to die unto the Lord — ^to 
 sleep in Jesus ! 
 
 10. William Eomaine was an eminent preacher 
 of the gospel of Jesus, and died a joyful death. 
 He had the love of Christ in his heart ; and He 
 was very precious to him in the hour of death. 
 " I have," said he, " the peace of God in my 
 conscience, and the love of God in my heart. 
 Jesus is more precious than rubies; and all that 
 can be desired on earth, is not to be compared 
 to him." Being near his dissolution, he cried 
 out, "Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty! 
 Glory be to thee on High, for siiph peace on 
 earth, and good will to men." One time he said, 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 103 
 
 " I have mucli of the presence of Jesus with 
 me." 
 
 11. Rev. Dr. Doddridge, an. eminent servant 
 of Christ, said, on his death-bed, " I am full of 
 confidence : there is a hope set before me ; I 
 have fled; I still fly for refuge to that hope. 
 In him I trust. In him I have strong consola- 
 tion, and shall assuredly be accepted in the be- 
 loved of my soul." 
 
 12. The immortal Baxter closed his course 
 full of joy and peace. To some ministers around 
 him, he said, "I have peace, I have peace!" 
 "_,You are now drawing near your long-desired 
 home," said one. "I believe, I believe," was 
 the reply. When the question was put to him, 
 "How are you?" he promptly answered, "Al- 
 most weU 1" To a friend who entered the cham- 
 ber, he said, "I thank you, I thank you for 
 coming." Then fixing his eye on him, he added, 
 " The Lord teach you how to die !" These 
 were his last words. 
 
 13. John Janeway, a young minister of Eng- 
 land, died one of the most triumphant Chris- 
 tian deaths oil record. Not a word dropped 
 from his lips, which did not breathe of Christ 
 and heaven. His Saviour was with him in the 
 dark vale ; the arms of Christ supported him ; 
 the love and smiles of Christ clieered his depart- 
 ing soul, and made death itself sweet to him, 
 
104 THK LOV.l 3F CHRIST. 
 
 He broke out in such words as these : '' 0, he is 
 Mmel he is come I 0, how glorious is the 
 blessed Jesus! How shall I speak the thou- 
 sandth part of his praises I for words to set 
 out a little of that excellency ; but it is inex- 
 pressible I 0, my friends, come look upon a 
 dying man, and wonder ! I myself cannot but 
 wonder ! Was there ever greater kindness ? 
 Were there ever such manifestations of rich 
 grace ? 0, why me. Lord ; why me ? If this 
 be dying, dying is sweet ! Let no Christian be 
 afraid of dying. 0, death is -sweet to me ! This 
 bed is soffcl Christ's arms, his smiles, his vis- 
 its; sure they would turn hell into heaven! 
 What are all human pleasures compared to one 
 glimjDse of his glory, which shines so strongly on 
 my soul? I shall soon be in eternity: I shall 
 soon see Christ himself, who died for me, who 
 loved me, and washed me in his blood! I shall 
 soon mingle in the hallelujahs of glory ! Me- 
 thinks I hear the melody of heaven, and by 
 faith I see the angels waiting to carry me to the 
 bosom of Jesus, and I shall be forever with the 
 »jord ! And who can choose but rejoice in all 
 this?^' 
 
 Often he would say, " 0, that I could but let 
 you know what I now feel! 0, that I could 
 express the thjusandth part cf tliat sweetness 
 that I now fjiQ i . Christ ! Y<i i would all then 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 105 
 
 thill t it well worth while to make it yotir busi- 
 ness to be religious. 0, my dear friends, we 
 little think what Christ is worth upon a death- 
 bed ! I would not for a world, nay, for millions 
 of worlds, be now without Christ and pardon." 
 
 To those around him, he said, " that glory, 
 the unspeakable glory that I behold ! My heart 
 is full ; my heart is full 1 Christ smiles, and I 
 cannot but smile. The arms of my blessed 
 Saviour are open to embrace me; the angels 
 stand ready to carry my soul into his bosom. 
 0, did you see what I see, you would all cry 
 out with me, ' How long, dear Lord ? Come, 
 Lord Jesus, come quickly !' 0, why are his 
 chariot wheels so long in coming? I do so 
 long to be with Christ, that T couiu be contented 
 to be cut in pieces, and to be put to the most 
 exquisite torments, so that I might but die and 
 be with Christ. 0, how sweet is Jesus ! ' Come, 
 Lord Jesus, come quickly !' Death, do thy 
 worst. Death has lost its terribleness. Death ! 
 it is nothing to me ! Death is nothing (through 
 grace) to me. I can as easily die, as shut my 
 eyes, or turn my head and sleep. I long to be 
 with Christ : I long to die." 
 
 To his Christian friends who came tc see him, 
 he said, " help me to praise God, I have no- 
 thing else to do, from this time to eternity, but 
 to praise and love God I 0, praise, praise, 
 
106 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 praise, that iafiiiite boundless love tbat hat a to 
 a wonder, looked upon my soul, and done ricre 
 for me than for thousands of his children I 
 Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within 
 me, bless his holy name ! Help me, help me, 
 my friends, to praise and admire him that hath 
 done such astonishing wenders for my soul : 
 he hath pardoned all my sins ; he hath filled 
 me with his goodness ; he hath given me grace 
 and glory, and no good thing hath he withheld 
 from me." 
 
 On another occasion, he uttered such words 
 as these, '' Admire God forever and ever, ye 
 redeemed ones ! 0, those joys, the taste of which 
 I have 1 The everlasting joys which are at his 
 right hand forever more I Eternity, eternity 
 itself is too short to praise God in. O bless the 
 Lord with me I Come, let us shout for joy, 
 and boast in the God of our salvation. 0, help 
 me to praise the Lord, for his mercy enduieth 
 forever." Again he said, "I shall presently 
 behold Christ himself that died for me, and 
 loved me, and washed me in his own blood. I 
 shall, before a few hours are over, be in eternity, 
 singing the song of Moses, and the song of the 
 Lamb. I shall presently stand upon Mount 
 Zion, with an innumerable company of angels, 
 and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus 
 the mediator of the new covenant. I si. all hear 
 
THE LOVE OF CHKIST. 107 
 
 the voice of mucli people, and be one aniLCngst 
 tlicm, who shall say, hallelujah, salvation, g"-oiy, 
 honor and power, unto the Lord our God ! And 
 yet a little while, and I shall sing unto the 
 Lamb a song of praise, saying. Worthy art thou 
 to receive praise, who wert slain, and hast re- 
 deemed us to God by thy blood, out of every 
 kindred and tongue, and people, and nation, 
 and hast made us unto our God, kings and 
 priests, and we shall reign with thee forever and 
 ever." 
 
 A few hours before his death, he said, " And 
 now, dear Lord, my work is done. I have fin- 
 ished my course, I have fought the good fight ; 
 and henceforth there remaineth for me a crown 
 of righteousness. Now come, dear Lord Jesus, 
 come quickly." At length his course was com- 
 pleted, and this lovely, servant of the Lord fell 
 asleep in Jesus. 
 
 14. The great Thomas Halyburton, one of the 
 most learned divines of Scotland, and professor 
 of divinity in the University of St. Andrew's, 
 breathed out his soul to God in a triumphant 
 death. The following were his last words : "I 
 dare look death in the face, in its most ghastly 
 shape, and hope soon to have the victory over 
 it. Glory, glory to him I 0, what of God do I 
 see ! I have never seen any thing like it. The 
 beginning and the end of religion are wonder- 
 
108 TUE LOVE OF CHEIoT 
 
 fiilly sweet I I long f jr his salvation : I bless 
 his name, I have found him I I am taken up in 
 blessing him ; I am dying rejoicing in the 
 Lord! 0, I could not have believed that I 
 should bear, and bear cheerfully, as I have 
 done, this rod which hath lain long on me. 
 This is a miracle I Pain without pain! You 
 see a man dying ; a moniiment of the glorious 
 power of astonishing grace !" Some time after, 
 he said, " When I shall be so weak as no longer 
 to be able to speak, I will, if I can, give you a 
 sign of triumph when I am near to glory." lie 
 did so: for when one said, "1 hope you are 
 encouraging yourself in the Lord," being now 
 unable to speak, he lifted up his hands and 
 clapped them, and in a few moments expired. 
 
 15. Mr. Augustus M. Toplady closed a long 
 and eminently holy life, by a very triumphant 
 death. He said, "0 how this soul of mine 
 longs to be gone: like an imprisoned bird, it 
 longs to take its flight. 0, that I had the wings 
 of a dove, I should flee away to the realms of 
 bliss, and be at rest forever ! I long to be ab 
 sent from the body, and present with the Lord." 
 At another time he said, " what a day of sun- 
 shine has this been to me ! I have no words to 
 express it ; it is unutterable 1 . O, my friends^ 
 how good our God is I Almost without inter- 
 ruption his presence has been with me." Being 
 
THE L0V3 OF CHRIST. 109 
 
 near Lis end, lie said, " O wliat deliglits I Who 
 can fathom the joys of the third heavens!" 
 And just before he expired, he said, " The sky is 
 clear; there is no cloud; come, Lord Jesus, 
 come quickly 1" 
 
 16. Rev. Thomas Scott, the commentator, died 
 a happy, triumphant death. The love of Christ 
 filled his soul ; and his dying bed may be said 
 to have been sublimely Christian ! Among the 
 last words he uttered were these, " Lord support 
 me I Lord Jesus receive my spirit ! Christ is 
 my all 1 He is my only hope ! to realize the 
 fullness of joy I 0, to have done with tempta- 
 tion ! This is heaven begun ! I have done with 
 darkness forever ! Satan is vanquished ! Noth- 
 ing remains but salvation with eternal glory, 
 eternal glory 1" 
 
 17. Dr. Condict, President of Queen's (now 
 Rutger's) College, New Jersey, was known to 
 be much afraid of death, but he died triumph- 
 antly. Raising himself from his pillow, he 
 stretched out his quivering hands, and ex- 
 claimed, "I have fought a good fight, I have 
 finished my course, I have kept the faith: 
 henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of 
 righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
 Judge, shall give me." Then he added, "Let 
 us pray ;" and having uttered a brief and solemn 
 prayer, he gently leaned back on his pillow, and 
 
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110 TH3 LOViS OF CHRIST. 
 
 closing Lis eyes witli His own hands, soon fell 
 asleep in Jesus. 
 
 18. Dr. Dwiglit, President of Yale College, 
 closed his usefal life by a peaceful and happy 
 death. He requested his brother to read to him 
 the 17th chapter of John. While listening to 
 the latter verses of that chapter, he exclaimed, 
 " 0, what triumphant truths !" Some one re- 
 cited to him a part of the 23d Psalm, and asked 
 him, " Can you now say, though I walk through 
 the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evil, for thou art with me ?" He replied, " I hope 
 so." He died in peace, cheered by his Saviour's 
 presence and love. 
 
 19. Dr. Edward Payson was an eminent 
 Christian, and a devoted minister of the Lord. 
 He died a most triumphant death. When about 
 to finish his course, he thus commenced a letter : 
 "Dear sister, were I to adopt the figurative lan- 
 guage of Bunyan, I might date this letter from 
 the land of Beulah, of which I have been for 
 some weeks a happy inhabitant. The celestial 
 city is full in my view : its glories beam upon 
 me ; its breezes fan me ; its odours are wafted 
 to me ; its sounds strike upon my ears, and its 
 spirit is breathed into my heart. Nothing 
 separates me from it but the river of death, 
 which new appears but as an insignificant rill- 
 that i"aj be crossei at a single step, whenever 
 
THE LOVa: Oi CHRIST HI 
 
 God slial: g'.ve permission. Tte Sun of righte- 
 ousness ha.? been gradually drcwing nearer and 
 nearer, appearing larger and brighter as he ap- 
 proached ; and now fills the whole hemisphere, 
 pouring forth a flood of glory, in which I seem 
 to float like an insect in the beams of the sun, 
 exulting, yet almost trembling, while I gaze on 
 this excessive brightness, and wondering with 
 unutterable wonder why God should deign thus 
 to shine upon a sinful worm. A single heart, 
 and a single tongue, seem altogether inadequate 
 to my wants : I want a whole heart for every 
 separate emotion, and a whole tongue to express 
 that emotion." 
 
 Among the last words of this excellent and 
 pious divine, are the following: "A young man, 
 when about to leave the world, exclaimed, ' The 
 battle's fought, the battle's fought; but the 
 victory is lost forever !' But I can say, The 
 battle's fought, the battle's fought, and the vic- 
 tory is won ! The victory is won forever ! 1 
 am going to bathe in an ocean of purity, and 
 benevolence, and happiness, to all eternity !" 
 
 Again : " Hitherto I have viewed God as a 
 fixed star ; bright indeed, but often intercepted 
 by clouds. But now he is coming nearer and 
 nearer ; and he spreads into a sun so vast, and 
 so glorious, that the sight is too dazzling for 
 flesh and blood t - sustain 1" 
 
'^ 
 
 112 THE LOVE OF JHEI3T. 
 
 Oa one occasion, when laboring ander very 
 acute pains, he exclaimed, "These are Goda 
 arrows ; but they are sharpened with love." 
 Once he exclaimed, "Victory, victory 1 Peace, 
 peace !" 
 
 The last words he was heard to whisper, were 
 these: "Faith and patience, hold outl" Thus 
 died Dr. Payson ; and he has left a glorious 
 testimony to the truth of the religion of Jesus. 
 
 20. Harlan Page* was an eminent Christian, 
 and used great personal efforts for the souls of 
 individuals ; and in his death, Christ was with 
 him. "A death-bed," said he, "is a precious 
 place, when we have the presence of Christ — 
 then to wake to a glorious immortality." Again : 
 " I feel as if I had got half way home. I cannot 
 bear to stop. It would be a pity to have the 
 flesh return on these limbs again." 
 
 Again he said : "I commit myself to thee, 
 Jesus, Saviour of sinners. the infinite love 
 of Christ ! I may stop my mouth, and lie in the 
 dust." He appeared to feel that he had obtained 
 a new view of the love of Christ j therefore he 
 said, " It seems as if I never kuev before what 
 it was to love him. 0, who can help loving 
 Each a blessed Savio>ir 1" 
 
 • See a very injcf-esting memoir of this holy man, by "W. 
 4. Halloelr, publishsd by the American Tract Society. 
 
THE LOVE V i" CHRIST, 113 
 
 Again lie repeated these words: "O when 
 shall I go home? How long must I be bur- 
 dened with this body ! The Lord knows how 
 iiiuch suffering I need, to prepare me' for his 
 kingdom." 
 
 A little before his death, he exclaimed, 
 "Home! home!" and prayed: "0 for a free 
 ^nd full discharge ! Lord Jesus, come quickly I 
 Why wait thy chariot wheels so long ? I dedi- 
 cate myself to thee. may I have the victory 1 
 O come quickly! Come, Lord Jesus, come 
 
 quickly !" 
 
 21. David Brainerd died a happy death. With 
 perfect composure of mind, this eminent servant 
 of God saw the approaches of dissolution. To 
 him, death was not an enemy, but a friend : it 
 was the long expected messenger, sent to convey 
 him home to his heavenly father's house ; and 
 he would exclaim, "Oh! why is the chariot 
 so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels 
 of his chariot? Come, Lord Jesus; come 
 quickly!" In this happy frame of mind, he 
 expired. 
 
 22. Kev. Eisdon Darracott, an eminent ser- 
 vant of the Lord Jesus Christ, said on his death- 
 bed, "I am going to that Jesus whom I love, 
 and whom I have so often preached. Come, 
 Lord Jesus, come quickly! Why are thy 
 chariot wheds so long a coming?" The nighi 
 
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114 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 before he died, lie said, " what a good God 
 have I in Christ Jesus ! I would praise him, 
 but my lips cannot. Eternity will be too short 
 to speak his praises." He related his experience 
 of the goodness of God to him during his sick- 
 ness, and said, " If I had a thousand lives to 
 live, I would live them all for Christ. I have 
 cast anchor on him, and rely on his blood, and 
 am going to venture my all upon him. There 
 is nothing on earth I desire ! Here I am wait- 
 ing ! What a mercy to be in Jesus !" He then 
 threw abroad his arms, and exclaimed,, "He is 
 coming! he is coming I But surely this can't 
 be death ! how astonishingly is the Lord 
 softening my passage ! Surely God is too good 
 to such a worm I speed thy chariot wheels ! 
 Why are they so long in coming ? I long to be 
 gone." At length he fell asleep in Jesus, whom 
 'u3 so much loved, and who manifested such 
 tender love to him in the hour of death. 
 
 23. Mrs. Catharine Brettergh, a singular 
 Christian of Lancashire, (England,) was blessed 
 to die a comfortable and joyful death. The fol- 
 lowing were some of her last words : " the 
 joys that I feel in ray soul! my sweet Sav- 
 ioui-, shall I be one with thee, as thou art one 
 with the Father ? wonderful is thy love to 
 me, who am but dust ! To make such as me 
 partaker of thy glory ! that my tongue and 
 
THE LOVE 0? CHEIST. 115 
 
 iCart were able to sound forth thy praises .is I 
 ought 1" 
 
 24:. The amiable and pious Hannah Hous- 
 man, when on her death-bed, often said, with 
 smiles in her face, and transports of joy : " Come, 
 Lord Jesus; come quickly! Why tarry the 
 wheels of thy chariot ? O, blessed convoy 1 
 come and fetch my soul, to dwell with God, and 
 Christ, and perfect spirits, forever and ever 
 When I join that blessed society above, my 
 pleasures will never end. 0, the glory, the glory 
 that shall be set on the head of faith and love 1 ' 
 
 25. Jeremiah Evarts, so well known by every 
 friend of missionaries, died a triumphant death. 
 Feeling the love of Christ in his last moments, 
 he broke out into rapturous expressions : " Praise 
 him, praise him, praise him in a way which you 
 know not of" Some one said to him, "You 
 will soon see Jesus as he is, and know how to 
 praise him." He replied, " wonderful, won- 
 derful, wonderful glory! We cannot compre- 
 hend . . . wonderful glory ! I will praise him : 
 I will praise him ! Wonderful .... glory .... 
 Jesus reigneth !" 
 
 26. Eichard Cecil often exclaimed on hig 
 death-bed, with the martyr Lambert, "None but 
 Christ; none but Christ!" As he drew nearer 
 to death, Jesus Christ was his only topic ; and a 
 sh>r1 time before he died, he requested one of 
 
116 THE LOVE IF CHEISr. 
 
 his family to write down for him in a hcok tiio 
 following sentence : " ' None but Christ, none 
 but Christ,' said Lambert, dying at the stake : 
 the same, in dying circumstances, with his whole 
 heart, saith Sichard Cecil." 
 
 27. The Rev. John Eees, of London, uttered 
 the following words on his death-bed: "Christ 
 in his person, Christ in the love of his heart, and 
 Christ in the power of his arm, is the rock on 
 which I rest; and now," (reclining his head on 
 the pillow,) "Death, strike!" 
 
 28. Mrs. Hannah Woodd, mother of the Eev. 
 Basil "Woodd, repeated the following words, 
 when near her dissolutiou: "Oh I I am very 
 happy! I am going to my mansion in the 
 skies. Thank God, I have a hope built on the 
 Eock of ages. I am dying, but I am going to 
 glory. 1 shall see Him as he is. I shall be for- 
 ever near him, and behold his face. Blessed be 
 God! Blessed be God!" 
 
 29. Mrs. M. M. Atthans, an excellent Chria- 
 tian lady, left this testimony to the cause of 
 Christianity: "I bless God, I have not one fear 
 concerning dying. That Almighty Lord, who 
 has so wonderfully preserved me to the present 
 moment, will not forsake me in my last extioui- 
 ity. ISTo: when flesh and heart fail, he will be 
 the strength of mj ':nart and my portion for^ 
 
THE L.'JTE OF CHRIST. 117 
 
 SO. We sball close our records of triimphant 
 deatlis, with an account of the last hours of a 
 remarkably pious young lady, who lately went 
 to glory ; and whose death-bed scene, it was the 
 privilege of the author to witness. 
 
 He had often read accounts of the triumphant 
 deaths of believers, but never before had he seen 
 such an illustrious exhibition of divine grace, 
 and love, manifested to a saint, in the hour of 
 death. 
 
 Not till then, did he feel that there was such 
 power in the religion of Jesus, to sustain, and to 
 cheer in the hour of dissolution. This young 
 lady had been confined to a bed of severe suffer- 
 ing for one year. At last her soul was ripened 
 for glory. The time came that she must die 
 and her death-bed was a scene of triumph. 
 Christ was very precious to her ; and his love 
 was wonderfully manifested to her soul. She 
 X)ften exclaimed, " My beloved is mine, and I am 
 his."* 
 
 The following are among her last words. To 
 her distant brother she thus dictated a letter 
 "Dear brother, I know not whether I shall 
 meet you again on earth ; but I hope to meet 
 you in heaven, where we shall be forever sing- 
 ing the praises of God; where the Lamb, which 
 
 • Cant 1 16. 
 
118 THE LJVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 is in the midst of the throne, shall feed us, and 
 lead U3 unto living fountains of waters, and 
 ■where God shall wipe away all tears from our 
 eyes." 
 
 To her father, who said to her, "I fear I must 
 lose you ;" she replied, "Your loss will be my 
 gain ! I have a building of God, a house, not 
 made with hands, eternal in the heavens." And 
 again when he said, I think you wUl fall asleep 
 in Jesus ;" she responded, " It will be a happy 
 change." 
 
 As her friends were standing around her 
 dying bed, she said to a brother, "Have you any 
 words to say ?" He immediately repeated Psalm 
 xxiii. 4 : " Yea, though I walk through the val- 
 ley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, 
 for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they 
 comfort me." These words vere very reviving 
 to her. She seemed to feel that Christ was with 
 her in that trying moment, that his Icve was 
 shed abroad in her heart ; for, turning herselfj 
 she exclaimed in a transport of joy, " Oh ! I 
 would not give up Christ for all the world I" 
 
 " Whom have I in the heavens high, 
 But thee, Lord, alone ? 
 And ir. the earth whom I desire. 
 Beside thee there is none." 
 
 "I hope that I shaP meet ycu all in heaven, 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 119 
 
 where we shall be forever with, the Lord." Sha 
 wished that Christ might be praised ; and that 
 he might be magnified by her dying breath. 
 To her brother she said, " I hope you may live 
 with Christ, and praise him throughout the 
 endless ages of eternity." 
 
 She was asked by one, if, during her sickness 
 she had not ofcen experienced something like 
 heaven upon earth. She replied that she had. 
 Her earthly course being nearly finished, she 
 opened her eyes, which were soon to be closed 
 in death, and in the language of strong, un- 
 shaken faith, exclaimed with Job, " I know that 
 my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at 
 the latter day upon the earth : and though afi;er 
 my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my 
 flesh shall I see God : whom I see for myself, 
 and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, 
 though my reins be consumed within me."* 
 Once she broke out into a rapture and exclaimed, 
 "0, to be ever with the Lord, what a hajipy 
 change 1" 
 
 A little while before her death, one said to 
 her, " It is a happy thing when the believer can 
 say, when about to leave the world, ' I have fin- 
 ished the work which thou gavest me to do.' 
 She said yes ; and added, (though with great dif- 
 
 ♦ Job xix 25-27 
 
120 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 ficulty, her breath being almost gone,) ''1 am 
 now ready to be offered, ^nd the time of my de- 
 parture is at hand. I have fought a good fight, 
 [ have finished my course. I have kept the 
 faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown 
 of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
 Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to 
 me only, but unto all them also that love his 
 appearing." 
 
 Her faith remained firm unto the end, and her 
 hope and confidence unshaken to the last. Her 
 sky was clear and serene, her mind calm and 
 composed, and thus she fell asleep in Jesus, and 
 entered into the joy of her Lord. 
 
 As the writer gazed upon the solemn scene 
 before him, he could not but feel the force of 
 Revelation xiv. 13, " Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord." A few days before this young 
 lady died, she requested the following verses to 
 be read at her funeral. They are too beautiful, 
 and impressive to be omitted here. 
 
 "TO MY YOUNG COMPANIONS. 
 
 "My youthful mates, both small and great, 
 Stand here, and you shall see. 
 An awful sight, which is a typo 
 Of what you soon must be. 
 
 "I used to appear once fresh and fair 
 Among the youthful crowd ; 
 
THE LOVE OF OHEIST 121 
 
 But now beliold me dead and ooW 
 Wrapped in a sable shroud 
 
 "My cheeks once red, like roses spread. 
 My sparkling eyes so gay ; 
 But now you see how 'tis with me 
 A lifeless lump of clay. 
 
 " When you ars dressed in all your best, 
 In fashion so complete. 
 You soon must be as you see me 
 Wrapped in a winding sheet 
 
 " Ah, youth beware, and do prepare 
 To meet the monster, death j 
 For he may come when you are yoiaig. 
 And steal away your breath 
 
 " When you unto your frolics go 
 Kemember what I say ; 
 [n a short time, though in your pTiin>i. 
 Tou may be called away. 
 
 * Now I am gone, I can't return ; 
 No more of me you'll see ; 
 But it is true that all of you 
 Must shortly follow me. 
 
 " When you unto my grave do go, 
 The gloomy place to see, 
 I say to you who stand and yiew, 
 Prepare to follow me." 
 
 And now, reader, can you not say, " Let me 
 
 die tlie death of the righteous, and let my last 
 
 end be like his I How important is it then that 
 
 you should now choose Christ, in order that you 
 
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122 THE LOVE 0/ CHBiST. 
 
 may enjoy his love and presence, not only 
 througli life, but also in the hour of death I If 
 you belong to Christ, you will find him, in the 
 last hour of life, a friend that sticketh closer 
 than a brother. 
 
 What an awful thing it is to die without sal- 
 vation by Christ, without an interest in him ; and 
 yet millions live without God, and without hope 
 in the world ; and millions more die in the same 
 awful condition, and plunge into a dark and 
 miserable eternity. O, be admonished to choose 
 Christ in time, and he will be yours in death, 
 and in eternity. 
 
 How unspeakably blessed it is to enjoy the 
 love and smiles of Christ in a dying hour! 
 Then what can the world do for you? The 
 tears of your friends, and the exertions of your 
 physicians, will then be unavailing. 
 
 It is Christ alone that can make a dying-bed 
 easy and comfortable. His love and presence 
 will sustain you, and his almighty arms support 
 you. 
 
 " Though nnseen by human eye, 
 The Bedeemer's hand is nigh : 
 He has poured salralion's light 
 Far -within the Tale of night; 
 There will God my steps control. 
 There his presence bless my soul. 
 Lord whate'er my sorrows be^ 
 Teach me ti look up to thee." 
 
THE LOVE OF Can: ST. 123 
 
 lie who is thus with you," says an excel- 
 lent writer, " will afford all needful comfort and 
 support in the trying hour. He wUl open at 
 that time treasures of grace and strength, to 
 which you had been previously a stranger. The 
 Eedeemer himself is present, not only to guide 
 his saints, but to infuse that comfort and vigor 
 which will abundantly compensate for the sink- 
 ings of expiring nature. Who but those who 
 have entered heaven, can tell what unearthly 
 joys are vouchsafed the saint in a dying hour ? 
 Often, there is reason to believe, they transcend 
 every thing possessed in the present life. There 
 may be visions of glory realized by the spirit, 
 which are second only to those of heaven. The 
 dying experience of many saints has been of the 
 most delightful kind. Whether such hopes and 
 joys as were afforded to Janeway and others, 
 will be vouchsafed to you, you know not ; nor 
 is it necessary you should know. Whatever is 
 needful for you in a dying hour, Christ will 
 bestow. He says, " My grace is sufficient for 
 thee."* Eemember, that he has said, "Fear 
 not, I am he that liveth, and was dead ; and be- 
 hold, I am alive for evermore, amen ; and have 
 the keys of hell and of death."f 
 When we contemplate those, Avhose deaths we 
 
 • 2 Cor. xii. 9. f EeT. i. 17, 13 
 
124 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 have recorded ia tliis volume, we may justly 
 say, " These all died in faith :" and, let us also 
 be " follo-wers of them who through faith and 
 patience inherit the promises."* "Wherefore, 
 seeing we also are compassed about with so 
 great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside eveiy 
 weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset 
 us, and let us run with patience the race that is 
 set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and 
 finisher of our faith, "f 
 
 If you belong to Christ, he will love you in 
 life, in death, and in that happy home, which 
 his love has prepared for you. 
 
 In conclusion. Christian reader, you will soon 
 exchange the abodes of mortality for the regions 
 of bliss. Then look beyond the grave. Do not 
 confine your thoughts to this gloomy place. 
 Contemplate the sublime raptures of your future 
 existence beyond the precincts of time. Christ 
 shall one day break the slumbers of the grave, 
 and you will arise to immortality. 
 
 The love of Christ does not stop at death. It 
 extends beyond this solemn period. It will ac- 
 company you into the heavenly world; your 
 everlasting happy home: and you will soon 
 arrive there. From the valley of the shadow 
 of death you shall ascend to the summit of Zion. 
 
 • Heb. vi. 12, f Heb. xiL ], 2. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 125 
 
 You shall " Come unto Mount Sion, and r.nto 
 the city of the living Grod, the heavenly Jeru- 
 salem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 
 to the general assembly and church of the first- 
 born, which are written in heaven, and to God 
 the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men 
 \aade perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the 
 new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, 
 that speaketh better things than that of Abel."* 
 T'or the darkness of mortality, you shall obtain 
 the bright glories of heaven. " Thine eyes 
 shall see the King in his beauty ; they shall be- 
 hold the land that is very far off."f You will 
 possess the promised land, the heavenly Canaan. 
 Then shall the days of your mourning be ended. 
 Eaised in the likeness of yoar blessed Eedeemer, 
 you shall, finally, be presented faultless before 
 the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. 
 Entering the fair mansions of glory, you shall 
 reign with your glorified Eedeemer, forever and 
 ever. O ! happy issue to the Christian's short 
 pilgrimage on earth ! 
 
 "With such cheering prospects to be realized, 
 can you not also say, in the prospect of death, 
 Avith many dying saints, "I have a desire to 
 depart, and to bo with Christ. Amen. Even 
 Bo^ come, Lord Jesus, come quickly !" 
 
 « Heb. xii. 22-24 f '^- ^J'xxiii. 11. 
 
 11* 
 
126 THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 
 
 In the following chapters we shall contem- 
 plate that happy home which Christ, in hid 
 great love for a lost world, has now gone to pre- 
 pare for his children. "For we know that if 
 our earthly house of this tabernacle were dis- 
 solved, we have a building of God, a house not 
 made with hands, eternal in the heavens."* 
 
 "How happy is the dying saint, 
 Whose sins are all forgiven ; 
 With joy he passes Jordan's flood. 
 Upheld by hopes of heaven. 
 
 "The Saviour, ivhom he truly lov'd, 
 Now cheers him by his grace : 
 
 A glory gilds his dying bed, 
 And beams upon his face. 
 
 "Ecstatic joy and heavenly bliss 
 Swell his enraptured heart ; 
 He views the promis'd land of rest, 
 And pants for his depart 
 
 " Terror and dread are both unknown ; 
 Sweet peace and liope appear, 
 To guide the blessed traveller home^ 
 And all his footsteps cheer. 
 
 "Angels of light attendant wait 
 His spirit to convey 
 Bej'ond this drear abode of night, 
 To realms of endless day. 
 
 • 2 Cor. V. 1. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 127 
 
 'Oh ! may I live the life of faith. 
 
 Abound in holy love, 
 ^iii death ehall bear my joyful eool 
 
 "So Zon'e oourts oboTa" 
 
128 IHK LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THB HATPT HOME IN VIEW. 
 
 " It my Father's house are many mansions : I go to pre- 
 pare a place fcr you.'' — John xir. 2. 
 
 " As wben the wea\j trav'ller gains 
 The height of some o'er-looking hill, 
 His heart revives, if cross the plains 
 He eyes liis home, though distant still. 
 
 " While iie surveys the much loved spot. 
 He slights the space that lies between ; ■ 
 His past faneues are now forgot, 
 Because his journey's end ii seen. 
 
 " Thus when the Christian pilgrim views 
 By faith, his mansion in the slcies, 
 The sight his fainting strength renews, 
 And wings his speed to reach the priza. 
 
 "The thought of home his spirit cheers, 
 Ko more he grieves for troubles past ; 
 Nor any future trial fears, 
 So he may safe arrive at last. 
 
 * Tis there he says 1 am to dwell 
 With Jesus, in the realms of day; 
 Then I shall bid my cares farewell, 
 And he will wipe my tears away. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 129 
 
 "Jesus, on thee our hope depends, 
 To lead iis on to tliine abode; 
 Assur'd our home will make amends 
 
 For all our toil -while on the road." — I^ewtos. 
 
 Christ lias not only manifested liis love to a 
 lost world in liis incarnation, sufferings, and 
 death, but also in going to prepare a place, a 
 happy home, for those whose salvation he has 
 accomplished. Said the blessed Redeemer, to 
 his sorrowful disciples, when he was about to 
 leave the world, "I go to prepare a place for 
 you."* 
 
 Christ has manifested most amazing love to 
 believers, in preparing for their eternal abode, 
 mansions of glory, a house not made with hands, 
 eternal in the heavens ; a city which hath foun- 
 dations, whose builder and maker is God. 
 Heaven is a prejiared place for believers ; pre- 
 pared by Christ in his infinite love. The love 
 of Christ will make heaven a glorious, happy 
 abode indeed. Ohl what a happy home will 
 heaven be. Thither all the redeemed shall 
 finally assemble, to spend one eternal day in 
 the glorious presence of Immanuel. Who 
 can fully describe the joys of the Christian's 
 happy home ? Feeble mortals could not com- 
 prehend the description if it should be given. 
 
 • John xiv. 3 
 
l80 the love of CHRIST. 
 
 What human mind can conceive of tl 3 un 
 speakable blessedness which awaits the child of 
 Grod in that upper and better world, his happy 
 home I Dear believer, to know what heaven 
 really is, you must put off mortality. " Eye 
 hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en- 
 tered into the heart of man the things which 
 God hath prepared for them that love him."* 
 
 Is not your happy home always in view? 
 Do you not long for the approach of that joyfol 
 day, which will introduce you into the mansions 
 of glory — bring you to your endless, happy 
 home ? How short is the space that lies between 
 you and glory I The time, how short! Al- 
 ready is the night far spent. The day is at 
 hand ; that blessed day which will bring each 
 weary Christian traveller home, and seat him in 
 his Father's house ; that house not made with 
 hands, in which there are many mansions. 
 
 The map of heaven is laid wide open for your 
 inspection. Often obtain a glimpse of the happy 
 land. Be always looking heavenward and home- 
 ward. Let heaven be always in your eye, and 
 the earth under your feet, and in a little while 
 God shall wipe away all tears : you will reach 
 your journey's end ; then faith shall be turned 
 into vision, hope, into fruition, and you will 
 
 • 1 Cor. ii 9. 
 
THE LOVE OF C HEIST. 131 
 
 be fully satisfied with the goodness of Grod's 
 house. 
 
 As you now survey the glories of your happy 
 home, does not your heart exult at the prospect ? 
 And is not the thought of home at all times re- 
 freshing? What name is more endearing than 
 home, sweet home ; around which so many hal- 
 lowed associations cluster ? 
 
 Christian, heaven is your only true home. 
 Here you have no continuing city nor place of 
 abode. The divine command is, "Arise ye, 
 and depart ; for this is not your rest."* " There 
 remaineth therefore a rest to the people of 
 God."f God has provided a better home for 
 you, than this polluted world. 0, remember 
 that you are a stranger and pilgrim on earth. 
 Let your course be onward in the Christian's 
 journey. Quicken your pace on the road to 
 glory. Your happy home will not be always 
 in view : it will soon be in possession. 
 
 Eeader, are you pressing forward to the Chris- 
 tian's happy home? Is heaven the home 
 which you expect to reach? Do you long to 
 arrive at those everlasting mansions in the skies? 
 Then let the hope of eternal glory elevate your 
 affections above all sublunary objects, " If ye 
 then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
 
 • Micah iL 10. f Heb. iil. 9. 
 
132 THE LOVE OP CJRIST. 
 
 which are above, where Christ sitteth on the 
 right hand of God. Set your affections on 
 things above, not on things on the earth ; for yo 
 are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in 
 God. When Christ, who is our life, shall ap- 
 pear, then shall ye also appear with him in 
 glory."* 
 
 The ultimate object of Christ's mediatorial 
 work is to bring sinners to glory — to God's 
 house — ^to the happy home : there they are to 
 live; there to reign forever; there to be ever 
 with the Lord. God wiU bring all his dear 
 children home to glory. Then he will leceive 
 them, and be a father unto them, and they will 
 be his sons and daughters. They will be for- 
 ever with their kind heavenly Father — with 
 their blessed elder Brother — with prophets and 
 apostles — with saints and angels — with one an- 
 other. What a happy meeting I What blessed 
 society will the saints enjoy ! Then they will 
 have gained the prize of the high calling of 
 God m Christ Jesus. They will receive those 
 crowns of glory which fade not away. They 
 shall be kings and priests imto God. They 
 shall S3rve him day and night in his temple 
 above. Blest abode I Delightful employment, 
 Oiat ol praising God 1 Happy they I who aie 
 
 • Col, iii. 1-4. 
 
THE LOVE CP CHEtST. 133 
 
 to spend eternity in such a homo ; contrasted 
 with the glories of which, this earth is darkness 
 itself 
 
 Christian, soon shall the interposing vail of 
 mortality he drawn aside, and you will behold 
 the glories of that land which no mortal pen 
 can now describe. But is heaven soon to be 
 your happy home ? Arc you tliere to reign with 
 Jesus, in the realms Of everlasting day ; there 
 to behold the uncreated glory of Immanuel ? 
 Then how trifling should the transient concerns 
 of earth appear to you ! You should smile at 
 the frowns of time. The angry tempest will 
 soon be over. The swelling waves of life's 
 ocean will soon rise no more. You will soon 
 have reached the desired haven of eternal rest, 
 the blessed shores of immortality, the happy 
 home ; and that home will more than compen- 
 sate for all the toil by the way. 
 
 " Soon -will you reach the West abode. 
 Where happy pilgrims ever reign ; 
 Soon shall you see the face of God, 
 And all the bliss of heaven obtain :" 
 
 Live with your happy home, always in view. 
 Let the glories of a coming eternity revive your 
 drooping spirits, amidst life's trials and life's 
 conflicts. The road to glory is but a short one. 
 A moment of time intervenes, and then eternal 
 12 
 
134 THE OVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 ages commence to roll away. After this moment 
 has passed, you will enter upon a state of end- 
 less felicity. Arrived at your liappy home, you 
 will take up an everlasting song of praise ; you 
 will celebrate the victories of redeeming love, 
 through one unending day. You have over 
 come, through the blood of the Lamb. You 
 have been more than a conqueror, through him 
 that loved you. And now you shall stand a 
 monument of God's love, and mercy, and grace ; 
 you shall be made a pillar in his glorious tem- 
 ple above, whence there shall be no more going 
 out. You shall live with Christ, and praise 
 him throughout the endless ages of eternity. 
 You shall behold Immanuel in his unveiled 
 glory. You shall praise him for that unbounded 
 love, which has obtained for you immortal bliss. 
 O, Christian! the love of Christ has procured 
 that unfading wreath of glory, which will one 
 day be entwined around your brow ; that radiant 
 diadem which you Avill forever wear. The love 
 if Christ has irepared a happy home for your 
 reception, when this sublunary scene shaU have 
 vanished from your mortal vision. 
 
 All the happiness you enjoy in time; and all 
 the glory that will crown you through eternity, 
 flow from the love of Christ. Make him your 
 boast in time, your all in all ; and may he be 
 formed in you, the hope of glory. 
 
THE LOVE 02 CHRIST. 135 
 
 Happy tliey I Avho have fled for refuge to tlie 
 world's Eedeenier. He will carry them to glory. 
 Eeader, may this precious Saviour be yours, in 
 life, in death, and in eternity. Conducted by 
 the Captain of 5-our salvation, you will also reach 
 the Christian's happy home, and realize the joys 
 of a blessed immortality. 
 
 "What glorious prospects are presented to the 
 eye of faith, the spiritual vision of the Christian ! 
 He views the never-ending glories of the 
 heavenly kingdom ; and in that view he loses 
 the sight of terrestrial grandeur. He quickly 
 glides over the narrow stream of tune ; till he 
 finds himself sailing on the vast unbounded 
 ocean of eternity, an eternity of blessedness. 
 He lifts his eyes to the hills, from whence cometh 
 his help; those everlasting hills which tower 
 aloft, beyond the swellings of Jordan ; beyond 
 the valley of the shadow of death. He expects 
 soon to reach the heights of Zion. " They go 
 from strength to strength, every one of them in 
 Zion appeareth before God."* 
 
 In the mean time, O my soul, meditate upon 
 the glories of thy happy home. What must be 
 the feelings of the Christian, when he views all 
 heaven as his own ; when he can claim all the 
 delights of the celestial paradise as hi?, and looks 
 
 • Paalm Ixxxiv. 1, 
 
136 THE LOVE OF CUR 5T. 
 
 upon tze world to come as liis eternal happy 
 home ! 
 
 Come, Christian, survey the happy land, j'-our 
 everlasting homo. Life is fast hastening away. 
 The oscillating tides of time are bearing you 
 onward and homeward. Every wave of life's 
 ' tempestuous ocean is only wafting you to the 
 happy shores of a blessed eternity. Then look 
 beyond this poor dying world ! Look at that 
 eternal home which Christ has prepared for 
 you 1 • View the celestial city, irradiated by the 
 glory of God and the Lamb I See the pearly, 
 gates, the golden streets, the shining inhabitants 
 of the New Jerusalem ! The uncreated glory 
 of God will enlighten that city of everlasting 
 habitation, which the love of Christ has pre- 
 pared. 
 
 What a blessed habitation has Christ prepared 
 for believers ! What a glorious inheritance has 
 he promised them^ Come, my soul, and siir 
 vey it. 
 
 "My soul, on PisgaVs mouno ascend, 
 Where Moses once admiring stood ; 
 There view the promised land extend 
 Beyond the swelling Jordan's flocd 
 
 " Bj' faith surrey the landscape o'ei 
 Where living waters gently flow; 
 Till earth usurp thy love no more ; 
 Till all thy kiiiling passions glom 
 
THE LOVE 0? CH-IIST. 137 
 
 " In that blessed region of delight, 
 The saints nor sin nor sorrow feel, 
 Etei-nal day excludes the night, 
 And all possess the spirit's seal. 
 
 "The ransomed soul in glory clad, 
 
 Shines brighter than meridian sun ; 
 The weary pilgrim, now so sad, 
 There finds his toilsome journey done." 
 
 O my soul, rise and soar aloft to the heavenly 
 Canaan ! Mount up as upon eagles' wings, and 
 behold the king in his beauty, and the land 
 that is afar off. Leave the world to those who 
 seek their pleasures and happiness in its perish- 
 ing enjoyments, and set thy affections on things 
 above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of 
 God. 
 
 How the world recedes from your view, as 
 you obtain a glimpse of the heavenly land! 
 The short-lived pleasures of earth, and the 
 transient show of sublunary magnificence, no 
 longer fascinate the mind, as it gains a Pisgah 
 view of the Christian's endless happy home, the 
 glories of which baffle all description. The love 
 of Christ is most illustriously manifested to be- 
 lievers, in his going to prepare such a home for 
 them. O m.atchless love! that Jesus has not 
 only died for sinners, but has gone to prepare 
 mansions above, where they shall reign with 
 IS" 
 
188 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 him in eternd glory I Hasten on, joyful day, 
 when the redeemed of the Lord shall come to 
 Zion with songs ; when ransomed sinners shall 
 commence to celebrate the wonders of redeeming 
 love in mansions of glory ! 
 
 Look forward, Christian reader, to the con- 
 summation of your bliss. With joy antici- 
 pate the glories of the resurrection morning ; a 
 morning that will dawn upon the glorified saint, 
 without a single cloud to darken his beatific 
 vision, or obscure the glorious rays of the Sun 
 of righteousness, that will arise with healing in 
 his beams, and forever gladden the hearts of 
 millions of happy saints. What a happy day 
 wUl that be, when aU the children of God shall 
 reach their everlasting home ; those mansions in 
 the skies, where all are perfectly blessed in the 
 full enjoyment of God through eternity I 
 
 Dear believer, in humble confidence in God, 
 wait with patience till the coming of the Lord 
 Jesus ; tm you are brought into the fall posses- 
 sion of the heavenly inheritance. " Blessed be 
 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 which, according to his abundant mercy, hath 
 begotten us again into a lively hope by the re- 
 suiTection of Jesus Clirist from the dead ; to an 
 inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that 
 fadeth not awaj' ; reserved in heaven for you, 
 who are kept by tV.e power of God through faith 
 
 - 
 
THE LOVE 0¥ CHRIST. 139 
 
 untc salvation, ready to be revealed in the ]ast 
 time."* 
 
 Blessed Jesus ! keep me hj thy almighty 
 power through faith unto salvation. Spirit- 
 ualize my affections — elevate my views to the 
 ■world of glory. Wean my heart from the fleet- 
 ing enjoyments of this mortal hfe, this perishing 
 earth. Satisfy me with thy goodness and mercy ; 
 visit me with thy salvation, and at last bring mo 
 home to thyself in glory. 
 
 " Then let ray soul forever raise 
 The incense of adoring praise ; 
 And join the heavenly choirs above, 
 In sweetest songs of grateful love." 
 
 Eeader ! look beyond this sublunary scene of 
 changing mortality. 
 
 " All, all on earth is shadow ; all beyond 
 Is substance. » » • » 
 How solid all, where change shall be no more 1" 
 
 Soar aloft on the wings of faith, and roam in 
 imagination through the myriads of ages that 
 lie beyond the precincts of time ; and in those 
 regions of immortality prepared for the just, 
 may you realize the joys of endless life, of an 
 immortal existence, and of an inheritance before 
 which the splendor of a thousand worlds fades ; 
 
 • 1 Peter i. S-5. 
 
140 THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 
 
 which will endure when this earth anl ill her 
 terrestrial glory shall have passed away, and 
 when the sun shall have cast his last rays, and 
 the stars have set in endless night I 
 
 " Life's theatre as yet is eliut ; and death, 
 Strong death alone, can heave the massy bar, 
 This grass impediment of clay remove. 
 * * * * And spring to life, 
 Tlie life of gods ; oh transport I and of man." 
 
 " Now unto him that is able to keep _) ou from 
 falling, and to present you faultless before the 
 presence of his glory with exceeding joy ; to 
 the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
 majesty, dominion and power, both now and 
 ever, amen."* 
 
 * Jude L 24, ££. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHBIST. Ill 
 
 CHAriER L 
 
 THE nAPPT HOME CONTEMPLATED BEING -WITH CHRIST 
 
 IN GLORY. 
 
 " FatbeTf I will tliat they also whom thou bast given mo, be with mo 
 wbere I am." — Joidj xvii, 24. 
 " So shall we ever be with the Lord."—! TnEss. Iv. IT. 
 
 In those blest regions of deliglit, 
 Where Jesus is uaveil'd to sights 
 No mortal tongue can e'er express 
 The ransom'd sinner's blessedness. 
 
 What mortal pen can describe tlie glowing 
 beauties of Immanuel's land ! "What mortal 
 tongue can express the blessedness of the saints, 
 when gazing upon the heaven-bright glories of 
 Immanuel's form, and dwelling forever in his 
 glorious presence, under the resplendent beams 
 of the Sun of righteousness ! This is what the 
 eye hath not seen ; what the ear hath not heard ; 
 what the heart of man has never conceived. 
 Bui yet this blessedness awaits all the saints, 
 and will abide with them through the incessant 
 flow of eternity's immeasurable ages. 0, happy 
 thought I 
 
 Dear Christian reader, Christ has, in his infin- 
 
142 THE LOVE OF 0HRI3T. 
 
 ite love, now gone to prepare a place, an endLss 
 happy home for you ; but he will come again, 
 and receive you to himself. He wiU not always 
 leave you in this vale of tears. No : when this 
 short life is ended, you will " depart and be 
 with Christ;" you will dwell in the house of 
 the Lord forever. Christ will bring you to his 
 Father's house, where his glorious presence is 
 enjoyed without a medium. He will welcome 
 you to the mansions of glory, to the kingdom of 
 heaven. " Come, ye blessed of my Father, in- 
 herit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
 foundation of the world."* " I go to prepare a 
 place for you ; and if I go and prepare a place 
 for you, I will come again and receive you unto 
 myself; that where I am, there ye may be 
 also."t 
 
 Thus spake our Saviour before he left this 
 world — before he ascended to heaven from 
 Mount Olivet. But there is a day coming, when 
 that same Saviour shall break through the 
 clouds of heaven ; " when he shall come to be 
 glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all 
 them that believe in that day." 
 
 Job obtained a glimpse of this day. He 
 starts forward on the wings of faith, and be- 
 holds through the lapse of many ages the divine 
 
 * MattK xxT. 84. f J°'in sir 2, 3. 
 
THE LOVE LF CHKISJ". 143 
 
 form of his Eedeemer. He sees him with his 
 verj' eyes. " I know tliat my Eedeemer liveth, 
 and that he shall stand at the latter day upon 
 the earth ; and though after my skin worms 
 destroy this tody, yet in my flesh shall I see 
 God; whom I shall see for myself, and mine 
 eyes shall behold, and not another, though my 
 reins be consumed within me."* 
 
 Christ shall come again, to gather his children 
 home, to that place which he has prepared for 
 them. Then shall the word of command, issued 
 from his blessed lips, go forth: "Gather my 
 saints together unto me, those that have made a 
 covenant with me by sacrifice. For the Lord 
 himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, 
 with the voice of the archangel, and with the 
 trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall 
 rise first : then we which are alive and remain 
 shall be caught up together with them in the 
 clouds, to meet the Lord in the air ; and so shall 
 we ever be with the Lord."t Then shall we be 
 ever in his presence, where there is fullness of 
 joy and pleasure forever. 
 
 It is Christ's presence that will make the very 
 heaven of happiness, the very centre of felicity. 
 It is being with Christ that will constitute the 
 Durest, brightest, noblest heaven. "What would 
 
 • Job xix 25-2T. f ^ Thjss. iv. 16, 17. 
 
144 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 heaven be to tlie saints, did they not enjoy cne 
 presence of Christ ? It would be no heaven to 
 them, though they were surrounded with the 
 glories of the New Jerusalem. 
 
 O Blessed Jesus! may we be going up through 
 this wilderness world, leaning upon thee ; walk- 
 ing by faith ; loving and serving thee ; and may 
 we finally be brought to behold thy glorious 
 face in the realms of light, in the paradise above, 
 and be ever with thee. 
 
 " What is the Trorld, but grief and care I 
 What heaven, if thou be. absent there ? 
 Thy glorious face illumes the sty, 
 And sheds ecstatic joys on high." 
 
 It is in the presence of Christ, that we will 
 participate in those pleasures which are at God'a 
 right hand. "In thy presence is fullness of 
 joy : at thy right hand, there are pleasures for 
 evermore."* 
 
 Oh 1 to be ever with the Lord ! What human 
 mind can comprehend the blessedness of such a 
 state ? Christ knows this blessedness ; and how 
 fervently he prays, " Father, I wiU that they 
 also whom thou hast given me be with me where 
 I am, that they may behold my glory which 
 thou hast given me."f This prayer will be an- 
 swered. "We shall soon be with Christ. We 
 
 • Psalm xvL II. f John xviL 24> 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 14.5 
 
 sliall soon behold his glory. Then shaE we see 
 Him as he is; even Him who loved ns, and 
 washed us from our sins in his own blood ; who 
 died on Calvary for us ; whose blessed hands, 
 and side, and feet were pierced for us; and 
 whose precious blood flowed so freely to wash 
 away our sins : to Him be glory forever 1 Oh I 
 blessed sight. Then shall we gaze forever upon 
 the uncreated glory of Immanuel, shining forth 
 in full unclouded splendor. Then shall we be- 
 hold the glory of that blessed Eedeemer, who 
 left the regions of bliss, to assume mortal flesh 
 and die for us. Then shall we see with our 
 very eyes, Him who was crucified for us on 
 Calvary; but, oh! we shall see Him shining 
 with inconceivable glory. The glory of Christ 
 will attract the eyes of all the redeemed, and he 
 will be forever " admired in all them that be- 
 lieve." " The "Word was made flesh ;"* and the 
 glory of God shall shine through that flesh, 
 making that blessed body more glorious than a 
 thousand suns. 
 
 The saints shall dwell forever in the presence 
 of Immanuel. Thrice happy they, who are to 
 spend eternity in beholding his radiant glory, 
 and in encompassing his throne with everlasting 
 aongs of salvation ! Then shall it be proclaimed 
 
 • John i. 14. 
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146 THE LOVE 01 CHRIST. 
 
 through the heavenly mansions, "Beheld, the 
 tabernacle of God is with men, and he "will 
 dwell with them, and they shall be his people • 
 and God himself shall be with them, and be 
 their God."* 
 
 In heaven, the saints will enjoy the society of 
 the Lord himself; which is the perfection of 
 happiness. Says Christ, "Where I am, there 
 shall also my servant be." 01 to be ever near 
 Him ; to see Him as he is ; to be like him ; to 
 behold his glory ; to have that glory revealed in 
 us; to praise Him eternally in the mansions 
 above : what a happy home will this be I " Be- 
 loved, now are we the sons of "God, and it doth 
 not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know 
 that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, 
 for we shall see him as he is."f 
 
 Oh, to be like the blessed Jesus ; to see him 
 in glory I What heart would desire more r ' 
 Then shall we commence to tread with our elder 
 Brother, and adorable Redeemer, the ceaseless 
 round of eternity. Then shall the wonders of his 
 love be incessantly unfolded before us ' causing 
 new songs of praise to ascend from our en- 
 raptured souls, to Him that sitteth upon the 
 throne. Who can express the delights the saints 
 must feel, when they look into the face of 
 
 • Kev. xxl 3- t 1 John iii- 2. 
 
THE LOVK OF CTCEIST. 147 
 
 CLrist, and there read Lis tender love to them. ! 
 But oh how completely engulfed in the abyss 
 of infinite love, and lost in wonder and praise, 
 must our souls be, when we gaze upon the 
 scars which mark the hands and feet and side 
 of our blessed Saviour, and there read the im- 
 mensity of that love which made him die for 
 us! "And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of 
 the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the 
 midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had 
 been slain."* In those blessed regions, where 
 He is unveiled to the sight of mortals, Jesus 
 will gladden our hearts with perpetual joy, 
 and love us with an everlasting love. 
 
 It is the privilege of believers to be with 
 Christ ; to spend eternity in his presence ; to 
 gaze forever upon the Sun of Righteousness, 
 shining in his meridian splendor. That sun 
 will never set in the "new heavens." His 
 beams will always irradiate the city of our God, 
 our happy dwelling place. 
 
 Christ's presence will make "our Father's 
 house" a glorious home, a happy abode, a 
 blessed habitation. Where he is, there will 
 heaven be. His glorious presence will illu- 
 minate the abode of the blessed, the realms of 
 everlastirg day. And, believer when you come 
 
 * Bev. V. 6. 
 
148 THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 
 
 to dwell in tliose blissful mansions, his presence 
 his society, his love, and his celestial voice will 
 c^uBc your enraptured soul to rejoice ; and eter- 
 nity will be spent in being with him, and in 
 beholding his glory. 
 
 "Oh I to hear that voice speak ineffable peace 
 and consolation to your soul ; to see Him as he 
 is, whose glory infinitely surpasses all objects 
 of nature and of art; to see those dear hands, 
 and feet, and head, whose wounds in suffering 
 for you will be more brilliant and beautiful in 
 your eye than the topaz of Ethiopia : yea, to 
 have his glory revealed in you ; to be perfectly 
 like him, and to reign with him : what a heaven 
 will this be I Then your unbounded desires, 
 which the whole creation could not limit, shall 
 be satisfied with the full fruition of immortal 
 love. You shall be refreshed with the emana- 
 tions of uncreated life and joy, and shall drink 
 at the fountain-head of pleasure. You shall 
 mingle with society the most pure, perfect and • 
 lovely, whose glory is only surpassed by that 
 of Him that sitteth upon the throne. You shall 
 dwell with kindred spirits, in everlasting har- 
 mony. Your employment shall combine all 
 the excellencies of ease, delight, and perpetuity. 
 You will have nothing to do but to worship 
 and serve God, and shall have ability to wor- 
 ship and serve hii" forever." 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 149 
 
 Wliat a happy home -will heaven be, where 
 we shall be ever with the Lord 1 How happy 
 will the saints be, when they come to dwell in 
 that heavenly home — in that glorious palace, 
 where "He that sitteth on the throne shall 
 dwell among them ;"* where " the Lamb which 
 is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, 
 and shall lead them unto living fountains of 
 waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from 
 their eyes."f 
 
 Of that celestial city, in which the saints are 
 to make their eternal home, it is said, "the 
 throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it ; 
 and his servants shall serve him, and they shall 
 see his face, and his name shall be in their fore- 
 heads."t 
 
 The saints, in heaven, shall see Christ with 
 their bodily eyes. We shall see Him, who loved 
 us, and gave himself for us. " Now we see 
 through a glass, darkly ; but then, face to face."§ 
 Yes, we shall behold His glorious face, and be 
 fully satisfied with his immortal love. 
 
 We hope shortly to exchange the trials and 
 afflictions of this vale of tears — this suffering, 
 dying world, for the glories of eternity; and 
 be ever with the Lord, Then will we have 
 
 * Eev. vii. IS. f Rev. Tii. 17 
 
 i Rev. xsLi. 3, 4. § 1 Cor. xiiL 12. 
 
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!50 THE LOVE OF CHBIST. 
 
 done -with transitory life, with grief and care. 
 Then will we drink of affliction's bitter cup no 
 more, and death itself will have lost its power 
 over us. Then shall we be lodged in the re- 
 gions of imnaortality, and be ever with the Lord. 
 And when ten thousand times ten thousand 
 years have rolled away; when ages countless 
 as the stars which deck the midnight sky have 
 tun their ample round, it may be said that we 
 are, as it were, just beginning to be ever with 
 the Lord ; that we are just beginning to behold 
 his glory, and to look into that wonderful coun- 
 sel of love, that glorious plan of salvation, which 
 will be our theme of meditation, of wonder, and 
 of praise through the ceaseless ages of eternity. 
 Then shall we know the joy of being with 
 Christ. Then, there shall be no more separa- 
 tion between Christ and his people : they shall 
 then be brought near him, and abide with him 
 forever. 
 
 " glorious hour 1 blest abode I 
 I shall be near and like my God I 
 And flesh and sin no more control 
 The sacred pleasure of the souL" 
 
 It will be Christ's amazing love that will then 
 fill our hearts with joy unspealiable and full of 
 glory. It will be the brighter manifestation of 
 that love which will cause our souls to over- 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 151 
 
 flow witli ecstatic joy, as we dwell in the pres- 
 ence of Immanuel, and surround his throne, 
 and behold his glory. Then shall we be better 
 "able to comprehend with all saints what is the 
 breadth, and length, and depth, and height, 
 and to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
 knowledge." Then shall we "be filled with all 
 the fullness of God." 
 
 Ohl the infinite love of Christ, that he should 
 bring sinners to glory, to dwell in his presence, 
 to spend eternity with him I " So shall we ever 
 be with the Lord."* 
 
 " By faith I s«e the hour at land, 
 When in his presence I shi Jl stand : 
 Then will it be my endless bliss, 
 To f M him where and as la is." — Kbwtok 
 
 s •Thaaa. it. 11. 
 
152 THE LOTE OF CHEISt 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 THE HAPI r HOME CONTEMPLATED. THE BLESSEDNESS 
 
 or THE SAINTS. 
 
 "In tby presence is lul.ness of \uy, at thj right hand 
 there are pleasures for evermore." — Psalm xtL 11. 
 
 Come, my soul, retire from the noise, 
 bustle, and tumult of a vain world, and contem- 
 plate tliy happy home in the heavens! Look 
 beyond this present fleeting scene of existence, 
 and view thy future, eternal resting place ; and 
 may the bright glories of heaven, elevate thy 
 views and raise thy affections above the tran- 
 sitory pleasures of this decaying scene. 
 
 Under the pleasing emblem of a happy 
 home, heaven is most beautifully set forth. 
 Christ calls it his Father's house. "In my 
 Father's house are many mansions."* If Ave 
 are the children of God, we may also call it our 
 Father's house, our happy home ; and each be- 
 liever may say with the Psalmist, " I will dwell 
 in the house of the Lord forever."f 
 
 • John xiv. 2. f Fsalm xaii. 8. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIal. 153 
 
 Heaven is also described as a glorious city. 
 In his sublime vision of the heavenly world, 
 John thus speaks : "And I John saw the holy 
 city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God 
 out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for 
 her husband ;" " Having the glory of God : 
 and her light was like unto a stone most pre- 
 cious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal."* 
 The streets of this city are of gold; and the 
 gates of pearl. " And the twelve gates were 
 twelve pearls ; and the street of the city was 
 pure gold, as it were transparent glass."f And 
 John adds, " I saw no temple therein, for the 
 Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the 
 temple of it.":}: 
 
 In this celestial city which is thus beautified 
 by the creative power of God, and enlightened 
 with his glory, the saints are to spend the cease- 
 less ages of a glorious and happy eternity. 
 This is that city which prophets and apostles 
 and saints of every age, have desired, and longed 
 for; that city which Abraham, when "he so- 
 journed in the land of promise, as in a strange 
 country," looked for. " For he looked for a 
 city which hath foundations, whose builder and 
 maker is God."§ 
 
 • Kev xxi 2, 11. f Rev. xxi. 21. 
 
 i Eev. xxi 22, § Heb. xi. la 
 
154 THE LOVB O? CHEIST. 
 
 Heaven is tliat better countiy whicli aL the 
 saints of old, who confessed that they were 
 strangers and pilgrims on the earth, desired and 
 sought to obtain. "But now they desire a 
 better country, that is, a heavenly ; wherefore 
 God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for 
 he hath prepared for them a city."* To this 
 heavenly home, God will bring all his children, 
 and Jesus will there dwell among them, for 
 ever and ever. 
 
 When all the saints shall be brought home 
 to be forever with the Lord, they will be per- 
 fectly blessed. They will enjoy the assurance 
 of Christ's love, and the eternal smiles of his 
 countenance! What heart can conceive the 
 unutterable bliss of the Kedeemed, when brought 
 into the glorious palace of the great King, where 
 there is fullness of joy, and pleasures for ever- 
 more. They will be far from a world of grie:^ 
 and sin. They will be beyond the reach of 
 suffering. No gloom or sorrow shall ever be 
 cloud their bright spirits in the presence of 
 Christ. They shall be forever happy with him. 
 Eeaching the happy shores of Immanuel's land, 
 they shall dwell with God. They shall see 
 hira, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they 
 shall see God."t Their souls shall be filled 
 
 • Hel- xi. 16. t ^^tt. T. 8. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 155 
 
 with unutterable jliss, amid the splendors of 
 beatific vision, and the sublime raptures of ce- 
 lestial joys. The ineffable glories of the Deity, 
 shall then beam forth upon the redeemed. 
 And, "then shall the righteous shine forth, as 
 the sun, in the kingdom of their Father."* To 
 the love of Christ the saints will owe all their 
 blessedness in another world. 
 
 Let us contemplate this blessedness. In the 
 word of God we see it described. In the 7th 
 chapter of Eevelation there is contained a glimpse 
 of heaven — of the redeemed in glory. 
 
 There we find that when all the redeemed 
 shall be brought home to glory, they will form 
 a mighty host. " After this I beheld, and, lo, a 
 great multitude, which no man could number, 
 of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and 
 tongues, stood before the throne, and before 
 the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms 
 in their hands."f Millions of Adam's sons and 
 daughters shall be brought to glory, through 
 the merits of Immanuel. 
 
 There we find whence this mighty multitude 
 came. To the questions, " What are these which 
 are arrayed in white robes? and whence 
 came they?" it is answered, "These are they 
 whicjh come out of great t ibulation, and have 
 • 
 • Matt. xiii. 43. •f Eev. viL ^ 
 
156 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 waslied their robes, and made them wMte in 
 the blood of the Lamb."* 
 
 The saints have travelled a rough road to 
 glory, and have come out of great tribulation. 
 Many of them have gone through the fires of 
 persecution, and their sduls have ascended to 
 glory amid the flames of martyrdom. Many 
 of that blessed number who now stand before 
 God, "were stoned, were saw^n asunder, were 
 tempted, were slain with the sword," were once 
 " destitute, afflicted, tormented ;"f but they have 
 come out of all their tribulations, and are now 
 happy before the throne of God. 
 
 The saints have all washed their robes and 
 made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
 They are invested with the snowy, spotless 
 robe of the Eedeemer's righteousness. " This," 
 says an eloquent writer,:]: "is the only garb 
 which a child of Adam can wear before the 
 throne of God. And though the apparel of 
 some may be more curiously wrought and ex- 
 quisitely embroidered than that of others, though 
 the hand of the beautifying Spirit may have 
 made it 'raiment of needle-work'' — the hue and 
 lustre of each is the same. Every spirit in glory 
 wears the vesture radiant with redeeming right- 
 
 • Eev. Tii. 14. « f Heb. si 37. 
 
 X Bev J. Hamilton, of Iiondon. 
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THE LOVE OF CHRISV. 157 
 
 eousness — the saowy robe wliich speaks of the 
 fountain opened, and -which will commemorate 
 through eternity, the blood of the Lamb." 
 
 The employment of the saints in heaven is 
 also described in this glorious vision. They 
 serve God. " Therefore are they before the 
 throne of God, and serve him day and night 
 in his temple."* " They cry with a loud voice, 
 saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon 
 the throne, and unto the Lamb."f " And his 
 servants shall serve him.":]: 
 
 "Wnat a contrast is there between the service 
 of God on earth, .and in heaven ! Here, all our 
 divine services are imperfectly performed : there, 
 all is perfection itself. Here, when the spirit is 
 often willing, the flesh is weak, and soon wearied, 
 even in the sweetest seasons of devotion and 
 heavenly meditation: there "they rest not day 
 and night, saying Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Al- 
 mighty, which was, and is, and is to come."§ 
 And again, "Thou art worthy, Lord, to re- 
 ceive glory and honor and power ; for thou hast 
 created all things, and for thy pleasure they are 
 and were created."! 
 
 The employment of redeemed saints will be 
 that of everlasting praise and adoration. They 
 
 • Rev. vii. 15. + Eev vii, 10. J Rev, xxii. a 
 
 gEev. iv 8 J Rev. iv. 11. 
 
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158 THE LOVE OB CHBISr. 
 
 will praise ana admire the Saviour, for his un- 
 bounded love and goodness to them. They will 
 contemplate that glorious salvation, of which 
 ' the prophets have inquired and searched dili- 
 gently," and which " the angels desire to look 
 into." Redemption and salvation by Christ will 
 constitute their unending theme ; in the contem- 
 plation of which, their souls shall be lost in won- 
 der, love and praise. 
 
 A crucified Saviour will be the wonder of 
 heaven, and will employ ransomed souls in holy 
 meditations through an inconceivable eternity. 
 " Christ crucified," says an excellent old divine,* 
 " is the library which triumphant souls will be 
 studying in to all eternity. Eternity itself wUl 
 be too short, in which to unfold the wonders of 
 redeeming love, or to speak the praises of that 
 blessed Eedeemer who was crucified on Calvary 
 for a sinful world. With increasing wonder 
 and admiration shall that ransomed host, who 
 stand upon Mount Zion, eternally search into 
 the wonders of Christ's redeeming love as man- 
 ifested to them. And all the redeemed, casting 
 their crowns before the throne in token of their 
 own unworthiness, shall unite in one long, loud, 
 adoring anthem of praise ; in one grand, ever- 
 lasting chorus : ' Worthy is the Lamb that was 
 
 * Bish ->p S Ulingfleet in Origiues Sacrse, lib. ?, o. 6. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 159 
 
 slain to receive power, and riclies, and wisdoin, 
 and strength, and honor, and glory, and bless- 
 ing. 'Blessing, and honor, and glory, and 
 power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, 
 and unto the Lamb forever and ever.'* They 
 sing unceasing praises to him who loved them, 
 and washed them from their sins in his own 
 blood. 'Unto him that loved us, and washed 
 us from our sins in his own blood, and hath 
 made us kings and priests unto God and his 
 Father ; to him be glory and dominion forever 
 and ever. Amen.'f ' They sing the song of 
 Moses the servant of God, and the song of the 
 Lamb, saying. Great and marvellous are thy 
 works. Lord God Almighty: just and true are 
 thy ways, thou King of saints 1' ":j: 
 
 Such is the employment of heaven ; and ita 
 blessed inhabitants shall have power and ability 
 to worship and serve God without weariness, 
 forever. 
 
 The saints shall be perfectly happy in the 
 presence of Christ. Free from all sorrow, they 
 shall possess immortal joys in the presence of ^ 
 Him who sitteth on the throne. They shall not 
 know what sorrow is any more. All tears shall 
 be wiped away ; for " He that sitteth on the 
 throne shall dwell among them. They shall 
 
 * Rev. V 12, If. t Kev. i. 5 5. J Eev. XY. 8, 4. 
 
L60 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 liunger no more, neither tliirst any more ; neitLer 
 shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For 
 the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne 
 shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living 
 fountains of waters ; and God shall wipe away 
 all tears from their eyes.' * 
 
 Here, the saints weep, and wail, and experi- 
 ence the distressing calamities and sorrows of 
 mortal life. They feel the mutations of this 
 ever varying scene. They are often in the 
 depths of adversity and distress. They also ex- 
 perience changes in the spiritual life. To-day 
 they may be on Pisgah, with heaven in their 
 view, rejoicing; to-morrow, in the valley of 
 Baca, weeping. To-day, the sunshine of Chris- 
 tianity may illumine their path ; to-morrow they 
 may wander about, enveloped in spiritual dark- 
 ness. Here, the dearest ties are cut asunder, 
 and the tenderest cords broken; which causes 
 the heart to overflow with sorrow. Our friends 
 die, and tears trickle down our cheeks; and 
 perhaps we ourselves go down with sorrow to 
 the grave. " Thou feedestthem with the bread 
 of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great 
 measure."f 
 
 Thus the saints keenly feel the sorrows of 
 this mortal state; but in heaven, "God shall 
 
 • KeT. V . 15, 17. t Psalm Ixxx. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 161 
 
 wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there 
 shall be ]io more death, neither sorrow, nor cry- 
 ing, neither shall there be any more pain : for 
 the former things are passed away."* 
 
 In heaven, the saints shall obtain everlasting 
 joy. " Everlasting joy shall be unto them."f 
 " Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall re- 
 turn, and come with singing unto Zion; and 
 everlasting joy shall be upon their head : they 
 shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and 
 mourning shall flee away.":j: " They that sow 
 in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth 
 and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt- 
 less come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves 
 with him."§ And then "the days of thy 
 mourning shall be ended."|| Our joy in heaven 
 will be fall, satisfying, and eternal. 
 
 The redeemed shall be free from all the suf- 
 ferings, pains, and diseases that afflict humani- 
 ty, and render this mortal life one continual 
 scene of distress. In that happy world, " the 
 inhabitant shall not say, I am sick : the people 
 that dwell therein shall be forgiven their in- 
 
 i:uity."t 
 
 Immortal health and vigor bloom in heaven. 
 Sin, the cause of sickness, and pain, and sor- 
 
 * Eev. XXI. i. f Isaiah Ixi. 1. J Isaiah li. 3 1. 
 
 § Psalm oxxvi 5, 6. 1 Is. - ' 21. i Is. xxxiii. 24 
 
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162 THE LOTE OF CHRIST. 
 
 row, shall be excluded from that blessed world. 
 There, no tears bedew the cheek, no sorrows 
 rend the heait, no pain is felt, no dissolution is 
 feared : for death itself is swallowed up in vie 
 tory. " And there shall be no more death." 
 
 This is nothing but a dying world. Here, 
 death strikes its dart, and cuts down our dear 
 est friends. Perhaps ho who now reads these 
 lines may have stood over the dying bed of a 
 dear relative or friend, and, with bitter sorrow, 
 taken the last farewell, and witnessed the death- 
 struggles of him or her whom he loved. 
 
 Death annually sweeps off a multitude of the 
 human race. The sun now shines upon the 
 graves of thousands, who, but a year ago, 
 bloomed with health and vigor. Where are 
 they now ? Gone. Now they are numbered 
 among the dead. Now, clad with all the habil- 
 iments of the grave, they lie cold and lifeless 
 in death's narrow house — in the grave's dismal 
 mansion. 
 
 In heaven there shall be no more death, nor 
 painful separation of kindred souls. Eternal 
 life shall be enjoyed by the blessed inhabitants 
 of the New Jerusalem. The last enemy shall 
 have been destroyed. Then will God say, con? 
 cerning his redeemed ones," " I will ransom them 
 fi'om the power of the grave; I wUl redeem 
 them from death : death, I will be thy plague ; 
 
THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 163 
 
 grave, I will be vhy destruction."* Then, 
 " this corruptible must put on incorruption, and 
 this mortal must put on immortality : then shall 
 be brought to pass the saying that is written, 
 Death is swallowed up in victory ."f 
 
 Tn those celestial mansions, all the immortal 
 sons of God shall meet in blissful harmony and 
 adoring praise, to be forever with the Lord. 
 
 The saints shall enjoy eternal rest in heaven. 
 "There the wicked cease from troubling, and 
 there the weary be at rest, "if They shall be 
 perfectly holy and happy; and shall eternally 
 bask in the sunshine of God's immediate pres- 
 ence, and drink of those perennial streams that 
 issue from the fountain of life. The Lamb shall 
 feed them, and lead them to living fountains of 
 waters."! 
 
 *Hosea xiii. 14. f 2 Cor. xv. 53, 64. ^ Job. iii. 17. 
 
 § " The Godhead ia a boundless sea, on -which the thin 
 island of creation floats ; and though the region be ever so 
 dry and arid — a burning Baca — and though the object be 
 ever so bleak and bald — a grim Horeb, a flinty rook — it 
 needs only the touch of the prophet's rod, and forthwith a 
 fountain springs as exbaustless as that divine perfection 
 •whence it flows. In that better country the Horeb never 
 staunches, and the Baca never dries : the fountains play per- 
 petually, and the waters ever live ; and the Lamb is familiar 
 with them all. To the woody brink of one he leads his white- 
 robed followers; and in its fringing glories and populous 
 profound, they read the riches of creative power and skill. 
 To the melodious vei-ge of ar.rther he conducts them and 
 
164 THE LO-Va OF CHRIST 
 
 The saints shall spend an everlasting day of 
 light and blessedness in Immanuel's land ; " and 
 there shall be no night there." • Eternal day- 
 smiles in those blessed regions. " Thy sun shall 
 no more go down, neither shall thy moon with- 
 draw itself; for the Lord shall be thine ever- 
 lasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall 
 be ended."* 
 
 In that bright world which the saints are- go- 
 ing to possess, all will be irradiated by the glory 
 of God and of the Lamb. The glorious Sun 
 of righteousness will illuminate the heavenly 
 world, the celestial city. " Thy sun shall be no 
 more thy light by day, neither for brightness 
 shall the moon give light unto thee ; but the 
 Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Hght, 
 and thy God thy glory."f "And the city had 
 no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine 
 
 in the fountain of light which gushes high, and flings its 
 rainbows wide ; in the balm scattered by its wafted dews, 
 and the song with which the branches wave, they hear it 
 endlessly repeated, ' God is lore.' And to another still ho 
 guides them ; and simple as the margin looks, and limpid 
 as the waters are, it dilates and deepens as they gaze ; deep- 
 ens, till it mocks the longest line ; widens, till Gabriel's eye 
 can see no shore ; and in its fathomless abyss, and ever-re- 
 treating bound, they recognize the divine unsearchableness. 
 In Paradise, every fountain lives, and each fcuutain s a le* 
 son full of God." — Etv. J. Haviltos 
 
 * Is. Ix. an. t Is. ^ 19. 
 
THE LOVE OF CHE ST 165 
 
 in it ; for the glory of God did . light*; a it, and 
 the Lamb is the light thereof; and the nations 
 of them which are saved shall walk in the light 
 of it, and the gates of it shall not be shut at all 
 by day, for there shall be no night there."* 
 
 The saints " shall inherit all things," and 
 " reign with Christ forever and ever." Such is 
 the blessedness of the saints ; and to crown all 
 their heavenly bliss, it will be eternal. Heaven 
 is a state of never-ending bliss. Eternity stamps 
 an infinite value on celestial happiness. 
 
 " ye blest scenes of permanent delight 1 
 Full, above measure 1 lasting, beyond bound ! 
 A perpetuity of bliss, is bliss." 
 
 With regard to perpetuity, what a striking 
 contrast there is between earthly and heavenly 
 joys! How transient are all sublunary pleas- 
 ures ? " Passing away," is indelibly stamped 
 upon all that is terrestrial. " The world passeth 
 away, and the lust thereof."f 
 
 Youth and beauty, health and strength, riches 
 and honor are passing away. Incessant changes 
 characterize this globe, and all its inhabitarts; 
 but no such changes are kno\yn in heaven. 
 
 '' Lord, I long to be at liome, 
 Where these o'\aDes' aeyer come I 
 
 • Rev. xxi. 2f -25 \ 1 John u. 17. 
 
166 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Where the saints no winter fear, 
 Wliere 'tis spring tliroughout the year, 
 How unlike tliis state below I 
 There the flowers unwithering blow, 
 There no chilling blasts annoy. 
 All is love, and bloom, and joy." 
 
 The joys of the Christian's happy home nevei 
 end. The pleasures •which are at God's right 
 hand endure for ever. 
 
 " Oh yes ! those sweet words for ever, shall be 
 attached to every thing in glory. You shall eat 
 of the tree of life ; drink of the water of life ; 
 wear the crown of life; you shall be made a 
 pillar in the temple of God, and there shall be 
 no more going out." 
 
 But oh ! what is the for ever of heaven ; who 
 can describe it ? who can comprehend vast eter- 
 nity, the measure of the saint's bliss ? 
 
 "Were the house you inhabit," says a very 
 pious writer,* "to be filled with the finest sand, 
 and theu emptied so slowly that but the smallest 
 grain should be taken out once in ten thousand 
 years, how many millions of ages should pass 
 away before the last grain were removed I yet, 
 compared with eternity, these coi^ntless years 
 would be like the twinkling of an eye. Were 
 the mighty seas whish dash their waves upon 
 
 • ReT. J. G. Kt* 
 
THE LOVE OF OHJtIST. 167 
 
 SO many shores, to be suddenly changed into 
 one mass of ink, and then -jO be employed in 
 numbering down tigures, and the last figure to 
 signify a million of yeai's, what countless ages 
 would be numbered down before the seas were 
 emptied ; yet he who wrote the last figure might 
 say, 'These ages axe not eternity; they are 
 nothingness itself, compared with the.t ; less than 
 one drop to all the sea ; less than one moment 
 to all these infinite years ; they are like a tale 
 that is told ; or a sigh that is forgotten.' 
 
 "Were this vast world one mass of sand, and 
 were the Most Iligh, by his infinite power, to 
 create as many worlds as there might be grains 
 of sand in this ; and were he then to commission 
 a ministering angel to destroy them all, by re- 
 moving grain after grain, yet so slowly that he 
 should remove but one grain in a million of 
 years, what milhons, and millions, and millions 
 of years, beyond all thought and conception, 
 would pass away before one world were thus 
 destroyed 1 and 0, what before all these num- 
 bers were I What an eternity would be here ! 
 An eternity ! no, not a moment, compared with 
 it. Sand after sand would be removed, though 
 at so infinitely slow a rate ; world after world 
 would be destroyed ; and the angel would finish 
 his task, but not finish eternity. Eternity would 
 be eternity slill. One grain of sane, would bear 
 
168 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 some proportion to these numberless worlds 
 one moment to these countless mOlions of ages : 
 but all these would bear none to eternity ; when 
 they were passed, it would still be ' beginning — 
 rather beginning to begin.' " Such is the for 
 ever of heaven. 
 
 Eternity! who can grasp the immense idea 
 which this short word conveys ? When mil- 
 lions and millions of ages shall have passed 
 away, the blessed inhabitants of Immanuel's land 
 will be young in immortality, and there will 
 still be stretched before them an " evermore," in 
 which they ^71 enjoy perfect blessedness at 
 Grod's right hand. 
 
 Oh! what a blessed, happy home is heaven. 
 " And what a home for us to return to and abide 
 in forever 1 A home prepared before the foun- 
 dation of the world. A home in the many man- 
 sions ; -a home in the innermost circle of creation, 
 nearest the throne and heart of God ; a home 
 whose peace shall never be broken by the sound 
 of war or tempest, whose brightness shall never 
 be overcast by the remotest shadow of a cloud. 
 How solacing to the weary spirit, to think of a 
 resting-place so near, and that resting-place our 
 Father's house, where we shall hunger no more, 
 neither thirst any more : where the sun shall 
 not light on us, nor any heat ; where the Lamb 
 that is in the midst of the throne shall feed us, 
 
THE LOVE OF CHEIST. 169 
 
 and lead us to living fountains of waters, and 
 God stall wipe away all tears from our ,eyes."* 
 
 1 how near is our happy home — it is just 
 within sight. How near, how very near is eter- 
 nity : ii is even at the door 1 
 
 Christian reader, ycu shall soon, very soon, 
 reach your happy home. Already your earthly 
 course may be nearly terminated. One step 
 more, and you will have gained the happy shores 
 of Immanuel's land. Having crossed the tem- 
 pestuous ocean of life, you wUl enjoy the re- 
 freshing breezes of heaven, and the calm repose 
 of the saint's everlasting home. Your redemp- 
 tion is drawing near. " Now is our salvation 
 nearer than when we believed. The night is 
 far spent, the day is at hand." A few more suns 
 will rise and set, and then the unsetting sun shall " 
 rise in the " new heavens." A few more days, 
 and then will dawn the eternal day. A few 
 more fleeting years will pass swiftly by, and then 
 the everlasting cycles of eternity will roll on. 
 You will soon exchange a cross of suffering on 
 earth, for a crown of glory in heaven, immortal, 
 incorriiptible, and that fadeth not away. You 
 will soon join with the whole family of God, in 
 
 • H. Bonar, author of "Tha NJglit of Weeping," and "The 
 Morning of Joy ;" two charming little Tolumes, written in 
 a pleasing style. 
 15 
 
170 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 
 tlie contemplation of Christ's redeeming love. 
 One tlieme, — that of redemption, shall then em- 
 ploy every soul, and every tongue shall be tuned 
 to the praises of Immanuel. With your re- 
 deemed companions in glory, you will soon 
 unite in that sweet song, " Unto him that loved 
 us, and washed us from our sins in his own (yea, 
 his own most precious) blood, and hath made us 
 kings and priests unto God and his Father ; to 
 him be glory and dominion forever and ever. 
 Amen." 
 
 The time is short. " The Lord is at hand." 
 " Surely I come quickly. Amen. Evec so, 
 come Lord Jesus."* 
 
 *BeT.x»i.sa 
 
Christ, ant)' gim CnictM. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In presenting these pages to the Christian public, the 
 object of the author is simply to exhibit Christ and Ilim 
 crucified as the only hope of a lost world. 
 
 In this essay we have endeavored to speak of the Ex- 
 cellency of the subject— of the Person of Christ— of the 
 Glory of Christ— of Christ Crucified— of Redemption by 
 Christ — of the New Song in Glory — of the Sum and Sub- 
 stance of the Gospel — of the only Hope of the Sinner — 
 and of the Cross of Christ This volume is now com- 
 mended to the blessmg of God. May He grant that, 
 through these pages, some despairing soul may be led to 
 hope in Christ and Him crucified. May sinners be at- 
 tracted by the glory of the cross of Jesus ; may saints be 
 built up in their "most holy faith ;" and to the Eternal 
 Father, Son, and Spirit, a triune God, be all the praise. 
 And now, dear reader, in the language of William Mason, 
 " I commend thee to God, and to the word of his grace, 
 wishing thee sweet comfort in perusing these medita- 
 tions. If a IT Lord give thee as much in reading as I 
 15* 
 
174 PEEFACE, 
 
 have found in writing them, thou wilt have great reason 
 for love and praise. Accept them, as the kbor of one 
 who is no prophet, neither a prophet's son, but who 
 would glory in being a saved sinner, by the cross of 
 Jesus;" and whose delight it ever is to dwell on the 
 blessed theme of redeeming love. 
 
 " Blest SavioOT, with delight I dwell 
 On themes no mortal tongne can tell ; 
 The glory of thy cross exceeds 
 All human and angelic deeds." 
 
 Blessea Jesus I Let the words of my mouth, and the 
 meditation of my heart, bo acceptable in thy sight, 
 Lcrd, my Strength, and my Eedeemer. Ameii. 
 
 "Thongh billows of sorrow shonld roll, 
 And surround me on every side ; 
 Tet thou canst the tempest control. 
 My SaTiour, my Refuge, and Guide. 
 
 - Thy smile makes the soul to expand, 
 And graces celestial to grow ; 
 With rapture I gaze on the land 
 Where pleasures incessantly flow. 
 
 ' Tis there my dear Saviour resides. 
 
 In fulness of glory and grace ; 
 And there the pure river that glides 
 Through regions of joy and of peac& 
 
 * The life-yielding tree there shall spread 
 Its branches Inx iriantly round; 
 The saints robed in white shajl be fed 
 With fhiits trom Emanuel's grounl. 
 
PRKFACE, 175 
 
 *• How deep Is the myst'ry of grico I 
 The th^me of bright seraphs nbore; 
 To Bee the sweet b&ama of his face, 
 To dwell in the easence of lore I 
 
 • My Father I thy nature ia love ; 
 la Jesas thine imago I vioTV I 
 Oh may I behold him above. 
 And praise him eternally too. 
 
 ** May this my delight ever bo, 
 
 On earth his rich grace to record; 
 
 Ard wh«n from these temples sot blai 
 
 With joy ascend up to the Lrrd,'* 
 
 Abgtlb, N, Y^ Nqv^ l^a 
 
CHRIST, km HIM CRUCIIIED. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE EXCELLENCY OF THE SUBJECT. 
 
 " Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for tlie 
 excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." — 
 Phil. iii. 8, 
 
 In tlie physical, intellectual and moral world 
 there are to be found many important and in- 
 teresting subjects. The whole circle of science 
 embraces many topics of absorbing interest to 
 the man of genius. Human learning exalts 
 man to that grand elevation of intellectual great- 
 ness, from which he views nature in all her 
 magnificence, revels amid her beauties, and 
 roams, in imagination, from star to star, from 
 sun to sun, where the Deity reigns in all the 
 grandeur of his attributes. No wonder, then, 
 that human learning should be so highly prized, 
 and so assiduously sought after by rational be- 
 ings. But th 3re is a subject of infinitely greater 
 
178 CHRIST, AKD HIM CEUCIFIED. 
 
 importance than all science or human knowl- 
 edge; a subject which above all others may be 
 denominated sublimely great and interesting; 
 and which, to the thirsty soul of a penitent sin- 
 ner, is most refreshing and exhilarating : that 
 theme is Christ and him crucified. All the holy 
 angels that surround the throne of God, with 
 all the redeemed in glory, look upon this sub- 
 ject with unbounded delight and increasing 
 admiration, but can never fully comprehend 
 its sublimity and moral grandeur. It is the 
 unending theme of heaven, the joy of saints, the 
 astonishment of angels. It is a subject too lofty 
 for human skill ; angelic intellect can never com- 
 prehend it. "We cannot adequately declare its 
 vastness, much less comprehend its fullness. It 
 is inexhaustible in its nature. The highest in- 
 telligences that move amidst the glories of 
 Paradise cannot fathom its profundity. The 
 mighty oceans that divide continents, and dash 
 their waves on numberless shores, may be ex- 
 hausted. Not so the excellency of the knowl- 
 edge of Christ Jesus. The countless luminaries 
 that decorate the nocturnal sky, and light up 
 the canopy of heaven, may be extinguished in 
 eternal darkness, but this glorious theme shall 
 shine forever in ths perfection of beauty. When 
 the last lines of earth's history shall have been 
 written, yea, when this terrestrial globe itself 
 
AND HIM CRC'CIFIED. 179 
 
 BhaL have been wrapped in tbe flames of the 
 jtidgraent day, and all the redeemed brought 
 home to glory, Christ and him crucified will 
 form the all-absorbing subject that shall engage 
 jhe capacious and exalted minds of heaven's 
 blissful inhabitants, in holy meditation and 
 rapturous delight, through a blessed and glorious 
 eternity. 
 
 Then, believer, if you are to spend eternity 
 thus, should you not employ the short space of 
 time which intervenes between you and the 
 realms of glory, in the contemplation of this 
 wonder of wonders, this mystery of godliness, 
 a crucified Saviour ? May God in his infinite 
 mercy grant that you may be led to form the 
 resolution of the great Apostle, who, when 
 writing to the Corinthians, declares, "I deter- 
 mined not to know any thing among you save 
 Jesus Christ and him crucified." 
 
 "Christ crucified," said an old divine,* "is 
 the library which triumphant souls will be study- 
 ing in, to all eternity. Other knowledge makes 
 men's minds giddy and flatulent; this settles 
 and composes them ; other knowledge is apt to 
 swell men into high conceits and opinions of 
 themselves; this brings them io the truest view 
 of themselves and thereby to humility and 
 
 Bishoi Slillingfleet 
 
180 CHBIST, AND HIM CRCTCiriED. 
 
 sobriety : other knowledge leaves men's hearts 
 as it found them; this alters them, and makes 
 them better. So transcendent an excellency is 
 there in the knowledge of Christ crucified above 
 the sublimest speculations in the world." Should 
 you not then spend much of your time in 
 meditating on this glorious theme ? Where in 
 the whole world can you find a subject so ex- 
 cellent, so consoling, so animating as this ? 0, 
 then, study Christ and him crucified. Be dili- 
 gent and ardent in the pursuit of this knowl- 
 edge, for it alone can guide the Christian to 
 immortal bhss. 
 
 A knowledge of Christ and him crucified, is 
 indispensable to salvation. "I am the way," 
 says Christ, "and the truth, and the life: no 
 man cometh unto the Father, but by me."* " I 
 am the door : by me if any man enter in, he 
 shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find 
 pasture."! ^7 that great atonement which he 
 made on Calvary, our blessed Saviour has abol- 
 ished death, and brought life and immortality to 
 light. The radiancy which the knowledge of a 
 crucified Saviour emits amidst the darkness of 
 mortality, dispels the gloom that oversjjreads 
 the mind, and dissipates the darkness that hovers 
 around the pathway to immortality. This 
 
 John xiv 6. f John jl 0, 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 181 
 
 knowledge makes tlie Christian's eye bright 
 ■with hope, and animates him on his way to the 
 mansions of glory. It tears asunder the veil 
 that hides the unseen world from mortal view, 
 and holds up to the Christian's enraptured gaze, 
 the untold glories of heaven. It points direcdy 
 to the only sacrifice for sin, Jesus Christ, the 
 bleeding Lamb of God. It leads you to Calvary, 
 where, amid the affecting and overpowering 
 scenes exhibited, it opens to your astonished 
 view the portals of heaven, and pours in a flood 
 of light and glory that dazzles the eye of the 
 Christian, sheds effulgence around the throne 
 of God, and beams with unclouded splendor 
 through eternity itself 
 
 The saving knowledge of Christ and him cru- 
 cified, leads the sinner to glory and happiness at 
 God's right hand. It will crown him with un- 
 utterable bliss. It will prepare him for the en- 
 joyment of heaven ; for the reception of that 
 unfading wreath of glory which shall be en- 
 twined around the brow of the faithful ; for that 
 glittering diadem which shall be placed upon 
 his head ; and for those robes of salvation with 
 which he shall be eternally arrayed before the 
 throne of God. How important then, is this 
 knowledge which leads to such blessed results, 
 to such unspeakable glory I that each of us 
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182 CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 may become experimentally acquainted with 
 Christ and him crucified. 
 
 Permit me to urge this momentous subject 
 upon your serious consideration. You should 
 give it a thorough investigation. Your immor- 
 tal destiny is embraced within its ample scope. 
 To neglect it, will be at the peril of your eternal 
 happiness. then, we beseech you with the 
 utmost compassion for your immortal soul, to 
 attend to this glorious message, the proclamation 
 of a crucified Saviour, and eternal life through 
 him. This great and all-important theme, the 
 glory of which no mortal tongue can express, is 
 more intimately connected with your present and 
 future welfare than all other subjects Avithin the 
 range of human acquisition. 
 
 We would not, in this little volume, display 
 before you the airy speculations of philosophy 
 or the various charms of human science ; but we 
 would, with ardent language, hold up to your 
 view, Christ and him crucified, as your only 
 hope ; as the only hope of a lost world. Here, 
 sinner, is your hiding-place. Under the shadow 
 of Uim who once groaned and bled on Calvary, 
 you can find eternal repose. " And a man shall 
 be a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert 
 from th« tempest;* as rivers of waters in a dry 
 
 • Is xxxii. 2. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CSUCIflED. 183 
 
 place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary 
 land." Jesus Christ is here set forth in all the 
 richness of his grace. He is here offered, freely 
 offered to dying sinners. Embrace him as your 
 only Saviour ; while passing through this " weary 
 land," through this wilderness world, lean on 
 Him, who wiU guide you safely to glory. In 
 Him, you will experience that joy which the 
 world cannot impart, and that peace of God, 
 which passeth all understanding. By that bless- 
 ed side which was once pierced with the soldier's 
 spear, you will enjoy the fayors and smiles of a 
 reconciled God. 
 
 From those deep wounds that were inflicted 
 on the Saviour's immortal form, fountains of 
 ioy, as inexhaustible as the ocean of divine per- 
 fection itself, will flow in the richest streams of 
 grace, to refresh, invigorate and animate your 
 soul. 1 there is something about Calvary so 
 mysterious in its nature — so glorious in its re- 
 sults. Time can never disclose nor vast eternity 
 unravel those things connected with that affect- 
 ing scene, disjJayed when the Son of God bowed 
 his head and exclaimed " It is finished." 
 
 This subject embraces this mystery, and con 
 sequenlly will be the theme of the redeemed to 
 all eternity It comprehends the glorious plan 
 of redemption and all the wonders of Christ's 
 redeeming love. It does not lead the sinner to 
 
184 CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED, 
 
 Sinai, and there leave him amid the dreadful 
 thunder and lightning and flame and smoke: 
 no, it gently draws him to Calvary, that hfe- 
 giviug mount, where the unhounded love of 
 God for sinners once glowed in the bosom of his 
 Son, with more than human splendor ; where it 
 beamed forth in all the effulgence of the divin- 
 ity, when the holy Jesus hung a suffering, 
 bleeding, victim on the ignominous cross. How 
 glorious is such a subject! It is full of Christ 
 and salvation through him. It vividly displays 
 the matchless mercy, and boundless love of 
 God to a lost world. 
 
 " Oh 1 hoT7 mateUess is this mercy I 
 How nnboimded is this love 1 
 lis our joy on earth to feel it ; 
 'Tia the theme of saints above." 
 
 Let the knowledge of Christ and him cru- 
 cified dwell in you richly. Endeavor to know 
 more and more about the person of your glo- 
 rious Redeemer ; about that wonderful decease 
 which he accomplished at Jerusalem, and that 
 all-sufficient atonement which he effected on 
 Calvary. Christ and him crucified is the sweet- 
 est, noblest theme en which a soul ever dwelt. 
 Holy angels on their lofty thrones in gloiy, de- 
 sire to stoop from the heights of celestial bliss, 
 and look into this wonderiu abyss of love and 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 185 
 
 mercy to fallen man — the gift of a Savioxir — a 
 glorious salyation. Well may we, who are the 
 objects of such unprecedented love, raise our 
 grateful hearts to the God of heaven, and shout 
 forth in language like this: Glory to God in 
 the highest for such peace and good-will toward 
 men. 
 
 Christian, may Christ and him crucified ever 
 be your delightful theme on earth, till mortality 
 is swallowed up of life, till you are admitted 
 into the glorious presence of Immanuel, and see 
 him face to face, and begin your unceasing song, 
 unto him that loved you and washed you from 
 your sins in his own blood. Can you not now 
 say with the Apostle, " Yea doubtless, and I 
 count all things but loss for the excellency of 
 the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ;"* and 
 that every reader could join with us in the 
 following beautiful, glowing lines of the poet, 
 
 " Thou my all 1 
 
 My theme 1 my inspiration! and my crown 1 
 My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth; my -world i 
 My light in darkness I and my life in death I 
 My boast through time I bliss through eternlt3' 1 
 Eternity, too short to speak thy praise, 
 Or fathom thy profound of love to man ! 
 To man of m ?a the meanest, even to me 
 
 My sacrifice my God I" — Tdunq. 
 
 * 
 
 * ?hi., iii. a 
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186 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE PERSON OF CHRIST. 
 
 "Thou art fairer than the children of me3.^ — Psalm zIt. 2. 
 "My meditation of him shall be sweet."— Pbaui cir. 34 
 
 Before we dwell on the melting stoiy of 
 Calvary, or exhibit to you a crucified Saviour, 
 or afford a display of his glorious atonement, let 
 us advert to the divine person and character of 
 our Immanuel. Let us admire his glorious per- 
 fections, A saving knowledge of Christ will 
 constitute the foundation of our immortal joys ; 
 will lead us to eternal life, and the highest state 
 of felicity in heaven above. " And this is life 
 eternal, that they might know thee, the only 
 true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast 
 sent."* 0, that we might obtain a glimpse of 
 the matchless person of Christ 1 O, that we 
 might behold " the Eling, in his beauty." Surely 
 then would our aght and eyes be turned away 
 from viewing vanity. If there is an object in 
 the universe that should attract our attention, 
 excite our admiration, warm our affections, and 
 
 • JoLc xvii S. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 187 
 
 demand our Ipve ; surely it is the glorious Sav- 
 iour, the blessed Son of God, who is the bright- 
 ness of his Father's glory, and the express image 
 of his person. Christ is the most glorious being 
 in the universe of God. Blessed Jesus I reveal 
 thyself unto us in all thy transcendent loveli- 
 ness, in all thy surpassing beauty. " Thou art 
 fairer than the children of men ;" " the chiefest 
 among ten thousand ;" " yea, thou art altogether 
 lovely ;" " thou art the blooming rose of Sharon, 
 and the lily of the valleys." Manifest thyself 
 unto us as thou dost not unto the world. Glad- 
 den our guilty souls with the beams of thy 
 mercy and grace. Unfurl the banner of thy 
 wondrous love over us ; encircle us in the arms 
 of thy compassion, and lift upon us the light of 
 thy gracious countenance. 
 
 We can know but little, comparatively, of the 
 excellence and glory of Christ's person, until we 
 see him on his heavenly throne, in all his un- 
 veiled glory. Then shall we see him as he is, 
 face to face, and forever behold his matchless 
 beauty. "What a glorious sight will that be, to 
 see the Redeemer shining in the perfection of 
 beauty. What a blessed privilege, to dwell for 
 ever in the presence of the great King, to sur- 
 round the radiant throne of heaven, and amid 
 the spleidors of the celestial Paradise, to sound 
 through endless ages the notes of seraphic 
 
188 CHRIST, AND HIM CBUCIFIilD. 
 
 praise, to Mm. that redeemed us from eternal 
 misery witli his own most precious blood ! 
 
 Gentle reader, seek Christ now; believe on 
 him ; view him with the eye of faith, as your 
 only Lord and Saviour, and in a little while 
 faith shall be turned into sight, into heavenly 
 vision, and you will enjoy the presence and 
 society of your beloved Eedeemer through a 
 glorious eternity. Eemember, young reader, 
 that Christ has said " those that seek me early 
 shaU find me."* May the Lord in his mercy 
 grant that you and I may find Him of whom 
 Moses and the prophets did write, Jesus^ the Son 
 of God. This will prove our everlasting com- 
 fort. Through time and through eternity, Christ 
 will be our unchanging friend. 
 
 To the believer, Christ is all in all. Amid all 
 the vacillating scenes and heart-rending sorrows 
 of mortality, he is ever with him, manifesting 
 his grace and sustaining him in every trial ; and 
 in the last hour of mortal existence, when the 
 believer is standing on the verge of the grave, 
 Christ is by him, cheering his departing soul 
 with the hope of eternal glory, and guiding him 
 safely through the swellings of Jordan to the 
 promised land, the everlasting happy home of 
 God's children. In the hour of death, the be* 
 
 * Proi viii. 17. 
 
CHRIST, ANE HIM CRUCIFIED. 189 
 
 liever is enabled to exclaim, " Oh 1 I would not 
 give up Christ for all the world. Whom have I 
 in heaven but thee? and there is none upon 
 earth that I desire besides thee." 
 
 Now, is Christ precious to you? Do you de- 
 sire to know more and more about him ? Is he 
 formed in you, the hope of glory? If so, we 
 trust you will follow us with a joyful heart in 
 our presentation of his character and excellence 
 as they are vividly portrayed in the Holy Scrip- 
 tures. That blessed Eedeemer who once hung 
 a bleeding victim on Calvary ; who endured the 
 death of the cross there, is the eternal Son of 
 God, equal with the Father in power and glory, 
 possessing all the attributes of Deity. 
 
 The Scriptures plainly assert that Christ is 
 God, the Creator of the universe. " In the be- 
 ginning was the "Word, and the Word was with 
 God, and the Word was God. All things were 
 made by him ; and without him was not any 
 thing made that was made."* Christ bears the 
 very image of the everlasting Father. Yes, the 
 eternal Son of God, our blessed Saviour, is the 
 brightness of his Father's glory, and the express 
 image of his person. " Who, being the bright- 
 ness of his glory, and the express imago of his 
 person, and upholding all things by the word 
 
 * John i. 1, 8. 
 
190 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 of L is power, wlien he had by himself purged 
 our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 
 Majesty on high."* 
 
 Again, it is declared of Christ that he " is the 
 image of the invisible God, the first-born of 
 every creature : for by him were all things cre- 
 ated that are in heaven, and that are in earth, 
 visible and invisible, \^'hether they be thrones, 
 or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all 
 things were created by him, and for him ; and 
 he is before all things, and by him all things 
 consist. And he is the head of the body, the 
 Church: who is the beginning, the first-born 
 from the dead ; that in all things he might have 
 the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father, 
 that in him should all fulness dwell."f What a 
 fulness of grace and glory dwells in the blessed 
 Jesus I 
 
 And what divine power has he displayed in 
 the works of creation 1 By his word, were all 
 things made. He spake and it was done ; he 
 commanded, and it stood fast. He only gave 
 the command, and this world, with all its inhab 
 itants, started into being. Such is his illimitable 
 power, that he has created and sustained for ages, 
 millions of fixed and moving worlds of light and 
 glory. With unerring precision, he guides the 
 
 •Hcj. i S. t Col. i. 15, 19. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM JRUCIFIKD, 191 
 
 planets in tbeir revolutions, and directs the 
 comets in their flaming march. With an arm 
 of omnipotence, he has bespangled the midnight 
 sky with its glowing luminaries ; and that same 
 mysterious personage who endured the ignomin- 
 ious death of Calvary, has created this beauti- 
 ful, green earth on which we tread ; formed the 
 moon in her silvery brightness, and kindled up 
 the sun in all his glory. " By the word of the 
 Lord, were the heavens made ; and all the host 
 of them by the breath of his mouth."* He has 
 " measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, 
 and meted out heaven with a span, and compre- 
 hended the dust of the earth in a measure, and 
 weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills 
 in a balance." 
 
 Christ is the second person in the glorious 
 Trinity, and is of equal power with God the 
 Father, and God the Spirit. Yea he " thought 
 it not robbery to be equal with God," and as the 
 Creator of the universe, he reigns, the omnipo- 
 tent, Lord of heaven and earth. All power is 
 intrusted to him, and all worlds are the offspring 
 of his almighty fiat, the product of his creative 
 skill. It is the same blessed Saviour who bled 
 and died on earth " that spreadeth out the hea- 
 vens,, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea ; 
 
 Psalms xxsdlL 6. 
 
192 CHEISr, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 
 
 that makett Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and 
 the chambers of tlae soutk." 
 
 Christian, go out and gaze upon the clear, 
 blue sky, when the solemn stillness of night per- 
 vades a slumbering world ; survey the countless 
 glories of the starry firmament ; view the num- 
 berless suns that shine above you ; think of the 
 innumerable planets that revolve around these 
 suns ; contemplate the mighty systems of worlds 
 that move in celestial harmony and majesty 
 through boundless space. Your Saviour made 
 them all. Then think of his power, wisdom, 
 and goodness as manifested in all his works. 
 Think of his original glory and blessedness ; but 
 above all, think of his amazing condescension 
 and infinite love for you. He who hung out 
 these brilliant orbs, once stooped fi:om his celes- 
 tial throne of glory to assume human nature, 
 and bleed and die for you : yes, to die the death 
 of the cross I He "made himself of no reputa- 
 tion, and took upon him the form of a servant, 
 and was made in the likeness of men ; and being 
 found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself 
 and became obedient unto death, even the death 
 of the cross I"* Wonderful condescension. 
 Amazing love ! Was there ever love like this, 
 that led Christ to Calvary, there to lay down his 
 
 • Phil 2. 1. 8. 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 193 
 
 precious life for sinners I ISTo . the annals of 
 time do not furnish a parallel ; neither is it to 
 be found in the records of eternity. Christ, the 
 only begotten Son of God, lay in the bosom of 
 the Father from all eternity ; possessing untold 
 glory with him. But out of infinite compassion 
 and boundless love for his children, his redeem- 
 ed, he consented, for a time, to veil that glory 
 in humanity, and bleed upon the accursed tree. 
 He became partaker of flesh and blood. " For- 
 asmuch then as the children are partakers of 
 flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took 
 part of the same."* He gave his blessed body 
 to be broken, and his precious blood to be shed 
 for sinners. For you, dear believer, did the 
 Lord of glory suffer. That he might redeem 
 you from the curse of a broken law, and thus 
 rescue you from eternal misery in the regions of 
 darkness and despair, he assumed your nature. 
 " For verily he took not on him the nature cf 
 angels ; but he took on him the seed of Abra- 
 ham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him 
 to be made like unto his brethren, that he might 
 be a merciful and faithful high priest in things 
 pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for 
 the sins of the people."f In Christ, the divine 
 and human natures are admirably united in one 
 
 • Heb i 14. f Heb. ii, 1& 
 
194: CHBIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 glorious person. He is truly God and truly man 
 He is our Creator, our Preserver, our bountiful 
 Benefactor ; and yet he is bone of our bone and 
 flesh of our flesh. He is our near kinsman; 
 our elder brother ; our gracious friend, who lov- 
 eth at all times ; our glorious Eedeemer. 
 
 In our nature, Christ suffered and died for 
 us ; in our nature he rose triumphant from the 
 grave ; and he now wears it before the throna 
 c£ God. how highly has Christ exalted hu- 
 man nature! He has elevated it to the right 
 hand of God, to the greatest honors and the 
 brightest state of felicity in the heaven of heavens. 
 In glory the redeemed shall be made like Christ ; 
 their bodies shall shine like his glorious body. 
 
 Says an Apostle, "we know that when he 
 shall appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall 
 see him as he is."* At his glorious appearing 
 on the resurrection morning, Christ shall call 
 forth our sleeping dust and "change our vile 
 body, that it may be fashioned like unto his 
 glorious body, according to the working whereby 
 he is able even to subdue all things unto him 
 self."f Then shall we be with him, and be en 
 tirely like him to all eternity. Then shall we 
 see him face to face in his heavenly kingdom, 
 yes we shall look into the very face of the 
 
 1 John iii 9 f PhiL iii 21, 
 
CHRIST AND HIM tEUCIFIEU. 195 
 
 blessed Jesus, and behold in that countenance 
 the expressions of tenderest love for us, his re- 
 leemed. Then shall we see what a lovely Sav- 
 iour we have; and through eternal ages we shall 
 je contemplating the glorious person of our 
 Redeemer. Then shall we discern those excel- 
 lencies in the person of Christ, which are now 
 obscured by the veil of mortality. " Now we 
 see through a glass darkly ; but then face to 
 face : now I know in part ; but then shall I 
 know even as also I am known."* Precious 
 Saviour! Thy name is as ointment poured 
 forth. Thou art all our salvation and desire. 
 We love thee, because thou hast first loved 
 us. Whom have we in heaven but thee, and 
 there is none upon earth that we desire besides 
 thee. Thou art our way to the Father, the way 
 in which the redeemed journey through a wil- 
 derness world to the heavenly Canaan. Thou 
 art the blessed day-star which illuminates our 
 path through a bewildering world, and guides 
 us safely over life's tempestuous ocean into the 
 harbor of eternal glory. 
 
 Blessed Eedeemer, may I love and prize thee 
 more and more on earth, till, prepared for those 
 happy mansions above, I bid adieu to this sin- 
 ful, sorrowful world, enter into the joy of my 
 
 • 1 ^Jbt. joii. I a 
 
196 CHKISr, AND HIM CETTCIFIED. 
 
 Lord, and raise a never-ending song of praiso 
 in glory to thee my Almighty Saviour. 
 
 "Almighty Jesus, make me thine ; 
 Oh I wash me in thy blood divine, 
 Preserve my soul from every sin, 
 And reign the sov'reign Lord within. 
 
 " Oh ! for a heart of faith and love. 
 To taste the Saviour's richest grace, 
 To emulate the choirs above. 
 Who ever see his blissful face. 
 
 " Blest spirit! beautify my soul 
 With humble joy and holy fear; 
 Thy pow"r can make the wounded wholo^ 
 And bring each gospel blessing near. 
 
 " Descend and dwell within my heart; 
 The Saviour's image let us bear ; 
 Then bid me hence with joy depart 
 And angels' bliss forever share." 
 
 What a precious Saviour we have to choose 
 as ours. One who is so amiable and excellent 
 in his person. One who is infinitely able to save 
 us. One who delights in our salvation, and re- 
 joices over us to do us good. Concerning his 
 people, Christ says, " I will make an everlasting 
 covenant with them, that I wiU not turn away 
 from them to do them good • but I will put my 
 
CHKisT, anij him crucified. i97 
 
 fear in taeir hearts, that they shall net depart 
 from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to, do 
 them good."* What mercies flow from the 
 Saviour of sinners 1 When we look at what 
 our Eedeemer has accomplished for us, well 
 may we, with wonder and astonishment, ex- 
 claim, " Oh how great is thy goodness, which 
 thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which 
 thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee; be- 
 fore the sons of men." How deeply impressed 
 with the divine goodness was the prophet, when, 
 borne along and overwhelmed with the sublim- 
 ity of his rapturous theme, he breaks forth into 
 this lofty song : 
 
 " Sing, daughter of Zion ; shout, Israel ; 
 be glad and rejoice with all the heart, daugh 
 ter of Jerusalem. The Lord thy God in the 
 midst of thee is mighty ; he will save, he will 
 rejoice over thee with joy ; he wiU rest in his 
 love ; he will rejoice over thee with singing."f 
 
 There is none like Christ. He spake as never 
 man spake. When he sojourned in this vale of 
 tears, he went about doing good ; words of com- 
 passion flowed from his gracious lips ; he com- 
 forted the afflicted, healed the diseased, and 
 raised the dead. At his omnipotent voice, " the 
 eyes of the blind were opened, and the ears of 
 
 • Jot xxxiL 40, 41, f Zeph. iii. 14, 17 
 
 17' 
 
198 CHRIST, AND i.IM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 the deaf unstopped ; the lame man eaped as a 
 hart, and the tongue of the dumb sung." 
 
 How compassionate was the blessed Jesus, to 
 the sons and daughters of aflliction, to the perish- 
 ing multitudes around him, when he trod this 
 earth, clothed with the garb of humanity ; and 
 now that he is in heaven, invested with all his 
 original glory, he has the same eye of pity, and 
 the same heart of love for dying sinners on 
 earth. Though he reigns in glory, yet he now 
 says, " To this man will I look, even to him that 
 is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at 
 my word." One compassionate look from Christ, 
 which draws out the soul in love after him, and 
 kindles up the affections in holy desires after 
 sweet communion with him, is worth more than 
 all the treasures of the world. A saving interest 
 in the glorious Eedeemer, will put us into the 
 possession and enjoyment of those "un.search- 
 able riches" which will endure when this bewil- 
 dering world, with all its fascinations, with all 
 its grandeur, shall have passed away. 
 
 Does your heart pant after these durable 
 riches? Then look up to Christ, admire liim? 
 contemplate his adorable, mj'sterious person'. 
 Open the blessed volume of inspiration and read 
 his glorious character. " Search the scriptures," 
 says the Saviour, "for in them ye think ye have 
 eternal life and they are they which testify of 
 
CHEIST, AND Hill CRUCIFIED. 199 
 
 me." Trace him in his wonderful transition 
 from heaven to earth. He veils his glory in 
 humanity. He assumes human natiire, and 
 becomes an infant of days, a man of sorrow 
 through life; a bleeding victim on Calyary. 
 For you, sinner, he yields to the stroke of death; 
 and is laid in a tomb. But see him bursting 
 the fetters of the grave, and ascending to glory. 
 Thither foUow him. On the wings of faith soar 
 to the heavenly Canaan. Your divine Eedeemer 
 is there, radiant in glory. Before him, all the 
 redeemed bow in token of humble adoration 
 and praise. While they gaze upon his won- 
 drous bright form, one song, "worthy is the 
 Lamb that was slain," employs them all. In 
 heaven, all are admiring and praising the " Lamb 
 that stands on Mount Zion." There, every re- 
 deemed sinner desires to know more and more 
 about the adorable Saviour. believer, the 
 more you study Christ the more will you ad- 
 mire and praise him. Wonderful in his nature, 
 glorious in his person, and dear in those rela- 
 tions in which he stands to you, he demands 
 your whole heart, your affections, all your grate- 
 ful thoughts. While you walk by faith through 
 a wilderness world, you should constantly keep 
 Christ in your view — in your, thoughts — in youi 
 mind ; till in the full blaze of heaven's glory, 
 you behold him, in the midst of the celestial 
 
200 CHEIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 tlirone, as " a Lamb that had been slain,'" and 
 eternally admire his matchless person, and his 
 boundless grace. O blessed Jesus ! may the de- 
 Bire of GUI' soul now be to thy name, and to 
 the remembrance of thee. May we remember 
 thee upon beds, and meditate on thee in the 
 night-watches. And through all our earthly pil- 
 grimage may we ever think of thee, and of thy 
 great goodness. 
 
 Christian, let your love for an unseen Saviour 
 increase more and more. Now " whom hav- 
 ing not seen, ye love ; in whom, though ye see 
 him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy un- 
 speakable, and full of glory." "Unto you 
 therefore which believe, he is precious." In the 
 mean time, may your eye — ^that eye of faith 
 which views the eternal world, and those glo- 
 rious "things which are not seen," ever be di- 
 rected to the bleeding "Lamb of God," which 
 taketh away your sins; which "taketh away 
 the sin of the world!" Be always longing and 
 " looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious 
 appearing of the great God, and our Saviour 
 Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he 
 might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify 
 unto him?elf a peculiar people, zealous of good 
 works."'" 
 
 • Titiis ii. 13, 14. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 201 
 
 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, 
 
 In a believer's ear ! 
 It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds^ 
 
 And drives away his fear. 
 
 It makes the wounded spirit wholo 
 And calms the troubled breaot 
 
 Tiis manna to the hungry spul. 
 And to the weary rest." 
 
202 CHEIST, AND HIM OE J Jlf'IED. 
 
 CHAPTERI II. 
 
 THE GLORY OF CHRIST. 
 
 • Father I will that they also whom thou hast given mo, 
 be with me where I am ; that they may behold my glory."— 
 John, xviL 24. 
 
 Ik order that we may see the personal ex- 
 cellency of God's beloved Son, let us contem- 
 plate his glory. That amazing humiliation and 
 painful death to which Christ submitted, for 
 sinners, will appear still more astonishing, when 
 we reflect upon that majesty and glory with 
 which he was invested before time began to 
 flow. In Christ, we behold uncreated glory. 
 No created glory was ever like his. Christ's 
 glory shone from all eternity. Before the sun 
 beamed in the heavens, or the moon walked in 
 silvery brightness ; before the stars glittered in 
 the deep blue sky, or the earth sprang into ex- 
 istence ; Christ, the blessed Son of God, lay in 
 the bosom of the everlasting Father, enjoying 
 equal glory with him. The glorious Eedeemer 
 of a lost worl I was set up from everlasting. 
 Hear his own declaration, " I was set up from 
 
AND HIM CR.-CIFIED. 203 
 
 everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the 
 earth was," and surely the glory cf the eternal 
 Son must be as old as himself. Yes, Christ has 
 always been, and will ever continue to be " the 
 brightness of his Father's glory, and the express 
 image of his person." When he left the bosom 
 of his Father, and the regions of bliss, and 
 visited this fallen world with the message of 
 redeeming love, he only veiled his glory in hu- 
 manity. He lost nothing of his original glory 
 by his assumption of human nature. He was 
 as truly " the brightness of his Father's glory" 
 when he lay in the manger at Bethlehem, 
 when he had not where to lay his head on 
 earth, or when he hung a dying victim on Cal- 
 vary's cross, as he was before his incarnation, 
 or as he now is, in his glorified state at the right 
 hand of God. Though his glory was veiled 
 in a human form, when he tabernacled in the 
 flesh, yet now and then a beam of that glory 
 darted through his human nature, proclaiming 
 to all around that he was divine. The disciples 
 beheld the glory of their Redeemer. Says the 
 beloved John, " The "Word was made flesh and 
 dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the 
 glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) fiill 
 of grace and truth."* 
 
 • Jc'in L 14. 
 
204: CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIBJ). 
 
 Says another faittful follower of the Lord, 
 and an eye witness of his majesty, " He received 
 from God the Father honor and glory, when 
 there came sucli a voice to him from the ex- 
 cellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in wliom 
 I am well pleased. And tliis voice which came 
 from heaven we heard, when we were with him 
 in the holy mount."* 
 
 On mount Tabor, Peter, James and John got 
 a glimpse of the Saviour's glory, which made 
 them feel as if heaven had come down upon 
 earth. There Christ's glory beamed forth in 
 heavenly splendor, " when his face did shine as 
 the sun, and Ms raiment was wMte as the 
 light."f There Moses and Elias also appeared 
 in glory, and spake of his decease which he 
 should accomplish at Jerusalem." What a glo- 
 rious, sacred spot ! How nearly allied to heaven I 
 What is all the splendor of the universe, con- 
 trasted with the resplendent scene of Tabor! 
 How gloomy ! Contrasted with that dazzling, 
 overpowering brightness which there emanated 
 from the blessed Jesus, the sun is darkness it- 
 self. Never had there been such a vivid mani- 
 feistation of the glory of Christ on earth, as was 
 then displayed to the astonished disciples. Well 
 might Peter exclaim, ' Lord, it is good for us to 
 
 • 2 Peter i 17, 18. f ^a"- =^ii- 2 
 
AND HIM CRUCIFIED, 205 
 
 be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three 
 tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, 
 and one for Ehas." Delightful abode! To 
 dwell with Jesus : to be overshadowed with his 
 glory I 
 
 " If heaven be thus glorious, Lord, 
 Why must I keep from thence f 
 What folly is't that makes me loth 
 To die, and go from hence V 
 
 Hasten on, joyful day, when I shall be ad- 
 mitted into the palace of the great King, when 
 I shall see him in his beauty, in his glory; 
 when I shall be made "a pillar in the temple 
 of God, and go no more out;" when I shall 
 dwell with Christ, yes, with that glorious Sa- 
 viour, whose blessed side was once pierced for 
 me. 
 
 Happy, unspeakably happy, will those be 
 whom Christ will bring to behold his glory I 
 Their bliss no mortal tongue can express. 
 They will reign with Jesus, and behold his 
 glory forever and ever. " To him that over- 
 cometh," says Christ, " will I grant to sit with 
 me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and 
 am set down with my Father in his throne." 
 It is the will of Christ, that all his people may 
 be with him, that they may behold his glory. 
 Mark that beautiful prayer of his, in the 17th 
 18 
 
206 CHRIST, AND HIJI CRtJCIFIJSO. 
 
 chapter of John : " Father, I will that they also, 
 whom thou hast given me, be with me where I 
 am; that they may behold my glory, which 
 thou hast given me." For what is it that 
 Christ prays so fervently here? It is, that 
 those given him by his Father, may not only 
 be with him, but that they may also behold his 
 glory. That prayer has not ascended to heaven 
 in vain. It has been heard on high. In heaven, 
 all the redeemed around the throne of God, are 
 now beholding the glory of Christ. All " the 
 spirits of just men made perfect," are admiring 
 his beauty. This prayer wiU be fully answered, 
 when Christ shall bring forth the head-stone of 
 his living, glorious temple with shoutings ; when 
 he shall exclaim, "Behold I and the children 
 which God hath given me ;" when every mem- 
 ber of his precious flock shall be gathered home 
 to himself; when even the feeblest lamb shaU 
 be housed from the storm. Then shall we all 
 be with Christ ; then shall we behold his glory ; 
 not veiled as it was in his humiliation, but blaz- 
 ing forth in full, unclouded splendor. 
 
 The glory of Christ will make eternity itself 
 one bright, unsullied day of bliss. This glory 
 will be manifested to the redeemed; they will 
 spend the revolving ages of a blissful eternity 
 in beholding it. It will irradiate the mansions 
 of bUss ; it wiU adorn with immortal splendor 
 
AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 207 
 
 and beauty every inliabitant of those mansions. 
 It will decorate with blooming youth coimtlesa 
 millions. It will light up a bright and glorious 
 abode fo: the redeemed. It will constitute the 
 purest, noblest, brightest heaven. What is 
 heaven but being with Christ, and beholding his 
 glory. This is heaven ! This is blessedness ! 
 This is the bliss of saints ! blessed privilege, 
 to be with Christ, to behold his glory. And all 
 believers shall soon be forever with him. What 
 a happy state to be ever with the Lord, behold- 
 ing his glory 1 This made Paul long to be dis- 
 solved, that he might be with Christ. " I am in a 
 strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and 
 to be with Christ, which is far better."* Imme- 
 diately after death, the soul of the believer is 
 with Christ, beholding his glory, " absent from 
 the body, and present with the Lord." How 
 many have longed for a sight of this glory of 
 Christ. How often has it cheered the heart of 
 the dying Christian, and filled his soul with the 
 hope of a glorious immortality. A few hours 
 before the great Dr. Owen breathed his last, a 
 friend informed him that he had just been 
 putting his work " On the glory of Christ, to 
 press, to whom the Dr. responded, " I am glad 
 to hear that that performance is put to press ;" 
 
 • Phil. i. 23. 
 
208 CHRIST, 4.ND HIM CRUCl-FIED 
 
 then lifting up his hands, and raising his eyes 
 as in a rapture, he exclaimed, "But trother 
 Payne, the long looked for day is come at last, 
 in which I shall see that glory in another man- 
 ner than I have ever done yet, or was capable 
 of doing in this world." 
 
 A great part of heaven's happiness, will consist 
 in beholding the glory of Christ ; yes, the glory 
 of Christ will fill heaven with unutterable bliss. 
 
 blessed Jesus, show us thy glory; may 
 •t niuminale our pathway through a world of 
 iarkness ; may it guide us to thee, the uncreated 
 source of life, light and glory. With thee is the 
 fountain of life ; in thy light shall we see light. 
 Wean our affections from a world that is so soon 
 to be wrapped in flames. Elevate our views 
 above the transient scenes of earth, its fading, 
 deceitful joys, to the permanent and enrapturing 
 bliss of heaven. May we be going up through 
 this wilderness world leaning on thee, our Be- 
 loved. While on earth may we live to thy 
 glory; and when done with mortal life, when 
 the messenger of death is sent to convey our 
 immortal spirits home, may we be safely con- 
 ducted " through death's dark vale" and Jordan's 
 swelling stream, to the heights of Zion, the city 
 of the great King, the heavenly Jerusalem, the 
 celestial Canaan, where thou, blessed Saviour, 
 reignest in everlasting glory. 
 
CHEI3T, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 209 
 
 Oh I thftt I felt my soul upborne 
 
 On T'ure devotion's winga, 
 Far above earth's deceitful joys 
 
 And sublunary things. 
 
 " Where thou, blessed Saviour, sitt'st enthroned 
 In everlasting light ; 
 The glory of th' angelic host, 
 The source of their delight. 
 
 ' There in thy blissful presence reigns 
 Immortal joy serene ; 
 No wintry storms are heard to roar, 
 Nor desolation seen. 
 
 " Around thee flow unmixed delights, 
 Libe rivers deep and wide ; 
 While from '■^a ocean of thy love. 
 Proceeds an ondless tide. 
 
 " Can such a sinful creature, Lord, 
 Partake this wondrous grace, 
 To dwell with thee in heavenly bliss, 
 And view thy glorious face. 
 
 " Ah I then, let sm and earth usurp 
 My wayward heart no more ; 
 Be thou, through life, my all in all, 
 My soul's unbounded store,' 
 
 Have you obtained a glimpse of the glcry of 
 the Sufferer of Calvary ? Is Christ glorious in 
 your vie^v, or does he appear '' as a root out of a 
 dry ground, having no form, nor comeliness, no 
 beauty that you should desire him ?" Is he, in 
 18* 
 
210 CE tllST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 your estimation, " the chiefest among ten thous- 
 and" all lovely, all glorious ; or do you " lightly 
 esteem the rock of your salvation ?" Have you 
 seen Christ, in all his glory, not with, the hodibj 
 eye, but with that of faith, which scans the 
 heavens and views the Saviour there, as yours ? 
 Or have you no faith in God's dear Son ? Are 
 you still rejecting the free offer of a crucified 
 Saviour ; still counting his precious blood an 
 unholy thing ? These are solemn questions which 
 you are now called upon to answer. If you 
 have never viewed Christ as your glorious 
 Saviour, look to him now as such. Let faith 
 spread her wings towards him. Believe on his 
 glorious name ; and " say not in thy heart, who 
 shall ascend into heaven? (that is to bring 
 Christ down from above :) or who shall descend 
 into the deep ? (that is, to bring up Christ again 
 from the dead.) The word is nigh thee, even in 
 thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is the word 
 of faith which, we preach."* 
 
 To see Christ in the glory of his person, 
 in the fulness of his grace and as our only 
 Saviour, is the sight that affords perfect peace — 
 that peace of God which passeth all understand- 
 ing. This blesseu sight fills the soul with joy 
 unspeakable and full of glory ; elevates the sin- 
 
 • Rom. X. 6, 8. 
 
CHRIST, ANL HIM CRUCIFIED. 211 
 
 ner's view above sublunary objects, to those 
 blissful mansions in the skies, and cheers the 
 believing soul, when standing on the threshold 
 of eternity, with the hope of a glorious immor- 
 tality. "When we obtain a faith's view of Christ 
 and his glory, how despicable do the unhallowed 
 joys and pleasures of a dying world appear? 
 Even now one beam of the Saviour's glory 
 shining into our hearts, or the light of his 
 countenance lifted upon us, will afford us more 
 joy than all the glittering wealth of the world. 
 Hear an eminent saint of olden times exclaim : 
 " Thou hast put gladness in ray heart, more than 
 in the time that their corn and their wine in- 
 creased." 
 
 You who have embraced the glorious Saviour 
 will soon be made a partaker of his glory. " The 
 glory which thou gavest me," says Christ, " I 
 have given them." wonderful ! wonderful ! 
 not only to behold that glory, but to receive it 
 ourselves ! " The Lord will give glory." What 
 shall we render to Him for all his gifts ? " Bless 
 the Lord my soul ; and all that is within me. 
 bless his holy name." Eveiy step you take on 
 earth will be a step heavenward. Constantly 
 beholding the glory of Christ in the mirror of 
 the word and ordinances, you will become more 
 and more transformed into his likeness. " We 
 all, ' says the apostle, " with open face beholding 
 
212 CHEIST, AND HIM CSUCIFIED, 
 
 as in a glass the gloiy of the Lord, are changed 
 into the same image from glory to glory, even 
 as by the spirit of the Lord."* In the face of 
 Christ, we behold the glory of God, the bright- 
 ness of the divinity, shining forth in uncreated, 
 overpowering lustre. The holy Spirit illumin- 
 ates our hearts, and enables us to discern this 
 effulgence of divine glory. 
 
 " God, who first commanded the light to shine 
 out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to 
 give the light of the knowledge of the glory of 
 God in the face of Jesus Christ."t 
 
 Christ is crowned with all the radiance of the 
 Deity. " In him dwells all the fulness of the 
 godhead bodily." " In him are hid all the 
 treasures of wisdom and knowledge." " The 
 word was made flesh," and the glory of God 
 shall shine through that flesh through all eter- 
 nity, and make that blessed form far more 
 glorious than the midday sun. How glorious 
 and exalted is Christ! Encircled with incon- 
 ceivable glory and seated on the thrcne of 
 heaven, he sways with uncontrollable power, 
 the sceptre of the universe. There is a glory in 
 the person of Christr that makes him unspeak- 
 ably precious to believers. There is a glory in 
 bis perfections. There is a glory in his works, 
 
 • 2 Car. iii. 18 \2 Cor. ix. 6. 
 
CHEIST, AND HlM CRBSIFIED. 213 
 
 " All thy -works sliall praise thee, Lord and 
 thy saints shall bless thee." Yes, Christ is not 
 only glorious in his person, bat also in his 
 works. In the works of creation he is encircled 
 with dirine glory. "The heavens declare the 
 glory of God ; and the firmament showeth his 
 handy work;" and in that greater work — the 
 redemption of a lost world, — he is crowned with 
 incomprehensible glory, and exalted to the right 
 hand of God. "Now, we see Jesus, who was 
 made a little lower than the angels, for the suf- 
 fering of death crowned with glory and honor."* 
 
 Dear believer, this glorious Saviour is yours 
 For you he died ; for you he lives ; for you he 
 reigns the Lord of glory. "With the church you 
 may exclaim, " This is my beloved, and this is 
 my friend, daughters of Jerusalem ;" "How 
 great is his goodness, and how great is his 
 beauty 1" 
 
 How attractive, how desirable, how lovely, 
 how glorious will Christ appear in heaven I 
 How will his glory shine there! When we 
 awake amid the splendors of immortality, the 
 first object that will excite our admiration 7'ill 
 be that glorious Eedeemer, who loved us, and 
 g^ve himself for us; whose dying groans were 
 Oijce iilte'ed oi Calvary; whose bleeding heart 
 
 • Heb ii. 9 
 18* 
 
214 CHRIST, AND .3IM CRUvIFIED. 
 
 there showed the breadth, and length, and depth, 
 and height of redeeming love 1 Then shall we 
 see with our very eyes. Him who was, for ns, 
 taken, and by wicked hands crucified and 
 slain ;" but, oh I we shall see him shining in 
 effulgent glory. 
 
 The glory of the Man of Calvary will attract 
 the eyes of all the redeemed above, and he will be 
 forever " admired in all them that believe." The 
 perpetual presence of Christ and the continued 
 manifestation of his glory will always make 
 heaven one noontide of light and blessedness. 
 He will be continually before uS, and his glory 
 will be constantly beaming upon us ; and our 
 sight will be so illuminated that we can steadily 
 behold that glory. Now we see through a glass 
 darkly ; but then face to face. Now, we could 
 not possibly bear the full effulgence of that 
 gl6ry. It struck Paul to the earth with blind- 
 ness when Jesus appeared to him, and when he 
 " saw in the way a light from heaven, above the 
 brightness of the sun, shining round about him," 
 And on the manifestation of a glorified Saviour, 
 John falls to the earth as dead. But in heaven 
 we shall gaze with intense delight upon the 
 glorious sun of righteousness, shining in his 
 meridian splendor. Blessed be Godl that sun 
 once rose on our benighted T\'orld. That promise 
 has been fu llled, " Unto you that fear my name, 
 
CHBIST, AND HIM EKUCtFIED. 215 
 
 shall the sun of righteousness arise tvith healing 
 in his wings."* That " true light, which lighteth 
 every man that cometh into the world" pointing 
 us to heaven, the region of eternal glory, once 
 shone on. earth. That light will eternally shinf 
 in the upper world in the celestia'l mansions 
 There Christ will always manifest himself to hii 
 people, in all his glory. There they will noi 
 have to cry with Moses, " I beseech thee, show 
 me thy glory." All shall see it. Every saint 
 there shall be gazing forever upon the uncreated 
 glory of Immanuel. blessed sight ! 
 
 Lord, prepare each of us for beholding this 
 glory. Unite our hearts to thee, by faith. May 
 we be growing in grace and in the knowledge 
 of thee — our Lord and Saviour. Do thoii, 
 Almighty Saviour, preserve us from the snares 
 and temptations of a world lying in wickedness, 
 and finally present us faultless before the pres- 
 ence of thy glory with exceeding joy. 
 
 In his sublime vision of the glory of Christ, 
 Isaiah thus speaks, "In the year that king Uz- 
 ziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a 
 throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled 
 the temple. Above it stood the seraphims; 
 each one had six wings ; with twain he covered 
 his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and 
 
 • M.s.lt. iv. a. 
 
216 CHRIST, AM* HIM CKUOIFIED. 
 
 with, twain lie did fly. And one cried unto an- 
 other, and said. Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of 
 hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."* 
 That this was the glory of Christ, which Isaiah 
 saw, John, in the 12th chapter of his gospel, 
 asserts, " These things said Esaias, when he saw 
 his glory, and spake of him." On the lonelj 
 isle of Patmos, the beloved disciple had a glor- 
 ious revelation of the Son of God. Heaven 
 opened and poured forth its glories upon him, 
 He was fanned with its breezes. He stood be 
 wildered and amazed amid its grand pageantry, 
 Eut one form more glorious than all other ob 
 jects, fiUed him with profound awe and con- 
 sternation. It was the Lord Jesus. His count- 
 enance shone like the sun in his midday splendor, 
 Glory beamed from every part of that blessed 
 form, diffusing a flood of light on all around, 
 and blazing far, far away into eternity. It was 
 the dazzling form of the Lamb of God, in more 
 than earthly transfiguration that appeared to the 
 bewildered disciple. The description which he 
 furnishes of this glorified personage is this, " I 
 saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst 
 of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son 
 of Man, clothed with a garment down to tho 
 toot, and girt about the paps with a golden 
 
 • la vi 1, 8. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CEICIFIED. 217 
 
 J 
 
 girdle. His head and his hairs were white like 
 wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a 
 flame of fire ; and his feet like unto fine brass, 
 as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice aa 
 the sound of many waters. And he had in his 
 right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth 
 went a sharp two-edged sword ; and his count- 
 enance was as the sun shineth in his strength."* 
 This is Jesus of Nazareth, the same Jesus on 
 whose bosom the beloved disciple had so often 
 leaned. How glorious does he appear now? 
 So glorious, that John falls at his feet as dead. 
 This is the same Jesus whom the dying Stephen 
 eaw standing on the right hand of God. "When 
 his cruel persecutors were about to imbrue their 
 hands in the blood of this holy servant of God, 
 he being full -of the Holy Ghost, looked up 
 steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of 
 God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of 
 God. 
 
 This, Christian, is the same Jesus whose glory 
 you shall behold in heaven; whom you will 
 love and praise and adore with unceasing de- 
 light and seraphic vigor, through eternity's roll- 
 ing ages. Love and admire him now. Cleave 
 closely to him, and you will soon see his glory. 
 You wiE soon be with Christ. happy thought 1 
 
 • Eev. i. 12, 16. 
 19 
 
218 CHElSTj AND HIM CBUCIFIED. 
 
 Soon, very soon, shall the visions of earth vanish, 
 and the darkness of mortality disappear befora 
 the rising glories of Imma.nuel's kingdom. The 
 time is short; the period is just at hand, when 
 we shall, with transporting joy, behold the dawn- 
 ing of that day which wMl never end, and the 
 rising of that sun which will never set. Then 
 " Thine eves shall see the King in his beauty : 
 they shall behold the land that is very far off." 
 Raised in glory, and caught up from the flames 
 of a burning, crumbling world, to meet the Lord 
 in the air, " when he shall come to be glorified 
 in his saints, and to be admired in all them that 
 believe ;" we shall, with him, soar to a brighter 
 world above, — our everlasting happy home, 
 where no sin ever defiles, where no tears ever 
 flow, and where no death is ever feared. Enter- 
 ing into the golden city and its many mansions, 
 We shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac ^and 
 Jacob, — with Moses and Elias, — with prophets 
 and apostles, in the kingdom of God. Standing, 
 not on Mount Tabor below, but on Mount Zion 
 above ; not with Moses and Elias alone, but with 
 " the general assembly and church of the first- 
 born, which are written in heaven ;" we shall 
 ever behold, contemplate and admire the glory 
 of Him who is light of heaven, the brightness of 
 God's glory. How gloriously wiU that celestial 
 city, the heme of the redeemed, be illuminated 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 2i9 
 
 with the presence of Immanuel! There, no 
 natural light is required. "The city had no 
 need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine on 
 it ; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the 
 Lamb is the light thereof."* There, all will be 
 irradiated by the glory of God and the Lamb. 
 " The sun shall be no more thy light by day, 
 neither for brightness shall the moon give light 
 unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an 
 everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."f 
 There, from a reflection of that glory, the right- 
 eous themselves shall shine forth as the sun in 
 the kingdom of their Father. Eternal glory 
 beams in Immanuel's land. Everlasting light 
 emanates from His blessed face. "Thy sun 
 shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon 
 withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thine 
 everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning 
 shall be ended.":]: " And there shall be no night 
 there ; and they need no candle, neither light of 
 the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; 
 and they shall reign forever and ever."§ 
 
 To this blessedness, to this glory, to this 
 honor, to this immortality, ■" the Spirit and the 
 Bride say, Come. And let him that ?ieareth 
 Bay, Come. And let him that is athu'st, Come. 
 
 • Key. XXI. 23. t !">• ^- ^^ 
 
 t Isa. be 20. g EeT. xxii. 6 
 
220 CHEI3T, AND HIM CBUCiriED. 
 
 And wliosoever will, let him take tlie water of 
 life freely." 0, my friends 1 be wise in time ; 
 choose a glorious Christ now, and yoa shall 
 ehine as the stars forever and ever. 
 
 Now, " Blessed be the Lord God, the God of 
 Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And 
 blessed be his glorious name forever let the 
 whole earth be filled with his glory Amen 
 and amen." 
 
 " He who on earth as man was knowi^ 
 And bore our nns and pains. 
 Now, seated on the eternal thronp. 
 The God of gloiy reigns. 
 
 ' His hands the wheels of nature ga.de 
 "With an unerring skil^ ; 
 And countless worlds extended wide, 
 Obey his sov'reign will 
 
 " While harps unnnmber'd sonnd his pralae 
 In yonder world above ; 
 His saints on earth admire his ways, 
 And gloty in his love. 
 
 "His righteousness to faith reyeaTd, 
 "Wrought out for guilty worms ; 
 Affords a hiding place and shield. 
 From enemies and storms, 
 
 "This land, through which his pilgrims go^ 
 Is desoiate and dry; 
 But streams of grace from him o'erflov 
 Their thirst; to satisfy. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 22l 
 
 '' When troubles, like a burning bud. 
 Beat heavy on their head , 
 To this almighty Rock they run. 
 And find a pleasing shade. 
 
 " How glorious he 1 how happy they 
 In such a glorious Friend I 
 Whose lore secures them all tht V>i% 
 
 And 3T0VUS them at the end." 
 19» 
 
222 CHRIST, AND HIM CET7CIFIED. 
 
 CHAPTER lY 
 
 CUKIST CKUCrFIED. 
 
 " For I determined not to know any thing among yon, save 
 Jesos Christ and him crucified." — 1 Con. ii 2. 
 " We preach Christ crucified." — 1 Cob. i. 23. 
 
 " When on the cross my Lord I see 
 Bleeding to death for wretched me . 
 Satan and sin no more can move, 
 For I am all trausform'd to love. 
 
 ' His thorns and nails pierce through my heart, 
 In ev'ry groan I bear a part ; 
 I view his wounds with streaming eyes, 
 But see I he bo ws his head and dies I 
 
 " Come, sinners, view the Lamb of God, 
 Wounded and dead, and bath'd in blood. 
 Behold his side, and renture near, 
 The well of endless life is here. 
 
 "Here I forget my cares and pains; 
 I drink, yet still my thirst remains;' 
 Only the fountain head above 
 Can satisfy the thirst of love. 
 
 "Oil, that I thus could alwn3-3 feel 1 
 liOrd, more and moi-c thy Icve reveal ; 
 Then my glad tongue shall loud proclaim 
 The grace and glory of thy name. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 223 
 
 "Thy name dispels my guilt and fear, 
 Eevives my heart, and charms my ear 
 Affords a balm for every wound. 
 And Satan trembles at the sound." 
 
 Tlie deatli of Christ was the most affecting 
 and solemn scene ever presented to the view of 
 men or angels. "What a sight I to see Christ on 
 the cross bleeding for sinners 1 How astonish- 
 ing I to see the King of glory, whom all the an- 
 gels of heaven worsliip and adore, be v his head 
 in death I Earth never before witneased such a 
 sight. Heaven never before looked upon such 
 a scene. my soul, draw near and contemplate 
 it. Look towards Calvary with the cross erected 
 in thy view, and behold the Son of God nailed 
 to the accursed tree, his blessed hands, and side 
 and feet pierced, his blood streaming from every 
 pore, until pallid death sits upon his heavenly 
 brow, and he cries, " Father, into thy hands I 
 commend my spirit." This is the scene, the sol- 
 emu scene, upon which we are about to dwell. 
 
 We have been contemplating the glory of 
 Christ; we come now to notice his wonderful 
 death. We have seen him arrayed in the robes 
 of eternal glory ; now we see him laying aside 
 these bright robes, humbling himself and be 
 coming obedient unto death, even the death of 
 the cross. Amazing condescension ! that the 
 gloriou? Soi o" God shoull forsake the realms 
 
224 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 of everlasting day, leave the throne cf glory, 
 and take up his abode in this dark region of sin 
 and suffering 1 Boundless love I that He should 
 expire on the cross for a guilty world I 
 
 "Oh I love without compare, 
 Oh 1 love beyond degree ; 
 That he, whom cherubim adore, 
 Should bleed and die for me I" 
 
 Christ became man that he might die for man, 
 that his precious blood might flow for the re- 
 demption of a lost world. The land of Judea 
 was the birthplace of the Saviour of the world. 
 It was once the glory of aU lands. Jerusalem 
 was its renowned metropolis. Here, God was 
 manifested in the flesh. Here, the Son of God 
 walked with man, clad as a man, in the garb of 
 humanity. How near was heaven to earth 
 when Jesus dwelt among men, promulgating, 
 the blessed gospel of the grace of God, to a sin- 
 ful, dying world! What joyful tidings were 
 conveyed to the shepherds of Bethlehem, when 
 " the angel of the Lord came upon them, and 
 the glory of the Lord shone round about them." 
 "And the angel said unto them, fear not, for 
 behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, 
 which shall be to aU people. For unto you ia 
 bom this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, 
 which is Cljist the Lord." Well might the 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED, 225 
 
 bright host of heaven burst into that sublime 
 birth-song of Immanuell "Glory to God in the 
 highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward 
 man." 
 
 Christ came to reconcile a rebel earth to the 
 offended majesty of heaven ; to suifer, the just 
 for the unjust; to give his life a ransom for 
 many; to die on Calvary. And when that 
 eventful hour, fixed upon in the counsels of 
 eternity, in which the Son of God should pour 
 out his soul unto death, had arrived, how im- 
 pressive, how solemn was the scene that trans- 
 pired on Calvary's sacred mount ! How great 
 were the sufferings of God's beloved Son 1 How 
 painful the death he endured I A series of un- 
 paralleled sufferings which he bore in his own 
 person, immediately preceded the crucifixion of 
 our Saviour. In the garden of Gethsemane, m 
 the judgment-hall on the way to Calvary, and 
 afler his arrival there, his sufferings were in- 
 tensely severe. We design to notice these. 
 
 The whole life of Christ was a life of sorrow 
 and suffering. He was always " a man of sor- 
 rows, and acquainted with grief." From the 
 manger to the cross he trod a thorny pathway. 
 For you, sinner, he lived a suffering life, and 
 for you he died a painful death. Should not 
 the love, the dying love of Christ, constrain you 
 to love hin. who first loved you, and gave him- 
 
226 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 self for you, yes, his own glorious self. Surely 
 it should. Surely your whole heart should bp 
 a flame of burning love to your adorable Saviour, 
 "Whom having not seen, ye love." 
 
 Christ stood in the room and stead of dying 
 sinners. He was our representative, and as such 
 he endured the penalty of a broken law. He 
 bore our griefs, and carried our sorrows. All 
 our iniquities were laid on him. No wonder 
 then, that his holy soul was almost overwhelmed 
 when all the waves and billows of divine wrath 
 were about to gather and break over his devoted 
 head 1 No wonder that he should cry, " O my 
 Father, if it be possible,- let this cup pass from 
 me." What intense sufferings the blessed Jesus 
 endured, when he was about to make his soul 
 an offering for sin ! when he bore our sins in his 
 own body on the tree ! 
 
 Contemplate the scenes and circumstances of 
 the Saviour's suffering and death. Call up in 
 your mind those memorable names consecrated 
 hj the passion and death of Christ, — Jerusa- 
 lem, — Gethsemane, — Calvary. The remem- 
 brance of Jerusalem awakens some of the most 
 thrilling associations that ever clustered around 
 the memory. Here, some of the most momentous 
 events in the annals of time, or in the records 
 of eternity, transpired. Here, was displayed 
 the most anazing and glorious scene that was 
 
CHRIST, AND HTM CRUCIFIED. 227 
 
 ever exhibited on this terrestrial globe. Here, 
 on Mount Calvary, the Son of God, the Crea- 
 tor of the Universe, once hung in agonies 
 and death; and here, he accomplished that 
 wonderful, that great and sublime scheme of 
 man's redemption, which is the wonder of an- 
 gels, which will form the delightful theme of 
 the redeemed in glory, through the countless 
 ages of eternity. What a sacred spot for med- 
 itation I But turn to Gethsemane. This is a 
 name deeply engraved on the heart of every 
 Christian. Here Christ suffered as never man 
 suffered; suffered for you, sinners. Here, he 
 endured that bitter agony for you, when "his 
 sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling 
 down to the ground." 
 
 Now let us view that mysterious Mount, just 
 without the gates of Jerusalem, on which the 
 Man of sorrows died. Calvary ! at the mention 
 of that name, earth thrills with new emotions of 
 joy, and heaven biirsts into long, loud anthems 
 of praise. Intense glory beams from the sum- 
 mit of Calvary ; but its moral heights no mor- 
 tal eye can view ; its top is lost in the glorious 
 atmosphere of the upper world. In heaven 
 Calvary will awaken many a glorious associa- 
 tion, when we there look back and contemplate 
 the wondrous scene it commemorates. There it 
 win live forever in the re oaembrancc of all the 
 
228 CHRIST, AKD HIM O.TUCIFIED. 
 
 redeemed, and be the eternal source of their 
 highest bliss I 
 
 When Christ had spent more than thirty 
 years on earth, the hour — the eventful hour of 
 his departure at length arrived, and with his 
 Bufferings full in view, he hastens to Jerusalem 
 to offer himself a sacrifice for our sins. How he 
 longs to reach his ignominious cross — ^to be bap- 
 tized with his own blood — ^to accomplish our 
 salvation on Calvary 1 Blessed be God for such 
 a Saviour, whose delights were always with the 
 sons of men I 
 
 The following beautiful lines on "the Ee- 
 deemer hastening to suffer," are from the pen 
 of Cowper 
 
 " The Saviour, what a noble flame 
 Was kindled in his breast, 
 When, hasting to Jerusalem, 
 He marched before the rest I* 
 
 " Good-will to men and zeal for God. 
 His every thought engross ; 
 He longs to be baptized with blood, f 
 Ho pants to reach his cross. 
 
 • With all his suffrings full in view, 
 And woes to us unknown. 
 Forth to the task his spirit flew, 
 'Twas love that urged him on. 
 
 • Luke xii 23. f ilie xii. SOi 
 
OHEIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED, 22-9 
 
 " Lord, we return thee what we can I 
 Our hearts shall sound abroad 
 Salyation to the dying Man, 
 And to the rising Godl 
 
 " And while thy bleeding glori< ■ .re 
 Engage our wondering eyei 
 We learn our lighter cross to t^ar, 
 And hasten to the skies." 
 
 Arrived at Jerusalem, for the last time, the 
 Saviour eats the passover with his disciples, and 
 institutes the sacramental supper in that last 
 gloomy night which preceded his painful death. 
 In his dying love he instituted that ordinance 
 which will, through all time commemorate his 
 Bufferings and death. 
 
 " And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, 
 and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the 
 disciples, and said. Take, eat ; this is my body. 
 And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave 
 it to them, saying. Drink ye all of it ; for this is 
 my blood of the new testament, which is shed 
 for many for the remission of sins."* "Who 
 would not obey the injunction, the dying in- 
 junction, of the Friend of sinners, " This do in 
 remembrance of me ?" Come and manifest your 
 love to the Lord Jesus, at his cwn table; come, 
 for all things are now ready. ' Eat, friends ; 
 
 • Matt xxn. 26-28. 
 20 
 
230 CHRIST, AND Hill CRUCIFIED, 
 
 drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved." 
 What tender love did the blessed Jesus manifest 
 to his sorrowful disciples, when he was about to 
 leave them, and bleed and die on Calvary! 
 " Let not your heart be troubled," says he, " ye 
 believe in God, believe also in me. In my 
 Father's house are many mansions : if it were 
 not so I would have told you. I go to prepare 
 a place for you. And if I go and prepare a 
 place for you, I will come again and receive you 
 unto myself; that where I am, there ye may 
 be also." Consoling words ! What animating 
 prospects are here presented to the humble fol- 
 lowers of Christ ! Our Father's house, the many 
 mansions of glory, our being with Christ, where 
 he is, our future felicity in heaven, are here all 
 held up for our encouragement, while in a 
 suffering world. How solacing, how joyful to 
 the weary Christian, struggling amidst the storms 
 and afflictions of life, to find a happy resting 
 place in our Father's house, in Immanuel's 
 land ! " Blessed be the God and Father of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ; which according to his 
 abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a 
 lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 
 from the dead ; to an inheritance incorruptible 
 and undefiled, and that fadeth not away; re- 
 served in heaven for t~'-i, who are kept by the 
 
CHRIiT, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 231 
 
 po'STer of God through faith unto salvation 
 ready to be revealed in the last -time."* 
 
 IIow brightly did the dying love of Jesus 
 shine in that " upper room" at Jerusalem ! 
 "Having loved his own -which were in the 
 world, he loved them unto the end." Brighter 
 and brighter will that redeeming love of his 
 eternally shine in the upper room of glory. 
 There all Christ's dear children shall sit down 
 at the banquet of love spread there, from which 
 they shall rise no more ; but where they shall 
 forever " eat of that hidden manna," and drink 
 of that living "water of life, clear as crystal, 
 proceeding out of the throne of God and of the 
 Lamb ;" where they will forever enjoy the pres- 
 ence and smiles of a gracious Eedeemer. 
 
 Having littered that beautiful prayer, "Father, 
 the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son 
 also may glorify thee," &c., the Saviour calls 
 upon his faithful band, " Arise, let us go hence.'' 
 " When Jesus had spoken these words, he wen 
 forth with his disciples over the brook Kedron, 
 where was a garden, into which he entered, and 
 his disciples." 
 
 The sun had passed the western horizon, and 
 the mantle of darkness was spread over a slum- 
 bering world, when that mournful group crossed 
 
 • P«ter i. 8-6. 
 
282 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 the Kedron, and entered the garden of Gethsem- 
 ane. Thither Jesus had often resorted with hia 
 disciples. The spot was well known to them aU. 
 But never before had the Saviour come hither 
 with a heart so full of sorrow. Listen to his 
 mournful cry, " My soul," said he, " is exceed- 
 ingly sorrowful, even unto death : tarry ye here, 
 and watch with me." Your sins, reader, bore 
 him down. The sins of a lost world over- 
 whelmed him, and he "fell on his face, and 
 prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, 
 let this cup pass from me : nevertheless, not as I 
 wiU, but as thou wilt." 
 
 If that bitter cup had passed the Saviour's 
 lips, where would you, where would I have 
 been this day? Without a Saviour, without a 
 heaven, passing our weary days in darkness and 
 despair. Impenetrable gloom would have be- 
 clouded our bright immortal hopes. But thanks 
 be unto God for his unspeakable gift, for the 
 gift of Jesus ; for his precious Hfe, for his pre- 
 cious death, which brings salvation to a lost 
 world! The sufferings of our Saviour in the" 
 garden of Gethsemane, were aU endured for us, 
 guilty sinners. what piercing agony is that 
 which rends his heart, and forces " great drops 
 of blood" down those pale cheeks moistening 
 the green earth I " And being in an agony, he 
 prayed mc-e earnestly and his sweat was as 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM OKUCIFIED. 233 
 
 it were great drops of blood falling down to the 
 ground."* After rising from the earth he had 
 moistened with his blood, Christ is apprehended 
 and betrayed into the hands of sinners. The 
 sword of divine JTistice is now fairly unsheathed. 
 God the Father is now commissioning the sword 
 of his justice to awake against his own dear Son, 
 who is now delivered for our offences. 
 
 "Awake, sword, against my Shepherd, and 
 against the man that is my fellow, saith the 
 Lord of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the 
 sheep shall be scattered ; and I will turn my 
 hand upon the little ones." 
 
 The innocent sufferer of Gethsemane, who is 
 none other than the Creator of worlds, and the 
 Author of our being, is hurried away to the 
 judgment hall of an earthly court, there to be 
 derided and condemned to death by sinful mor- 
 tals. There the blessed Eedeemer gave "his 
 back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that 
 plucked off the hair;" there he "hid not his 
 face from shame and spitting."-|- There the glo- 
 rious Son of God " was wounded for our trans- 
 gressions, bruised for our iniquities," wounded 
 and bruised tm his heavenly "visage was so 
 marred more than any man, and his form more 
 than the sons of men.":|: What condescen- 
 
 • Lnka xziL 44. f Is. 1. 6. } Is. Ill 14. 
 
 20* 
 
234. CHHIST, AND HIM CKUCIFIED. 
 
 sion and love are here displayed ! "Wonder 
 heavens 1 Be astonished O earth ! Behold that 
 bleeding victim, wearing a thorny crown, see 
 his life's blood streaming from every lacerated 
 vein, and read in that bleeding heart the vast- 
 ness of redeeming love. He who now wears 
 that crown of thorns for sinners once wore a 
 crown of glory at God's right hand. 
 
 What manner of love was that which led 
 Christ to make such an exchange as this — a 
 crown of glory for a crown of thorns I It was 
 the love, the infinite love he ever bore to dying 
 sinners. Nothing brought him from his throne 
 of glory to his cross of suffering but eternal, 
 redeeming love. Look at the bleeding Jesus 
 again and again tiU your hearts overflow with 
 love to him. Pilate said to the Jews, " Behold 
 the man !" "We would say to you in the lan- 
 guage of a greater and better than Pilate, " Be- 
 hold the Lamb of God which taketh away the 
 sin of the world !" Behold Him as your Saviour, 
 bleeding for your sins. Behold Him till the eye 
 of faith brightens, and you exclaim with Thomas, 
 " My Lord (yes my bleeding Lord) and my God." 
 In that judgment hall the Lord of glory is con- 
 demned to death. There "he was oppressed, 
 and he was afflicted, yet he opened not Ida 
 mouth ; h: is brought ar a lamb to the slaughter, 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 235 
 
 and as a slieep before her shearers is duml:, so 
 he opened not his mouth." 
 
 But let us follow Him to the cross. That 
 last dreadful night of the Son of God had passcii. 
 Morning had broke as clear and beautiful as 
 ever. The sun had risen in his strength, and 
 his glorious midday beams were now gladdening 
 the oriental landscape ; all nature was smiling 
 around, when Christ, bearing his cross, thronged 
 by an immense crowd of bitter enemies and 
 wondering spectators, is led away to be crucified. 
 
 Leaving the gates of the crowded city, that 
 train is seen ascending the slope of Mount Cal- 
 vary. What, views, what scenes are now pre- 
 sented to the astonished gaze. There stands 
 Jerusalem in all its glory ; Mount Zion with 
 its countless edifices, palaces, and towers of 
 strength; Mount Moriah with its magnificent 
 temple, whose glorious form dazzles the eye of 
 the beholder as the sunbeams fall upon it ; and 
 a little before you, arises a mysterious Mount, 
 on whose summit the cross of Christ is to be 
 erected. 
 
 But there was a far more interesting and 
 glorious sight than was ever befcjre exhibited 
 on earth, passing before you. All heaven was 
 gazing with profound interest upon it. There 
 was the Son of God, the glorious Eedeemer of a 
 lost world, going to ransom his people with hia 
 
236 CHRIST, AND HIM CilUCIFIED. 
 
 own blood, — ^to pay the last farthing that God's 
 holy law demanded, — to make an end of sin, — 
 to bring in an everlasting righteousness, — to 
 vanquish Satan and all his legions, — ^to triumph 
 over death itself, and the gloomy grave. There 
 was the Captain of our salvation going to open 
 the portals of heaven and lead mUlions of 
 Adam's sons to glory. There was One whose 
 arm had made the heaven of heavens going to 
 be nailed to a cross. " And he bearing his cross 
 went forth into a place, called the place of a 
 skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha ; 
 where they crucified him, and two others with 
 him, on either side one, and Jesus in the 
 midst."* 
 
 What a scene is now transpiring on Calvary I 
 Thousands are gazing on the Son of God welter- 
 ing in his own blood. Well might angels leave 
 their thrones to look upon such a scene. Well 
 might mortals be amazed at such love as 
 shines around that cross, and dazzled with that 
 glory which beams from Calvary. The holy, 
 the innocent Jesus is nailed to the cross for sin- 
 ners. But as his murderers are, with heavy 
 blows, driving the nails into his blessed hands 
 and feet, those pale, quivering lips mutter strange 
 words, which partake more of the language of a 
 
 • J«hii six, VJ, 18. 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 287 
 
 God than a man; wMch breathe nothing but 
 pardoning love. It is the dying prayer of Jesus 
 for his murderers, 'Father, forgive them: for 
 they know not what they do." 
 
 Blessed Jesus ! thou art compassion itself 
 speak these words to every reader. Say to him 
 — ^to her, " Son, daughter, be of good cheer ; thy 
 sins are forgiven thee." " Father, forgive them ; 
 for they know not what they do I" That prayer 
 was soon answered. Many who had vociferated 
 " Crucify Him, Crucify Him," were soon after- 
 wards crying, " Men and brethren, what shall we 
 do to be saved ?" They were indeed forgiven 
 and accepted by him whom they had crucified. 
 
 Almighty Saviour I thy power is the same 
 now ; break each heart of stone. Thy grace is 
 the same now ; pour it forth on guilty sinners. 
 Then wni they look to thee whom they have 
 pierced, and mourn ! 
 
 ' ' Father, forgive, (the Saviour said,) 
 They know not what they do ;' 
 His heart was moved, when thus he pray i 
 For me, my friends, and you. 
 
 He saw that as the Jews abus'd 
 And crucified his flesh ; 
 
 So he, by ns, would be ntaa'd. 
 An 1 crucified afresh. 
 
238 CHRIST, AND HlJf CRUCIFrED. 
 
 Tlirough love of sin, we loDg Ttere prona 
 
 To act as Satan bid ; 
 But now with grief and shame we own. 
 
 We knew not what we did. 
 
 'We knew not the desert of sin, 
 Ifor whom we thvis defied ; 
 Nor whei-e our guilty souls had been. 
 If Jesus had not died? 
 
 " We knew not what a law wc broke, 
 How holy, just and pure 1 
 Hor what a God we durst provoke^ 
 But thought ourselves secure. 
 
 " But Jesus all om guilt foresaw, 
 And shed his precious blood 
 To satisfy the holy law. 
 
 And make our peace with Gcd. 
 
 " My sin, dear Saviour, made thee bleed. 
 Yet didst thou pray for mo 1 
 I knew not what I did, indeed. 
 When ignorant of thee." 
 
 «^or three long hours did the Saviour hang, 
 bleeding on the cross, enduring indescribable 
 agonies. Oh ! was there ever sorrow like that 
 which a dying Saviour felt I Well might the 
 suffering Jesus exclaim, "Behold, and see if 
 there be any sorrow Hke unto my sorrow, 
 which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord 
 hath aiHicted me in the day of his fierce anger." 
 One wave after another broke over the Saviour's 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM C,=JUOIFIED. 239 
 
 eoiil, till the last, heaviest of all, came rolling 
 on to ovenvhelm him. His Father — his own 
 Father, had deserted him ; and from that bloody 
 cross arose a most piercing cry, " My God, my 
 God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Amidst 
 this dreadful suffering, nature seems to sym" 
 pathize with her bleeding Author. She gives a 
 groan that makes the earth tremble, and turns 
 the heavens into blackness. How awful the 
 period 1 Darkness covers the land ; the sun is 
 darkened ; the earth quakes ; the rocks are rent ; 
 the veil of the temple is rent in twain; the 
 graves are opened, and sleeping saints arise. 
 " Now, from the sixth hour there was darkness 
 over all the land unto the ninth hour. And 
 behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain 
 from the top to the bottom : and the earth did 
 quake, and the rocks rent ; and the graves were 
 opened, and many bodies of saints which slept 
 arose, and came out of the grave after his resur- 
 rection, and went into the holy city, and ap- 
 peared unto many."* Well may the sun turn 
 black in the heavens ; well mny the earth quake,^ 
 and the rocks rend, when that divine Personage 
 is in the arms of death ; and well may a heathen 
 centurion exclaim at such a sight, " Truly this 
 man was the Son of God." Amidst this awfu] 
 
 " Matt, xxnl 46,51,68. 
 
240 CHSIST, AND HIM CKUCIKIED. 
 
 convulsion of nature, are heard tlie dying words 
 )f the Man of Calvary. In tremulous tones 
 they fall on the ears of the amazed spectatca-s ; 
 but the human ear was never before greeted 
 with such joyful sounds — ^with such glorious 
 tidings. 
 
 That bleeding Sufferer never bowed his head 
 in death, until he had conquered every foe and 
 exclaimed with his departiag breath, in the lan- 
 guage of triumph, " It is finished." " When 
 Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he 
 said, It is finished ; and he bowed his head, and 
 gave up the ghost."* "It is finished I" At 
 the mention of these words the universe thrills 
 with joy. Glad tidings 1 let them ring from 
 pole to pole — ^let them be loudly proclaimed 
 from every pulpit, — published from every press* 
 
 When Christ died, the redemption of a lost 
 world was finished. The gates of the New 
 Jerusalem above were then opened to admit the 
 redeemed sinner. Heaven was then at peaca 
 with earth. God could then look in compassion 
 and love on a rebel world — could then encircle 
 
 * Jotui TVX. SOl 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 241 
 
 in his gracious arms the vilest of Adam's apos- 
 tate race. 
 
 When Christ had commended his spirit into 
 the hands of his Father, tlie solemn scene on 
 Calvary soon closed. The astonished multitude 
 began to leave the sacred spot, and march to- 
 wards a noisy city. " And all the people that 
 came together to that sight, beholding the things 
 which were done, smote their breasts and re- 
 turned."* But reader, follow not a thoughtless 
 world. Stay on Calvary. There view the 
 bleeding glories of Immanuel. There taste the 
 sweetness of redeeming love. There contem- 
 plate a glorious, finished salvation. my soul, 
 look to that precious bleeding Saviour; trust 
 him for his grace ; praise him for his love, and 
 adore him for that p'rand atonement which he 
 made on Calvary i 
 
 ' Let me dwell on Golgotho^ 
 Weep and love my life away ; 
 While I see him on the tree 
 Weep, and bleed, and die for n.«S 
 
 That dear blood for sinners spil^ 
 Shows my sin in all its guilt ; 
 Ah, my soul, he bore the load. 
 Thou hast slain the Lamb of God 
 
 • Luke jcxiil 4S, 
 
 81 
 
2^ CHHIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIBB. 
 
 ' Hart 1 his dj-ing word, ' ForgiTe 
 Father, lot the sinner live ; 
 Sinner wipe the tears away, 
 I thy tausom freely pay.' 
 
 While I hear this grace reyeal'd, 
 And obtain a pardon seal'd ; 
 All my soft affections move, 
 Waken'd by the force of love. 
 
 Farejrell, world, thy gold is droM^ 
 Kow I see the bleeding cross ; 
 •lesns died to set me free 
 From the law, and sin and thee ( 
 
 " He has dearly bought my soul. 
 Lord, accept and claim the whole 
 To thy will I all resign, 
 £ow, no more my own. bnt thina 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM OR-CIFIED. 243 
 
 CHAITER V. 
 
 CHRIST CRUCIFIED CONTINUED. 
 
 *' Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set 
 forth crucified." — Gal. iii. 1. 
 
 " Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." — 1 Cok. v. 1. 
 
 Eeader, before your eyes Jesi^s Christ has 
 been evidently set fortb. crucified. You bave 
 followed bim to Getbsemane ; from Getbsemane 
 to the judgment ball ; from tbe judgment ball 
 to Calvary. You bave seen bim extended on 
 tbe cross, batbed in blood. You bave beard 
 bis dying groans, and seen bim bow bis bead 
 and expire. Before your intellectual vision 
 Calvary's mournful scene bas been arrayed. 
 
 Now let us inquire into tbe cause of tbe 
 sufferings and death of Christ. Why does tbe 
 Lord of life and glory thus suffer ? Why does 
 be endure that piercing ago»y and that bloody 
 sweat in gloomy Getbsemane ? Why is be con- 
 demned to tbe death of Calvary ? Look at the 
 crucified Jesus. Why does he hang on that 
 bloody cross? Why are those blessed hands 
 and feet nailed to tbe accursed tree ? W hy is 
 
244 CHRIST, A^^D HIM CELCIFIED. 
 
 that dear side pierced with the soldier's spear ? 
 Why does the immaculate Larr.b of God thus 
 bleed? Ah! sinner, it is for you. For you 
 Christ endured that indescribable agony in 
 Gethsemane, and those excruciating pains on 
 Calvary. For you, the hlood trickles down 
 those pale cheeks, and streams from that pierced 
 side. For you, the Son of God endures the 
 hidings of his Father's face, till he is led to 
 exclaim in the bitterness of his soul, " My God, 
 my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and for 
 you his last breath is drawn, and his last cry 
 uttered, " It is finished." could you but see 
 with faith's vision, what Christ has done for you, 
 surely your whole heart would burn with love 
 to such a Saviour, who, to ransom your precious 
 soul from eternal woe, shed his own blood! 
 That precious blood was not shed in vain; it 
 was poured out to cleanse you from the guilt of 
 sin. It streamed down that cross to wash away 
 the moral stains of a polluted world. Not all 
 the blood that flowed from the Jewish altars 
 could do this. But that vicarious sacrifice 
 offered on Calvary, expiates the greatest guilt. 
 The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. 
 The meritorious obedience, sufferings, and death 
 of the incarnate Son of God, afford an ample 
 satisfaction for sin. God's holy, but violated 
 law requires nothing more. Now there is no 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 245 
 
 thing to condemn believers in Christ. " There 
 is therefore now nc condemnation to tliem which 
 are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
 but after the Spirit." 
 
 In the 8th chapter of Eomans — a chapter that 
 ought to be written in golden letters — the Apos- 
 tle boldly exclaims, " Who shall lay any thing 
 to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that 
 justifieth : who is he that condemneth? " It is 
 Christ that died." This is the only plea that a 
 guilty sinner can make before a just God. " It 
 is Christ that died." Precious truth ! 
 
 Blessed Jesus ! it is from thy death that we 
 derive our life, our immortal life. It is from 
 thy bleeding side that we drink of the living 
 waters of life, that we draw our purest joys and 
 our highest felicities. "We thank thee. Almighty 
 Saviour, for thy precious death, which confers 
 such unspeakable blessings on sinners. 
 
 Christ died that we might live. He died for 
 us. The decease which he accomplished at Je- 
 rusalem was for our sins, " Christ died for our 
 sins, according to the Scriptures."* " He was 
 manifested to take away our sins."f "Who 
 his own self bare our sins in his own body on 
 the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live 
 unto righteousness, by whose strip 3s je were 
 
 " . Cor. XV. 3. \ 1 John iii. ■) 
 
 21* 
 
246 CHRIST, AKD HIM JRUCIFIED. 
 
 healed."* " Christ also hath once suffered for 
 sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring 
 us to God."t Sin, then, was the procuring cause 
 of the sufferings and death of God's dear Son. 
 Ah ! sinner, you have slain the innocent Lamb 
 of God. You have caused those wounds on Im- 
 manuel's glorious person. Your sins pierced 
 him to the very heart. Will you not then look 
 on Him whom you have pierced, and mourn ? 
 O look and live, for in that look there is life. 
 Look to Him who is lifted up on the cross for 
 you. Have you looked to Christ for salvation ? 
 Looking to Christ is nothing more than believ- 
 ing on his glorious name. Have you faith in 
 Him, in his atoning blood? Saving faith in a 
 crucified Christ is all that is required to fit the 
 vilest sinner for glory. " Believe on the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.":]; We 
 entreat j'ou again to look to a dying Saviour. 
 Let your eyes turn to that bloody tree, whose 
 leaves are for the healing of the nations ; for 
 the healing of your soul. Listen to the Saviours 
 own gracious call. Hark ! from the top of Cal- 
 vary, I hear the blessed invitation fall from the 
 lips of the dying Man, " Look unto me, and be 
 ye saved, all the ends of the earth." From 
 
 • Pet. ii 2i. t 1 Pet *" 18. 
 
 X Acts xvi. 31. 
 
CHKIST, AND 4 1 M CEUCIFIED. 247 
 
 heaven's high throne I hear it still proclaimed 
 by the glorious Eedeemer, " Look unto me and 
 be ye saved." It is the voice of Immanuel 
 calling sinners home to glory. It is the voice 
 of God speaking in the tenderest accents of re- 
 deeming love. 
 
 "The God who once to Israel spote 
 From Sinai's top, in firo and smoke, 
 In gentler strains of gospel grace. 
 Invites us now to seek, his face. 
 
 ' He wears no terrors on his brow, 
 He speaks in love, from Zion, now, 
 It is the voice of Jesus' blood. 
 Calling poor wand'rers home to God. 
 
 "The holy Moses quak'd and fear'd 
 When Sinai's thundering law he heard ; 
 But reigning grace, with accent mild, 
 Speaks to the sinner as a, child. 
 
 "Harkl how from Calvary it sounds; 
 From the Redeemer's bleeding wounds ; 
 ' Pardon and grace I freely give, 
 Poor sinner, look to me and live.' 
 
 What other arguments can move 
 The heart that slights a Saviour's lore 
 Yet till 'Almighty power constrain. 
 This matchless love is preach'd in valik 
 
 "0 Saviour, let thy power be felt, 
 And cause each stony heart to meltt 
 Deeply impress upon our youth, 
 THe light and force of gospel truth." 
 
248 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 When Christ was crucified the veil of the 
 temple -was rent in twain, thus showing that 
 the way into the holiest of all — even into heaven 
 was now opened by the blood that flowed from 
 Immanuel's veins. No more sacrifices were 
 required. The great Antitype — the bleeding. 
 Lamb of God had been ofiered. Sinner, heaven 
 is now opened to receive you. Vile as you are, 
 you will be accepted if you only look to a cru- 
 cified Jesus — if you only trust in him for your 
 whole salvation. will you not embrace that 
 Saviour, who will lead you to glory ? Are not 
 the joys of a blissful eternity worth striving for ? 
 
 Then " give all diligence to make your call- 
 ing and election sure ; for if ye do these things, 
 ye shall never fall : for so an entrance shall be 
 ministered unto you abundantly into the ever- 
 lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
 Christ."* Seek an interest in Christ now. Then 
 all the glories of heaven will be yours. If a 
 crucified Christ is yours, blessings innumerable 
 will flow around your path to immortality, and 
 through the merits of Immanuel you will at 
 length gain the happy shores of a blessed world, 
 where the wicked cease from troubling, and 
 where the weary are at rest. Glorious rest! 
 Who would not strive to obtain it ? Christ en- 
 
 • 2 Peter i. 10 U 
 
CHEIST. ANI niM CRJC-?IED. 2-19 
 
 dured the pninful death, of the cross to purchase 
 this rest for his peoi)le. Christ died, a sacrifice 
 for their sins, thus paving the way for their 
 eternal salvation. He died, a sacrifice for the 
 sins of a lost world. " Christ was once offered 
 to bear the sins of many."* He was crucified for 
 a " multitude which no man can number, of all 
 nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues." 
 Sinner, repair to the foot of the cross, and roll 
 your burden of guilt on its bleeding victim — 
 the Lord Jesus. There your burden will be- 
 come light ; and there is room for you also tc 
 stand and receive the balm which drops frori 
 the top of that bloody tree for the healing of a 
 diseased world. Though you may be the chief 
 of sinners, yet you are invited to come to that 
 cross. He who once, in his infinite love for you, 
 bled on it, himself calls you. " Come unto me," 
 says the Saviour, in language as compassionate 
 as ever flowed from human lips. " Come unto 
 me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and 
 I will give you rest."-]- Go, heavy-laden sinners, 
 and find rest in Christ. Enter into rest now by 
 believing in him. Eemember that your in- 
 iquities were laid on the head of a bleeding 
 Saviour. "The Lord hath laid on him the 
 Liiquity of us all." "He was wounded for OLir 
 
 « Hebrews ii 2S. ] Matt., xi 2S. 
 
250 CHRIST, AND HIM CItJCIFIED, 
 
 transgressions, lie was bruised for our itiqnities; 
 the cliastisement of our peace was laid upon 
 him; and with his stripes we are healed."* 
 " Christ our passover is sacrificed for us."f IIl3 
 death is our life ; his dear wounds and bleeding 
 side, our soundness and health. Now God is 
 pacified, and the sinner saved by the death of 
 Jesus. 
 
 To those who are looking to a crucified Ee- 
 leemer, and relying entirely on the merits of 
 his blood for life and salvation, the sweet lan- 
 guage of a reconciled God now is, " Comfort ye, 
 comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak 
 ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, 
 that her warfare is accomplished, that her in- 
 iquity is pardoned ; for she hath received of the 
 Lord's hand double for all her sins.":]: Blessed 
 consolation ! This is the language of our gra- 
 cious Heavenly Father, and oh I how reviving 
 is it to the poor penitent sinner, who is often 
 oppressed with a sense of guilt and borne down 
 with the apprehension of impending wrath. He 
 is now enabled to shout with the adoring prophet 
 in that sweet song " Lord, I will praise thee : 
 though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is 
 
 • Is. liii. 5. t 1 Cor. T. 1. 
 
 X Christ's dying for us is as much in God's account as if -we 
 had twice over borne tl , a eternal agonies of hell. — MoCnETNE 
 
CHRIST; AND Hill CRUCIFIED. 251 
 
 turned awaj, and thou ccmfortedst me. Be- 
 hold, God is ray salvation ; I will trust, and not 
 be afraid : for the Lord Jeliovali is my strength 
 and my song; he also is become my salvation."* 
 You may well trust a crucified Redeemer with 
 your soul and its immortal concern, for he has, 
 by his obedience and death, effected a complete 
 salvation for you. He breathed out his precious 
 life for you ; but he rose again for your justifi- 
 cation. He " was delivered for our offences, and 
 raised again for our justification. "f "I lay 
 down my life," says Christ, "for the sheep.' 
 And again, " I lay down my life, that I might 
 take it again. No man taketh it from me, but 
 I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay 
 it down, and I have power to take it again. 
 This commandment have I received of my 
 Father."^ 
 
 Christ was indeed laid in the cold and silent 
 tomb ; but God did not suffer his Holy One to 
 see corruption. The sepulchre could not hold 
 Him. He triumphed over the grave. He burst 
 the fetters of death, and in a glorious form, 
 ascended to heaven. There he ever lives to in- 
 tercede for sinners ; there he stands with open 
 arms to receive the vilest of the vile. " Where- 
 
 * Is, sii. 12. t K ^°i- i^- 2S. 
 
 } Jolmx. 15-11 18. 
 
252 CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIffiD. 
 
 fore lie is able also to save them to the utter- 
 most that come unto God by him, seeing he ever 
 liveth to make intercession for them."* 
 
 Christ is not only able, but willing to save 
 sinners; yea. he rejoices in their salvation. Ho 
 delights to pluck them as brands from the burn- 
 ing, — to make them monuments of his victorious 
 grace, — trophies of his redeeming love, — pillars 
 in his glorious temple above, where they shall 
 sing the song of redemption through all eternity. 
 " He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall 
 be satisfied."f He "for the joy that was set 
 before him (the joy of saving sinners,) endured 
 the cross, despising the shame, and is (now) set 
 down at the right hand of the throne of God."| 
 A crucified Eedeemer is still carrying on his 
 blessed work of saving sinners. His salvation 
 is to the uttermost ; none need despair. 
 
 Come to Christ, and salvation is yours. Be- 
 fore closing this chapter, we would just glance 
 at the amazing love exhibited in the death of 
 Christ. Would you see the highest manifesta- 
 tion of eternal love? Then contemplate Christ 
 crucified. Here is a grand exhibition of infinite 
 love. In the cracifixion of the glorious Ee- 
 deemer, the brightest love thf.t erer shone on 
 
 • Helx vii. 25. f Is. liii. U. 
 
 f Heb. siL 2. 
 
CHEisT, anjJ him jrdcified. 253 
 
 earth is displayed. What boundless love is seen 
 here ! The infinite love of Christ, shining in all 
 its glory ! What hat infinite love brought, him 
 from the heiglit of bliss, to the depths of suffer- 
 ings, from the throne of heaven to the cross of 
 Calvary 1 What but infinite love made him a 
 suffering man and a dying Saviour ! What but 
 infinite love made him hasten to Jerusalem, to 
 suffer for sinners ! What but infinite love led 
 him to Gethsemane, to endure those agonies for 
 sinners, where his blessed form was covered with 
 bloody sweat ! What but infinite love nailed 
 him to the cross, there to bleed and die for sin- 
 ners! "Greater love hath no man than this, 
 that a man lay down his life for his friends."* 
 But oh I the greatest wonder in the universe is, 
 that " while we were yet sinners, Christ died for 
 us." Think of this, wonder at it, be amtyzed at 
 it I Christ, the glorious Son of God, dying for 
 you a vile sinner, a rebel worml admire 
 that love which pitied you in your lost condition, 
 visited your habitation, and raised you from the 
 depths of sin and suffering, to become an heir 
 of eternal life, and of eternal glory. " For when 
 we were yet without strength, in due time Christ 
 died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a right- 
 eous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a 
 
 * Jolm JCT. la 
 23 
 
254 CHRIST, ANI HTM CBUCIFIED, 
 
 good man some -would even dare to die. But 
 God commendeth his love towards us, in that 
 while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."* 
 IIow vast is this love ! Surpassing love of a 
 dying Saviour! thy breadths and lengths have 
 never been compassed by a human thought ; thy 
 depths never fathomed by a created intelligence; 
 thy heights never scanned by a seraph's gaze. 
 
 Dear believer, may you, the object of divine 
 love, be strengthened with might by the spirit 
 of God in the inner man, and be "able to com- 
 prehend TOth all saints what is the breadth, and 
 length, and depth, and height" of this stupen- 
 dous love, " a length which reaches from ever- 
 lasting to everlasting; a breadth that encom- 
 passes every intelligence and every interest ; a 
 depth which reaches the lowest state of human 
 degradation and misery; and a height that 
 throws floods of glory on the throne and crown 
 of Jehovah !" 
 
 "What a theme ! the dying love of the crucified 
 Son of God ! "Well may angels desire to dwell 
 on this mystery! "Well may saints be enrap- 
 tured with this profound subject! "\¥hat heart 
 is so obdurate as not to be melted by its touch- 
 ing exhibition, or so benighted as not to be 
 dazzled by its glory ! How wonderful ! that he 
 
 • 1 Eom. v. 6, 8. 
 
v'-HRISr, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 255 
 
 who kindled up the stars of heaven, should take 
 upon him our nature, and die in our room and 
 stead' Amazing love! This is the wonder of 
 wonders, the unsearchable riches of Christ : 
 
 "Not to bo tlionglit of, but with tides of joy; 
 Not to be mentioned, but with shouts of praise." 
 
 Truly, the love of Christ passeth knowledge.* 
 Those, and those alone, who have stood by the 
 cross and viewed Immanuel in agonies and 
 death, bleeding and dying for their sins ; and 
 have felt that healing balm applied to their dis- 
 eased souls ; have seen all their sins washed 
 away with the blood of God, their ransom paid, 
 and their pardon sealed, will realize the follow- 
 ing very appropriate and beautiful lines : 
 
 "In evil long I took delight, 
 Unawed by shamo or fear; 
 TiJl a new object struck my sight, 
 And stopp'd my wild career. 
 
 "I saw one hanging on a tree, 
 In agonies and blood ; 
 Who fix'd his languid eyes on me, 
 As near his cross I stood. 
 
 • In the first Part of this work, entitled "Thouglits on th« 
 love of Christ as manifested to a Lost ATorld,'' we Iiave en- 
 doarored to throw out some hints on this dolightfu. thema 
 To this we resrectfuUy refer the reader. 
 
256 OHBIST, AND HIM CKCTCIFIKD. 
 
 Sure, never to my latest breath, 
 
 Can I forget that look ; 
 It seeiu'J to charge me with his death. 
 
 Though not a word he spoke. 
 
 "My conscience felt, and own'd the guilty 
 And plunged me in despair; 
 I saw my sins his blood had spilt, 
 And help'd to nail him there. 
 
 "Alasl I knew not what I did. 
 But now my tears are vain ; 
 Where shall my trembling soul be hidf 
 For I the Lord have slain. 
 
 "A second look he gave, which said, 
 ' I freely all forgive ; 
 This blood is for thy ransom paid; 
 I'll die, that thou may'st live.' 
 
 " Thiis, while his death my sin displayj 
 In all its blackest hue ; 
 (Such is the mystery of grace) 
 It seals my pardon too. 
 
 With pleasing grief and moumfol joy 
 
 My spirit now is filled ; 
 Tliat I should snch a life destroy, 
 
 Tet live by him I kill'A ' 
 
A>'D HIM CEUCIFIE-D. 257 
 
 CHAPTER YI. 
 
 REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. 
 
 " In ■« hora -we have redemption through his oJ cod, tne 
 forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.' — 
 Eph. i. 1. 
 
 " Redemption 1 what a glorious plan; 
 
 How suited to our needl 
 The grace that raises fallen man, 
 Is wonderful indeed 1 
 
 "Twas wisdom form'd the vast design, 
 
 To ransom us when lost: 
 And love's unfathomable mine 
 
 Provided all the cost. 
 
 "Strict Justice, with approving look, 
 The holy cov'nant sealed ; 
 And Truth and power undertook 
 The whole should be fulfiU'd. 
 
 " Truth, "Wisdom, Justice, Pow'r and Love, 
 In all their glory shone ; 
 "When Jesus left the courts above. 
 And died to save his own." 
 
 In the works of creation, the power, wisdom 
 
 and goodness of God are admirably displayed; 
 
 but in the far greater and more glorious work 
 
 of human reacmption, his love shines in fall 
 
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258 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 resplendency. How glorious was the design of 
 God to redeem a lost world I How magnificent 
 the plan of eternal redemption! This redemp- 
 tion originated in the infinite love of God the 
 Father. " God so loved the world that he gave 
 his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
 in him should not perish, but have everlasting 
 hfe."* Jes'os Christ is the gift of the Father — 
 a precious gift, indeed, to a lost world. He is 
 given to redeem his people ; given that whoso- 
 ever believeth on him should not perish, but have 
 eternal life. Jesus Christ is therefore called the 
 unspeakable gift of God. " Thanks be unto 
 God for his unspeakable gift."f In the counsels 
 of eternity, Christ was chosen to be the Ee- 
 deemer of his people. God gave him as a free 
 gift to the Church. A greater gift he could not 
 bestow upon lost sinners. Had the Almighty 
 given us ten thousand worlds to possess, they 
 would have been as nothing in comparison with 
 Jesus Christ, his unspeakable gift. Oh! how 
 good our God is. How great is his power, wis- 
 dom and goodness, as manifested in the creation 
 of the universe ; but oh ! how amazing is his 
 love, as exhibited in the redemption of a capti- 
 vated world, — ^in sending hi? only begotten Sen 
 tc iie for sinners ! 
 
 • John iii. 16. f 2 Cor. ix 16 
 
CHKIST, AND H. M CRlj^IFIED. 259 
 
 " Tliou everlasting lover 
 Of our umvoitliy race ! 
 
 Tliy gracious e}'; sur\ ay d U3 
 Ere stars were seen aliove ; 
 
 In ■wisdom thou hast mads us, 
 And died for us in love." 
 
 The gift of a Saviour, and redemption through 
 his blood, afford the grandest prospect of the 
 eternal love of God. Around this sacred theme, 
 beam glorious rays of divine love. "God is 
 love ;" and redemption is but the effect of that 
 love, in which the Deity is enshrined. Love 
 enters into the very essence of the Livinity; 
 and -we see that it has blazed forth from the 
 eternal throne, and shone on our benighted 
 world. Yes, the glorious light has fehone from 
 heaven. It shines all around us. God loves 
 this world. Blessed truth ! Every page of di- 
 vine revelation gleams with his love. Eedemp- 
 tion is full of it. Here contemplate it. " In 
 this was manifested the love of God toward us, 
 because that God sert his only begotten Son 
 into the world, that we might live through him. 
 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that 
 he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitia- 
 tion for our sins."" 
 
 Jesus Christ willingly undertock our re- 
 
 « 1 John IV. 9, 10. 
 
260 cnEisa. 4.ND hiji ckucified. 
 
 demption. He cheerfully offered himself to 
 bear our sins, to bleed on the altar of divine 
 wrath, to redeem us from eternal misery. 
 blessed Saviour ! thy love never had a begin- 
 ning ; it is like thyself, eternal. Love always 
 glowed in thy blessed bosom for a sinful world. 
 All the glories of Paradise could not keep thee 
 from leaving thy throne to ransom a guilty race. 
 When there were no merciful arms to embrace 
 us ; no joyful heaven to welcome us ; yea, when 
 we were lost sinners, thou, blessed Jesus, didst 
 pity us, and hasten on the wings of thy love to 
 redeem us, to bring us to glory, to seat us 
 around thy throne, :n the celestial pakce. How 
 wonderful is thy love, thou Friend of Sinners! 
 When that momentous question was asked by 
 the Almighty in the counsels of eternity, 
 " Whom shall I send, and who will go for 
 us?" Our blessed Saviour came forward and 
 said, "Here am I; send me." 
 
 Christ was delighted with tlie glorious work 
 of redeeming a lost world. When the morning 
 stars sang together, and all the immortal sons 
 of God shouted for joy over a rising world, the 
 Saviour rejoiced over its redemption. Then his 
 " delights were with the sons of men." Eedernp- 
 tioH was his chosen work, and in its execution he 
 took the greatest delight. Ages rolled away, 
 and earth groaned beneath the burden of its 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRjCIFISD. 261 
 
 sin ; idolatry and superstition reigned in tri- 
 umph over a vast empire; moral dE.rkness, 
 obscuring tlie light of eternal day, enshrouded 
 the human race, till the star of Bethlehem 
 pointed to the infant Jesus as the glorious Ee- 
 deemer of his people. A new light then burst 
 from heaven upon them. Christ, "the bright 
 and morning star," that issues in the light of r. 
 blissful eternity, appeared in a human form, and 
 trod the vale of humanity. He willingly, yea, 
 joyfully, left his throne of glory to bring re- 
 demption to us. His language was, " Lo, I 
 come ; in the volume of the book it is written 
 of me ; I delight to do thy will, my God ; 
 yea, thy law is within my heart."* Our lost, 
 pitiful condition called for a Eedeemer. "When 
 Christ came to redeem us, we were on the verge 
 of everlasting destruction. 
 
 Man, created in the image of his Maker, was 
 once holy and happy. But sin soon entered our 
 fair world, and spread ruin and devastation all 
 around. Pain was felt; disease and suffering 
 endured, and death embraced in his chilly arms 
 a fallen world. Sin brought death into this 
 world and all our misery. " By one man sin 
 entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so 
 death passsd upor. all men, for that all have 
 
 • Psa m. xl. 1, 8. 
 
262 CHRISl AND HIM CRUCTFIED. 
 
 siiined."* Ho-w deplorable was the condition 
 of the human racv! An awful eternity of suf- 
 fering opened to their view. Then God in in- 
 finite love said, "Deliver from going down to 
 the pit; I have found a ransom." "I have 
 found David my servant ; with my holy oil have 
 I anointed him." 
 
 Jesus Christ was set apart for the great work 
 of redemption ; and at the appointed time, God 
 sent him to redeem us from the curse of a broken 
 law, and to guide us safely through the mazes 
 of a bewildering scene to the Paradise above. 
 " When the fulness of the time was come, God 
 sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made un- 
 der the law, to redeem them that were under 
 the law, that we might receive the adoption of 
 sons."f To redeem lost sinners was the very 
 object for which the Son of God was sent into 
 the world ; for which he was made of a woman ; 
 for which he was made under the law. match- 
 less grace ! sovereign love ! tliat God sent 
 his Son, his only Son, to save sinners. 
 
 Here we behold a way of access opened to 
 perishing sinners through the redemption that 
 is in Christ Jesus. Blessed Lord! may the 
 knowledge of this unspeakably precious redemp- 
 tion through a crucified Eedeemer, fill my sou] 
 
 • Rom. r. 12. t Gal T. 4, 6 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CKJCIFIEr 263 
 
 witli gTatitude and praise. "My mouth sliall 
 speak the praise of the Lord ; and let all flesh 
 bless his holy name forever and ever." Let 113 
 see how the redemption of sinners was effected. 
 "We find that an immense sum was paid for their 
 ransom ; that it required the blood of God to 
 redeem a world of perishing sinners, "Feed 
 the Church of God, which he hath purchased 
 with his own blood."* 
 
 It is expressly declared that " without shed- 
 ding of blood is no remission."f The blood of 
 the Deity must flow or else a world be irrecover- 
 ably lost. But the Son of God assumed human 
 nature, and freely poured out his blood for our 
 redemption. Oh ! the boundless love of Christ, 
 that he should shed his precious blood for sin- 
 ners. Oh! the infinite efi&cacy of that blood 
 to cleanse from all sin. " The blood of Jesus 
 Christ cleansed us from all sin.":]: We see then 
 that our redemption is by price. "Ye are 
 bought with a price ; therefore glorify God in 
 your body and in your spirit, which are God's."§ 
 What a price was paid for our redemption ! the 
 precious blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God ! " Ye 
 know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible 
 things, as sUver and gold • but with the precious 
 
 • Acts XX. 2a t Heb. ix. 22. 
 
 t 1 John 1 § 1 Ccr. vi 20. 
 
264 CHBIST, AND HIM CRJCIFIED 
 
 blood of Clirist, as of a lamb without blernisb 
 and -without spot."* 
 
 Costly price of man's redemption; tlie in 
 finitely precious blood of Clirist ! O my soul, 
 look with wonder and amazement at thy ransom 1 
 the precious life and the precious blood of Jesus, 
 " Who gave himself for us, that he might re- 
 deem us from all iniquity, and purify unto him- 
 self a peculiar people, zealous of good works."-!- 
 " The Son of Man came, to give his life a ransom 
 for many.":]: It is a blessed consolation for the 
 sinner to know that he has redemption through 
 the blood of Christ, — that he has access to a holy 
 God through a crucified Jesus. How sweet are 
 those words, "In whom "are have redemption 
 through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, accord- 
 ing to the riches of his grace." 
 
 The blood of Christ is the fountain-head of all 
 felicity. It is the blessed source whence eman- 
 ates the living water of life ; whence flow pardon 
 and peace to a guilty world. It is that " river, 
 the streams whereof make glad the city of God." 
 Thirsty soul, come and quench your thirst at 
 the fountain of life. Dear believer, come and 
 draw water with joy out of the wells of salvation. 
 Long before a bleeding Saviour hung on the 
 
 • 1 Peter i. 18. 19. f Titus ii. 14. 
 
 i Matt. zx. 28. 
 
CHEI&r, AND HIM CnUCIFIEP. 265 
 
 cross, it was propliesied, "In that clay tiiare 
 shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, 
 and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and 
 for uncleanness." The fountain has been opened. 
 The rock has been smitten. Christ's side has 
 been pierced. The sacred streams have gushed 
 from the c^'oss — have flowed around Calvary. 
 "When our Saviour instituted the sacramental 
 supper he said, " This is my blood of the New 
 Testament, which is shed for many for the remis- 
 sion of sins ; drink ye all of it." This, this is 
 the fountain of joy — the well of endless life. 
 Here, sinners may drink and never thirst again. 
 And all are invited to come to the waters. The 
 gospel invitation extends to all classes of man- 
 kind without exception ; to the vile as well as 
 to the good ; to the poor as well as to the rich ; 
 to the young as well as to the old. The blessed 
 call stands emblazoned on the page of inspira 
 tion. With the authority of the Majesty of 
 heaven, I repeat it to a thirsting and famishing 
 world, " Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye 
 to the waters, and he that hath no money ; come 
 ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk 
 without money and without price. Wherefore 
 do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? 
 and your labor for that which satisfieth not? 
 hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 
 which is good and let y -nr soul delight itseV 
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266 OHR.ST, AND HIM CBUCiriKD. 
 
 in fatness. Incline your ear and come unto me; 
 hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make 
 an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure 
 mercies of David."* " Whosoever will, let him 
 take the water of life freely."t Blessed be God 
 for that "whosoever." None are forbidden to 
 tasto "the water of life." The vilest sinner 
 may come to the " waters " and drink, and live 
 forever. None are excluded from the way of 
 salvation through the atoning blood of the 
 Lamb of God. "What encouragement is there 
 for all to come to the bleeding side of Immanuel, 
 there to receive the pardon of sin, obtain eter- 
 nal life, and imbibe immortal joysl Here is 
 redemption offered to you. Will you receive it ? 
 Here is the bread and water of life. Will 
 you eat that which is good and let your soul de- 
 light itself in fatness? Will you drink at the 
 fountain of immortality? "Whoso eateth my 
 flesh," says Christ, "and drinketh my blood, 
 hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the 
 last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my 
 blooi is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, 
 and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I 
 in him I" Oh! who would not come and be 
 made a partaker of such inestimable blessings as 
 cluster around the cross of a loving Eedeemer. 
 
 • Is. h 1, 3 t ^'^^ ^^^ ^'' 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 267 
 
 Here is all ttat a dying sinner requires for hia 
 redemption. Here is all that a feeble saint 
 needs for his comfort and siipport during his 
 pilgrimage through a bleak and barren world 
 which is far from his home. What joys are to 
 be found in redemption by Christ I They are 
 unspeabable and full of glory. They flow down 
 the narrow stream of time and dilate in the 
 boundless ocean of eternity. 
 
 Eedemption by Christ affords sweet peace to 
 the soul. The blood of Jesus poured out from 
 the cross makes peace between God and the 
 sinner. "Having made peace through the 
 blood of his cross."* It brings us nigh to God. 
 "Now in Christ Jesus, ye, who sometime were 
 far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ."f 
 Precious blood, that brings us so near our heav- 
 enly Father I This is " the blood of sprinkling, 
 that speaketh better things that that of Abel.":]: 
 This is the blood of " Jesus the Mediator of the 
 new covenant." This blood satisfies offended 
 justice, redeems the sinner and prepares him 
 for glory. The blood of Jesus atones for all 
 sin. There is redemption for all sinnei's, then, 
 if they will but apply to the atoning blood of 
 Jesus for cleansing. There is justification to 
 
 • Col. i 20. t Epli. a 18. 
 
 { Seb. lii. 24, 
 
268 CHRIST, AND HiM CEUCIi'IED. 
 
 ao-j^uitall; there is rigliteousiiess to clotlie alL 
 "Surely," shall one say, "in the Lord have I 
 righteousness and strength. In the Lord shall 
 all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall 
 glory."* The sinner rejoices to find in the 
 Lord Jesus, complete redemption. "Being now 
 justified by his blood, we shall be saved from 
 wrath through him." 
 
 '• Blessed Saviour, speak a word, 
 Bid all ray sorrows cease ; 
 Be thou my great atoning Lord, 
 My Righteousness and Peace. 
 
 " Oh, let thy precious blood divine, 
 Wash all my sins away 1 
 Then shall my soul resplendent shine. 
 Through heaven's eternal day." 
 
 How merciful is our God! How free is his 
 grace ! How plentiful is that redemption which 
 is in Christ Jesus ! "Let Israel hope in the Lord, 
 for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him 
 is plenteous xredemption." "Being justified 
 freely by his grace, through the redemption that 
 is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to 
 be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to 
 declare his righteousness for tl:3 remission of 
 
 » Is. xlv 24, 25. 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CEUCI?IE1 269 
 
 sins that are past, through the forbeai-ance of 
 God." sinner, come and taste the joys of re- 
 demption. Exercise a lively faith in the aton- 
 ing blood of the Son of God. We would lead 
 you to the bleeding sacrifice; we would point 
 you to the cross of Christ as your only redemp- 
 tion. We would tell you in the tenderest lan- 
 guage that there is redemption for you. Christ 
 is made unto us " redemption." Cleaving to 
 him you shall be redeemed from all evil, and 
 finally admitted into the Paradise of God. Our 
 blessed Saviour has obtained eternal redemp- 
 tion for us, and he will soon lead us to glory. 
 
 This is the grand object of Christ's sufferings 
 and death, or in other words, of his redemption, 
 to bring " many sons unto glory." Kedemption 
 by Christ, then, is an eternal deliverance from 
 sin and sufferings, and the permanent enjoyment 
 of the highest bliss in heaven. All the happi- 
 ness of the redeemed in glory results from re- 
 demption by Christ. All the future felicity of 
 the whole household of faith, through etei-nity, 
 will flow from that redemption completed on 
 Calvary. ' ' He sent redemption ur.to his pe ople ; 
 he hath commanded his covenant forever ; holy 
 and reverend is his name." By shedding his 
 own blood the Eedeemer has purchased ever- 
 lasting salvation for his people. " Christ being 
 come a high priest of good things to come, by a 
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270 CHRIST, AND HIM CHUCIFIEn. 
 
 greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made 
 ■with hands ; neither by the blood of goats and 
 calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once 
 into the holy place, having obtained eternal re- 
 demption for us."* Here vre may see the eter- 
 nal, matchless love of Christ, in shedding his 
 precious blood for our redemption. Love was 
 the impelling motive that led him to undertake 
 our redemption ; and love enabled him to ex 
 claim, "It is finished." Love made him offer 
 himself a sacrifice for our sins. "Christ also 
 hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, 
 an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet- 
 smelling savourf " 
 
 Christ calls the church "his love." "How 
 fair and how pleasant art thou, love, for de- 
 lights V'X He loved the church so ardently as to 
 redeem it with his own blood. " Christ also 
 loved the church, and gave himself for it ; that 
 he might sanctify and cleanse it with the wash- 
 ing of water by the word ; that he might present 
 it to himself a glorious church, not having spot 
 or wrinkle, or any such thing ; but that it should 
 be holy and without blemish."§ 
 
 Christ's love to the church is eternal. He says, 
 " I have loved thee with an everlastmg love ; 
 
 • Heb ix. 11, 12. f EpK v. 2. 
 
 t Cant vii. C. g Eph. v. 25, 2J. 
 
CHBIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIED, 271 
 
 therefore with loving kindness have I drawn 
 tliee."* And again, " Since thou wast precious 
 in my sight thou hast been honorable, and I 
 have loved thee." Paul thus celebrates the re- 
 deeming love of Christ to his church, " Ye know 
 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though 
 he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor 
 that ye through his poverty might be rich."f 
 
 • Jot. xxb. 8 ' J 2 Cor viiL a 
 
272 CHRIST, AND aiM CKf^irjED. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE NETV BONG IS GLORT. 
 
 "And they sung a neTr BOng." — Ret. v. 9. 
 
 The redeeming love of Christ will be cele- 
 brated through eternity. In Iieaven, redemption 
 by Christ -will be the grand theme, the sweet 
 song of the family of God. It is that "ISTew 
 Song" which all the redeemed sing in glory. It 
 will have no dying cadence through the revolv- 
 ing ages of a blessed eternity. It will be always 
 new ; yes, when ages countless as the drops of 
 the ocean, shall have rolled away, the song of 
 redemption will be as' new to the redeemed as 
 when the celestial mansions first echoed with its 
 pealing strains. 
 
 In the house of his pilgiimage, redemption 
 was the believer's song, and in that house, not 
 made with hands, eternal in the heavens, it will 
 be his sweet song through countless ages. O 
 blessed thought! who will not now commence 
 the " ISTe w Song" of Eedemption ! "Will you not 
 chant songs to Him who died to ransom you 
 from eternal woe 1 The songs of the grateful 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUJIFIED. 273 
 
 followers of the Lamb never end, The saints 
 will find eternal employment in praising Christ 
 for that precious redemption he has effected by 
 his death. The notes of praise to a crucified 
 Redeemer sound through the narrow limits of 
 time and the rolling ages of eternity. In h eaven, 
 Christ will be eternally admired as the Lamb 
 that was slain for the redemption of sinners. 
 There he stands in the "midst of the throne" as 
 the Lamb of God that was once Avounded, and 
 bruised, and slain. 
 
 "And I beheld," says John, "and lo, in the 
 midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and 
 in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it 
 had been slain."* Every eye shall see him there. 
 Every tongue shall praise him there. All the 
 redeemed shall shout, " Worthy is the Lamb that 
 was slain." This will be the burden of the 
 "New Song." This will sound the loudret 
 through heaven. " Worthy is the Lamb that 
 was slain."f There wUl be none brought to 
 heaven but those who will sing eternal praises 
 to the Lamb for the wonders of redemption. 
 
 * Rev. T. 6. 
 
 f Note — Tliere Tvill be much in Jesus to admire when we 
 shall see him as he is. But that which will di'aw out the 
 loudest notes of the new song will be the sight of the prints 
 of the nails, and of the wound in his side. "Thou wast slain, 
 and hast redeeiicd r^ to God by thy blood.' — MoChetne. 
 
274 CHEIST, AND HUI CErCIFIED. 
 
 There will be no mute tongue in glory. All 
 voices and all hearts shall unite in singing the 
 New Song. "When the portals of heaven wero 
 opened to tlie beloved John, and the glory of 
 the New Jerusalem came beaming through those 
 pearly gates, he heard the music of Zion ; and 
 what was it but the New Song of redemption ? 
 "And they sung a new song, saying. Thou 
 art worthy to take the book, and to open the 
 seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast re- 
 deemed us to God by thy blood out of every 
 kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 
 and hast made us unto our God kings and 
 priests ; and we shall reign on tbe earth."* 
 
 We find that a mighty multitude will be con- 
 gregated in glory to sing the song of redemption ; 
 some from "every Idndred, and tongue, and 
 people." " After this I bebeld, and lo, a great 
 multitude, which no man. could number^ of all 
 nations, and kindreds, and people, and toagues, 
 stood before the tbrone, and before the Lamb, 
 clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
 hands ; and cried with a loud voice, saying, sal- 
 vation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, 
 and unto the Lamb."f "What a glorious com- 
 pany will that be who shall eternally stand on 
 the celestial Mount Zion I How sweet will be 
 
 • Rev, T. 9 10 f Rev. vii. 9, 10. 
 
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 AND HIM CRrCIFIED, 275 
 
 their song ! How rapturous their delight I How 
 ecstatic their joy ! But reader, pause, and ask, 
 " Am I to mingle among that blessed host who 
 never cease to praise God and the Lamb ?" " Is 
 the new song of redemption to be my sweet 
 song above ?" 
 
 Live for eternity — live for Christ now, and 
 you will soon join all the redeemed family of 
 God, in songs that will never end. With your 
 robes washed white in the blood of the Lamb, 
 you shall be presented faultless before the throne 
 of God, to praise Him who loved you and 
 washed you from your sins in his own blood. 
 Then will you see your glorious Eedeemer, who 
 wUl always be to you the centre of heavenly at- 
 traction. How will your grateful heart burn 
 with seraphic love to Him whose blood brought 
 you such heavenly bliss, and whose merits 
 crowned you with such inconceivable glory I 
 Your hearts will overflow with more joy than 
 language can express. You will then, in the 
 light of heaven, see that redemption by Christ 
 is a precious work — that rich, inestimable bless- 
 ings flow from the atoning blood. Be sure not 
 to trample that blood underfoot now. You will 
 never be crowned with glory without your 
 robes are washed white in the blood of the 
 Lamb. You must become interested in the 
 death of Christ, before you can learn that " new 
 
AND HIM CRUCIFIEC. 
 
 song,'' which none but the redeemed sing. 
 " Aud thoy sung as it were a new song beforo 
 the throne, and before the four beasts, and the 
 elders: and no man could learn that song but 
 the hundred and forty and four thousand, which 
 were redeemed from the earth."* "And they 
 sing the song of Moses, and the song of the 
 Lamb."-}- 
 
 On the sublime vision of heavenly worship 
 as vouchsafed to John when banished to the 
 lonely Patmos, a writer:}: whom we admire has 
 the following lofty expressions : '' The singers 
 were those hundred and fortj-four thousand, 
 and they sung a new song, and as they struck 
 their harps, together thus they sung : ' Worthy 
 is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and 
 riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, 
 and glory, and blessing.' And with one voice 
 the inuumerable host chanted the heavenly dos- 
 ology, 'Blessing, and honor, and glory, and 
 power, be unto him that sitteth on the throne, 
 and to the Lamb forever; and back returned 
 the long ' Amen.' Again and again was it taken 
 
 • Rev. xiv. 3. t ^^'''- ^^- ^■ 
 
 X Rev. J. T. Headley, a beautiful -nritei-, author of the 
 "Sacred Mountains,'' a splendid production, without wliich 
 no library can be eonsO<!red complete. Mr. Headley is the 
 author of many other valuable ivorks well kuown to the 
 public. 
 
CEEIST, AND IIIM CRUCIFIED. 277 
 
 Up and echoed from rank to rank along that 
 celestial mountain, till it came rolling back with 
 all the strength of archangel voices full on 
 the throne of God. The theme, tlie song waa 
 new — it was the song of Eedemption. David 
 stood there sweeping a harp far more melodious 
 and tuneful than the one he swept with such a 
 master hand on earth. Elijah poured his soul 
 of fire into it. Isaiah gave it a loftier echo. 
 The martyrs, those witnesses for the truth who 
 had passed through the flames to their reward, 
 furnished new accessions to its strength ; for all 
 the ransomed of the lord were there. Aaron 
 went up thither from the top of Hor, and Moses 
 from Pisgah. Elijah's chariot of fire never 
 stopped till its burning wheels rested on that 
 heavenly mount, and thither Christ ascended 
 from the hill of Olives. Thus the redeemed 
 have flocked one after another to the Mount of 
 God, and there they shall continue together until 
 the glorious assembly stands complete, and ' God 
 is all and in all.' " How will the arches of hea- 
 •en resound with that " new song" when all the 
 tedeemed are gathered home by the blood of 
 Christ 1 
 
 •• And Tvliat in yojider realms above, 
 la ransom'd man ordaln'd to be 1 
 With honor, lioliness and love, 
 Ifo seraph mori- liorn'd than i.e. 
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278 CHEIST, AKD HIM CBJOIFIED. 
 
 "ITeavest the throne, and first in song, 
 Man shall his hallelujahs raise ; 
 While wond'ring angels round him throng, 
 And swell the choi-us of his praise." 
 
 Hew many redeemed sinners are now before 
 tlie throne, singing everlasting songs to Him 
 who died for them on Calvary ! The redeemed 
 are fast flocking to their everlasting home in 
 glory. All the ransomed of the Lord shall soon 
 " return, and come to Zioa with songs and ever- 
 lasting joy upon their heads : they shall obtain 
 joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall 
 flee away." 
 
 Prophets and apostles and martyrs, the great 
 and good of every age and nation, are already 
 in Zion above, and redemption is their song. 
 Those immortal divines, Baxter, Bunyan, Flavel, 
 Owen, Henry, Doddridge, Watts, Edwards, Pay- 
 son, Martyn,- Chalmers, the lovely McCheyne, 
 the venerable Alexander,* have ascended to 
 swell the throne, in singing "Worthy is the 
 Lamb." This song breathes on every lip in 
 glory, and bursts from every heart there. One 
 
 • This distinguished servant of the Lord Jestis, who lately 
 ■went to glory, was one of the most faithful and devoted 
 ministers of the gospel the world has ever witnessed. His 
 memory will be embalmed in the hearts of thouiands, while 
 the world lasts ; and his works will be preserved as a pre- 
 cious legacy to the Ch>^ch. 
 
CHRIST AND HIM CBUCIilED. 279 
 
 song eni| loys all tlie tongu-,^s of the redeemed in 
 tlie maBsions of bliss. 
 
 " Ten tliousand, thousand are tlieir tongues, 
 But all their songs are one.'' 
 
 Dear follower of the Lamb, we shall all shortly 
 joia with the family of God in this " new song," 
 in mansions of Glory. Then, lift up your head 
 with joy ; " for your redemption draweth nigh." 
 The hour of glory will soon be at hand. 
 
 " Oh, glorioDS hour, it comes with speed 1 
 When we, from sin and darkness freed, 
 Shall see the God who died for man, 
 And praise him more than angels can." 
 
 Life is fast hastening away. Time is swiftly 
 flying. Eternity is at the door. You are just 
 on the threshold of glory — just within sight of 
 Paradise. The gates of the celestial city are 
 about to open for your reception, and your Sav- 
 iour is ready to pronounce that blessed invita- 
 tion, "Well done, good and faithful servant, 
 enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Come, ye 
 blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre- 
 pared for you from the foundation of the world." 
 
 Does not a sight of all this glory make you 
 long to obtain it ? Then press onward ; press 
 toward the mark for the prize of the high call- 
 ing of God in Chris: Jesus, One step more, and 
 
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 280 CHRIST, AND HIM CjiJClFIED. 
 
 glory will beam upon your eye, and the joys of ' 
 heaven captivate your heart, and the music of 
 Paradise charm your ear. The hour wJl soon 
 come "when the shining mansions shall receive 
 you, when an exceeding and eternal weight of 
 glory shall crown you; when you shall begin 
 that " new sang" which you learned on earth ; 
 when redemption by Christ shall be your unend- 
 ing theme. Oh I this is heaven, where all rest 
 in the bosom of God ; where all behold ihe Ee- 
 deemer's face ; where all are singing that won- 
 drous " new song" which fills heaven with joy, 
 and eternity with undying melody, as it ascends 
 In pealing notes from the mansions of glory, 
 " Unto him that loved us, and washed us from 
 our sins in his blood, and hath made us kings 
 and priests unto God and his Father; to him be 
 glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. ' 
 You will soon begin your everlasting song in 
 the upper sanctuary. ""Worthy is the Lamb 
 that was slain to receive power, and riches, and 
 wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, 
 and blessing. Blessing, and honor and glory, 
 and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the 
 throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever," 
 
 " Oh, lioly, holy Lord 1 
 
 Whom angel hosts adore ; 
 When shall I join in raptured Straina, 
 The bright celeutial choir ? 
 
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 HEIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 281 
 
 ''In pity \i^,\v a sinful worm, 
 A pris'ner here below ; 
 A pilgrim journeying through the land 
 O darkness, sin and woe. 
 
 ' Ten thousand Toices round thy tlirono 
 Unite in hymns divine ; 
 ' Salvation to the Lamb !' they cry, 
 As high in bliss they shine. 
 
 ^ Fain would I now begin the song, 
 To thee my God and friend ; 
 Then mingle with the choirs abova, 
 In prai" 3 which ne'er ahaXi fttid." 
 
282 CHRIST, AND HIM OKUCIFIED. 
 
 CHAriER VIII. 
 
 CHRIST LSD HIM CRUCIFIED, THE SUM AND SUBSTAKOB 
 OF THE GOSPEL. 
 
 "Now cf the things which we hare spoken, this is the 
 sum." — ^Heb. viii. I. 
 
 The gospel is glad tidings of great joy to a 
 lost world. It brings immortality within the 
 reach of dying sinners. It opens untold glories 
 to them. It brings life and immortality to light. 
 Dispelling the moral darkness of a fallen world, 
 it points to an eternal day of light and glory. 
 Delivering from eternal misery the condemned 
 sinner, it reveals to him the way of salvation ; 
 leads him in the path of righteousness, and 
 jBnally brings him to the enjoyment of endless 
 felicity in the heavenly world. Blessed gospel 
 well mayest thou be styled " good tidings of 
 great joy." What blessings flow in the gospel 
 channel to exhilarate a thirsty world. 
 
 It is the gospel that makes the ivilderness and 
 the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to 
 rejoice, and blossom as the rose; that makes 
 the parched ground to become a pool, and 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 283 
 
 the thirsty land springs of water.* How re- 
 freshing to the weary child of God, to lie down 
 in green pastures; to be led beside the still 
 waters of gospel grace 1 How cheering to say, 
 in a world of sin and sorrow and disappoint- 
 ment, with the sweet Psalmist, "Surely good- 
 ness and mercy shall follow me all the days of 
 my life ; and I will dwell in the house of the 
 Lord forever." Who can describe the blessed- 
 ness, the glory that are contained in this single 
 verse I Who can enumerate the blessings that 
 flow from the gospel of God I 
 
 In this blessed gospel, " mercy and truth are 
 met together; righteousness and peace have 
 kissed each other." The blood of Jesus, through 
 the gospel, proclaims peace on earth and glory 
 in heaven,' — such peace as passeth all under- 
 standing, and such glory as the human heart 
 has never conceived. We now turn to notice 
 the source whence all gospel blessings flow. It 
 is in Christ and him crucified that they originate. 
 This is the blessed origin of all goodness, the 
 inexhaustible fountain of love to guilty, rebel- 
 lious man. In the gospel, a bleeding Saviour is 
 L"di up in a manner so conspicuous as to attract 
 the attention, and excite the admiration of all 
 anxious inquire"s after salvation. They look to 
 
 * Isa. xxxT. 
 
284 CHEIST, AND HIM {U CI." lEU. 
 
 him and are lightened of the burden of sin and 
 guilt. His grace is so free and his love so un- 
 bounded, that all may look and be saved. And 
 all that look to Jesus and renounce their own 
 righteousness shall be saved. A bleeding Jesus 
 is the sum of Christianity, and the only hope of 
 a lost world. In him all fulness dwells, around 
 him all blessings flow, from him all glories 
 
 emanate. 
 
 "Dear Jesus, fill my soul 
 AVlth holiness and peace ; 
 Arise with healing in thy wings, 
 Thou Sun of Righteousness. 
 
 " May all beneath the sky 
 Usurp my heart no more ; 
 Be thou my first, my chief delight, 
 My soul's unbounded store. 
 
 " In thee all treasures lie. 
 
 From thee all blessings flow ; 
 Thou art the bliss of saints above. 
 The joy of saints below. 
 
 " Oh, come, and make me thine, 
 A sinner saved by grace ; 
 Then shall I sing with loudest strains 
 In heaven, thy dwelling-place. 
 
 " When standing round the throne, 
 Amid the ransomed throng, 
 Thj' praise sliall be my sweet emp oy, 
 While h '0 insj res my =ong." 
 
CHEISO?, AND HIM CEtJvZFIED. 285 
 
 Christ, and him crucified, is the sum and sub- 
 stance of the gospel. What is the gospel tut a 
 glorious revelation of Christ crucified, a gracious 
 plan of salvation through the merits of Im- 
 manuel's blood ! It is only through a crucified 
 Redeemer that we can be admitted into heaven. 
 Our salvation is intimately connected with him. 
 Take away Christ, and you bury our immortal 
 hopes in the dust; you demolish the glorious 
 superstructure of gospel truth. 
 
 If there had been no Saviour proclaimed, there 
 would have been no salvation for perishing 
 men, — no gospel of the grace of God. But 
 Christ is revealed in the gospel as the great 
 object of our faith. There he stands as the 
 great centre of all holy attractions,— as the sum 
 of all our happiness. In the gospel revelation, 
 Christ is all The Bible is full of him. From 
 Genesis to Eevelation, he is set forth in all the 
 loveliness of hin character, and in all the rich- 
 ness of his grace to dying men. Enraptured 
 prophets dwell on him, inspired poets sing of 
 him, and ardent, zealous apostles blaze his name 
 abroad. 
 
 The grand design of a divine re"? elation is to 
 'exhibit Christ and him crucified as the only 
 hope of a lost world. Christ is the glory of the 
 Scriptures, as the sun is the glory of the firma- 
 ment. " Tr tak- Christ from the Bible," says a 
 
286 CHRIST, AND HIU CRUCIFIJED. 
 
 writer cf other days, "-would be like blotting 
 the sun from the firmament." It will avail no- 
 thing what discoveries we make, if we find not, 
 to our present and eternal welfare. Him of whom 
 Moses and the prophets wrote. The key of 
 knowledge ■will be of little use, unless it opens 
 to us the unsearchable riches of Christ. " These 
 things are written that ye might believe that 
 Jesus is tbe Christ, the son of God; and that be- 
 lieving, ye might have life through his name." 
 The sum and substance of all evangelical preach- 
 ing is, Christ and him crucified. " We preach 
 Christ crucified," says one of the greatest minis- 
 ters of Jesus Christ. Christ crucified was the 
 substance of Paul's preaching. "With ardent, 
 burning eloquence he dwelt on this glorious 
 theme. This was the grand topic of all his writ- 
 ing and preaching. He set nothing else before 
 the people but Christ crucified. He desired tc 
 know nothing more, for he knew that nothing 
 more was essential to salvation than the saving 
 knowledge of Christ, and him crucified. He 
 caught this glorious truth, and published it to a 
 dying world. He summoned all his energies to 
 understand this deep mystery. This was his 
 study. " I determined," says he, " not to know 
 any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him 
 crucified." Christ and him crucified, is the very 
 life of the gospel. Hce all the lines of evan- 
 
OHniST, AKL HIM CRUCIi'lED. 287 
 
 gclical truth meet in one central point. Blessed 
 be God, for a cruciQed Saviour ! my soul, 
 put thy trust in him. Study Christ, and him 
 crucified. He is the life of the soul ; the salva- 
 tion of the sinner. Search the Scriptures ; for 
 they testify of him; yes, " the testimony of Jesus 
 is the spirit of prophecy."* Prophets speak of 
 him as the bleeding sacrifice for sin. The Old 
 Testament points to him as the Lamb of God 
 that taketh away the sin of the world. The New 
 Testament is replete with the history of a cruci- 
 fied Saviour. " Of gospel history, what is the 
 sum ? Christ crucified. What do the four evan- 
 gelists relate ? They all, for substance, tell the 
 same story ; and that story is rightly termed the 
 gospel. It is the history of the cross. In the 
 mouth of two or three witnesses every word is 
 established. God has graciously given us four, 
 all inspired by his Holy Spirit, to relate the 
 birth, the life, the labors, the preaching, the mir- 
 acles, the sufferings, and the death of Jesus. 
 They tell us what he said, what he did, and 
 what ho endured from the powers of darkness, 
 from the hands of men, and from the sword of 
 justice. They inform us how he was at last 
 condemned, and nailed to the tree, for the testi- 
 mony which he bore 'a the truth, that he was 
 
 • 'R6\. jdx la 
 
288 CHRIST, AV0 HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 the only begotten Son of God, and that" the same 
 divine honors were due to him as to the Father." 
 What a long series of prophecies was accom- 
 plished in Christ, and him crucified I 
 
 The Spirit of God in all the prophets, testified 
 "beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the 
 glory that should follow." Christ is the sum of 
 prophecy. To the two disciples going to Emmaus, 
 he explained the prophecies relating to himself. 
 He says to them, " fools, and slow of heart to 
 believe all that the prophets have spoken I 
 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, 
 and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at 
 Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded unto 
 them in all the scriptures the things concerning 
 himself" And again, " These are the words 
 which I spake unto you, while I was yet with 
 you, that all things must be fulfilled which were 
 written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, 
 and in the Psalms, concerning me. Then opened 
 he their understanding, that they might under- 
 stand the Scriptures. And said unto them, 
 thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ 
 to suffer, and to. rise from the dead the third 
 day." The life, the sufferiugs, and the death of 
 Messiah were all foretold in glowing language, 
 by the prophets of God. Moses wrote of Him. 
 Job knew that his Eedeemer lived. Abraham 
 got a glimpse of Christ's day, and it gladdened 
 
CHRIST, AND HIVI CRUCIFIED. 2&9 
 
 hLs heart. Jacob spoke of the comir g of Shiloh, 
 the Prince of Peace. Isaiah, transported into 
 future times, cries : " Unto us a child is born ; 
 unto us a Son is given, and the government 
 shall be upon his shoulder ; and his name shall 
 be called "Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty 
 God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of 
 Peace." Micah foretells the place of his birth, 
 " But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou 
 be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out 
 of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be 
 Euler in Israel ; whose goings forth have been 
 from of old, from everlasting." To Daniel the 
 time was revealed, when Mejjsiah should be cut 
 off, to finish transgression, to make an end of 
 sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring 
 in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the 
 vision and prophecy. The Psalmist foretold 
 the sufferings and death of Jesus on the cross aa 
 if he had actually witnessed them. The 53d 
 chapter of Isaiah, and the 22d Psalm are full 
 of Christ and him crucified. 
 
 Thus, all the prophets highly extol Him, who 
 is the great and glorious Deliverer of lost man. 
 Christ and him crucified is the sum of all those 
 good things that God promised to his ancient 
 people, — the substance of all those types, and 
 shadows, and emblems which prefigured good 
 things t") come. The whole ce'^emonial law was 
 2,5 
 
290 CHEIST, AKB HIM CRJCIFIED. 
 
 a shadow of good things to come ; but " the body 
 is of Chrisfc." The paschal lamb bled on Jewish 
 altars, as the emblem of a bleeding Saviour. 
 Hence Christ is styled, "the Lamb slain from 
 the foundation of the world."* " The Lamb of 
 God, which taketh away the sin of the world."-]- 
 His precioos blood is represented to be like that 
 of " a lamb without blemish and without spot.":]: 
 AH tha Jewish sacrifices, rites and ceremonies 
 were full of Christ crucified. They pointed to 
 this one great sacrifice for sin. They referred 
 directly to Him, whose death was truly an atoning 
 sacrifice. " The death of atonement, then, which 
 the Son cf God died for our redemption, was 
 that to which all sacrifices, from the earliest 
 times, had respect, as their great termination, and 
 without which they would have been as desti- 
 tute of reason as they were, in their very nature, 
 of all actual value in the very sight of heaven. 
 If holy men of old made an acceptable use of 
 them, in drawing near to God, it was only by 
 looking 1 '.rough them to this all-perfect and suf- 
 ficient sacrifice which they yrefigured. This 
 great sacrifice, accordingly, being offered up in 
 due time, aU that were before it, were compiete- 
 ly done away, and aU that ancient sort of wor- 
 ship went forever out of use."§ 
 
 » Kev, siij. a f Jol»n i. 29. t Pet. i. ISk § Bib. Antiq. 
 
CHBIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 291 
 
 Christ crucified is now proclaimed in the ever 
 lastirig gospel as the substance of all our holj 
 religion. Whoever has faith in Lim, has religion 
 in his soul. Whoever believes on a crucified 
 Christ, shall be admitted into the Paradise of 
 God, to eat of the fruits of " the tree of life," and 
 to drink of the crystal streams of living water, 
 which flow from the throne of the Deity. 
 then, give your heart to Jesus, and he will fit 
 you for glory. 
 
 Of the ordinances of divine grace, what is the 
 slam ? Christ crucified. Their grand design is 
 to set Him forth as a propitiation, through faith 
 iu his blood. Of the sacramental supper, what 
 is the substance ? Christ crucified. This sweet 
 ordinance is full of Christ and his whole glorious 
 work for the salvation of sinners. In the broken 
 bread and poured out wine, we see nothing but 
 the crucifixion of the blessed Son of God. Here, 
 he is presented to us as the glorious Saviour 
 dying for sinners. Here, we get a glimpse of 
 tiLS matchless perfections — of his transcendent 
 glory. Here, all his sufferings rise up to our 
 view — the sufferings of his holy soul — the ago- 
 nies of his cruel death. Here is nothing but 
 Christ and him crucified. How the love and 
 grace of the Lord Jesus kindle into a glorious 
 blaze, in this ordinance. 
 
 Would you see a lively exhibition of a cruel- 
 
292 CHEIST, AND HIM CSUCIFIEJ). 
 
 fied Saviour? Then go to the Lord's table; bU 
 down there and meditate on his death, his dying 
 love, his glorious atonement ; so will you grow 
 in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ. To hhn be glory both 
 now and forever. Amen. 
 
 How highly should we esteem cur divine Sa- 
 viour. With what entire confidence should 
 we rely on him for salvation 1 Blessed Jesus 1 
 Thou art the source of all happiness — the spring 
 of all joy. Thou art aH in all to thy people, 
 satisfy, me with thy goodness, that I also may 
 rejoice in thy precious salvation. " Eemember 
 me, Lord, with the favor that thou bearest 
 unto thy people ; visit me with thy salvation." 
 Refresh my soul, blessed Lord, with the mani- 
 festatioL jf thy grace, and prepare me for be- 
 holding thy glory in heaven — for enjoying end- 
 less pleasures at thy right hand. May we all be 
 daily feeding by faith, on Christ and him cruci- 
 fied, while we scjourn as strangers end pUgrims 
 here, till we " enter in through the gates into 
 the city," sit down beneath the shadow of the 
 tree of life, feed upon the hidden manna, and 
 drink of the "pure river of water of life, clear 
 as crystal, that proceedeth out of the throne of 
 God and of the Lamb." 
 
 Li a little whUe we shall see our Eedeemefs 
 fiice, and his name shall be upon our foreheads. 
 
CHEISr, A3SrD HI.V CRUCIFIED. 293 
 
 We shall soon see a crucified Christ — the print 
 of the nails, and of the wound in his side. How 
 lovely and attractive will Christ appear in glory, 
 as our crucified Saviour 1 "When we look on 
 his " dear wounds and bleeding side," our souls 
 will be lost in wonder, love, and praise. Then 
 we shall be filled with his goodness, and taste 
 through eternal ages the sweetness of redeeming 
 love. Amen. Ev;n so come Lord Jesus. Come 
 quickly. 
 
291 CHBIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 CHAPTER U. 
 
 CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIKD, THE ONLY HOPE OF THE 
 BINNER. 
 
 "Tlie Lord Jesus Christ, -whieli is our hope." — 1 Tbl i. 1. 
 " For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, 
 which is Jesus Christ" — 1 Con. iiL II. 
 
 " THOU dear, anointed Jesus, 
 
 All my hopes are fixed on thee ; 
 In thy tender, sweet compassion. 
 Cast a smile of lore on me. 
 
 " Come in all thy full salvation, 
 Deign within my heart to dwell; 
 Then, with all thy ransomed people, 
 Of unbounded love 111 telL 
 
 " Fill my soul with heavenly graces, 
 Gently falling from above; 
 Meekness, patience, pure afifection. 
 Sweet humility and love. 
 
 " Come, thou blest anointed Saviour, 
 To thy earthly temple come; 
 Till the hour of death remove me 
 To my everlasting heme." 
 
 Christ and him crucified, is the only h^pe oi 
 the sinner. Here is the only substantial, per- 
 manent fojndation of all our hopes. "For 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CEffCIFIED. 295 
 
 other foundation can no man lay tlian that is 
 laid, wliich is Jesus Christ." 
 
 A crucified Christ is the only hope of the 
 world. In vain do we hope for salvation from 
 any other source. " Truly in vain is salvation 
 hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude 
 of mountains : truly in the Lord our God is 
 the salvation of Israel." The Lord alone is the 
 salvation and strength of his people. The 
 Christian boldly exclaims, " The Lord is my 
 light and my salvation ; whom shall I fear ? the 
 Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom shall 
 I be afraid?" 
 
 There is but one refuge provided for a lost 
 world. That refuge is Christ crucified. It is a 
 " strong refuge." " The name of the Lord is a 
 strong tower : the righteous runneth into it, and 
 is safe." None are safe out of Christ. He is 
 the only refuge from the storms of divine wrath 
 that will one day sweep away an ungodly world. 
 "Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a 
 strengta to the needy in his distress, a refuge 
 from the storm, a shadow from, the heat, when 
 the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against 
 the wall. '* Christ will shield all that come to 
 him. No sinner ever perished that "fled for 
 ref ige to lay hold upon the hope set before us." 
 
 • Isa. XXV. 4. 
 
296 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 In the arms of Christ, we are safe for time, — safe 
 for etsrnity. An almighty Saviour has said 
 concerning his chosen flock, "I give unto them 
 eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither 
 shall any pluck them out of my hand." What 
 a blessed ark of safety for perishing sinners' 
 Christ and him crucified 1 Happy they who are 
 inclosed in this new testament ark ! They will 
 survive every storm, and amid the wreck of a 
 crumbling world, ride safely and triumphantly 
 into the harbor of immortal glory ! Happy 
 they whose lives are hid with Christ in God ; 
 when Christ who is their life shall appear, they 
 shall appear with him in glory. " Happy is 
 that people, that is in such a case ; yea, happy 
 is that people, whose Grod is the Lord." 
 
 "' Sinners, see the aik prepar'd 1 
 
 Haste to enter while there's room ; 
 Tho'the Lord his arm has bared, 
 Mercy still retards your doom : 
 
 "Seek him while there yet is hope, 
 Ere the day of grace be past, 
 Lest in wrath he give you up, 
 And this call shall prove your last." 
 
 Flee to the ark of safety; hide in Chnst 
 Listen to the gracious calls of your only Saviour. 
 Hear him cry, " Come, my people, enter thou 
 into thy chambers and shut thy doors about 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIF. ED. 297 
 
 tLee : hide thjrself as it were for a little moment, 
 until the iLdignation be overpast." Come with- 
 out delay. Your Saviour will not reject you. 
 He will receive you into his arms, adopt you 
 into his family, and make you an heir of God) 
 and a joint-heir with him in glory, 0, blessed 
 privilege, to reign with Christ in glory I Accept, 
 then, of a crucified Saviour, and heaven will be 
 your everlasting home. You will soon land on 
 the peaceful shores of Immanuel's land ; soon be 
 admitted into the presence of Christ, to sing the 
 song of Moses and the Lamb. If Christ is your 
 only hope here, he will be your everlasting por- 
 tion hereafter. If you glorify him on earth, you 
 shall enjoy him in heaven. If you follow the 
 Lamb now, he wiU lead you unto living foun- 
 tains of waters, ia that "land of pure delight, 
 where saints immortal reign." You will be 
 happy in his service through time, and blissful 
 in his presence through eternity. 
 
 If your only hope is the Lord Jesus, he, as the 
 captain of your salvation, will lead you into the 
 promised land. be sure to enlist in the cause 
 of your crucified Eedeemer. Choose him as 
 your only leader. Stand beneath the glorious ■ 
 banner of his love. Follow him on to victory, 
 'Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on 
 eternal life," ai d you will come off at last more 
 than conqueror through the blood of the Lamb, 
 
298 CHEIST, AND HIJI CRUCI/IEO 
 
 Go forward, then, in the strength cf you; Ee- 
 deemer. Say with the Psalmist, "I will go in 
 the strength of the Lord God ; I will make men- 
 tion cf thy righteousness, even of thine only."* 
 View the glorious prize offered to believers in 
 Jesus I An unfading wreath of glory I Ajoyal 
 diadem of beauty I A kingdom that will never 
 end. The inheritance of all things I " He that 
 overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I will 
 be his God, and he shall be my son."f " Him 
 that overcometh will I make a jaillar in the 
 temple of my God, and he shall go no more out; 
 and I will write upon him the name of my God, 
 and the name of the city of my God, which is 
 New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of 
 heaven from my God; and I will write upon 
 him my new name.":]: Here is all the happiness 
 of heaven summed up in a few words. But 
 who can declare their import? Who can ex- 
 press the blessedness of being in Christ; of 
 resting our hopes on him ? Eye hath net seen 
 it, nor hath the ear heard it; neither has it 
 entered into the heart of man. AU this glory is 
 obtained by believing on a crucified Jesus. Is 
 Christ formed in you, "the hope of glory." 
 There is but one road to heaven ; that way is 
 through Chn&*, and him crucified. All the re- 
 
 • Pa, Ixxi, le. f Rev xi. 7, i Rev il 12 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CELC:?IED. 299 
 
 deemed in glory have travelled this road. All 
 who will ever yet enter in through the gates, 
 into the new Jerusalem, will be admitted only 
 through the merits of a crucified Saviour. They 
 must depend on him. There is no other founda- 
 tion on which to rest. Christ is the way — the 
 only way to the Eather, and to a glorious im- 
 mortality. "I am the way," says Christ, "and 
 the truth, and the life ; no man cometh unto the 
 Father, but by me." "I am the door; by me 
 of any man enter in, he shall be saved, and 
 shall go in and out, and find pasture." There 
 is no salvation without Christ. There is no 
 other name but his that can save fi:om eternal 
 woe. " Neither is there salvation in any other ; 
 for there is none other name under heaven given 
 among men, whereby we must be saved."* In 
 the gospel fabric, Christ is the chief corner-stone. 
 In him is fulfilled that which is written, "Be- 
 hold, I lay in Sion, a chief corner-stone, elect, 
 precious; and he that believeth on him shall 
 not be confounded."! Jesus Christ is that 
 precious corner-stone on which the Church is 
 built. " The stone which the builders refused, 
 is become the head stone of the corner." Fix 
 your hopes on Christ and him crucified. Com- 
 mit your immortal concerns into the hands of a 
 
 • Acts iv. 12. f 1 Peter ii. 6. 
 
300 CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIEr. 
 
 bleeding Saviour, and heaven is yours. Con e, 
 and intrust your whole salvation to Him, who is 
 the only hope set before you in the glorious 
 gospel.* Fly for refuge to Him. Christ will 
 receive you joyfully. Hear his own gracious 
 language. "All that the Father giveth me, 
 shall come to me ; and him that cometh to me 
 I will in nowise cast out." Blessed words? 
 What can be more encouraging. 
 
 Despairing sinner, here is hope for you. A 
 crucified Saviour is lifted upon the pole of the 
 everlasting gospel, that you may view him and 
 live. Are you drawn to him yet ? The dying 
 Saviour cries, " And I, if I be lifted up from 
 the earth will draw all men unto me."f Jesus 
 Christ is elevated on the cross that a diseased, 
 dying world may get a glimpse of him and live- 
 He is the world's Redeemer. He is the sinner's 
 friend, — ^his last and only hope. Eeject not this 
 only refuge. Here is hope for the vilest of sin- 
 ners. Christ came to save such. "I am not 
 come to call the righteous, but sinners to re- 
 yy)ntance."$ 
 
 • When I consider,'' said the Rer. E. Simpson, on his death 
 b«d, " when I consider the infinite dignity and all-sufficiency 
 of Christ, I am ashamed to talk of venturing on him. Oh, 
 had I ten thousand souls, I would, at this moment cast them 
 all into his hands, with the utmost confidence." 
 
 f John idi. 32. t Mat ix. 13. 
 
CHRIST, AKD HIM CEUCIFIED. 301 
 
 " Tell me," says an eloquent living -writer,* 
 "wliere the vilest sinner is to be found that 
 dwells on God's footstool; conduct me to his 
 abode of wickedness and gloom; and if it be 
 anywhere this side the grave, I would assure 
 him in God's name, that he who was lifted up 
 from the earth came to save just such sinners as 
 he." Whosoever believeth on a crucified Ke- 
 deemer shall be saved. This is the cheering 
 language of inspiration. "As Moses lifted up 
 the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the 
 Son of Man be lifted up; that whosoever be- 
 lieveth in him should not perish, but have eter- 
 nal life."t Then let all look to the cross of 
 Christ. Let all contemplate the Son of God 
 bleeding for their sins. Let all look to JesuB, 
 and live. 
 
 " As the serpent raised by Mosea 
 
 Heal'd tlie burning serpent's bite, 
 Jesus thus himself discloses^ 
 
 To the ■wounded sinner's sight ; 
 Hear his gracious invitation, 
 
 ' I have life and peace to give, 
 
 Gardiner Spring, D. D. This distinguished diviue la 
 one of the ablest writers of the age. We -would here 
 recommend his -works. They are among the best religious 
 publications of the day, and deserve a -jlace in every Chris 
 tian library throughout the land, 
 •f John iii 14, 15. 
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502 CHRIST. AND HIJt CEUCIF. KD 
 
 I have TTi'ought out full salvatioii. 
 Sinner, look to me and live. 
 
 Pore rt>on your sins no longer, 
 
 "Well I know their mighty guilt ; 
 But my love than death ia stronger 
 
 I my blood have freely spilt ; 
 Though your heart has long been harden'd^ 
 
 Look on me — it soft shall grow; 
 Past transgi-essions shall be pardon'd, 
 
 And I'll wash you white as snow. 
 
 1 have seen what you were doing 
 
 Though you little thought of me ; 
 Tou were madly bent on ruin. 
 
 But I said, it shall not be ; 
 You had been forever wretched, 
 
 Had I not espous'd your part; 
 Now behold my arms outstretched. 
 
 To receive you to my heart 
 
 Well may shame, and joy and wonder, 
 
 All your inward passions move ; 
 I could crush thee with my thunder 
 
 But I speak to thee in love ; 
 Sec 1 your sins are all forgiv'n, 
 
 I have paid the countless suml 
 Now my death has open'd heav'n, 
 
 Thither you shall shortly come' 
 
 ■* Dearest Saviour, we adore theo, 
 For thy precious life and death 
 Melt each stubborn heart before Uio«i 
 
 Give U3 all the eye of faith ; 
 From the law's condemjiing sentenoa 
 To thy me-cy we appeal" 
 
ASTD HIM CRUC.FIEB. '60S 
 
 Thou alone canst give repentftnce, 
 Thou alone cui' soiils caa heal." 
 
 " j\nd now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope 
 is in thee." "The Lord is ray portion, saith 
 my soul ; therefore will I hope in him." Is this 
 the language of your soul? Do you hope in 
 Jesus? Is he your unfailing portion? Then 
 rejoice in the Lord. Make his glorious name 
 known to a dying world. "Praise the Lord, 
 call upon his name, declare his doings among 
 the people, make mention that his name is ex- 
 alted. Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done 
 excellent things ; this is known to all the earth. 
 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for 
 great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of 
 thee." 
 
 Blessed Jesus I enable us to rely on thee as 
 our only hope. Open our eyes that we may 
 discern thy beauty and excellence. Be thou 
 our hiding place to which we may resort for 
 safety. May sinners flee to thee before the 
 storm arises to overwhelm a guilty world. 
 
 " Lord, open sinners' eyes, 
 Their awful state to see , 
 And make them ere the storm arise, 
 To thee far safety flee." 
 
 •Turn you to the strcnghcld, ye prisoners 
 
304 CKBIST, AND HI^ CKUCIFIED. 
 
 of hope." Jesus is willing to encircle you in 
 the arms of his protection and love. Then turn 
 to liim, Christ and him crucified is the sinner's 
 "stronghold." Here all are safe. All -who 
 now rest in Jesus shall enjoy eternal rest here- 
 after. 
 
 Blessed Lord! lead me to the Eock that is 
 
 higher than I. May all my hopes be in Jesus, 
 
 the sinner's Friend. May he be made unto me 
 
 wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification 
 
 and redemption. " The Lord is my rock and 
 
 my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my 
 
 strength, in whom I will trust ; my buckler, and 
 
 the horn of my salvation, and my high tower."* 
 
 Look to Jesus for wisdom to lead you safely 
 
 through a dark, bewildering world of sin and 
 
 folly, to the bright mansions of eternal glory. 
 
 Lean on him for support, while you journey 
 
 through the wilderness. Let him be always the 
 
 beloved of our soul ; always "the chiefest among 
 
 ten thousand" in your estimation ; yea always 
 
 the one altogether lovely. Look to a crucified 
 
 Jesus for righteousness. He only can clothe the 
 
 guilty, polluted sinner with the beautiful robes 
 
 of redeeming righteousness, — with the spotless 
 
 garments of s.alvation. Every redeemed sinner 
 
 in glory rust be clad with the radiant vesture 
 
 • Psalm xviiL 2. 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIED. 3C5 
 
 of a Saviour's righteousness. This alone will 
 Itiake us appear beautiful in the eyes of Jehovah. 
 This alone will place us before his throne, amid 
 flie glories of heaven. Blessed righteousness of 
 
 crucified Jesus ! What glory does it bring to 
 lost man! Then, with Paul, desire to "be 
 found in Christ, not having your own righteous- 
 ness, which is of the law, but that which is 
 through the faith of Christ, the righteoxisness 
 which is of God by faith."* 
 
 Look to Jesus for sanctification. Without 
 holiness no man shall see the Lord. The pure 
 in heart shall see God. Jesus will wash every 
 filthy, unclean soul that flies to him, in his own 
 divine blood, and make that sinful soul shine 
 with unsullied purity and perfect holiness 
 through heaven's eternal day. 
 
 Look" to Christ crucified for redemption. 
 Trust in no other. Hope in no other. Christ 
 is the redemption of his people. They look to 
 him, and are saved. He has bought them with 
 his precious blood. He has prepared them for 
 glory. Through his all-atoning sacrifice, they 
 shall "eat of the tree of life, which is ia the 
 midst of the paradise of God," and be crowned 
 with everlasting bliss. embrace a crucified 
 Saviour and rest on him in all Ks savir g offices. 
 
 •PhU. iii. 9. 
 26 
 
806 CHEIST, AS^D HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 Take him as your Prophet, Priest and King. 
 Thus he will be your complete Saviour; your 
 all in all. 
 
 The pious author of the Christian Retirement, 
 has the following beautiful remaiks: " Christ is 
 the salvation of all his dear, believing people ; 
 they look to no other ; they love no other ; or, 
 if they love others, it is Christ in them who is 
 the chief object of their affection. 
 
 " Here I behold a way of access opened to poor 
 perishing sinners, through faith in the atone- 
 ment of Jesus. Lord, give me faith in thy dear 
 Son. Enable me to cast my soul without re- 
 serve upon thy covenanted mercies in Christ 
 Jesus. In him alone is eternal life. In him 
 alone are treasured up grace, mercy, and peace. 
 He that hath the Son, hath life; for this is 
 eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, 
 and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Oh for 
 a heart to believe unto righteousness ! Blessed 
 Lord, this heart thou only canst bestow. Thcu 
 knowest my wickedness and wretchedness ; my 
 fraUties and follies; my helplessness and total 
 alienation of heart from thee. Thou knowest 
 from what height of happiness I am fallen 
 through original sin, and into what depth of 
 misery I am plunged through wUful transgres- 
 sion: But, Oh sovereign love! Oh matchless 
 grace ! thou hast pitied me ; thou hast sent thv 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRT. CIFIED 307 
 
 Sod, thy only Son, to save rae. Thou hast as- 
 sured me that all who believe in him shall not 
 perish, but have everlasting life." 
 
 In a word, look to Jesus as the great Phy- 
 sician of our sin-sick soul. He only can cure you 
 of all your spiritual maladies. He only can clothe 
 you with immortal health, and angelic vigor in 
 thb world of glory. Come to Him, and you 
 shall drink of the healing waters of life, and 
 eternally bloom in the paradise of God. 
 
 HoTT .ost was my condition, 
 
 Till Jesus made me whole I 
 There is but one physician 
 
 Can cure a siasick soul I 
 Ifcxt door to death he found m(\ 
 
 And snatched me from the gravaj 
 To tell to all around me, 
 
 His ■wond'rous power to save. 
 
 " The worst of all diseases 
 
 Is light, compai'd with sin ■ 
 On ev'ry part it seizes. 
 
 But rages most within: 
 Tis palsy, plague and fever, 
 
 And madness — »11 combin'd. 
 And none but a believer, 
 
 The least relief can find. 
 
 From men great skill prftfessing, 
 
 I thouglit a cure to gain ; 
 But Ihis proved more distresinj^ 
 
 Attd added to my pain ; 
 
808 CHRIST, AND HIM CBUOIFIED, 
 
 Some said that nothing ail'd oie, 
 Some gave me tip for lost ; 
 
 Thus ev'ry refuge fail'd me 
 And all my hopes were cross'd. 
 
 "At length this great physician. 
 
 How matchless is Iiis grace I 
 Accepted my petition, 
 
 And undertook my case : 
 Krst gave me sight to view him. 
 
 For sin my eyes had seal'd ; 
 Then bid me look unto him ; 
 
 I look'd, and I was heal'd. 
 
 "A dying, risen Jesus, 
 
 Seen by the eye of faith ; 
 At once from danger frees XiS, 
 
 And saves the soul from death) 
 Come then to this Physician, 
 
 His help he'll freely give^ 
 Be makes nc hard condition. 
 
 Tis only, ook and lire," 
 
CHBIST, AND EIM OEUCIFIED 809 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE CROSS OF CHRIST, THE GLORY OF THE CHRISTIAN. 
 
 " God ftrbid that I should glory, save n the cross of out 
 Lord Jesus Christ." — Gau ti, 14. 
 
 " Well may I glory in his cross, 
 While he prepares my crown." 
 
 "What wonders are manifested in the Cross 
 of Christ ! "What fountains of joy does it un- 
 cover for the thirsty sinner I "What oceans of 
 divine grace does it reveal to the aspiring saint ; 
 "What glories does it unfold to th« ransomed be- 
 liever ! It is the power of God, and the wisdom 
 of God, and the salvation of the soul. How it 
 displays the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to 
 poor, perishing sinners I O boundless grace, 
 that pitied us when lost! and that lescued ua 
 from everlasting burnings 1 The cross of Christ 
 manifests the free, sovereign, matchless love of 
 God to a lost world. 
 
 How free the love, how rich tne graee^ 
 
 A pard'ning God bestows ; 
 To Adam's vile, apostate race, 
 
 In boundlcsi streams it flrw& 
 
310 CHKIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 " What joy arises in the heart 
 Wh 3n Jesus' cross appears — 
 Salvation to my sonl impart, 
 Subdue my guilty fears. 
 
 " Bless'd Saviour, speak the healing word 
 Bid all my si Trows cease ; 
 Be thou my Great Atoning Lord, 
 My Righteousness and Peace." 
 
 What joys flow from the Saviour's cross ! It 
 Ls the sight of that cross, which enables the 
 sinner to read his title clear to a glorious im- 
 mortality. The cross of Christ is full of rich, 
 heavenly blessings. The pardon of sin, the jus- 
 tification of our persons, the sanctification of our 
 natures, eternal life, immortal glory, the endless 
 enjoyment of a triune God in heaven, are some 
 of the blessmgs which it contains. O my soul, 
 pant after these blessings so fully treasured up 
 in the cross of Christ, and so freely offered to 
 dying sinners. Reader, come to the cross, and 
 these blessings will descend on your head. 
 You will then taste of the fountains of bliss in 
 Immanuel's land, and bathe in the rivers of 
 pleasures which eternally flow through tho 
 realms of glory. 
 
 • O the Bwest wonders of that cross. 
 
 Where Ohrist my Saviour loved and died. 
 Her nohlest ife my spirit draws, 
 Fr >m hie il - -i wov ids and bleeding sida* 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CBUCIFIEJ. 311 
 
 Here we have the infinitely tender love, tho 
 immensely free, rich grace of the bleeding, dying 
 Immanuel. What a sweet topic for contempla- 
 tion 1 What a noble theme for the Christian to 
 glory in I Well might the great Apostle of the 
 Gentiles exclaim, "God forbid that I should 
 glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I 
 unto the world." 
 
 In the Scriptures the cross of Christ is used in 
 three different senses. 1. It denotes the timber 
 to which our Lord was nailed, and on which he 
 expired. " He endured the cross, despising the 
 shame." " He became obedient unto death, even 
 the death of the cross."* 2. It denotes the way 
 of salvation through Christ and Him crucified. 
 
 * "The punishment of the cross was a Roman invention. 
 It was made use of only in the case of slaves, or very no- 
 torious malefactors. The cross was made of two beams of 
 wood crossing each other. It was laid on the ground and 
 the criminal stretched upon it, A nail was driven through 
 each hand, and one nail through both the feet. It was then 
 lifted upright, and let fall into a hole, where it was wedged 
 in. The crucified man was then left to die hanging by liia 
 hands and feet. This was the death to which Jesus stooped." 
 O how amazing was that condeso3nsion of God's own Son, 
 which brought him from a gloriaus throne to a suffering 
 cross I Amazing condescension indeed I how brightly 
 did that wonderful love of a blessed Saviour blaze on Cal- 
 vary, when he so willinglj-, so cheerfully endured the death 
 cf the crosi there for us signers. , 
 
812 CHEIST, AND HIM CKUCIFIED. 
 
 "The preacMng of the cross is to them that 
 perish foolishness ; but vmto us which are saved 
 it is the power of God." "We preach Christ 
 crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and 
 unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them 
 which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ 
 the power of God, and the wisdom of God."* 
 3. It is iised to denote the sufferings endured in 
 following a crucified Saviour. "If any man 
 will come after me, let him deny himself and 
 take up his cross and follow me."f It was in the 
 Atonement of Jesus made on the cross that the 
 Apostle gloried. This furnishes the ground of 
 the Christian's triumph. This endears the cross 
 to his soul. This makes the sufferings of Cal- 
 vary appear so glorious in his eye. It was the 
 glorious, finished work of a crucified Redeemer 
 on the ignominious cross, that drew fiom the 
 Apostle's lips, this exulting language: "God 
 Ibrbid that I should glory save in the cross of 
 otir Lord Jesus Christ." By the^ cross of Christ, 
 is here meant the whole of that sublime scheme 
 of redemption executed on Calvary, by the death 
 of the Son of God. To Paul this was an ab- 
 sorbing topic — ^his chosen favorite theme. On 
 this adamantine foundation, he built his hopes 
 for eternily. 
 
 • 1 Cor. i. 18-23, 24 t M**'- '°^- *• 
 
CHKIST, XND HIM CRUCIFIED. 313 
 
 This was the blessed source of all his joy — 
 the sublime cause of all his glorying. He 
 gloried in nothing else. At all times, and in 
 every place he visited, Paul gloried in Christ 
 and him ci acified. Among Jews and Greeks, 
 Barbarians and Scythians, the learned and the 
 illiterate, this was his delightful theme ; in this 
 he exulted. From the top of Mars-hill, he waved 
 the banner of the cross over the proud city of 
 Athens. Nothing could cool the fervor of 
 Paul's -attachment to the cross of Christ. " The 
 sacred flame that was kindled on his way 
 to Damascus," says the eloquent Dr. Spring, 
 " burned brighter and brighter, through dark- 
 ness, through trial, through the floods and 
 through the flames, till it rose pure from the 
 scaffold where he received the martyr's crown, 
 and whence his spirit ascended to receive the 
 crown that fadeth not away." that every reader 
 would imbibe the spirit of Paul, and glory only 
 in the cross of Christ I The cross of Christ is 
 the Christian's glory. In every age this has 
 been his song. Every true believer glories in 
 Christ and him crucified. A ray of heaveiily 
 light from the cross, beams on his soul, filling it 
 with joy unspeakable and full of glory ; enabling 
 him to sing in the ways of the Lord and glorify 
 the rock of his salvation. He sees the moral 
 gi-andeur of the cross its attractiveness; ita 
 27 
 
814 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 
 
 dazzling glory. He is thus led to place all his 
 hopes in the cross of the Man of Calvary, and to 
 glory, before an ungodly world, in that atone- 
 ment made by the blood of Jesus. All his hopes 
 of eternal felicity in heaven, spring from the 
 cross of Christ No wonder then, that he should 
 extol that Saviour who died to save him, and 
 celebrate that wondrous work which procures 
 for him, endless bliss, 
 
 "Tis Jesus died to save, 
 
 Tia Jesus lives to bless ; 
 On high he dwells — the sinner's friend. 
 The Lord, our righteousness. 
 
 "Then, Oh my soul, rejoice. 
 Extol thy Sariom''s name ; 
 Make mention of his dying lore, 
 And celebrate his fame. 
 
 "He claims thy heart, thy love; 
 He claims thee for his own ; 
 Oh cast thyself in willing bonds 
 Before his heavenly throne." 
 
 It is through an interest in the cross of Christ, 
 that the Christian is enabled to reach the peace- 
 ful shores of a happy eternity. "Well may he be 
 enraptured with such a theme; well may he 
 glory in such a cross I Not one blessing flows 
 to him but what comes from the cross of Jesus. 
 How innumerable, b^w invaluable then are the 
 
CHEIST, AND HIM CfRUCIFIED. 315 
 
 blessings which proceed from the cross of Christ! 
 Time cannot unfold them. Eternity will roll 
 away in telling their numbers, and in revealing 
 their preciousness. In heaven, we will clearly 
 see how much we owe to the cross of Christ. 
 There, we shall rejoice through a blessed eter- 
 nity in contemplating the wonders of the cross — 
 ia meditating on redemption's glorious work. 
 
 O my soul, glory in the cross of Christ now. 
 Rejoice in the finished work of the Lord Jesus. 
 " He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."* 
 Let him glory in a crucified Saviour, — ^in his 
 atoning blood, — in his perfect righteousness, — 
 in his vicarious death and joyful resurrection, — 
 ia his triumphant ascension to glory — in his con- 
 tinual intercession at God's right hand for sin- 
 ners. Let the Christian glory in that cross 
 which has opened for him the gates of heaven, 
 and which will seat him amidst the ambrosial 
 bowers of paradise, where he shall be perpetually 
 fanned with the cool, balmy breezes of Imman- 
 uel's land, and enjoy sweet eternal communion 
 witii God and the Lamb. Blessed cross that 
 crowns the sinner with such bliss I T7ho would 
 not glory in such a theme ? Let me exhort lihe 
 followers of the Lamb to glory in the cross of 
 Chr!^ Let them glory in Christ and him 
 
 « .Cor. i. 31 
 
816 CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIEI 
 
 crucified. "Inthe Lord shall all the seed of 
 Israel be justified, and shall glory."* ' Let all 
 those that put their trust in thee rejoice; let 
 them ever shout for joy : let them also that love 
 thy name be joyful in thee."f " Let the saints be 
 joyful in glory ; let them sing aloud upon their 
 beds.":]: Oh I how often has the cross inspired 
 the Christian with bright heavenly hopes, fired 
 his soul with a foretaste of celestial bhss, and 
 caused his heart to shout for joy amidst the suf- 
 ferings of mortality. 
 
 There is nothing so animating to the Christian 
 as a sight of Calvary. How despicable does the 
 world appear in his view, when he obtains a 
 glimpse of that cross on which his Saviour died! 
 Every thing else loses its lustre when, by the 
 eye of faith, the cross of Christ is seen. Have 
 you seen the glory of the cross of a crucified 
 Jesus ? Have you come within sight of Calvary 
 and seen the blood streaming from Immanuel's 
 veins to wash away your sins, and save your 
 soul ? Are you delighted with this way of sal- 
 vation ? Does the cross of Christ fill you with 
 joy? Have you seen its attractions? Then 
 glory in it. 
 
 Amid all the varied scenes f life — in pros- 
 
 • Is. XT 25, f rs. V. U 
 
 i Pa nv. 5 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CKUCiriED. 317 
 
 perity and adversity, in health and sickness, in 
 life and death, the cross of Christ is the Chris- 
 tian's glory. Sooner wonld the children of God 
 lay down their lives than cease to glory in this 
 blessed tlieme. And they liave done so, in 
 thousands of instances. For their attachment 
 to the cross, " they loved not their lives unto the 
 death." How those noble martyrs whose souls 
 iscended to glory amid billows of flame and 
 ■smoke, loved the cross ! How they gloried in 
 it! From the dreadful flames of persecution, 
 many a shout was heard on high, " God forbid 
 that I should glory, save in the cross of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ." In the bloody days of suf- 
 fering and death, the martyr's dying song at the 
 burning stake has been, " "Welcome the cross of 
 Christ ! Welcome the cross of Christ ! Wel- 
 come life everlasting." Thus sweetly sung the 
 dying Saunders, as he kissed the stake at which 
 he was bound. 
 
 Let the cross of Christ also be your glory. 
 Rejoice in Jesus, your Saviour. "Eejoice in 
 the Lord alway; and again I say, rejoice."* 
 Let Christ and his glorious work for the salva- 
 tion of sinners, be your song in the house of 
 your pilgrimage ; and when earth, with all ita 
 fa^scinating pleasures shall have passed away 
 
 • Phil, i 4. 
 27* 
 
818 CHEIST, AND HIM CLUCIFIED, 
 
 like a dream, you will joy in- God, in your Sav- 
 iour, through the rolling ages of a blessed eter- 
 nity. Standing on " the crystal sea of glass" 
 before the e;smal throne of heayen, you will 
 raise a nevei'-ending song of praise to Him who 
 sitteth upon the throne ; whose blood redeemed 
 you to God, and in whose cross you gloried on 
 earth. Blessed Jesus! enable each reader to 
 glory in thy cross. Give us all hearts of faith 
 to receive and rest upon thee. May we realize 
 thy preciousness. May thy death be our life, 
 thy cross, our glory. Eefresh our souls with 
 the provisions of the cross. Crown our heads 
 with its blessings. Lead us through the " green 
 pastures" and " still waters" of divine grace, and 
 when our pilgrimage on earth is ended, when 
 life's short tale is told, bring us to that blessed 
 home in the world of glory, which is the pur- 
 chase of thy cross. 
 
 " Behold me at the bleeding cross ; 
 
 Wash out, dear Lord, each guilty stain 
 Oh, may I count the world but loss — 
 Thy love my great^ my richest gain." 
 
 For the Bumberless benefits and blessings, he 
 derives from the cross of a loving Saviour, the 
 Christian has great reason to glory in it. It is 
 " the tree of life" to the believing soul. Its fruit 
 is spiritual and divine. Those who taste it, 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUOIFIED. 319 
 
 never hunger, never thirst, never die. The 
 blessings which hang clustering on this tree of 
 life are innumerable. Eternity alone can unfold 
 them. Here we taste but drops from the foun- 
 tain-head above; there we shall forever drink 
 of the water of life in the paradise of God. In 
 heaven we shall enjoy all the blessings of the 
 cross of Jesus; and there we shall eternally 
 glory in it. A few of these rich blessings we 
 now select. 
 
 1. The pardon of sin; this is one of the bless- 
 ings of the cross. The pardon of all our sins, 
 original and actual, was obtained by the death 
 of Christ. " Through this man" (though a cru- 
 cified Saviour) " is preached unto you the for- 
 giveness of sins."* There is no remission of 
 sins but through the cross of Christ. This ex- 
 piates our guilt, and sets us free. Here God, 
 in his unbounded love, removes our transgres- 
 sions from us, as far as the east is from the west 
 Here he speaks in merciful tones to the sinner. 
 This is his comfortable language through the 
 cross of Jesus : " Come now and let us reason 
 together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as 
 scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though 
 they be red like crimson, they shall be as 
 wooL"t 
 
 Acta nil S3. f Isa. i. 18. 
 
820 CHRIST AND HIM OUrCIPIED. 
 
 Through the blood of the cross, pardon flows 
 to a rebel world. to be interested in that 
 cross which confers such an invaluable blessing 
 upon our sinful race 1 WeU may redeemed sin- 
 Ders glory in salvation by Jesus. " my soul, 
 my guilty soul, what are all the kingdoms of the 
 world, and the glories of them, compared with 
 this ineffable blessing !" 
 
 2. The cross of Christ procures our justifica- 
 tion, reconciles us to God, and clothes us with 
 the robes of righteousness. The cross of Christ 
 justifies the ungodly. The sinner is accepted 
 in the beloved. " By him all that believe are 
 justified from all things, from which ye could 
 not be justified by the law of Moses."* The 
 'JOSS of Christ procures our peace with God. 
 'When we were enemies, we were reconciled 
 to God by the death of his Son."f He hath 
 made " peace through the blood of his cross, "if 
 Through the cross of Jesus we enjoy the favor 
 of a gracious God, which is better than life. By 
 the cross of Christ, the world is reconciled to 
 God. No wonder then that the atoning sacri- 
 fice, of a crucified Saviour, should be all our 
 boast. No wonder that we sho\ild "joy in God 
 through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we 
 have now received the atonement." The cross 
 
 • Acts xiii. Ja 1 R^m. t. 10. J CoL L 2a 
 
CHKI5T, AND J.ZU CEUCIFIED. 821 
 
 of Cbrist invests the sinner witli a robe of purity, 
 the spotless righteousness of Immanuel. All 
 the redeemed in glory have washed their robes 
 and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
 In heaven all are beautified with the wedding 
 garment. The righteousness of a crucified Jesus 
 covers all. " That righteousness," says the pious 
 Doddridge, " to which, on believing on him, 
 thou wilt be entitled, shall not only break those 
 chains by which sin is, as it were, dragging thee 
 at its chariot wheels with a furious pace, to 
 eternal ruin, but it shall clothe thee with the 
 robes of salvation, shall fix thee on a throne of 
 glory, where thou shalt live and reign forever 
 among the princes of heaven, shalt reign in im- 
 mortal beauty and joy, without one remaining 
 scar of divine displeasure upon thee, without 
 any single mark by which it could be known 
 that thou hadst ever been obnoxious to wrath 
 and a curse, except it be an anthem of praise to 
 ' the Lamb that was siain, and has washed thee 
 from thy sins in his own blood.' " "Well may 
 we glory in the cross on account of its righte- 
 ousness. 
 
 3. The cross of Christ delivers us from thia 
 present evil world. "By whom the world i3 
 cru "'ified unto me, and I unto the world." 
 
 "A sigl.t of Jesus on the cross 
 Mnkeb all th's ■won'd appear as dross." 
 
822 CnRlST, AND HIM CilUC^FIED. 
 
 Tlie Christian looks beyond this dying world to 
 his eternal home in glory. The cross of Jesus 
 enables him to soar on high, and leave the world 
 behind him. He looks forward to the g-ory that 
 is to be revealed in him. He sets his affections 
 on things above. O, keep gazing on a crucified 
 Saviour, and the world will lose its charms. 
 "Be of good cheer," says Christ, "1 have over- 
 come the world." We also shall overcome it, 
 through his cross. It is a sight of the cross of 
 Christ that weans the affections from sublunary 
 objects, and centres them on heavenly and divine 
 things. In this wicked world, the Christian 
 thirsts for God, and pants to reach the mansions 
 of glory. The language of his heart in this 
 wilderness is thus beautifully expressed by tho 
 poet: 
 
 " I thirst, but not as once I did. 
 
 The vain delights of earth to share ; 
 Thy wounds Immanuel, all forbid. 
 That I should seek my pleasure here. 
 
 • It was the sight of thy dear cross, 
 
 First wean'd my soul from earthly thiogi^ 
 And taught me to esteem as dross. 
 The mirth of feels and pomp of kings, 
 
 "I want that grace that springs from thee^ 
 That quickens all things where it flows ; 
 And male a wretched thorn, like me, 
 Bloc i: as the myrtle, or the rose. 
 
CHEIST, A:<rD HIH CRUCIiTED 323 
 
 "Dear fountain of delight imknownl 
 No longer sink below the brim ; 
 But overflow, and pour me down 
 A iving, and life-giving stream!" 
 
 4. Anotlier blessing of the cross of Ohrist ia 
 tlie victory over death and the gloomy grave. 
 Death is the last enemy that the Christian has to 
 encounter. But the cross of Christ crowns him 
 with complete victory. It disarms death of its 
 sting and the grave of its terrors. When the 
 swellings of Jordan roll over the believer's soul, 
 the cross of Christ sustains him. When amidst 
 the gloom and darkness of death, a celestial 
 beam from the cross of Christ often shines to 
 guide the Christian pilgrim through the " valley 
 and shadow of death," and to cheer his droop 
 ing soul with a prospect of the glories of the 
 heavenly Canaan. The believer is then enabled 
 to exclaim, "yea, though I walk through the 
 valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy 
 staff they comfort me." It is the cross of Christ 
 that puts this song in the believer's lips. It is 
 Jesus, the sinner's Friend, that smooths the 
 passage to the tomb — to the realms of everlast- 
 ing day. Precious, crucified Savioar I 
 
 " Jesus can mate a dying bed 
 Feel soft as downy pillows are, 
 
824 CHRIST, AND HIM CEtJCIFIED. 
 
 While on his breast I lean my head, 
 And breathe my life out sweetly there." 
 
 The cross of Christ enables the dying Chris* 
 tian to come off the stage of mortal conflict, 
 shouting with Dr. Payson, "Yictory, victory 1 
 Peace, peace!" or with Dr. Simpson, "0 death 1 
 where is thy sting? What art thou? I am 
 not afraid of thee. Thou art a vanquished 
 enemy through the blood of the cross I" The 
 cross of Christ converts the king of terrors into 
 a messenger of peace. Now it is gain for the 
 believer to die. When the Christian closes hi£ 
 eyes in death, it is only " to depart and be with 
 Christ, which is fer better." The cross of Christ 
 enables the believer to finish his Christian war- 
 fare with this triumphant song, " death, where 
 is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? 
 Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, 
 through our Lord Jesus Christ I" 
 
 " Jesus, the vision of thy face 
 Hath overpowering charms; 
 Scarce shall I feel death's cold embrace. 
 If Christ be in my arms." 
 
 5. The cross of Christ opens the portals of 
 glory for our reception. It admits us into the 
 presence of God and crowns us with unutterable 
 hl'ss. There is no way to heaven but through 
 the cross of Christ, When the cross of Christ 
 
CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 325 
 
 was erected on earth, the gates of paradise were 
 opened above. This leads the sinner to glory. 
 The precious blood of Jesus that was poured out 
 upon the cross, is the only procuring cause of 
 heavenly felicity. Jesus died to make us happy 
 — eternally happy. This is the blessed consum- 
 mation of all his sufferings and death. This was 
 the reason why he groaned in Gethsemane, why 
 he bled and died on Calvary. It was to make 
 you shine eternally in mansions of glory. This 
 is the grand design of the preaching of the cross. 
 It points sinners to a glorious immortality. This 
 is one of its ineffable blessings. Salvation is by 
 the blessed cross of Christ. What tongue can 
 express the felicity of the redeemed before the 
 thron e of God ! "What heart can conceive the un- 
 speakable bliss that the ransomed sinner shall 
 enjoy, to all eternity, through the cross of 
 Christ! "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
 neither have entered into the heart of man the 
 things which God hath prepared for them that 
 love him."* "In thy presence," cries the 
 Psalmist, " is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand 
 there are pleasures for evermore."f How differ- 
 ent is earth from heaven I 
 
 " Here griefs, and cares, and pains, 
 And fears, distress us sore ; 
 
 • 1 Cor. ii. 9 f Ps ''^- 11> 
 
 28 
 
S26 CHBIST, AND HIM JR . CIFIBO. 
 
 But there eternal pleasure reigns. 
 And we ahall weep no moi-e." 
 
 In lieaven, the redeemed shall have fulness 
 of joy. What inexpressible joy naust fill their 
 souls when they shall see the King of Heaven 
 in his beauty, •when Jesus shall dwell among 
 them forever and ever I Then shall they be 
 ever, ever with the Lord. Then shall "the 
 tabernacle of God be with men, and he will 
 dwell with them, and they shall be his people, 
 and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
 God. And God shall wipe away all tears from 
 their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, 
 neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
 be any more pain ; for the former things are 
 passed away."* Eternal felicity crowns all the 
 inhabitants of heaven. Eternal glory shines 
 around all the mansions of the blessed. The 
 celestial city is illuminated by the glory of God 
 and the Lamb. Of the glory of that heavenly 
 city, in wliich the saints are to spend ceaseless 
 ages, the following lively description, founded 
 on the word of God, is furnished by the immor- 
 tal Bunyan : " Now just as the gates were opened 
 to let in the men, I looked in after them, and 
 behold the city shone like the sun ; the streets 
 
 * Eev. xn. 3 4. 
 
CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 327 
 
 also were paved with gold, and in them walked 
 many men with crowns on their heads, palms 
 in their hands, and golden harps to sing praises 
 ■withal. There were also of them that had wings ; 
 and they answered one another without inter- 
 mission, saying, Hoh'', holy, holy, is the Lord. 
 And after that, they shut up the gates ; which, 
 when I had seen, I wished myself among them." 
 Those happy soulsy who have washed their 
 robes, and made them white in the blood of the 
 Lamb, and who are on this account presented 
 faultless before the throne of God, shall " serve 
 him day and night in his temple ; and he that 
 sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 
 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
 more ; neither shall the sun light on them, noi 
 any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst 
 of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead 
 them unto living fountains of waters ; God 
 shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."* 
 Who would not glory in the cross of Christ, 
 when it confers so many rich, eternal blessings 
 upon a sinful world 1 In short, all the blessings 
 that are bestowed upon the Christian in his pil- 
 grimage through the wilderness, till he comes to 
 the heavenly Canaan, and all the felicity he en- 
 joys in that world of glory, flo-n directly from 
 
 • Eev. TU 15, 17. 
 
828 CHRIST, AND HIM CRUO.FIED. 
 
 the cross of Christ. From the cross of Christ, 
 he derives ample provision by the way, and 
 when he reaches the mansions of glory, he eata 
 of the fraft of the " tree of life" in the midst of 
 the paradise of God. Here, 
 
 "Jesus the bread of life is giVn, 
 To bo our daily food ; 
 We drink a wondrous stream from beav'n, 
 Tu! \yater, ■wine and blood. 
 
 ' Lord, tis enough, I ask no more^ 
 
 The^e blessings are divine ; 
 I envy not the worldling's store, 
 If Christ and beav'n are mine " 
 
 Blessed cross of a cnicified Saviour, that 
 brings such glory to God, and such peace and 
 good-will to man I 
 
 In conclusion, let me exhort you to glory in 
 the cross of Christ, through life and all its vicis 
 situdes ; and when you stand on the verge of the 
 grave, when you feel the shilly embrace of the 
 last enemy ; yes, when death shall strike its darts 
 at your vitals, adhering to the banner of the 
 cross, you will be enabled boldly and triumph- 
 antly to exclaim, " death, where is thy sting? 
 grave, where is thy victory?" When you 
 arise to immortality ^mid the chaos of a crumb- 
 ling world, while others, in despair, are calling 
 upon the mountains and the rocks to fall on 
 
OHBIST, AND HIM O-IUCIFIED. 329 
 
 them and hide them from Him that sitteth on the 
 throne, then, dear believer in Jesus, you wil] 
 glory in the cross of Christ. As you enter on 
 the saint's everlasting rest, you will triumph in 
 the cross of Jesus; and as you sail on the vast 
 unbounded ocean of eternal blessedness, this 
 shall ever be the unchanging language of your 
 enraptured soul, "God forbid that I should 
 glory save in the cross of o'lr Lord Jesus Christ" 
 
830 CFRTST ATfJ HTAr CRUCIFIED. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 BOLEMH APPEAL TO THE READER. 
 
 Dear reader, allow the MTiter, before he lays 
 aside his pen, perhaps never to resume it, to be- 
 seech you to be reconciled to God — ^to embrace 
 Christ and Him crucified, as your only hope. 
 You have a precious immortal soul to be saved 
 or lost ; a soul, the value of which exceeds in 
 amount all the wealth of the globe, yea of thou- 
 sands of worlds. The value of one immortal 
 soul is faintly expressed by the poet : 
 
 "Knowest tliou the value of a soul immortal t 
 Behold this midnight glory; worlds on ■worlds I 
 Amazing pomp I redouble this amaze ; 
 Ten thousand add ; add twice ten thousand more ; 
 Then weigh the whole ; one soul outweighs them all 1 
 
 The redemption of the soul is precious. 
 " What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the 
 whole world, and lose his own soul ? or what 
 shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" 
 The soul is destined to live through eternity in 
 the bright realms of eternal glory, or in the dis 
 mal regions of etiernal misery and despair, 
 did you ever seriously think of that solenn word, 
 
CHKIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 3S1 
 
 Eternity! Eternity I Forever! Forever! Think 
 of it now. "But who can measure eternity? 
 compared with whose everlasting lines, myriads 
 of years are infinitely less than atoms floating in 
 the midday sun I All thought is lost in its im- 
 mensity, and swallowed up in its fathomless 
 abyss." Eternity is yours — is mine. You shall 
 shortly enter upon an eternity of boundless bliss 
 or unspeakable misery. The trump of God shall 
 soon summon a sleeping world to judgment. 
 The eternal destinies of all men shall soon be 
 irrecoverably fixed. The righteous shall be wel- 
 comed to the kingdom of heaven, where they 
 shall shine as the sun forever and ever; but 
 oh ! how my soul trembles to think of the awful 
 doom that shall be pronounced upon the wicked, 
 on those who have rejected a crucified Saviour, 
 " Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
 prepared for the devil and his angels." 
 
 Did you ever ask that dreadful question, 
 "Who among us shall dwell with devouring 
 fire ? who among us shaU dwell with everlast- 
 ing burnings ?"* Of the inhabitants of the pit 
 it is said, that "their worm dieth not," and 
 there " the fire is not quenched." But, blessed 
 be God, there is a way, an only way to escape 
 the wrath to come. This way is thrc'igh Christ 
 
 • B. xxxiii. 14. 
 
832 CHRIST, AND HIM CEUCIFIBD. 
 
 and him crucified. " God hath not appointed 
 us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord 
 Jesus Christ."* Then flee to Christ, and you 
 shall be saved with an everlasting salvation, 
 You have a loving Saviour. In him compas- 
 sions flow. Rest in his love ; rely on his atone- 
 ment, and glory in his cross. Our parting ad- 
 vice to you is, to take refuge in Christ and him 
 crucified; and when the last awful storm shall 
 arise to crush an ungodly world, it will only 
 waft you into the harbor of eternal glory. To 
 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we commend 
 you. In his hands we leave you. May God 
 grant that both reader and writer may meet in 
 that world of glory, where there is no more sin, 
 nor sorrow, nor pain, nor death; and where 
 God shall wipe away all tears from our eyea 
 Blessed with an interest in Christ and him cru- 
 cified, and cheered with the hope of a glorious 
 immortality, we will approach our graves in 
 peace ; 
 
 "Like one that dra^rs the drapery of his coach 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams ;" 
 
 and at that solemn period, the resurrection of a 
 sleeping world, we shall arise in a glorious im- 
 mortal form, free from all corroding disease or 
 
 • 1 Thes. T. IX. 
 
CHRIST, AND niM CRUCIFIED. 833 
 
 painful death, and surrounded witli the ineffable 
 glories of the Deity, we shall engage in the sub- 
 lime raptures of celestial bliss, bathe in that pure 
 river of the water of life that flows through the 
 paradise of God, and drink of those perennial 
 streams which issue from the fountain of life, 
 while eternal ages roll away. 
 
 "In cheerful hope my soul relies, 
 Blest SaTiour, on thy dying loTey 
 Until I reach the blissful skies, 
 And strike Uie goiaen harp abcfs' 
 
fciikriitp of a .plpira. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The design of this essay is to contemplate tli.e Christian 
 pilgrim's journey through the wilderness of this world to 
 that better land, even the Heavenly Canaan — to point out, 
 briefly, the way by which the Captain of our Salvation 
 leads his followers to glory. 
 
 It has been the grand object of the author to make the 
 reader feel that he is a stranger and a pilgrim on earth — 
 to make him reaUze the' solemn truth, that man is like to 
 vanity; that his days are as a shadow which passeth 
 away ; that mutability and dissolution are the character- 
 istics of all sublunary objects; that — 
 
 ** All, on earthy is shadow ; all beyond 
 Is substance." 
 
 When we look at the brevity and vanity of human life, 
 we may well exclaim, in the beautiful and touching reflec- 
 tion of Edmund Burke, " What shadows we are, and what 
 shadows we pursue .'" — and in the similar impressive lan- 
 guage of Patrick Henry, "lam hut a poor worm of the dust, 
 as Jleeting and unsubstantial as the shadow of the cloud 
 that flies over the fields, and is remembered no more .'"* 
 Or we may rather open the pages of Holy Writ, and say, 
 with the wisest of men, "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity ;" 
 ind with other inspired penmen, " As for man, his days 
 are' as grass ; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth : 
 for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place 
 thereof shall know it no more." — " For what is your life ? 
 
 * This essay was composed during the preparation of a large worh 
 entitled "The most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of the World;" and 
 in writing the memoirs of Burke and Henry the author was so deeply 
 Imoressed with these louchiiig thoughts whict occur in their lives, that 
 he :annct help repeating them here. 
 
 !29 
 
S38 PREFACE. 
 
 It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a ittle time, and 
 then vanisheth away." 
 
 Amidst the excitement and bustle of a busy world, it is 
 to be feared that the Christian too often forgets his true 
 character as a pilgrim, journeying to mansions of glory in 
 the skies. Too apt is he to place his a/Tections upon those 
 terrestrial objects by which he is surrounded in his pil- 
 grimage. How often is this the case with the young 
 Christian, over whom the world, with its delusive pleas- 
 ures, exercises such a fascinating power . 
 
 The author would earnestly and affectionately entreat 
 the young reader to pause with this solemn reflection, 1 
 am hut a traveller here. Remember that you are pass- 
 ing rapidly through a scene of shadows and death to 
 a state of eternal realities. 0, then, we beseech you to 
 live, as God's dear children, above the world, with your 
 eye directed to that blessed Home in your Heavenly 
 Father's House, where the wicked shall cease from troub- 
 ling, and where the weary are at rest. 
 
 Should the few plain words here written be the means 
 of inducing any to pass the time of their sojourning here 
 in the fear of God — of persuading them to live and walk 
 by faith in Christ — to rely, entirely, on His atoning blood 
 for salvation — the author will desire no other reward than 
 the happiness of knowing that he has been an humble in- 
 strument, in the hand of God, for doing good. 
 
 This essay is now cast, as a mite into the treasury of 
 Biblical Literature, and commended to the blessing of 
 Heaven. May it clieer the Christian pUgrim as he jour- 
 neys through this world of sin and sorrow, and lead him 
 to strive more earnestly for the glory, honor, and immor- 
 tality of heaven, — to cleave more closely to Jesus, and to 
 labor more zealously in his cause, so that, when he cuines 
 to pass the vale of life he may enter the abodes of im- 
 mortal glory, and receive the Saviour's plaudit and wel- 
 come, " Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou 
 into the joy of thy Lord. Come, ye blessed of my Father, 
 inherit the kingdom prepared for you & sm the foundation 
 of the world." 
 
 Abotlk, N. T,, Nm., 1856, 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGIUM. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THIS WORLD A wilderness; and the CHRISTLiN A 
 PILGRIM. 
 
 "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as 
 were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a 
 shadow, and there is none abiding." — 1 Cnnos. xxijE. 15. 
 
 Beyond this darksome vale of tears and 
 death there lies a bright and joyous region of 
 immortalitj, where weary pilgrims meet to stray 
 no more. In that happy land their wanderings 
 will have forever terminated, and they shall sit 
 down in everlasting repose under the delightful 
 shadow of the Tree of Life, in the midst of the 
 paradise of God, and enjoy through the bliss- 
 ful ages of glory, the presence and smiles of 
 that Friend and Saviour who, in the tenderest 
 love for them, once poured out his own most 
 precious blood on Calvary, that he might pre- 
 sent theni, faultless, before the throne of Heaven 
 
340 WAKDEEINGS OF A PILGRIM 
 
 ho-w transcendently glorious must be the fu- 
 ture eternal home of tlie Christian pilgrim I 
 On those golden plains beyond the river of 
 death, rays of divine glory are beaming in full 
 effulgence. There, the Sun of Righteousness 
 is shining in all his meridian splendor, making 
 eternity one constant noontide of untold and in- 
 describable glory and blessedness — a day with- 
 out clouds. There, our Immanuel shall be as 
 the " light of the morning when the sun riseth, 
 even a morning without clouds." Eternal day 
 will dawn without a cloud. No gloom or dark- 
 ness wiU ever overspread those blissful realms 
 beyond the shores of time. The celestial world 
 will always be irradiated by the glory of God 
 and the Lamb, and the redeemed shall ever 
 bask in the gladsome sunshine of Infinite Love. 
 In that bright home of pilgrims, the Saviour 
 will conduct his ransomed ones to living foun- 
 tains of waters, — streams of immortal joys, and 
 God shall wipe away all tears. In the presence 
 of Jesus there is fulness of joy ; at his right 
 hand there are pleasures for evermore. Eye 
 hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor has the hu- 
 man heart ever conceived those thiugs which 
 God has prepared for them that love him. An 
 exceeding and eternal weight of glory will 
 crown every pilgrim who has found the happy 
 shores of Immanuel's Land. In the Palace of 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PrLGBIM. 341 
 
 the King of kings, all will be perfectly blessed, 
 and from that " building of God, that house not 
 made with hands," there shall be no more going 
 out ; but we shall ever be with the Lord, behold- 
 ing his glory and enjoying the soul-ravishing 
 manifestations of his endearing love. O, happy 
 abode of Zion's pilgrims I 0, sweet and pleas- 
 ant clime, where the balmy zephyrs of Heaven 
 refresh the weary soul ; where there floweth not 
 a tear ; where there entereth not a pain ; where 
 death itself shall be swallowed up in victory 1 
 This is the heritage of them that fear the Lord. 
 
 But before our feet stand on the blissful 
 shores of the heavenly Canaan, we have to 
 pass through a wilderness scene. This world is 
 that wilderness, where Zion's pilgrims wander 
 tUl they are taken home to glory. It is a 
 thorny pathway that leads to the realms of 
 eternal day; but, by the grace of God, the 
 Christian is enabled to hold on the good way 
 with joy, till he passes through the wilderness 
 and over Jordan, more than a conqueror through 
 Jesus, and takes up his seraphic song of tri- 
 umph amid the undying splendors of immor 
 tality. 
 
 In this little volume it is our design, as has 
 been stated, to contemplate the Christian in his 
 pilgrimage to the promised land — the happy 
 home of all the true followers of Jesus. 
 29* 
 
842 ■WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM 
 
 In this chapter there are two prominent ideas 
 which recur in our mind, and which deserve our 
 serious consideration. 
 
 1st. This world is a wilderness. 
 
 2d. The Christian is a pilgrim here. 
 
 1. To every child of God this world, with all its 
 conceived pleasures, is nothing hut a wilderness, — 
 far from his Father's Souse ; far from that goodly 
 land which he so ardently longs to see and to pos- 
 sess. This is the view which every saint takes 
 of earth ; and it is a just one. What the wil- 
 derness was to the children of Israel in their 
 journey to the promised land, this decaying 
 scene is to the believer in his progress heaven- 
 ward. It is not his rest; it is not his home. 
 On the contrary, it is a wilderness world of 
 trouble, from which he is coming up to the 
 mansions above. The dark, rugged pathway 
 lies through imminent dangers and difficulties, 
 which sometimes rise like mountains before the 
 Christian pilgrim, and threaten to retard his 
 march to the land of immortalit}'. But it is a 
 blessed consolation to know that Jesus guards 
 the way to Mount Zion ; that he will suifer no 
 evil to befall us ; that even here, in this vale of 
 tears, all things shall work together for our 
 good. 
 
 The sorrows and bereavements of life render 
 this earth a trying wilderness world to the child 
 
WANDEEINGS OP A PILG2IM. 343 
 
 of God. Here, the winds of adversity and floods 
 of sorrow sweep along our path, making us 
 long to reach the blissful hill of Zion, where 
 "no chilling blasts annoy,"' — where all is bloom- 
 ing with immortal love and peace. Here, we 
 are almost constantly distressed with difficulties, 
 cares, pains, and griefs, which render this a 
 weary land — " a land of deserts and of pits, a 
 land of drought, and of the shadow of death." 
 
 It is sin that makes this world a wilderness to 
 the saint. On account of the sin in his heart, he 
 often faints, and is ready to die; he feels that 
 this is indeed a valley of weeping, and longs to 
 arrive at the borders of the wilderness, that he 
 may cross into Canaan. 
 
 Besides all this, he has to encounter, in his 
 journey, violent opposition from an ungodly, 
 persecuting world. This makes him cry out, 
 with the Psalmist, " "Woe is me, that I sojourn 
 in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedarl 
 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth 
 peace." In the world, there are fightings with- 
 out, and fears within. How unlike this dark 
 bode of sin and misery are those radiant man- 
 sions far beyond the starry sky! There the 
 v/icked cease from troubling; and there the 
 weary are at rest. 
 
 2. The Christian is a 'pilgrim here.- — He has 
 only a temporary residence in this vale of tears; 
 
844 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM 
 
 his abiding home is ia that -world " where mc- 
 mentary ages are no more." Now he is on his 
 journey to those tearless, blissful regions where 
 he is to spend the ceaseless, revolving ages of 
 eternity. 
 
 When tlie children of Israel were in ibe wil- 
 derness, they had no permanent residence, but 
 were continually roving about from place to 
 place; journeying to that goodly land which 
 flowed with milk and honey, and which was 
 then the glory of all lands ; " a land of brooks 
 of water, of fountains and depths that spring 
 out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and 
 barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegran- 
 ates; a land of oil-olive and honey." So the 
 believer is a pilgrim on earth, with no continu- 
 ing city, nor certain place of abode, travelling 
 through a dreary wilderness to that city which 
 shines in the highest noon of glory ; to that land 
 of blessedness and immortality, where perennial 
 streams of bliss issue from the eternal Fountain 
 of Life to refresh the weary soul, and where we 
 may freely eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life, 
 in the midst of the paradise of God. 
 
 How impressive is the language of Moses to 
 Hobab, in the wilderness : " We are journeying 
 unto the place of which the Lori said, I will 
 give it you." The hosts of Israel, instead of 
 making their strode in the waste, howling wild 
 
WANDERl-'J'GS OF A PILGSIM. 345 
 
 erness, were marching forward to obtain posses- 
 sion of that land which the Lord "sware unto 
 theii- fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to 
 give unto them and to their seed after them." 
 Like those ancient pilgrims, we have a promised 
 land in view, and onward is our motto. Listead 
 of seeking our home and our happiness in a 
 perishing world, we are pressing on to that glo- 
 rious kingdom which Jesus, in his boundless 
 love, has gone to prepare for our reception, and 
 which he has promised to bestow on all them 
 that love him; for he says: "I appoint unto 
 you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed 
 unto me ; that ye may eat and drink at my table, 
 in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the 
 twelve tribes of Israel." And again; "Fear 
 not, little flock ; for it is your Father's good 
 pleasure to give you the kingdom." So the 
 Chi"istian pilgrim, animated by such precious 
 . promises, has good hope, through grace, of gain- 
 ing the happy shores of Canaan ; of possessing 
 the heavenly inheritance — of making his eternal 
 abode in the courts of Paradise; ard of sitting 
 down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, at the 
 banquet of redeeming love, in the kingdom of 
 God. With such glorious prospects in view, no 
 wonder that he should look iipon earth as a bar- 
 ren, homeless world ; that he should feel like a 
 stranger and sojourner in it No wonder that 
 
846 ■WANEEEINQS OF A PILGB M. 
 
 he should speed liis earthly flight to reach the 
 blissful skies. 
 
 We are entreated by a compassionate Savioui 
 to seek the better country. In the wilderness, 
 the divine injunction to the children of Israel was 
 to march forward to the land of promise : "And 
 the Lord said imto Moses, Depart and go up 
 hence, thou i*nd the people which thou hast 
 brought 'jp out of the land of Egypt, unto the 
 land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, 
 and to Jacob, saying, unto thy seed will I give 
 it." The same solemn command, reminding us 
 of our short pilgrimage on earth, is sounding in 
 our ears. It is the entreating voice of the 
 Saviour, calling upon us to forsake this present 
 evil world, and seek our portion in the fair 
 realms of eternal day. It is a voice of com- 
 passion and love that says to us, " Arise ye, and 
 depart ; for this is not your rest. Seek ye first 
 the kingdom of God, and his righteousness." 
 The Christian pilgrim obeys the divine injunc- 
 tion ; sets forward on his journey ; leaves the 
 world, looks beyond this dying scene, gazes on 
 the celestial Canaan, till its glories beam upon 
 his soul, till he breathes the pure atmosphere of 
 the upper world, till his ear hears the glorious 
 melody of heaven and his eye catches a gl'mpse 
 of the king in his beauty, and of the land that ia 
 afar off. O says the weary pilgrim, as onwa:"d 
 
n 
 
 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 347 
 
 he journeys with his eye directed towards the 
 heavenly Canaan. In yonder glorious world ia 
 my rest and abiding home. Yes : 
 
 " There is my house aid portion fair; 
 My treasure and my heart are there, 
 
 And my abiding home ; 
 For me my elder brethren stay, 
 And angels beckon me away, 
 
 And Jesus bids me come 1" 
 
 The Christian confesses that he is a pilgrim 
 here. 
 
 All the children of Zion — all who have ever 
 travelled to the Canaan on high, have acknowl- 
 edged that they were strangers and pilgrims in 
 this wilderness world. Of those ancient worthies 
 who died in faith, — m the bright liope of a 
 blessed immortality beyond the darksome grave, 
 and who are held up in the precious volume of 
 inspiration, for our imitation in the Christian 
 life — ^it is said, they " confessed that they were 
 Btrangers and pilgrims on the earth." To this 
 land of shadows and of death, their views were 
 not confined. No. They looked higher than 
 earth. They desired a better country, that is, 
 a heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to 
 be called their God ; for he hath prepared for 
 them a city. Of Abraham, it is said that he 
 sojoui'ned in the land of promise, a? in a strange 
 
848 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 
 
 countrj, dwelling in tabernacles -wita Isaac and 
 Jacob, the beira with him of the same promise ; 
 for be looked for a city which hatb foundations, 
 whose builder and maker is God. The earthly 
 Canaan was but a type of the heavenly ; and 
 therefore the patriarchs, overlooking the passing 
 scenes of a sublunary world, elevated their views 
 to the true land of promise beyond the skies. 
 
 In contemplating his present state, each child 
 of God is ready to exclaim with the Psalmist, 
 when addressing his Heavenly Father in earnest 
 prayer, " I am a stranger with thee, and a so- 
 journer, as all my fathers were." His feelings 
 with regard to earthly objects are beautifully 
 expressed in the glowing language of the Chris- 
 tian poet: 
 
 *' Kothing on earth I call my own , 
 A stranger to the world, unknown, 
 
 I all their goods despise : 
 I trample on their whole delight^ 
 And seek a city out of sight, 
 
 A city in the skies. 
 
 " Not a foot of land do I possess ; 
 Ho cottage in this wilderness; 
 
 A poor, wayfaring man ; 
 I lodge awhile in tents below, 
 Or gladly wander to and fro, 
 
 Till I my Canaan gain." 
 
 Ttu3 the Christian pursues his journey and 
 
WAKDEEINGS OF A PILGEIM. 349 
 
 pitches his tent nearer and nearer Canaan, till 
 he reaches the banks of Jordan, where some ap- 
 pointed herald of glory is ready to conduct his 
 happy spirit to the bosom of Abraham — to the 
 mansions of rest — to the paradise of God. 
 
 The believer's life is a progressive one. All 
 the true followers of Jesus are daily advancing 
 in their journey towards the realms of peace. 
 They go on, from strength to strength, through 
 this wilderness scene, until every one of them 
 appeareth before God in the celestial Zion. 
 Their earnest and continued endeavors are to get 
 nearer Heaven, to become ripe for glory ; hence, 
 forgetting the things which are behind, and 
 reaching forth unto those which are before, they 
 press toward the mark for the prize of the high 
 calling of God in Christ Jesus. They are not 
 satisfied with their present life in the wilderness. 
 It has but little attractions for them. They are 
 not conformed to the world. They do not think 
 of making their abode in this valley of weeping; 
 but onward they travel towards the land of 
 Canaan — that pleasant region which lies beyond 
 the Jordan of death. Their course is upward, 
 "All Christians," says the pious McCheyne,* 
 " are coming up out of the wilderness. Sabbath 
 days are like milestones — ^marking our way ; or 
 
 • This refers to his journey t- Palestine in 1839. 
 80 
 
850 WANDERINGS OF A PTLG.IIM. 
 
 rather, they are like the wells we used to come 
 to at evening. Every real Christian is making 
 progress. If the sheep are on the shoulder of 
 the shepherd, they are always getting nearer the 
 fold. With some, the shepherd takes long steps. 
 Dear Christians, you should be advancing, get- 
 ting higher, nearer to Canaan, riper for glory. 
 In the south of Russia, the country is of vast plains, 
 rising by steppes. Dear friends, you should 
 get on to a higher place, up another step every 
 Sabbath day. In travelling, you never think of 
 making a house in the wilderness. So, dear 
 friends, do not take up your rest here ; we are 
 journeying. Let all your endeavors be to get 
 on in your journey." 
 
 We would earnestly invite you, gentle reader, 
 to accompany us in our pilgrimage to the hea- 
 venly country. We would beseech you, with 
 the utmost compassion for your immortal soul, 
 to forsake the path of death, and follow the way 
 of life — the way to undying glory and felicity. 
 In a word, we would most affectionately say to 
 you as Moses did to Hobab, " We are journey- 
 ing unto the place of which the Lord said, I will 
 give it you : come thou with us, and we will do 
 thee good : for the Lf:rd hath spoken good con- 
 cerning Israel." 
 
WANDJERIN33 OF A PILGKIU. 35* 
 
 CHAPTER ir. 
 
 OOMMESCEKENT OP THE CHRISTIAN'S JOURNEY DIFFI- 
 CULTIES IN THE WAY. 
 
 " We must through much tribulation enter into the king- 
 dom of God." — Acts, xiv. 22. 
 
 Let U3 adore the grace that seeks 
 
 To draw our hearts above! 
 Attend, 'tis God the Saviour speaks. 
 
 And ev'ry word is love. 
 
 No man begins the journey to tbe heavenly 
 home, until by the gracious influence of the 
 Holy Spirit, his soul is attracted to Christ, the 
 Living Way, the Truth, and the Life. At that 
 happy hour when the heart is opened, and the 
 understanding enlightened to discern spiritual 
 things, the Saviour's love is the first to beam in 
 mild, sweet, constraining influence upon the 
 soul of the renewed man. He wonders that he 
 Avas not able before to discern the beauty, the 
 excellence and glory of Immanuel. Now, Jesus 
 appears to him the chiefest among ten thousand, 
 and altogether lovely. Now, he is ready to ex- 
 claim, "My beloved is mine, and i am his. 
 Whom have I in heaven bat thee ? and there ia 
 none upon earth that I desire besides thee." 
 
 Thus enlightened by divine grace, the pilgrim 
 
852 WANDE RINGS OF A I [LGKIM 
 
 turns from the City of Destruction to the 
 Heavenly Mansions. He leaves the crowded 
 load which leadeth to eternal darkness and woe, 
 and enters on the narrow pathway that conducts 
 the weary traveller to realms of light and bliss. 
 The star of Bethlehem is his guide, — the pro- 
 mises of God's word, his rod and staff; and 
 heaven, his everlasting, happy home. His views 
 are now elevated above the decaying objects 
 around him. His affections are placed upon 
 things above. He contemplates with rapturous 
 delight the bleeding glories of Immanuel, and 
 the shining abode of Zion's pilgrims in the celes- 
 tial kingdom. He is risen with Jesus. He has 
 become a spiritually minded man. He lives and 
 walkd by faith in the Son of God. Though in 
 the world, he is no longer of it ; but belongs to 
 the kingdom of Jesus Christ. As an heir of 
 glory, as a traveller to the skies, as an expectant 
 of eternal bliss, he looks above and beyond the 
 iroublesome scenes of a fleeting pilgrimage. 
 He enjoys the charming and sublime prospect 
 beyond the precincts of time I He beholds in 
 that brighter world, an ocean of glory, without 
 a shore, and without a storm I 
 
 As the Christian pursues his journey, with 
 his eye fixed on the solemn reaHties of eternity, 
 earth and sublunary grandeur appear to him as 
 transitory as the morning cloud and early dew 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 353 
 
 eompai'ed with those immeasurable ages of bliss, 
 which roll before his transported vision. 
 
 A traveller on his journey, loves to cherish 
 the endearing thoughts of home and domestic 
 happiness. Nothing is so dear to him in all his 
 wanderings as the fireside of his fathers — the 
 land of his birth. In like manner, he who has 
 been constrained, by the Saviour's love, to begin 
 the blessed journey from the wilderness of this 
 world to the heavenly Canaan, will delight to 
 meditate on the riches and glory of his Father's 
 house, in the pure, unclouded realms of eternal 
 day. The Jerusalem above will be dearer to 
 him than any earthly object. His language will 
 be: " If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right 
 hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember 
 thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my 
 mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my 
 chief joy." In every stage of his pilgrimage, 
 the Christian loves to think of that better land, 
 his true, abiding home, where he shall sing 
 triumphant songs of praise to his Eedeemer, and 
 his God. 
 
 We have thus hinted at the pleasing view 
 which opens to him from whose eyes the scales 
 of unbelief have fallen, — who is enabled to look 
 at eternal things in the light of God's word ; and 
 who has set out upon the Christian's journey, to 
 the celestial city. We shall now notice a few 
 
854 WANDERINGS OP A PILGKIM. 
 
 of the difficulties which lie in the way to glory 
 for no sooner does the pilgrim enter on the path 
 of the just than he mee3 with obstacles. We 
 mention three sources from which the Christian 
 may expect to meet with great opposition in 
 fighting the good fight of faitti. 
 
 1. The World. — ThQ world with its sinful 
 pleasures and enjoyments is calculated to cap- 
 tivate the affections, enchain the heart and im • 
 pede the pilgrim's progress to the heavenly rest. 
 A thousand fascinating charms are thrown 
 around his pathway through this bewildering 
 world. In city and in country; on land and 
 on sea — everywhere, the soldier of the cross is 
 surrounded by spiritual dangers and difficulties. 
 
 Yet the clear path to thine abode, 
 
 Lies throngh this horrid land ; 
 Lord, we would trace the dangerous road, 
 
 And run at thy command. 
 
 Love of the world is one great means of retard ■ 
 ing our journey to the skies. 0, how many have 
 turned aside from following the blessed Jesus, 
 by placing all their affections upon this present, 
 fleeting scene, which in a very few years at most 
 will profit them nothing! "Demas hath for- 
 saken me, having loved this present world." See 
 to it, Christian, that you love not the world. By 
 fa'th behold the cross of Christ, and the bleed- 
 
HTANDEKINGS OF A PILGRIM. 356 
 
 ing glories of Calvary, and this -wcrld with all 
 its riches and honors will become a dim and 
 dying object in your view. 
 
 "Then, pilgrim, let thy joys and fears 
 Ou time no longer lean ; 
 But henceforth all thy hopes and feara 
 From earth's affections wean." 
 
 Obey the warning voice of mercy if you would 
 
 each the blissful shore : " Love not the world, 
 
 aiher the things that are in the world. If any 
 
 m love the world, the love of the Father is 
 
 '. in him." 
 
 .^'otwithstanding the Christian's endeavors to 
 J 5 above the world, and near to God, how 
 jfi 3n is he compelled to cry out with the Psal mist: 
 ■'l[y soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou 
 me according to thy word." 
 
 "From earth, and all its empty joys, 
 Blest Jesus, set me free ; 
 How vain the worldling's gilded toys, 
 Compared with heaven and thee 1 
 
 " 'riiou art my hope, my way, my bliss. 
 My elorj-, a>;d ny crown; 
 Descend, thou blessed Prince (if Peace, 
 And make my heart thy throne." 
 
 "W"e must also expect to meet with opposition 
 from an unbelieving world. Those who have 
 
856 WANDERIXOS OF A LGBIM. 
 
 their part and portion here do not love them 
 who have chosen a better inheritance above. 
 The world hates a true follower of the Lamb. 
 Jesus was himself the object of their hatred. 
 No wonder then that his followers should meet 
 with the same reception from unbelievers. The 
 Saviour says to his disciples : " If the world hate 
 you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 
 If ye were of the world, the world would love 
 his own ; but because ye are not of the world, 
 but I have chosen you out of the world, there 
 fore the world hateth you." It has been truly 
 said that if we are faithful, we must indeed ex- 
 pect reproach ; if we boldly confess Christ be- 
 fore men, and steadily maintain that marked 
 distinction which forms the line of separation 
 between the church and the world, we must 
 iubmit to have our names cast out as evil. 
 
 2. The Devil. — The Christian pilgrim wiU 
 meet with opposition from Satan. "For we 
 wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against 
 principalities, against powers, against the rulers 
 of the darkness of this world, against spiritual 
 wickedness in high places." The inspired 
 writers give us directions how we are to meet 
 and vanquish this arch enemy of souls. Be 
 sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary, tha 
 devu, as a roaring lion; walketh about, seeking 
 whorr he may devour ; whom resist steadfast in 
 
WANDEEINGS OF A PILiRI\ 857 
 
 the faitli (1 Peter ^ v. 8, 9). Eesist tlie devil, and 
 he will flee from you {James, iv. 7). Put on the 
 whole armor of God, that ye may be able to 
 Btand against the wiles of the devil. Stand 
 therefore, having your loins girt about with 
 truth, and having on the breast-plate of righte- 
 ousness ; and your feet shod with the preparation 
 of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the 
 shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to 
 quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And 
 take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of 
 the Spirit, which is the word of God ; praying 
 always with all prayer and supplication in the 
 Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseve- 
 rance and supphcation for all saints. {E;pli. vi. 
 11, 18.) Let us follow this advice, and we shall 
 win a glorious victory, and receive an immortal 
 crown. The God of peace shall bruise Satan 
 under our feet shortly. In the arms of Jesus 
 we shall be safe, eternally safe from the attacks 
 of our subtle adversary. Satan will never be 
 able to pluck a single believing soul from the 
 hands of an Almighty Saviour. Animated by 
 Buch a consideration, let us press forward in our 
 pilgrimage, armed with the panoply of Heaven ; 
 and in a little while the Satanic conflict will be 
 over; thei we shall take up sweet, unending 
 songa of triumph in that happy place, where the 
 
358 -WANtiSBINGS OF A PILGillM. 
 
 wicked cease from troubling, and where the 
 weary are at rest. 
 
 3. The Fksh. — Another enemy, with which 
 the Christian will have to contend until this 
 mortal shall have put on immortality, is the 
 flesh. As the believer is never perfectly sancti- 
 fied in this life, the remains of corruption in his 
 heart must be a source of continual annoyance 
 to him in coming up from the wilderness to the 
 land of perfection and bliss. Here, the flesh 
 lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against 
 the flesh. The Canaanites are still in the land ; 
 and the soldier of the cross must be always on 
 his guard, lest they surprise and overcome him. 
 " The remainders of corruption require continual 
 watchfulness and circumspection, lest thaj in- 
 crease and regain their former possession of the 
 heart. Sin still dwelling in the believer, causes 
 that warfare, which must never cease till this 
 body is laid in the grave, never more to harass 
 the disembodied spirit, encircled with heavenly 
 glory." How often has the remaining depravity 
 of the human heart made the good man weep 
 and bend, as under an insupportable load, and 
 long to be freed from the bitter thraldom of sin- 
 ful flesh ! This made Paul cry out in the bitter- 
 ness of his soul, " wretched man that I am I 
 who shall deliver me from the body of this 
 death?" But almost with the same breath he 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 859 
 
 exclaims, as he sees the Great Deliverer, "I 
 thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord." 
 Here, then, is our strength and deliverance. 
 Jesus is the s&lvation of Israel. In Him we 
 shall obtain complete dominion over the corrup- 
 tions of our nature. How reanimating to hear 
 that sweet promise whispered in our ears, while 
 we are still in an enemy's land, " My grace is 
 sufficient for thee : for my strength is made per- 
 fect in weakness." 
 
 Then, if we would overcome all the diffi- 
 culties which lie in our pathway to immortal 
 bliss — if we would reach the happy shores of 
 Immanuel's Land — ^let us follow the advice of 
 the Apostle. Let us cast off the works of dark- 
 ness ; let Tis put on the armor of light ; let ua 
 walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and 
 drunkenness; not in chambering and wanton- 
 ness ; not in strife and envying. But, above all, 
 let us put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make 
 not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts 
 thereof. 
 
 What a glorious reward is held forth to hnn 
 who is true to the cause of Christ throughout 
 his pilgrimage on earth I " Be thou faithful unto 
 death, and I will give thee a crown of life." O 
 what unutterable bliss awaits the faithful fol- 
 lowers of Jesus in that eternal, glorious world 
 towai-d which they are daily advancing I And 
 
360 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 
 
 how much is there in the Holy Scriptures to 
 animate us in struggling amid the sorrows and 
 conflicts of the Christian course I They tell us 
 that all the riches and glories of the heavenly 
 Canaan are to be enjoyed through the ceaseless 
 ages of eternity, by those who have overcome 
 by the blood of the Lamb. 
 
 The cheering language of the Saviour is, " To 
 him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
 tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise 
 of God." And again : " Him that overcometh, 
 will I make a pillar in the tem.ple of my God, 
 and he shall go no more out. He that over- 
 cometh shall inherit all things: and I will be 
 his God, and he shall be my son." 
 
 " Oft aa I look upon the road 
 That leads to yonder blest abode, 
 
 I feel distressed and fearful : 
 So many foes the passage throng, 
 I am so weak and they so strong. 
 
 How can my soul be cheerful 1 
 
 "But when I think of Him whose powei, 
 Can save me in a trying hour, 
 And place on Him reliance, 
 My soul is then ashamed of fear ; 
 And though ten thousand foes appeiir, 
 I'll bid them all defiance. 
 
 ' The dangerous road I then pursue, 
 And keep tlie glorious prize in viev, 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 361 
 
 TVIth joyful hope dated ; 
 Strong in the Lord, in Him altne^ 
 Where he conducts, I follow un. 
 
 With ardor unabated. 
 
 " O Lord, each day renew my strength. 
 And let me see thy face at length, 
 
 With all thy people yonder : 
 With them in heaven thy love declsist 
 And sing thy praise for ever tliero^ 
 
 Witli gratituls and wondar." 
 
862 WANDERINOo OF A PILGBIM. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 EjrCOUKAGEMKNTS — ^PROVISION BY THK WAT. 
 
 'Bread Ehall be given him; bis waters shall be sar&*— 
 Is, z:fziiL 16. 
 
 " I thirst! — O God, great Source of Lore! 
 Infinite Life streams from abore^ 
 
 give one drop and let me live I 
 The barren world has naught to give: 
 ITo solace have its streams for me ; 
 
 1 thirst alone for heaven and Thee." 
 
 "When tlie Israelites were marcWng through 
 the burning wilderness of Arabia to the prom- 
 ised land, God nourisbed tbem with bread from 
 heaven, and with water from a smitten rock. 
 Then he opened the doors of heaven, and rained 
 down manna upon them to eat, and gave them 
 of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels' 
 food ; He sent them meat to the full. He clave 
 the rock in the wilderness, and gave them drink 
 as out of the great depths. He brought streams 
 also out of the rock, and caused waters to run 
 down like rivers {Psalm Ixxviii.) The same is 
 true, in a spiritual sense, of Zion's pilgrims, who 
 - arc journeying through this barren wilderness 
 
WANDEEiyGS OF A PILGRIM. 303 
 
 world to the liappy Canaan above. They are 
 encircled in the same Everlasting Arms. Their 
 wants are supplied by the same Almighty Hand, 
 They eat of the hidden manna, and drink of the 
 ■water of life. How beautifully is this compari- 
 son illustrated by the Christian poet 1 
 
 " When Israel by divine command 
 The pathless desert trod, 
 They fonnd, though 'twas a barren lan3, 
 A sure resouree in God. 
 
 " A cloudy pillar marked their road, 
 And screened them from the heat ; 
 From the hard rocks the water flowed. 
 And manna was their meat. 
 
 "Like them we have a rest in view, 
 Secure from adverse powers : 
 Like them we pass a desert, too; 
 But Israel's God is ours. 
 
 Yes, in this barren wilderness, 
 
 He is to us the same. 
 By his appointed means of grace, 
 
 As once he was to them." 
 
 A gracious God, in the infinitude of his love, 
 has provided ample provision for the refresh- 
 ment and support of weary pilgrims in passing 
 through this dark vale to the joyous realms of 
 everlasting light. Here, he has instituted the 
 precicua ordinarces of divine grace and salva 
 
864 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM, 
 
 tion, for our joy and happiness till we come to 
 worsliip Him in His temple above. As our 
 kind Heavenly Father, he has given us the 
 bread of life. Jesus Christ is the true bread 
 from heaven, ■with which the souls of believers 
 are nourished in their lonely pilgrimage. Says 
 the Saviour, " I am the bread of life : he that 
 Cometh to me, shall never hunger ; and he that 
 believeth on me, shall never thirst. I am the 
 living bread which came down from heaven: 
 if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for 
 ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, 
 which I will give for the life of the world." 
 The Israelites, in their wanderings in the wil- 
 derness, were fed with manna ; but we, in our 
 journey to a better land, partake of the fulness 
 of Jesus, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose 
 blood is drink indeed. Here, in this wilder- 
 ness, 
 
 " Jesns, the bread of life, is given 
 To be our daily food : 
 We drink a wondi'ous stream from heayen, 
 "lis crater, wine, and blood. 
 
 " Lord, 'tis enough, I ask no more. 
 These blessings are divine ; 
 I envy not the worldling's store, 
 If Christ and heaven are mine." 
 
 Here, we drink of the living waters of sal- 
 vation — those streams of immortal joys, which 
 
WANDEKJJSTGS JF A t ILGKIM, 365 
 
 issue from the pierced side of a blessed Re- 
 deemer, for the refreshment of thirsty pilgrims, 
 wandering through the deserts of life. The per- 
 ennial fountain of that river, whose streams 
 make glad the city of our God, is to be found in 
 a suffering Saviour ; and at this precious Foun- 
 tain we may quench our thirst forever. 
 
 "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I 
 shall give him," says Jesus, " shall never thirst; 
 but the water that I shall give him, shall be in 
 him a well of water springing up into everlast- 
 ing life." Here is the well of endless life. 
 thirsty soul, come to a bleeding Saviour, and 
 drink, and live forever. You are earnestly in- 
 vited to come to the Fountain of Life. These 
 living waters are freely offered to you, to me, to 
 one, to all. This is the language of redeeming 
 love : " Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to 
 the waters ; and he that hath no money, come 
 ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and 
 mUk without money and without price." {Is. Iv. 
 1.) " The Spirit and the bride say, come. And 
 let him that is athirst, come. And whoso- 
 ever will, let him take the water of life freely.'' 
 {Bev. xxii. 17.) "I will give unto him that ia 
 athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." 
 (Bev. xxi. 6.) 
 
 When the children of Israel left the land of 
 Egypt, the Lord guided them through the path- 
 si* 
 
866 WANDEKIUGS OF A PliGE.M. 
 
 less desert by a pillar of cloud and fire until 
 they were brought to the borders of Canaan. 
 Thus the great Leader of his spiritual Israel has 
 kindled a light in this dark and dreary land to 
 guide his chosen people to that glorious realm 
 on high, where it is said, " The Lord shall be 
 unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy 
 glory." The blessed word of God affords the 
 Christian traveller light, comfort, joy, and pro- 
 vision by the way. Says the Psalmist : " Thy 
 word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto 
 my path. This is my comfort in my affliction ; 
 for thy word hath quickened, me. Thy statutes 
 have beenmy songs in the house of my pilgrim- 
 age. Thy testimonies have I taken as a heri- 
 tage forever : for they are the rejoicing of my 
 heart. How sweet are thy words unto my taste I 
 yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth," 
 
 In the Bible there is every thing provided for 
 the needy traveller to Zion. " It embodies all," 
 says an eloquent living divine,* " that a Chris- 
 tian in this pilgrimage can need. It is his only 
 
 * Kev. J. B. 'Waterbury, D. D., a distinguished clergyman 
 of Boston, — author of "Advice to a Young Christian," 
 "Who are the Happy J' " Consideraticns for Toung Men," 
 <feo, <Sro. These beautiful and excellent practical treatises ■wo 
 would earnestly commend to the attention of every young 
 disciple of the Saviour. They are the productioni of an able 
 &nd pious divine. 
 
WANDEBINGS O? A PILGSIM. 867 
 
 ctart tiirough this tempestuous life. In trouble, 
 it is his coasolatioa ; in prosperity, his monitor ; 
 in difficulty, his guide. Amid the darkness of 
 death, and ■while descending into the shadowy 
 valley, it is the day-star that illuminates his 
 path, makes his dying eye bright with hope, 
 and cheers his soul with the prospect of immor- 
 tal glory." 
 
 Ample provision is set before the pilgrim of 
 Zion in a preached gospel. Here it is that his 
 soul is refreshed with the richest streams of di- 
 vine grace. Here, he draws living water out 
 of the wells of salvation with joy. No wonder, 
 then, that the child of God loves, above all other 
 places in this world, the habitation of God's 
 house. No wonder that his language is 
 
 " I joyed when to the house of God, 
 Go Dp, they said to me ; 
 Jeruealem, within thy gates 
 Our feet shall standing be." 
 
 " How amiable are thy tabernacles, Lord of 
 hosts! A day in thy courts is better than a 
 thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the 
 house of my God, than to dwell in the tenta of 
 wickedness." 
 
 But the most abundant provision is procured 
 for needy pilgrims in the Lord's S'lpper. This 
 .s a most precious, a most soul-ravishing ordi- 
 
868 WANDERINGS OF A TIEGBIM. 
 
 nance of grace. Surely, if there is a time ■wnen 
 the Christian is permitted to lie down in green 
 pastures, by the still waters, in this bleak and 
 barren world, it is during communion seasons, 
 when he draws around that holy table, and med- 
 itates on the wonders of Calvary. Then it is 
 that his weary soul is refreshed with the abun- 
 dance of God's grace, and with the goodness of 
 his house. Then it is that he reposes with the 
 greatest delight under the shadow of Jesus, who 
 protects all his people from the burning wrath 
 of an offended God. " I sat down under his 
 shadow with great delight, and his fruit was 
 sweet to my taste." 
 
 If there is a moment this side of heaven, 
 when the Christian traveller seems to breathe a 
 purer atmosphere than that of earth, it is when 
 seated at the table of the Lord, he takes into his 
 hands the emblems of Immanuel's broken body 
 and shed blood, and, with the eye of faith 
 turned towards Calvary, views that immaculate 
 Saviour nailed to the accursed tree, bleeding 
 from every pore — in his unparalleled love, 
 dying for rebel man, and by his vicarious death 
 opening the way to God and to glory. 
 
 When the believing communicant appropriates 
 Christ and his righteousness as freely oflFered in 
 this ordinance, he feels as if his happy spirit 
 were fanned by the breezes of par&dise. It is 
 
■WANDERINGS OF A PILGEIM, S69 
 
 tLis appropriating act — ^this feasting on Christ 
 crucified that refreshes the weary pilgrim infin- 
 itely more than all the enjoyments of a dying 
 world. This rich provision satisfies the soid as 
 with marrow and fatness : it fills it with joy, 
 unutterable, indescribable and full of glory. Our 
 poor pen cannot describe the joy and peace 
 which a famishing soul experiences when it eats 
 of the hidden manna and drinks of the living 
 water. It is impossible to tell how soul-reviv- 
 ing it is thus to receive a crucified Saviour as 
 ours ; to have his goodness imparted to our souls. 
 
 " How Bweet the sacred joy that dwells 
 In souls renewed by power divine ; 
 Where Jesus all his goodness tells : 
 Ohl may this joy be ever mine." 
 
 Come, then, weary pilgrim, and repose in 
 these green pastures, and bathe in the still wa- 
 ters. You will then be invigorated for treading 
 the pathway through the shades of earth to 
 that bright, happy region where you shall for- 
 ever eat of the fruit of the tree of life in the 
 midst of the paradise of God ; and where you 
 shall drink of that perennial fountain which is- 
 sues from the throne of the Eternal. 
 
 How happy is the condition of Zion's pil- 
 grims even in this land of sorrow! Their 
 wants are al" supplied out of Jesus, in whom it 
 
870 -WANDERINGS OF A PILGKIM. 
 
 hath pleased the Father that all fulness should 
 dwell. Their provision- is prepared by the God 
 of all grace ; and it is sufficient. They shall 
 feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in 
 all high places. They shall not hunger nor 
 thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite 
 them: for he that hath mercy on them shall 
 lead them, even by the springs of water shall 
 he guide them. [Is. xlix. 9, 10.) 
 
 Go then, Christian traveller, on your way to 
 the peaceful shore of glory, singing, with a 
 cheerful heart, the pilgrim's song : 
 
 "The Lord's my shepherd, TU not want; 
 He makes me down to lie 
 In pastures green : he leadeth me 
 The quiet waters by. 
 
 " My soul he doth restore again ; 
 And me to walk doth make 
 Within the paths of righteonsnessy 
 Eyen for his own name's sake. 
 
 " Tea, though I walk in death's dark vale^ 
 Tet will I fear none ill : 
 For Thou art with me ; and Thy rod 
 And staff me comfort stUl. 
 
 " My table Thou hast furnished 
 In presence of my foes ; 
 My head Thou dost with oil anoint^ 
 And -nj cup oyerflowa 
 
WANDERINGS OF A. PllGRIM. 371 
 
 " Goodnes3 and mercy nil my life 
 Shall surely follow me : 
 And in God's house for evermoTa 
 My d>7tsUiEs-i laoe sheU be." 
 
872 WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 
 
 CHAPTLa IT. 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN PILBKIM IN THE VALLEY 01' 3ACA. 
 
 "Who passing through the valley of Baca." — Psalm 
 Izxsiv. 6. 
 
 " God, in Israel sows the seed 
 Of affliction, pain, and toil; 
 These spring up and choke the weeds 
 
 Which -would else o'erspread the soil ; 
 Trials make the promise sweet, 
 
 Trials give new life to prayer ; 
 Trials bring me to his feet, 
 Lay me low, and keep me there.' 
 
 OuE pilgrimage to tlie Heavenly Canaan lies 
 through a valley of weeping. This eartli is a, 
 vale of tears : and it is a path wbich all of 
 Zion's pilgrims must tread until they come to 
 that place where the voice of weeping shall no 
 more be heard. "We must through much tribu- 
 lation enter into the kingdom of God. {Acts, xiv. 
 22.) Of God's own chosen people, it is said, 
 "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; 
 and givest them tears to drink in great measure." 
 The followers of Jesus must not, therefore, ex- 
 pect to find a smooth road to glory. Thou, 
 God, nast proved us : thou hast tried us, as sil- 
 
■WANDEEINGS OF A PI. GRIM. 878 
 
 ver IS tried. Thou broughtest us into the net ; 
 :iiou laidest affliction upon our loins ; thou hast 
 caused men to ride over our heads; we went 
 through fire and water ; but thou broughtest us 
 out into a wealthy place. {Ps. Ixvi. 10, 12.) 
 
 " Our path is strewed ■with piercing thorns ; 
 Ench step is gained by arduous £ght, 
 Tct wait, till hope's bright morning dawns, 
 Till darkness changes into light." 
 
 Some of the trials which render this world a 
 vale of tears, and which the Christian pilgrim 
 is called to suffer, are, bodily sickness, mental 
 anguish, adversity, and bereavement. Who has 
 not experienced some of these afflictions ? 
 
 1. Our limits vdll permit us to notice only the 
 last mentioned — that of bereavement. And whose 
 cheeks have not been moistened by the tears 
 shed for the loss of some dear companion? 
 Who has not, in this land of death, been called 
 *o take the last look of some loved associate in 
 lis toilsome pilgrimage? — to see, perhaps, hia 
 nearest friends lowered in the cold, dark grave ? 
 D how trying to flesh and blood is bereave- 
 Hentl "This is the bitterest of all earthly 
 jorrows. It is the sharpest arrow in the quiver 
 of God. To love tenderly and deeply, and 
 then to par* ; to meet together for the last time 
 or. earth ; to bid farewell for time ; to have all 
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874 •WANDEEINGS OF A PILGEIM. 
 
 remembrances of home and kindred broken 
 up ; this is the reality of sorrow ; — ^to look upon 
 that face that shall smile on us no more; to 
 close those eyes that shaL see us no more ; to 
 press those lips that shall speak to us no more ; 
 to stand by the cold side of father, mother, 
 brother, sister, friend, yet hear no sound and 
 receive no greeting ; to carry to the tomb the 
 beloved of our hearts, and . then to return to a 
 desolate home with a blank in one region of our 
 souls which shall never again be filled till Jesus 
 comes with aU his saints ; this is the bitterness 
 of grief; this is the wormwood and the gall." 
 This is what the saints of God, as well as the 
 men of the world, are daily called to endure ; 
 and this is what renders earth such a vale of 
 tears. 
 
 2. But we would also notice the design which 
 God has in afflicting the righteous. It is to pre- 
 pare them for that better land, where there is 
 falness of joy. It is to draw their affections 
 from earth to heaven — ^from the wilderness to 
 Canaan. It is to make us mindful of our in- 
 heritance above — ^to make us feel that we are 
 strangers and pilgrims on the earth — ^to make us 
 cleave to Jesus by faith— to make us meditate 
 on the wonders of his redeeming loTJ, — to 
 qualify us for a participation of the joys of the 
 redeemed before the Throne. Our light, mo- 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILQR:^. 875 
 
 mentary affliction, worketh for us a far more 
 exceeding and eternal weiglit of glory. "Afflic- 
 tion," says one, "not only profits ns mucli just 
 now, but it wiU serve us mucli in eternity. 
 Then we shall discover how much we owe it. 
 All that it is doing for us, we know not now, 
 but we shall know hereafter. It is preparing 
 for us a ' more abundant entrance,' a weightier 
 crown, a whiter robe, a sweeter rest, a home 
 made doubly precious by a long exile and many 
 sufferings here below." 
 
 " I wonder," says that godly man of other 
 days, Eev. Samuel Eutherford, "I wonder 
 many times that ever a child of God should 
 have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is 
 preparing for them." "When we shall come 
 home, and enter into the possession of our 
 brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads 
 shall feel the weight of the eternal crown of 
 glory, and when we shall look back to pain and 
 sufferings, then shall we see life and sorrow to 
 be less than one step or stride from a prison to 
 a glory, and that our little inch of time-suffering 
 is not worthy of our first night's welcome home 
 to heaven." " However matters go, the worst 
 shall be a tired traveller, and a joyful and sweet 
 welcome home."* 
 
 •Says ttfl excellent divine, Eey. Eoratins BonaT. ot 
 26* 
 
876 WANDERIXaS OF A rLGEIir. 
 
 3. -F;<i amidst all our afflidixm here we are not 
 without strong consolation. — The most precious 
 promises are extended to tbe mourning pilgrims 
 of Zion. There is One that speaks to them in the 
 tenderest love and compassion. God hath com- 
 forted his people, and will have mercy upon his 
 afflicted. {Is. xlix. 13.) I, even I, am he that 
 comforteth you. {Is. li. 12.) There is an eye that 
 watches over suffering pilgrims. There is a 
 hand that smooths the rugged passage to the 
 realms of day. There is a Friend in Heaven, 
 who feels for his sorrowful disciples in this vale 
 of tears. Jesus is that Friend who sticketh 
 closer than a brother ; and his encouraging lan- 
 guage to his afflicted followers is, "Letnotyoux 
 heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe 
 also in me. In. my Father's house are many 
 mansions." " He that goeth forth and weepeth, 
 bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come 
 again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with 
 him." 
 
 There is a joyful harvest-home tor weepir^ 
 
 Kelso, Scotland, "Beloved, 'it is -well.' It is good to be 
 afflicted. Our days of suflfering here we call days of dark- 
 ness ; hereafter they will seem our brightest and fairest. In 
 eternity we shall praise Jehovah, most of all for our sorrows 
 and tears. So blessed shall they then seem to us, that we 
 shall wonder how we jcsild ever weep and sigh." — Nigkiof 
 Weeping, p. 174. 
 
WANDERINGS OF i. PILGEI ll 377 
 
 pilgrims in New Jerusalem. In that happy 
 home, no tears shall ever flow, through the 
 glorious ages of vast eternity. 
 
 "There purity 'witli loTe appears, 
 And bliss -without alloy ; 
 There thay that oft had sown in tears 
 Shall reap again in joy." 
 
 Of those who are marching through this vale 
 of tears to Immanuel's land, our gracious 
 Heavenly Father has said: "They shall come 
 and sing in the heights of Zion ; and they shall 
 not sorrow any more at all : for I will turn their 
 mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and 
 make them rejoice from their sorrow." Then 
 shall every tear be wiped away from the faces 
 of all the redeemed before the throne of God. 
 
 4. A consideration of the brevity of their earthly 
 trials ought to afford relief to weary pilgrims who 
 are loohing to Jesus for eternal life. — They will 
 not be long in the valley of Baca. They wUl 
 soon have reached the heights of Mount Zion 
 Our light affliction is but for a moment. Weep- 
 ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh in 
 the morning. {Ps. xxx. 5.) 
 
 How pleasing is the thought that our redemp- 
 tion is every moment drawing nearer. We may 
 well lift up our heads with joy, for the coming 
 of the Lord draweth nigh. Our journey to tha 
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378 WANDEBINGS OF .4. PILGRIM, 
 
 skies is but a sBort one. We are rapidly ad- 
 vancing to the tearless region. " Everj hour 
 that strikes, — every morning that dawns, and 
 every evening that darkens around us, brings us 
 nearer to the end of our pilgrimage." A few- 
 more tears of sorrow ; a few more days of dark- 
 ness, and nights of weeping, and we shall ever 
 be with the Lord in that better country, where 
 we shall find fulness of joy in the presence of 
 Him who hath loved us with an everlasting 
 love — who hath washed us from our sins in his 
 own most precious blood, and who will wipe 
 away all tears from oih- eyes. Then the Lord 
 will be our everlasting light, and the days of 
 our mourning be ended. Even so, come, Lord 
 Jesus. 
 
WANDEEIK-GS OP 4. PILGRIil. 879 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN ON PISGAh's MOCIJT. 
 
 "Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they sliall 
 behold the land that is very far off." — Is. xxxiii. 17. 
 
 " 1 1783 a grov'ling creature once, 
 And basely cleav'd to earth ; 
 I wanted spirit to renounce 
 The clod that gave me birth. 
 
 " But God has breathed upon a worm. 
 And sent me from above, 
 Wings such as clothe an angel's form— 
 The wings of joy and love. 
 
 ' With these to Pisgah's top I fly. 
 
 And there delighted stand : 
 To view beneath a shining sky, 
 The spacious promised land." 
 
 Before the children of Israel gained posses- 
 sion of the land of Canaan, they were refreshed 
 with a taste of its delicious fruits. In like man- 
 ner, the Christian, before he reaches the better 
 country, has many sweet foretastes of celestia] 
 joys. 
 
 Blessed be God ! the believer is not always in 
 
880 -WANDEBIKGS OF i PILQ3IJI. 
 
 the valley of weeping. There are times when 
 he seems to live above the world, and to have 
 nothing but the glories of heaven in his eye. 
 At such dehghtfial seasons, he can adopt the 
 soul-stirring language of Dr. Payson: "The 
 celestial city is full in my view. Its glories 
 beam upon me, its breezes fan me, its odors are 
 wafted to me, its sounds strike upon my ears, 
 and its spirit is breathed into my heart." 
 
 The views of the pilgrim, when by faith he 
 surveys the better land, are similar to those of 
 the Christian when showed the Delectable Moun- 
 tains. How beautifully and strikingly is this 
 described by the immortal Bunyan: "Then I 
 saw in my dream, that on the morrow he got up 
 to go forward, but they desired him to stay till 
 the next day also ; and then, said they, we will, 
 if the day be clear, show you the Delectable 
 Mountains; which, they said, would yet farther 
 add to his comfort, because they were nearer the 
 desired haven than the place where at present 
 he was ; so he consented and staid. When the 
 morning was up, they had him to the top of the 
 house, and bid him look south. So he did, 
 and behold, at a great distance, he saw a most 
 pleasant mountainous country, beautified with 
 woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, 
 with springs and fountains, very delectable to 
 behold. {Isa. xxxiii. 16, 17.) Then he asked the 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILJRIM. 881 
 
 name of the country. They said it was Im- 
 manud's land ; and it is as common, said they, 
 as this hill is, to and for all the pilgrims. And 
 when thou comest there, from thence thou mayest 
 see to the gate of the celestial city, as the shepr 
 herds that live there will make appear." 
 
 We would notice, in a word or two, how and 
 where the Christian obtains the most glorious 
 views of that Promised Land which lies beyond 
 the Jordan of death. 
 
 1. As Moses oltained a view of the earthly 
 Canaan from the top of Pisgah,so we get a glimpse 
 of heavenly glory from the mount of meditation — 
 our spiritual Pisgah. — " By meditation," says a 
 pious old divine, " I can converse with God — 
 solace myself in the bosom of my Beloved; 
 bathe myself in rivers of pleasures ; tread the 
 paths of my rest, and view the mansions of my 
 eternity. What gainest thou, then, my soul, 
 in this valley of tears ? Up upon the mount, 
 and view the Land of Promise. What canst 
 thou look for in this wilderness of trouble ? Up 
 upon the wing, and take thy flight to Heaven : 
 let thy thoughts be where thy happiness is, and 
 let the heart be where thy thoughts are : though 
 thy habitation may be on earth, yet thy con- 
 versation shall be in Heaven." 
 
 2. It is while waiting upon God in the courts of 
 his house — i^hile se^Jed at the table of the Lord, 
 
382 "WANDEEINGS CF A FILGEIir. 
 
 that the Christian pilgrir.i sometimes obtains the 
 brightest views of Heaven. — ^It is in the earthly 
 temple of the Lord that we oftentimes obtain a 
 glimpse of the heavenly mansion. Here it is, 
 that a sweet promise has been repeatedly veri- 
 fied to the children of God : " Thine eyes shall 
 see the King in his beauty ; they shall behold 
 the land that is very far offi" 
 
 O how delightful is it thus to glance from 
 earth to Heaven — from a dying world to one of 
 immortal bloom — ^from the turbulent scene of 
 our toil and suffering to the peaceful mansions 
 of our rest and felicity I There ic nothing that 
 transports the soul of a weary pilgrim like a 
 faith's view of his eternal rest beyond the swell- 
 ing floods of Jordan. 
 
 " How rich the prospect glows 
 Beyond this vale of tears ; 
 Where crystal water flows, 
 And Terdore crowns the year." 
 
 Come then, fellow pilgrim, and survey your 
 everlasting happy home. Ascend the Mount of 
 Pisgah, and behold the glorious land before you. 
 View the Celestial City, with its twelve gates of 
 pearls, and its streets of gold, enlightened by the 
 glory of God and the Lamb. See the river of 
 pleasure, with its crystal streams, flowing from 
 the Eternal Ttroae; and the Tree of Life, with 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGKilt. 3S3 
 
 its twelve manner of fruits, standing in the 
 midst of the Paradise. Behold the countless 
 throng of t.ie redeemed before the throne. 
 Hear their sweet, melodious strains, which shall 
 ever gladden the realms above: "Unto Him 
 that loved us, and washed us from our sins in 
 his own blood, and hath made us kings and 
 priests unto God and his Father; to Him be 
 glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen." 
 " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive 
 power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, 
 ' and hcnor, and glory, and blessing." 
 
 "There shall the ransomed throng 
 A Saviour's love record ; 
 And shout, in everlasting song, 
 Salvation to the Loed." 
 
 Above all, contemplate your blessed Re- 
 deemer, seat 3d on his great white throne, en- 
 circled with heavenly glory. Look at the King 
 m his beauty. It is the sight of a glorified 
 Saviour that will make the heaven of the be- 
 liever. Endeavor now, by the eye of faith, to 
 behold the Lord Jesus in all his matchless 
 beauty and excellence. Contemplate his glo- 
 rious character; his infinite mercy; his un- 
 paralleled condescension, and his boundless love. 
 Tljere is enough in Jesus to employ the soul in 
 rupturoLis Tieditation tJii'oagh a vast eternitv. 
 
884 ■WASTDERINGS OF A PILGSIM. 
 
 hia excellence, his goodness, and his love can 
 never be fathomed. 0, then, keep your eye 
 fixed on this adorable Saviour, while you so- 
 journ in this vale of tears ; and in a little wliile 
 you shall see him as he is, — ^face to face, and 
 ascribe to him unceasing praise. 
 
 How reviving to the weary Christian traveller, 
 from the top of Pisgah, is a view of his distant, 
 happy home in the Heavenly Canaan ! His 
 feelings on this delightful spot are well ex- 
 pressed in the following beautiful lines • 
 
 "As when the ireary trav'Iar gains, 
 The height of some o'er-looking hijl, 
 IE3 heart revives, if 'cross the plains 
 He eyes his home, through distant stilL 
 
 " While he surveys the much loved spot, 
 He slights the space that lies between; 
 His past fatigues are now forgot. 
 Because his journey's end is seen, 
 
 *' Thus when the Christian pilgrim views 
 By faith, his mansion in the skies, 
 The sight his faiuting strength renews, 
 And wings his speed to reach the priza 
 
 "The thought of home his spirit cheers. 
 No more he grie vct for troubles past ; 
 Nor any future trial fears, 
 So he may safe arrive at last. 
 
 " 'Tis there, he says, I am to dwell 
 With Jesus, in the realms of day 
 Then I shall bid my cares farewell, 
 And he will wi -s my tears away " 
 
WANDERINGS OF X PILGRIM. S86 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE POSTURE OP THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM IN COMINO 
 UP FROM THE WILDERNESS OP THIS WORLD. 
 
 " Who is this that Cometh up from the wilderness, lean- 
 ing upon her Beloved !" — Cant. viiL 5. 
 
 " But, firm as on a root, 
 
 The saint on Christ relies ; 
 He smiles in death's dissolving shock, 
 And mounts into the skies 1" 
 
 The Jewisli churcli came up from the wilder- 
 aess, leaning on the Eternal God for her sup- 
 port. He was the Guide, the Eock, the Salva- 
 tion of his chosen Israel. He found him in a 
 desert land, and in the waste, howling wilder- 
 ness; he led him about, he instructed him, ha 
 kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle 
 stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, 
 spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, 
 beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord alone 
 did lead him, and there was no strange god 
 with him. {Deu. xxxii. 10-12.) In like manner, 
 the Christian church in passing through the 
 deserts of life, has Israel's God for Leader. Tho 
 same gracious eye that watched over the wan- 
 es 
 
386 TSTANDEEINGS CF A PILGEiJI 
 
 dering tribes of Israel in tteir long journey 
 thrcugh the Arabian wilderness, is now watch- 
 ing with the tenderest care and love over that 
 chosen band, who hare forsaken all for Christ, 
 and who are marching through a changing, 
 terrestrial scene to a higher, brighter, nobler 
 world on high. The eye of the Lord is upon 
 them that fear him : upon them that hope in his 
 mercy. {Ps. xxxiii. 18.) He that toucheth you, 
 toucheth the apple of his eye. {Zech. ii. 8.) The 
 same kind hand that led Israel of old to the 
 promised land, guides the humble followers of 
 Jesus to mansions of glory in the skies. The 
 The Lord of hosts is with us. {Ps. xlvi. 7.) The 
 eternal God is our refuge ; and underneath and 
 around us are the Everlasting Arms. 
 
 In the 8th chapter of the Song of Solomon 
 we have the posture of the pilgrim, advancing 
 to the celestial city, beautifully presented to us : 
 " Who is this that cometh up from the wilder- 
 ness, leaning upon her Beloved?" Here we see 
 the blessed object on which the Christian re- 
 poses, while passing through this scene of fluc- 
 tuating and perishing mortality. He reliea 
 entirely upon Jesus Christ, the Beloved of hia 
 soul. He looks to no other source for protec- 
 tion and support. He hopes in no other refuge. 
 His langiTage is, "Lord, to whom shall we go? 
 thou hast the words of eternal life ' 
 
WANDEKINGS OF A PILGRIM. 387 
 
 We -would advert to a few ways in wliicli a 
 believing soul, iu ccming up from the wilder- 
 ness, rests on Jesus, the sinner's Friend. 
 
 1. He rests on him for strength. — The poor 
 pilgrim has no might in himself; but relying 
 on Christ, he can say with holy Paul, " When 
 I am weak, then I am strong." What a happy 
 thing it is to feel our own weakness and nothing- 
 ness in the sight of Heaven ; and then to cast 
 ourselves into the strong arms of Jesus — those 
 arms of infinite love, which encircle and sustain 
 all the righteous. The name of the Lord is 
 a strong tower ; the righteous runneth into it, 
 and is safe. {Prov. xviii. 10.) It is by leaning 
 upon the Beloved of our souls that we are made 
 strong. 
 
 Helpless pilgrim, would you obtain strength 
 for gaining the joyful heights of Zion ? Then 
 look to Jesus. Eest in him now ; and in a little 
 ,vhile, when you cross into Canaan, you will 
 rest with him in that happy land, where weari- 
 ness and sorrow are unknown. Do not trust to 
 your own strength; but wait upon the Lord, 
 and you will be upheld with divine grace and 
 power. Then you will be enabled to press on- 
 ward with the greatest speed and alacrity to the 
 heavenly mansions. The Lord is the hope of 
 his people, and the strength of the children of 
 Israel. {Joel iii. 16.) He giveth power to the 
 
WANDEEINGS OP A PILGEIH. 
 
 faint; and to tliem that have no might he in- 
 creaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint 
 and be weary, and the young men shall utterly 
 fall : but they that wait upon the Lord shall re- 
 new their strength ; they shall mount up with 
 wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be 
 weary ; and they shall walk, and not faint. (7s. 
 xl. 29-31.) 
 
 " Blest Jesus, to my soul 
 
 Thy grace and strength impart ; 
 Till, clothed in perfect righteousness, 
 I see thee as thou art 
 
 " As I wander through the desertj 
 Be my constant help and stay : 
 Shine upon my path, and lead me 
 To the realms of endless day." 
 
 Sappy is he who in the morning of life casts 
 &h his case upon Jesus ; who takes the Saviour 
 as his all and in all — as the strength of his 
 hesjt and his portion forever. He may sweetly 
 sing as he is tossed upon the surging billows of 
 life'a ocean, " Lord, I will praise thee : though 
 thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned 
 away, and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is 
 my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid : 
 for ths Lord Jehovah is my strength and my 
 Bong he also is become my salvation." 
 
 " But Jesus is my living way, 
 
 My only trus my hope, my stay; 
 
WANJERINGS OF A PILGRIM, 389 
 
 From liim, I all my strength receive, 
 Atd daily on his fulness live." 
 
 2. 27:e Ghnstian cleaves to Jesus hy faith. — Ho 
 knows that his Redeemer liveth, and lie rests 
 his whole weight upon him. He lives upon an 
 unseen Saviour. Our life in the wilderness is a 
 life of faith. Here, we live by faith and walk 
 by faith. This will be the manner of our life 
 until we come to behold our Eedeemer face to 
 face in the Heavenly Jerusalem, and enjoy all 
 the blessedness of that better country above. 
 But such a life is one of comfort and joy to the 
 Christian pilgrim in this wilderness land. " ! 
 the blessedness and joy of faith I How does it 
 bring near, and realize a view of Christ in 
 glory ! Do we indeed see Christ by the eye of 
 faith ? Is he the one chief object of our souls ? 
 Is he precious to us? Verily, then, we shall 
 count our days on earth toilsome ones, and long 
 for the full fruition of him in glory. It will be 
 our great joy to see Him, whose blessed head 
 was crowned with thorns, and whose lovely face 
 was spit upon, for us : till then, let us live by 
 faith in him, constantly crying, 'Come, Lord, 
 Jesus, come quickly.' " 
 
 Though the believer may be walking m 
 
 darkness, yet he must still, by faith, lean upon 
 
 the Beloved of his soul. Who is among you 
 
 that feareth the Lordj that obeyeth the voice of 
 3S* 
 
390 WAMDEEINGS OF A PILGRIM. 
 
 his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no 
 light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, 
 and stay upon his God. (Is. 1. 10.) The path- 
 way to the celestial nrxansions is often obscured 
 by darkness. Here, at best, we see but through 
 a glass, darkly.* 
 
 " Darkness overspreads us here. 
 But the night wears fast away : 
 Jacob's star will soon appear, 
 Leading on eternal day 1" 
 
 The commission of sin is the great cause of 
 the Christian being often left to wander in 
 darkness. " Your iniquities, says the prophet, 
 " have separated between you and your God, 
 and your sins have hid his face from you, that 
 he will not hear." How sad is such a condi- 
 tion ! When, for a season, the light of God's 
 countenance is withdrawn from the believer, he 
 is led to cry with pious Job, " Oh, that I werts 
 as in months past, as in the days when God pre- 
 served me; when his candle shined upon my 
 head, and when by his light I walked through 
 darkness." Behold, I go forward, but he is not 
 there; and backward, but I cannot perceive 
 
 •We are but as wayfaring men, wandering in the lonely 
 night, who see dimly upon the distant mountain-peak the 
 reflection of a sun tliat never rises here, but which si all 
 ue ver set in the ' new heavens ' hereafter." — Bonae. 
 
■WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 891 
 
 liim : on the left hand, where he doth woik, but 
 I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the 
 right hand, that I cannot see him ;" and with 
 the Psalmist, "My soul thirsteth for God, for 
 the living God : when shall I come and appear 
 before God?" And he can also say with the 
 pious Cowper, who trod a gloomy p.th to tbe 
 realms of day, 
 
 " for a closer walk with God 1 
 
 A calm and heavenly frame ! 
 
 A light to shine upon the road 
 
 That leads me to the Lamb 1" 
 
 The duty of the Christian, walking in dark- 
 ness, is to trust in the name of the Lord, and 
 stay upon his God. Let him always be found 
 relying upon his Beloved ; and, though his days 
 on earth may be darksome ones, yet at the 
 " evening time" of his pilgrimage " it shall be 
 light." How sweet will be the light of Heaven 
 to sucli a soul I 
 
 " We journey in a vale of tears ; 
 But often from on high 
 Tlie glorious bow of God appears, 
 Aid lights up all our sky. 
 
 'Then through the breaking clouds of heoren 
 
 Far distant visions come, 
 And sweetest words of grace are giTec, 
 To cheer the pilgrim homo." 
 
392 •WANDERIKGS OF 1 PILJKlil. 
 
 In order to obtain tlie greatest light and com- 
 fort now, let the follower of the Lamb be found 
 diligently improving the means of grace and 
 salvation, which God has afforded him. Let 
 the word of Christ dwell in you richly in aE 
 wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another 
 in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, sing- 
 ing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. {Col. 
 iil 16.) How often has a beam from Heaven 
 darted upon the pilgrim while engaged in the 
 sweet employment of praising God 1 
 
 " Sometimes a light snrpriBes 
 
 The Christian while he singB ; 
 It ia the Lord who rises 
 
 With healing in his wings ; 
 When comfoi-ts are declining. 
 
 He grants the soul again 
 A season of clear shining, 
 
 To cheer it after rain," 
 
 3. The believer rests on Jesus for righteousnesn 
 and pardon. — The language of a renewed soul 
 is, "In the Lord have I righteousness and 
 strength." In the Lord shall all the seed of 
 Israel be justified, and shall glory. {Is. xlv. 25.) 
 Man had no righteousness of his own to justify 
 him in sight of Heaven. Not a single soul could 
 have gained the celestial Paradise if the Son of 
 God had not assumed humanity, and by a life 
 of obedience aud suffering, fulfilled the violated 
 
■WAKDEEIN-flS OF A PILGSIM, 893 
 
 law, and brouglit in an everlasting righteous- 
 ness. Blessed be God 1 the Son of Eighteons- 
 ness has arisen upon our benighted worid ; and 
 Zion's pilgrims walk in his light. Christ is the 
 end of the law for righteousness to every one 
 that believeth. {Bom. x. 4.) In the 23d chapter 
 of Jeremiah he is called, "The Lokd oue 
 EiGHTEOUSNESS." Every believer in Christ is 
 arrayed in that linen, clean and white, which 
 is the righteousness of saints. His robes are 
 washed and made white in the blood of the 
 Lamb. 
 
 How happy is the condition of the saint I His 
 sins are all cancelled by the atoning righteous- 
 ness of our Lord and Saviour, whose language 
 is, " I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy trans- 
 gressions for mine own sake, and will not re- 
 member thy sins." As the Christian pilgrim 
 journeys towards the realms of peace, leaning 
 upon Jesus for righteousness and pardon, he can 
 raise his voice in triumphant songs of praise to 
 his Eedeemer. This is one of his sweetest songs 
 in the house of his pilgrimage : " I will greatly 
 rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in 
 his God ; for he hath clothed me with the gar- 
 ments of salvation, he hath covered me with the 
 robe of righteousness." 
 
 He can also look forward to the dark waters 
 of Jorian, and say, with the poet. 
 
894 WANDEEINGS OF A P^LGRI^J. 
 
 • When deata shall loose the silver cord, 
 
 Obedient to thy mandate, Lord, 
 
 My soul shall joy and peace possess, 
 
 If Jesus be my righteousness." 
 
 4. Tlie Christian pilgrim relies on Jesus for 
 guidance through this vale of tears to the peaceful 
 shore of a blessed eternity. — Thou shalt guide me 
 witk thy counsel, and afterward receive me to 
 glory. {Ps. LxxiiL 24.) 
 
 "Jesus, on thee our hope depends, 
 To lead us on to thine abode : 
 Assured our home will make amends 
 For all our toil while on the road." 
 
 Amidst all the vicissitudes of a sublunary 
 scene — ^in prosperity and adversity, in health 
 and sickness, in life and death, the weary pil- 
 grim reclines on the Almighty arm of Jesus, 
 and all is well. He knows that what the Saviour 
 has promised, he will perform; and he reads, 
 with unspeakable delight, these precious prom- 
 ises : " I will instruct thee, and teach thee in 
 the way which thou shalt go : I wiU guide thee 
 with mine eye." (Ps. xxxii. 8.) " And the Lord 
 shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul 
 in drought, and make fat jhy bones : and thou 
 shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring 
 of water, whose waters fail not." {Is. Iviii. 11.) 
 
 6. The believer trusts in Christ for eternal life.— 
 
WANDEEINGS OF A 1 I. GEIM. 395 
 
 Of tiiat little flock -who have chosen the better 
 land for their inheritance, Jesus says, "I will 
 give unto them eternal life; and they shall 
 never perish, neither shall any pluck them out 
 of my hand ;" and again : " I am the resurrection, 
 and the life : he that believeth in me, though he 
 ■were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever 
 liveth, and believeth in me shall never die." 
 This is the most precious promised blessing of 
 the covenant of grace. No created mind can 
 comprehend the fiiU import of these words — 
 ETERNAL LIFE I They include in them the 
 highest bliss of Heaven. Such a life will the 
 Saviour eventually bestow upon those who now 
 repose in him. There is a blissful hour fast 
 approaching, when the weather-beaten pilgrim 
 shall be raised above the storms of life by the 
 Saviour's hand. Beyond the swellings of the 
 Jordan of death there is a peaceful shore, a 
 happy land, where the pilgrims of Zion shall be 
 invested with the robes of immortality, and 
 reign with Christ forever and ever. 
 
 Fellow pilgrim, we would earnestly invite you 
 to come and put your trust in Him who will 
 sustain you amid the heart-rending trials of thLs 
 vale of tears, and who will bring you to a better 
 land — who will bestow upon you an immortal 
 existence, an unfading wreath of glory in that 
 world beyond the stars. In all your wanderings 
 
896 WANDEBINGS OF A P-IiGEIM. 
 
 through this world, cleave closely to Jesus. 
 Live to Him who died for you. 0, may the re- 
 deeming love of the blessed Saviour constrain 
 you to be wholly his. Live with an eye fixed 
 upon his cross. Turn to that sacred mount, 
 and behold a Saviour expiring for your sal 
 vation ; hear him exclaiming, " It is finished." 
 
 " O the sweet wonders of that cross. 
 
 Where Chrisfj my Saviour, loved and died ; 
 Her noblest life my spirit draws 
 
 From his dear wounds and bleeding side." 
 
 Go, then, and live upon Christ Live in the 
 daily contemplation of his glorious atonement, 
 and in the sincere belief of his all-sufl5ciency to 
 save your soul. May your language ever be 
 that of an enrapttired Apostle: "God forbid 
 that I should glory, save in the cross of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is cruci- 
 fied unto me, and I unto the world." 
 
 If you thus live by faith in Christ, and in the 
 blessed hope of a glorious immortality, you need 
 not fear, at the close of life, to tread along 
 death's dark vale — to cross Jordan's swelling 
 stream; for in that solemn hour, Jesus will 
 sustain and comfort you by his presence ; and 
 God will redeem your soul fi-om the power of 
 the grave ; for he shall receive you. 
 
WANPEEING3 OV A PILGEIM. Ij97 
 
 ' O, could I find, from ^^y to day, 
 
 A nearness to my God, 
 Then would my hours glide sweet away, 
 While leaning on his word. 
 
 Lord, I desire with thee to lire 
 
 Anew from day to day, 
 In joys the world can never jive^ 
 
 Nor ever take away. 
 
 "Blest JesuB, come, and rule my heart, 
 And make me wholly thine, 
 That I may never more depart, 
 (for grieve thy love divine. 
 
 •■Thaa, till my last, expiring breath. 
 Thy goodness I'll adore' 
 And when my frame diesoivea in death 
 My (oul shall 1ot« thee nio'*' 
 
S98 vriNIEEINGS OF «L PILGEIM. 
 
 CHAPTER Til. 
 
 PASSAGE OVER THE JORDAN OF DEATIT. 
 
 " When tliott passeat through the waters, I will be with 
 ttce : and through the rirers, they shall not oyerflow thee."— 
 Is. zUii. 2. 
 
 " How sweet the hour of closing clay. 
 When all is peaceful and serene, 
 And when the sun, with cloudless ray, 
 Sheds mellow lustre o'er the scene I 
 
 "Such 13 the Christian's parting hour. 
 So peacefully he sinks to rest ; 
 When faith, endowed from Heaven with power 
 Sustains and cheers his languid breast" 
 
 As the Christian pilgrim is about to leave the 
 wilderness of this world forever, he has to cross 
 a dark stream. The Jordan of death rolls be- 
 tween this world and the Celestial Canaan. Be- 
 fore they obtained fall possession of the prom 
 ised land, the Israelites had to pass over Jor 
 dan; so every traveller to the Canaan above 
 must cross over the river of death, before he ^ 
 admitted into the courts of paradise, and obtains 
 possession of the heavenly inheritance. 
 
 In the 3d chapter of Joshua we have an in- 
 
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 899 
 
 teresting account of the Israe'ites' passage over 
 Jordan. We there read as follows: ''And it 
 came to pass, when the people removed from 
 their tents to pass over Jordan, and the priests 
 bearing the ark of the covenant before the peo- 
 ple, that, as they that bare the ark were come 
 into Jordan, and the feet of the priests were 
 dipped in the brim of the water, that the waters 
 which came down from above stood and rose up 
 upon a heap ; and the priests that bare the ark 
 of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry 
 ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Is- 
 raelites passed over on dry ground." Now, all 
 this is typical of the believer's triumphant pas- 
 sage over the Jordan of death. "When the faint- 
 ing Christian pilgrim comes to the brink of this 
 last swelling stream, over which all must pass, 
 Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, who bears 
 the everlasting covenant on his shoulders, goes 
 before and rolls back the surging waves, that the 
 ransomed soul may pass safely over into glory. 
 In the prospect of dissolution, the saint may 
 say, with a Christian poet — 
 
 " A swelling Jordan rolls between, 
 
 A timid pilgrim I; 
 But grace sliall order all the scene, 
 
 And Christ himself be nigh. 
 He shall roll back the foaming wave, 
 
 Command tlie channel dry; 
 
iOO ■WAN'DSaiNGS OF 4 PILaBIM. 
 
 No sting hath death, no rict'iy gnve. 
 With Jesm in my eye." 
 
 Wliat we design in the few following pages, 
 is, to comfort the timid Christian in the prospect 
 of death ; to show that Jesus is with believers 
 in the dark valley; to cite some of the last 
 words of eminent saints, who, sustained and 
 cheered by the Saviour, have passed over Jordan 
 with songs of triumph; and to contemplate the 
 happy termination of the Christian pilgrim's 
 journey, and his joyful entrance upon the rest 
 above. 
 
 1. The preciotis religion of Jesus affords die 
 strongest consohtion to the Christian pilgrim in 
 the vieio of death. — There is no reason why he 
 should dread its approach. Its terrors are sub- 
 dued; its sting is extracted; it is a disarmed 
 enemy. Death cannot harm the child of God; 
 but for him to die is gain. To such it is the be- 
 ginning of everlasting, celestial joys — the day- 
 break of a glorious eternity. It is only a peaceful 
 slumber in Jesus — an entering into the joy of 
 the Lord. It is but to depart from a land of 
 sorrow and bereavement, and be with Christ, in 
 those happy regions where God shall wipe away 
 all tears from the eye. To the Christian, " death 
 has changed its nature and its name. Call it no 
 more death ; it is the sweet sleep of the body, 
 deposited in its earthly bed, under the eye of 
 
•WANDERINGS OF t PILG3IM. 401 
 
 the Eedeemer, till the morning of the resurrec- 
 tion." 
 
 Many pious Christians are held in bondage 
 by the fear of crossing the river of death. 
 Their feelings with regard to this subject are 
 not what they should be. They ought to rise 
 above the fear of dissolution ; for Christ has de- 
 livered us from this bondage. He has achieved 
 this victory by the assumption of humanity — 
 by destroying the works of the devil, and by 
 passing through the swelling Jordan in out 
 nature. Forasmuch, then, as the children are 
 partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself 
 likewise took part of the same; that through 
 death he might destroy him that had the power 
 of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them, who, 
 through fear of death, were all their lifetime 
 subject to bondage. {Heh. ii. 14, 15.) The Sav- 
 iour has warmed the cold grave for his disci- 
 ples. He has made an easy way through the 
 swellings of Jordan for the faithfal followers. 
 "Why, then, fellow pilgrim, are you afraid to 
 cross this stream when the channel is dry? 
 when you see the footprints of your Eedeemer 
 in the bottom ? when death is but a sure step 
 into glory ? Surely there is no groimd for dis- 
 may to the believer in that solemn hour which 
 terminates his earthly pilgrimage; but every 
 reason for joyfulness. For we know that if our 
 34 
 
402 •WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. 
 
 earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, 
 we ha\e a building of God, a house not made 
 with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Cor. v. 1.) 
 
 There is no condemnation to the believer; 
 for, being justified by faith, he has peace with 
 God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. He has 
 peace during his pilgrimage; he has peace in 
 the hour of death. In Christ, he obtains a com- 
 plete victory over death and the gloomy grave. 
 "Washed in the atoning blood of the Saviour, 
 and clad in the snowy robe of his righteous- 
 ness, he can shout forth joyfully, upon a dying 
 bed, " death, where is thy sting ? grave, 
 where is thy victory? The sting of death is 
 sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But 
 thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, 
 through our Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 It is Jesus, the sinner's Friend, who disarms 
 death of its terrors — who makes a dying bed so 
 easy to the believer ; hence many a once timid 
 pilgrim has been able to say in his last mo- 
 ments, " Is this dying? Is this the enemy that 
 dismayed me so long, now appearing so harm- 
 less, and even pleasant ?" O, how reviving to 
 that 
 
 " Jesua can make a dying bed 
 
 Feel soft as downy pillows are, 
 While on liis breast I lean my head. 
 And breathe my 1 f.- out sweetly there." — — 
 
WAKDSEINflS OF A PILGRIM, 4.03 
 
 2. But Christ is with his chosen people in the 
 midst of Jordan. — His precious pumise is : 
 " When thou passest through the waters, I will 
 be with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall 
 not overflow thee." In their passage through 
 death, the Lord upholds and cheers the souls of 
 his ransomed ones by the endearing manifesta- 
 tions of his gracious presence and wonderful 
 love. 
 
 "How happy is the dying saint, 
 Whose sins are all forgiven; 
 With joy he passes Jordan's flood. 
 Upheld by hopes of heaven. 
 
 "The Saviour, whom he truly loved, 
 Now cheers him by his grace; 
 A glorj- gilds his dj'ing bed, 
 And beams upon his face." 
 
 Hence, thousands of God's children have been 
 enabled to exclaim, while descending into- the 
 shadowy vale, " Yea, though I walk through the 
 valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evil : for thou art with me : thy rod and thy 
 staff they comfort me." It was the soul-ravish- 
 ing manifestation of the Saviour's presence and 
 love that made the martyrs so joyful at the 
 stake ; and it is this that has made many a de- 
 parting saint burst forth sv'ith rapturous jo}'- in 
 such langiage as :his : " Oh I why is the chariot 
 so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of 
 
404 WANDERINGS OP X PILGBIM, 
 
 his chariot? Come, Lord Jesus; come quickly I" 
 O what ama&ing mercy does Jesus often be- 
 stow upon his faithful tbllower in the darksome 
 valley, and in the deep Jordan, when the cold 
 hand of death is upon him 1 
 
 "Jesus, the vision of thy face 
 Hath overpoircring charms; 
 Scarce shall I f«el death's cold embrace, 
 If Christ be in my arms." 
 
 3. We now proceed to cite the dying sayings of 
 a few eminent, pious Christians, who have been 
 wonderfully sustained by divine grace during their 
 passage over the Jordan of death. 
 
 We mention the following glorious exam- 
 ples: 
 
 Donald Cargill : " This is the most joyful day 
 that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth. My 
 joy is now begun, which I see shall never be 
 interrupted." 
 
 Luther : " Into thy hands I commit my spirit , 
 God of truth, thou hast redeemed me." 
 
 Thomas Holland: "Come, come, Lord 
 Jesus, thou bright Morning Star 1 Come, Lord 
 Jesus, I desire to be dissolved and to be with 
 thee." 
 
 John Flavel : " I know that it will bo well 
 with me." 
 
 Alexander Henderson " I am near the end 
 
WANDEEINGS OF A PIIGEIM. 405 
 
 of mjr race, hasting home, and there was never 
 a school- boy more desirous to have the play, 
 than I am to have leave of this world." 
 
 Eev. Thomas Cartwright : " I have found un- 
 utterahle comfort and happiness, and God haa 
 given me a glimpse of heaven." 
 
 John Locke : " the depth of the riches of 
 the goodness and knowledge of God." 
 
 Eev. James H. Evans : " In Jesus I stand." 
 
 Eev. Augustus M. Toplady : " I believe God 
 never gave such manifestations of his love to 
 any creature, and suffered him to live." 
 
 John Tennent : " Welcome God and Father 
 — welcome sweet Lord Jesus I Welcome death 
 — ^welcome eternity. Amen. Lord Jesus, come, 
 Lord Jesus." 
 
 Eev. Samuel Finley: "I see the eternal love 
 and goodness of God. I see the love of Jesus. 
 Oh to be dissolved, and to be with him ! I long 
 to be clothed with the complete righteousness of 
 Christ." 
 
 Eev. Dr. Waddell : " Lord Jesus, receive my 
 spirit." 
 
 Ealph Ers'iine : " Victory, victory, victory." 
 
 John Wesley: "The best of all is, God in 
 with us." 
 
 Felix Neff : Adieu, adieu. I am departing 
 to our Father in perfect peace. Vi3tory, vie- 
 toTy, •? ictory ! by Jesus Christ." 
 
406 WANDEBIK PS OF A PiIGBIM. 
 
 Dr. Bogue : " I am looking to lliat compas' 
 sionate Saviour, whose blood cleanseth from all 
 sin." 
 
 Dr. Kevins: "Death — ^Deathl Now come, 
 Lord Jesus — Dear iSaviour." 
 
 To Dr. Waugh one said, "You are now in 
 the deep Jordan; have you any doubt that 
 Christ will be with you ?" He replied, " Cer- 
 tainly not I "Who else ? Who else ?" 
 
 Eev. D. H. Gillette: "0 that I had strength 
 to shout I I feel so happy ; I hope soon to be 
 able." 0, the precious Saviour; what is the 
 world to me, with all its vanity? Give me 
 Jesus." "Do not weep for me, I am going 
 home." 
 
 Eev. Dr. Alexander Proudfit :* " "When will 
 this lingering conflict end I Oh for a speedy 
 and easy transition ! Oh for deliverance from 
 this corruptible body — this body of sin and 
 death I Come, blessed Jesus, dear Saviour, 
 come I come 1 I long to depart." 
 
 Eev. Dr. John H. Eice : " Mercy is triumph- 
 ant." 
 
 * See an interesting Memoir of this man of God, by Joho 
 Forsyth, D. D. 
 
 Dr. Proudiit was long a paster of the Associate Beformed 
 Cbnrch of Salem, N. Y. , and he tt.is one of the most pioui 
 and fai'.hful cnbissadurs of the cross that has shone in the 
 church 
 
WANDEEINGS OF A PILGRIM, 407 
 
 Dr. Nettleton : " It is meet to trust in tlie 
 Lord." 
 
 Eev. Eobt. Anderson : " Peace 1 peace ! How 
 gracious God is in so making it all peace !" 
 
 Elisha Macurdy : " The Saviour is all mj 
 comfort." 
 
 Thomas Cranfield : " A few more sighs, and 
 then"— 
 
 Wilberforce Eichmond : " The rest which 
 Christ gives is sweet." 
 
 Mrs. Hannah More : " Jesus is all in all. 
 God of grace, God of light, God of love : whom 
 have I in heaven but thee ? It is a glorious 
 thing to die." Her last word was, "Joy." 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Graham: "I have no more 
 doubt of going to my Saviour, than if I were 
 already in his arms." 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Mundy : " The prospect is to me 
 any thing but gloomy." 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Winslow : " How good is the 
 Lord!" 
 
 Maria Fox : " I am thoroughly comfortable." 
 "I know my Saviour loves me, and I am re- 
 posing in his love." 
 
 H. W. Fox : " I am very weak, can scarcely 
 speak, but oh ! happy ! happy ! I" " Jesus, Je- 
 sus must be first in the heart. He is first in 
 mine, yes, he is." 
 
 " Eev Thomas Thomason : " This is a dai'k 
 
408 WANDERINGS OF A PILGBIil. 
 
 valley, but there is light at the end." " Thanks 
 be unto God for his unspeakable gift." " Lord 
 Jesus receive my spirit." " Lord give me pa- 
 tience." " I hope the Lord is coming quickly." 
 
 Thus, we have presented a few dying sayings 
 of several pious Christians who passed the river 
 of death upheld by divine grace.* Lmumer- 
 able other similar cases might be cited; but 
 these are sufficient to show with what great 
 mercy and loving kindness the Lord generally 
 deals with his people in the hour and article of 
 death. Although many of God's children have 
 not enjoyed such bright, sensible manifestationfl 
 of his gracious presence in theij dying momenta 
 — although they may have gone to heaven 
 under a cloud, yet their passage over the Jor- 
 dan of death was as safe as that of the most 
 joyful believer. 
 
 In the matchless dream of Bunyan, we have 
 an admirable description of the triumphant 
 
 • The reader who is desirous of pnrsning this subject 
 more fully, is respectfully referred to our Treatise on " The 
 Love of Christ," where he wUl find thirty-one dying testi- 
 monies of other saints, none of which are included in the 
 aboTe ; and to that excellent work entitled "The Grace of 
 CJhrist," by the Eev. Dr. Plumer — one of the most pious and 
 faithful ministers of Jesus C!hrist. We would earnestly 
 commend this volume to all who have felt the sweet cod 
 otraioir^g influence of the grace of Christ upon their souls. 
 
WANDKilXNGS OF 4 PILGRIM. 409 
 
 passage of the pilgrims over Jordan. There 
 we find that the most timid got over as safely 
 as the most fearless. The last words of Eeady^ 
 to-halt were, " "Welcome, life." The last words 
 of Feeble-mind were, " Hold out, faith and pa- 
 tience." The last words of Despondency were, 
 "Farewell, night! welcome, day!" Even his 
 daughter, Much-afraid, '' went through the river 
 singing ; but no one could understand what she 
 said." 
 
 But how transporting were the last words 
 of Mr. Standfast ! " This river," said he, " has 
 been a terror to many ; yea, the thoughts of it 
 also have often frightened me; but now me- 
 thinks I stand easy, my foot is fixed upon that 
 on which the feet of the priests that bare the 
 ark of the covenant stood while Israel went over 
 Jordan. {Joshua iii. 17.) The waters indeed are 
 to the palate bitter, and to the stomach cold; 
 yet the thoughts of what I am going to, and of 
 the convoy that waits for me on the other side, 
 do lie as a glowing coal at my heart. I see 
 myself now at the end of my journey ; my toil- 
 some days are ended. I am going to see that 
 head which was crowned with thorns, and that 
 face which was spit upon for me. I have for- 
 merly lived by hearsay and faith ; but now I go 
 where I shall live by sight, and shall be with 
 Him in whose company I delight mysel£ I 
 8: 
 
410 WANDEHINGS OF A PILOBIM. 
 
 have loved to hear my Lord spoken of; and 
 Trherever I have seen the print of his shoe in 
 the earth, there I have coveted to set my foot 
 too. His name has been to me as a civet-box ; 
 yea, sweeter than all perfumes. His voice to 
 me has been most sweet, and his countenance I 
 have mor 3 desired than they that have most de- 
 sired the light of the sun. His words I did use 
 to gather for my food, and for antidotes against 
 my faintings. He hath held me, and hath kept 
 me from mine iniquities ; yea, my steps hath he 
 strengthened in his way." 
 
 4. Here we see ike happy termination of the 
 Christian! s pilgrimage on earth. — ^His sorrowful 
 days are ended. He has fought the good fight; 
 he has finished his course; he has kept the 
 faith ; he has obtained the victory ; he has 
 crossed the swellings of Jordan, and gone to re- 
 ceive an immortal crown. 
 
 But who can describe the glories which en- 
 circle the saint, safely landed on the happy shores 
 of Tmmanuel's land ? 
 
 " In vain my fancy strives to paint 
 The moment after death ; 
 The glories that surround the saint^ 
 When yielding up their breath. 
 
 ' One gentle sigh their fetters breaks ; 
 We scarce can say 'They're gone,' 
 
WANDERINGS OP A FlLOtBIM. 411 
 
 Before the willing spirit takes 
 Her mansion near the throne." 
 
 Kow the Cliristian traveller has reached his 
 everlasting home — ^that house not made with 
 hands, eternal in the heavens. Now the trying 
 scenes of earth are passed, and the wanderer, 
 raised above the storms of life, steps upon an- 
 other shore ; he enters a land, blooming with 
 immortality, and illuminated by the effulgent 
 beams of the Sun of Righteousness. Now he is 
 ever with the Lord. Now he is seated with 
 Immanuel on his heavenly throne. Now he is 
 arrayed in the shining robes of glory, and drinks 
 of the rivers of pleasures at God's right hand. 
 When we contemplate the past suffering condi- 
 tion, and the present felicitous state of such a 
 one, we may truly say : This is he who has 
 come out of great tribulation, and has washed 
 his robe and made it white in the blood of the 
 Lamb. Therefore is he before the throne of 
 God, and serves him day and night in his tem- 
 ple. He shall hunger no more, neither thirst 
 any more ; neither shall the sun light on him, 
 nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the 
 midst of the throne shall feed him, and lead him 
 unto liying fountains of waters ; and God shall 
 wipe away all tears froa his eyes. {Eev. vii., 
 U 17.) 
 
412 WANDEEINGS OF A PILGBIM 
 
 happy termination of the pilgrim's journey 
 on earth 1 O blessed beginning of his felicity 
 in heaven I 
 
 " 'Tia past — the voyage of life is o'er, 
 
 Tbe wanderet haila another clime ; 
 On perils borne to yonder shore, 
 
 He views afar the waves of time. 
 The storm that muttered o'er his head. 
 
 The flame that quivered roond his path, 
 Are sweetly hushed ; the cloud hath fled. 
 
 And gone the angry lightning's scath. 
 
 lis past ; and grief is changed to songs 
 
 That angel-cordons love to hear : 
 Tbe harp that to delight belongs 
 
 In softest murmur soothes his ear. 
 For secret sighs that rent his breast 
 
 There's peace to seraphs only known,— 
 The tear that told the hearty oppressed. 
 
 Is gemmed upon the eternal throne. 
 
 Blessed voyager 1 how happy thou. 
 
 Safe moored within the port of peace 
 Once heir of death — immortal now, 
 
 Of pain — thy toils forever cease. 
 may I, too, thus sweetly rise, 
 
 Thus tread yon bright empyrean bee' 
 With joy regain those native skies, 
 
 Secure at last in love like tbea." 
 
ImmannH's f aitJr, 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The desig:! of this essay is to afford a glimpse of Im> 
 manue-'s land; to exhibit some of the powerful attrac- 
 tions of that world of glory. 
 
 To those who are asking the way to Zion, with their 
 faces thitherward, the autlior knows that his present 
 theme will be at all times refreshing. 
 
 Future felicity in Heaven is the most cheering subject 
 that can be presented for the contemplation of the 
 Christian in this vale of tears. What can be more de- 
 lightful than for the weary pilgrim who is fast hastening 
 to mansions in the skies, to meditate on the glories of his 
 future home ? There is much in this subject to animate 
 us in the thorny pathway to immortality. It affords 
 hope in life's darkest hour; it pomts with its glorious 
 light to the realms of bliss, where no tear is ever shed 
 and where no sorrow ever enters. 
 
 There is much in Immanuel's land to engage our hearts 
 in holy meditation while we sojourn as strangers and pil- 
 grims here. The bright mansions of our Father's house 
 — ^the many crowns of glory laid up for us there — the 
 joyous rest that remaineth for our weary souls — the 
 sweet employment of the redeemed in glory — ^the on 
 deared soototj in the heavenly home, are all presented to 
 
416 PBEPAyH 
 
 attract us to Heaven — ^to induce us to set oui ifiections 
 on things abcre. 
 
 Then, let as fix our hearts more steadfastly upon 
 heavenly joys — upon the glories of Immanuel's land. 
 
 In handling this delightful subject, the "Word of God 
 has bsen our guide. To this blessed volume we are in- 
 debted for all the revelations that have been made of the 
 glory of the celestial world. In the Bible we obtain a 
 glimpse of the glorious land. 
 
 May He whose infinite love fitted up those bright 
 abodes of bliss, bless our present efibri; to the souls of 
 men, in leading them to lay up their treasures in Heaven, 
 and to choose that better part which snail never be taken 
 away fi-om them. 
 
 Heavenly meditation is a delightful work, in which our 
 souls should be daily engaged, till we enter the portals 
 of glory, and begin our unending song in the paradiso 
 of God. ! may that sweet hour soon come. 
 
 "01 soon may Heaven nncloso to me I 
 O I may 1 soon that glory see 1 
 And my faint, weary spirit, stand 
 Within that iii^vpy, liappy landr* 
 
 Abqtib, N. T., Nov., 1856L 
 
IMMANUEL'S LAND. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE PLACE. 
 
 • I go to prepare a place for yoo." — Jonw xiy 1. 
 
 ' There is a Tforld of rich delight, 
 Where Tf arm affections glow ; 
 Where reigns the everlasting light, 
 Where crystal waters flow. 
 
 "There happy saints securely dwdl 
 From Satan's deadly power : 
 Their bliss no mortal tongue can teJ, 
 'Unfolding ev'ry hoar.' ^ 
 
 "They dwel with Jesus, and behold 
 The beauties of his face ; 
 Secure in the celestial fold, ' 
 
 And crown'd by sovereign grace. 
 
 * From earth and all its empty joys^ 
 Blest Jesus, set me free ; 
 How vain the worldling's gilded toya; 
 Compared with hoav'n and thee 
 
418 immanuel's land. 
 
 "Thon art my hope, my way my bliae^ 
 My glory, and my crown ; 
 Descend, thou blessed Prince of Feace^ 
 And moke my heart thy throne." 
 
 How full of consolation are the Holy Scrip- 
 tures I They animate the Christian in his pil- 
 grimage on earth ; they point out the way of 
 salvation through a crucified Jesus ; they lead 
 the ransomed sinner to the gates of the celestial 
 city, and seat him amidst the untold and incon- 
 ceivable glories of Paradise. The Scriptures 
 urge us to set our afiections on the glories of the 
 Christian's eternal home. To those in whose 
 hearts Christ is formed the hope of glory, how 
 beautiful, how tender, how soul-reviving is the 
 language of inspiration ! It is written : " If ye 
 then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
 which are above, where Christ sitteth on the 
 right hand of God. Set your affection on things 
 above, not on things on the earth." 
 
 In compliance with the sacred command we 
 shall endeavor, through divine assistance, to 
 raise our thoughts to those scenes of bliss which 
 the redeemed perpetually enjoy before the throne 
 of God and the Lamb. We shall contemplate 
 the place itself where all the precious flock of 
 Christ are to dwell through an endless day. In 
 connection with this we shall notice a few of the 
 powerftu attractions of that blessed abode. 
 
lilMlNUEIi'S LANJ 419 
 
 Heaven is a plaje as well as a state. Among 
 tlie last words of our Redeemer before he lefl; 
 this vale of tears, we find this cheering declara- 
 tion and promise : " I go to prepare a place for 
 you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, 
 I will come again, and receive you unto myself; 
 that where I am, there ye may be also." Pre- 
 cious words from a loving Eriend 1 But follow 
 Him to the land of promise. Christ has now 
 gone to prepare that place for us I what a 
 place will Jesus prepare for his dear children 1 
 What a place will infinite love make' How 
 attractive will it be ! Well may we confess our 
 utter inability to portray the regions of glory, 
 and exclaim with an enraptured Apostle, "Eye 
 hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have 
 entered into the heart of man the thing" 
 which God hath prepared for them that love 
 him." 
 
 Language fails to describe the beauties of Im- 
 manuel's land, and the human mind to conceive 
 its blessedness. " All the glories of kingdoms, 
 all the beauties of gardens, all the splendor of 
 palaces, yea all the riches of creation, form but 
 a faint sketch of the sublime original." We 
 cannot know what heaven really is until we en- 
 ter into " the holy place" and sit down under 
 the shadow of the tree of life in the midst of 
 the Paradiss of God. Then shall wc see in the 
 
420 IMMANt73L S LAND, 
 
 light of glory that it is a happy region — a tappy 
 homo indeed. 
 
 Heaven is a holy place where the King, eter- 
 nal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, un- 
 veUs his glorious perfections in full effulgence. 
 In that blessed place, the Lamb of God, the 
 Saviour of sinners, dwells in his glorified hu- 
 manity. There triumphant saints are gathered 
 home to Christ. There they are made pillars in 
 the temple of God and go no more out. There 
 the host of heaven dwell hx the blissful presence 
 of the King of glory. 
 
 This blessed place should attract us. "We 
 should look beyond this fleeting world. We 
 should endeavor to raise our eyes to Canaan's 
 happy shores, and obtain a ghmpse of those 
 everlasting lulls whence cometh our help. 
 
 Let the Christian ascend the mount of medi- 
 tation, and, by the help of God's word, survey 
 those fair regions which lie beyond the Jordan 
 of death. 
 
 My soul, on Pisgah's mount ascend, 
 "Where Moses once admiring stood; 
 
 There view the promiseil land extend 
 Beyond the swelling Jordan's flood. 
 
 ' By faith survey the landscape o'er. 
 Where living watei-s gsntly flow ; 
 rill earth usurp thy love no more ; 
 Till all thy kindling passions glow.* 
 
IMMANUEL3 LAND. 421 
 
 What glorious prospects are presented to the 
 Christian pilgrim when he, by faith, gazes on 
 the heights of Mount Zion above 1 There 
 stands the New Jerusalem — the city of our 
 God, in dazzling glory. Through its golden 
 streets the river of life rolls its bright waters ; 
 and on the banks of that crystal stream, grows 
 luxuriantly the tree of life, loaded with the 
 richest fruits. To those fountains of immortal- 
 ity the Lamb conducts his white-robed followers, 
 and in tasting of joys the purest and noblest — 
 in feasting on the banquet of redeeming love, 
 the saints spend the ages of glory. 
 
 On those " walls of jasper" and " streets of 
 gold" the sunbeams are always shining ; but no 
 earthly sun illuminates the celestial city. The 
 glory of God enlightens it, and the Lamb is the 
 light thereof. Our Heavenly Father is there, 
 and his glory is manifested there. Jesus, our 
 elder Brother is there, and he is the center of 
 lieavenly attraction — of heavenly glory. 
 
 Heaven is a chosen spot — selected by Christ 
 . — ^prepared from the foundation of the world 
 for the eternal abode of the righteous. To the 
 tieirs of immortality, Christ wiU at last pro- 
 lounce this joyful invitation : " Come, ye blessed 
 of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 
 you from the foundation of the world." 
 
 Thus a place is already prepared for the re- 
 36 
 
422 immanuel's i-and. 
 
 deemed — a place rendered infinitely attractive 
 bj a display of divine po^ver, wisdom, good- 
 ness, and love. The beauty of heaven should 
 attract us. It Ls a place of perpetual loveliness 
 — a kingdom of unfading glory. The earthly 
 Canaan had many attractions; but what was 
 that to the heavenly ? It is the Canaan above 
 that is so glorious. It is that " pleasant land — 
 that goodly heritage" which stretches beyond 
 the swellings of Jordan, that is so attractive to 
 the ChrLstian. 
 
 Every child of God longs to reach those 
 bright shores of a purer clime, where everlast- 
 ing glory bursts upon the weary pilgrim. 
 
 Eespecting the earthly Canaan, Moses' prayer 
 Avas ; — " I pray thee, let me go over and see that 
 good land that is. beyond Jordan, that goodly 
 mountain, and Lebanon." How much more 
 should every ChrLstian earnestly strive and pray 
 that " an entrance may be administered unto 
 him abundantly into the everlasting kingdom 
 of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 
 
 The earthly Paradise was a charming spot, 
 where grew every tree that was pleasant to the 
 sight, and good for food— the tree of life also 
 in the midst of the garden ; and whence issued 
 a crj'stal stream to water the lovely region, and 
 to fertilize a blooming world. How delightful 
 to have dwelt m such a horn? as this ; but Im- 
 
immanuel's land. 423 
 
 manueFs injid, the everlasting home af God'a 
 children, shines far more glorious than ever 
 shone the earthly Paradise. ' 
 
 How consoling to think that every child of 
 God shall finally be brought to that celestial 
 world, to gaze with wondering eyes on its un- 
 told glories! What gratitude do we owe to 
 God for providing such an inheritance for us. 
 To Him we should continually raise our hearts 
 in grateful songs of praise. "We should call 
 . upon our souls and all that is within us to bless 
 his holy name. We should exclaim with the 
 Apostle, "Blessed be the God and Father of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his 
 abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a 
 lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 
 from the dead ; to an inheritance incorruptible 
 and undefiled, and that fadeth not away ; re- 
 served in heaven for you, who are kept by the 
 power of God through faith unto salvation, 
 ready to be revealed in the last time." 
 
 Under many pleasing views, heaven is attrac- 
 tively set forth by the sacred writers. To accom- 
 modate their descriptions to our capacities they 
 adopt various emblems, drawn from sublunary 
 scenes. These figurative expressions but faintly 
 exhibit the glory of the land of immortality. 
 But they will suffice us for the present. In- 
 deed, in our rresent state of existence we could 
 
4:24 IMMANTTEi. S LAND. 
 
 uol possibly bear the full effulgcBce of that 
 glory, which will burst upon the ransomed sonl 
 when mortality is swallowed up of life. 
 
 1. Heaven is represented as a country — " a 
 better country." Of the Patriarchs it is said 
 that they " sought a country ;" that they " de- 
 sired a better country, that is, an heavenly; 
 wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their 
 God; for he hath prepared for them a city." 
 Heaven is that "pleasant land" to which all 
 Christian pilgrims are travelling. We are now 
 in a wilderness world, where the winds of ad- 
 versity blow upon us, and the tempests of sor- 
 row sweep along our pathway. But this is not 
 our home. Our march is heavenward — ^to the 
 glorious land. Guided by the Captain of our 
 salvation we are coming up from the wilderness, 
 and our feet shall soon stand on the glorious 
 mount of God. Our conversation is in heaven ; 
 our future inheritance lies there ; we are look- 
 ing on it as our eternal home. No wonder, 
 then, that it should appear so attractive in our 
 eyes. No wonder that we should long to be- 
 hold the good land which is afar off. All true 
 believers desire that "better country." They 
 feel that they are strangers and pilgrims here ; 
 they look beyond this world to those regions of 
 perpetual delight where they expect to spend 
 countless ages. The hope of salvation animates 
 
immanuel's land. 425 
 
 ihem in every earthly trial, and tho promisea 
 of God's word elevate their view above a 
 vrumbling world. Their hearts overflow with 
 joy unspeakable, and fall of glory, when they 
 are assured of the blessed truth that their eyes 
 Bee the King of heaven in his beauty, and the 
 celestial Canaan m its glory. 
 
 Heaven is a promised land. " We are jour- 
 neying unto the place of which the Lord, said, I 
 will give you." God's word is true. Every 
 saint that has lived on earth shall be brought to 
 this heavenly world, where Jesus reigns in all 
 his glory. Cheer up, then, ye drooping saints. 
 View that happy world where your Saviour 
 reigns, and where you, also, are shortly to reign 
 with him. 
 
 2. Heaven is described as a glorious city — a 
 city that hath foundations, whose builder and 
 maker is God. But who can perfectly paint the 
 splendor of that city, whose light is the glory of 
 God? " Beautiful for situation, the joy of the 
 whole earth is Mount Zion." 
 
 Where will you begin to enumerate the at- 
 tractions of that celestial city — ^the abode of the 
 redeemed ? " Glorious things are spoken of 
 thee, O city of God." We can gain but a glimpsa 
 of its glories now, in the light of God's word ; 
 but they will be seen and told through all eter- 
 nity. With the eye of faith let us now view 
 36" 
 
426 mmanuel's land 
 
 the city of our Grod — the New Jerusalem, set 
 on Zion's holy hill. How dazzling does it ap- 
 pear. Its walls of jasper — ^its gates of pearls — 
 its streets of gold — the city itself " of pure gold 
 like unto clear glass." 
 
 "Lol yonder, rising on the eye, 
 Built on eternal mountains higb. 
 The city of the mighty God, 
 Where men redeem'd hare their abode. 
 
 " See, how the many-color'd rays 
 Of burnish'd gold, and jewels blaze ; 
 Which, sweeter far than earthly morn, 
 The gates, and walls, and tow'rs adorn. 
 
 "How broad and pure the golden street. 
 Where crowding saints and angels meetl 
 No lattice there, but full, and bright^ 
 And near, the uncreated light. 
 
 'The glory of the God of grace. 
 Refulgent in the Saviour's face ; 
 In mild, but awful splendor shown, 
 Upon the highest, brightest throne. 
 
 " Nor circling sun lUumes the day, 
 Nor changeful moon-beams nightly play; 
 No sublunary joys impart 
 Their pleasure to the Christian's heart 
 
 "He needs them not: — Shechinah poors 
 A flood of light from all his stores ; 
 There, in the blaze of endless day. 
 The pu> ?has'd nations gladly stra, " 
 
IMMANUEL'S 1 IND. 427 
 
 When the splendor of " that grezi city, the 
 holy Jerusalem," was manifested to the beloved 
 John, rapt in heavenly vision on the isle of 
 Patmos, he describes it as " having the glory of 
 God : and her light was like into a stone most 
 precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crys- 
 tal. And the building of the wall of it was of 
 jasper ; and the city was pure gold, like unto 
 clear glass. And the twelve gates were twelve 
 pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: 
 and the street of the city was pure gold, as it 
 were transparent glass." How brightly shines 
 the heavenly Jerusalem, irradiated by the glory 
 of God ! No city on earth ever shone like this. 
 Palm3rra, Nineveh, and Babylon, " the glory of 
 kingdoms," were once splendid cities ; but that 
 City of Light, whose foundations were laid be- 
 fore earth rose from chaos ; whose builder and 
 maker is God himself, far outshines them all in 
 unutterable splendor. Yes, and when all earthly 
 cities shall have been buried in everlasting ruin 
 — when a terrestrial globe shall have passed 
 away in one awful conflagration, the celestial 
 city of Zion shall shine in eternal glory, while 
 ransomed sinners walk in golden streets. 
 
 Let the Christian pilgrim who has set out 
 from the city of Destruction to the city of Im- 
 manuel, often contemplate his glorious home. 
 Attracted ly its g" ory, let him look into it, and 
 
428 IMMANUELS LAND. 
 
 long to be among its shining inliabitairts, who 
 sound on golden harps the praises of redeeming 
 love. Standing at the gates of the celestial city, 
 let him gaze, with Bunyan, on its splendor, as 
 those pearly gates are opened wide to admit the 
 transfigured pUgrims. " Now jrfst as the gates 
 were opened to let in the men, I looked in after 
 them, and behold the city shone like the sun ; 
 the streets, also, were paved with gold, and in 
 them walked many men with crowns on their 
 heads, palms in their hands, and golden harps 
 to sing praises withal. There were, also, of 
 them that had wings ; and they answered one 
 another without intermission, saying. Holy, holy, 
 holy is the Lord. And after that, they shut up 
 the gates ; which, when I had seen, I wished 
 myself among them." 
 
 Of that city of glory, John declares : "I saw 
 uo temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty 
 and the Lamb are the temple of it." There was 
 a temple in the earthly Jerusalem, but there is 
 none in the heavenly. Nor is any required 
 there. Sweet, intimate communion with God 
 and the Lamb will be enjoyed there without a 
 medium. The glorious manifestation of the di- 
 vine presence wUl forever dispense with the use 
 of all means of communication between God and 
 his people. Here we worship Him in earthly 
 temples, by the means which he has appointed ; 
 
IMMANUELS LAND, 429 
 
 but there, we shall dwell in his immediate pres- 
 ence, and drink at the Fountain of Life. 
 
 The celestial city is so gloriously illuminated 
 by the effulgence of the Deity that it has no need 
 of a natural luminary to shine in it. " And the 
 city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, 
 to shine in it ; for the glory of God did lighten 
 it, and the lamb is the light thereof." The di- 
 vine presence sheds such a radiance there that 
 it lights up all heaven in everlasting glory. 
 Jesus, the Sun of Eighteousness, shines there ; 
 and in his light we shall see light. Truly light 
 is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes 
 to behold the sun ; but no light is so sweet 
 as this, and no sun so pleasant to behold as the 
 Sun of Eighteousness shining in his meridian 
 splendor. 
 
 In that celestial city, there shall be no night. 
 Eternal day beams with unclouded splendor in 
 the city of Immanuel. No natural or moral 
 darkness shall ever overspread the landscape of 
 glory. " Thy sun shaU no more go down, nei- 
 ther shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the 
 Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the 
 days of thy mourning shall be ended." 
 
 Hasten on, O sweet day, when thy glories 
 shall dawn upon my long-ng soul. 
 
430 immaxxtel's land. 
 
 Eternal day arise and sLine ; 
 
 Thy floods of glory roll. 
 With all these holy joys of thine 
 
 Upon my weary souL 
 
 Then shall I dwell in the light of God's iQ-an- 
 tenance, behold the beauties of his fece, and 
 worship him forever and ever. 
 
 But look again at that celestial city. Eman- 
 ating from God's eternal throne, the river of life 
 flows through its midst. " And he showed me 
 a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, 
 proceeding out of the throne of God and the 
 Lamb." The heavenly Jerusalem is enriched 
 with " the river of God, which is full of water.'' 
 This is the stream that makes Immanuel's land 
 to bloom with immortal joys. This is the river 
 of pleasure — the river, whose streams shall make 
 glad the city of God, the holy place of the taber- 
 nacle of the most High." There, the inhabit- 
 ants of Zion may bathe in the pure fountains of 
 immortality " fast by the throne of God," and 
 drink freely of those swelling streams of purest 
 joy which flow through the realms of glory. 
 
 Through Tcrdant Yales and flow'ry meada, 
 His streams the crystal river leads ; 
 From life's eternal throne it strays, 
 And swelling tides of joy conreys. 
 
 In the city of our God is the tree of life^ of 
 
immanuel's land. 431 
 
 whose delicious frait tlie saints eat, and under 
 whose ambrosial bowers, tbey dwell in eternal 
 tepose, and celestial bliss. " In the midst of the 
 Street of it, and on either side of the river, was 
 there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner 
 of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; 
 and the leaves of the tree were for the healing 
 of the nations." 
 
 There is much in the heavenly Jerusalem to 
 attract you — many crowns of glory — many man- 
 sions of bliss — many songs of praise — ^much that 
 the eye has never seen, the ear never heard, nor 
 the human mind never conceived. Strive, then, 
 to obtain an interest in Jesus, that you may 
 " have right to the tree of life, and may enter in 
 through the gates into the city." How cheering 
 is the promise of the Saviour ; — " To him that 
 overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, 
 which is in the midst of the Paradise of God !" 
 Then fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on 
 eternal life, and you will come off more than a 
 conqueror through Him that loved you and 
 gave himself for you. 
 
 3. Heaven is represented as a glorious build- 
 ing — the building of God — the future happy 
 home of the Christian. " For we know," says 
 the Apostle, " that if our earthly house of this 
 tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building 
 of God, an house not ma9e with hands, etemjd 
 
432 IMMANtJEL'S LAND. 
 
 in the heavens." Confident of reaching thia 
 blessed home, the believer is enabled to exclaim 
 with the Psalmist, " Surely, goodness and mercy 
 shall follow me all the days of my life ; and I 
 will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." 
 Heaven is the eternal Father's house, in which 
 are many mansions — the home of the redeemed, 
 where congregated nations sing the song of 
 Moses and the Lamh. 
 
 When Christ would comfort his sorrowful 
 disciples, he sets forth heaven under the endear- 
 ing emblem of a home — a Father's house, 
 adorned with many spacious mansions. "In 
 my Father's house," says the Saviour, "are 
 many mansions; if it were not so, I would 
 have told you." 
 
 There is something peculiarly attractive m 
 tnis description of heaven. How sweet is even 
 an earthly home, but how endeared will be that 
 home above, where we shall meet with our 
 Heavenly Father — ^with our elder Brother — 
 with our dear Christian friends, who went to 
 glory before us — ^with the whole household of 
 faith I In that house not made with hands, 
 there are "Tuiany mansions" for our entertain- 
 ment. There is ample room and provision for 
 all God's children in the upper sanctuary — 
 every thing tc render them happy, unspeak- 
 ably happy to all eternity. 
 
immanuel's land. 488 
 
 May tlie reader so live in the faitli of the 
 gospel, that when his clayey tabernacle is rea<ly 
 to crumble into dust, his immortal spirit, guided 
 by the angels of God, may take its joyful flight 
 to the mansions of glory, and dwell forever in 
 those realms of bliss, — 
 
 " VHiera beauty amiles eternally, 
 And pleasure nevsr dioa" 
 87 
 
484 IMITANTJEL'S LAND. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 TBB BLESSEDNESS. 
 
 Biassed are the pure in hearty for they shall see God."— 
 Matt. v. 8. 
 
 "At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermnreL* 
 — P». xvi. ,1. 
 
 "In those blest regions of delight; 
 Where Jesos is tmreird to sight, 
 Ifo mortal tongue can e'er express 
 The ransom'd Hinaer's blessedness." 
 
 The blessedness of heaven is a powerful at- 
 traction to draw souls to it. And it is presented 
 in all its cLarms in the world of God — presented 
 to you — to me. Then let us seek it If we are 
 tnie believers in Jesus, we shall soon enjoy all 
 that unspeakable blessedness which the Bible 
 nowprese nts to the Christian's view. The bless- 
 edness of the redeemed in glory will consist in 
 the exemption from all evil, and in the enjoy- 
 ment of all good. There wiU be nothing to 
 hiurt or destroy in all God's holy mountain. 
 All will be blessed there in the possession of the 
 greatest good. Every enjoyment in heaven, 
 will conspire to increase and perpetuate the bless* 
 
tmmanuel's land. 435 
 
 edness of the saints in light. Those happy- 
 souls whose robes have been washed white in 
 the blood of Immanuel, and who are presented 
 faultless before the throne of God, " shall hunger 
 no more, neither thirst any more ; neither shall 
 the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the 
 Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall 
 feed them, and shall lead them unto living foun- 
 tains of waters ; and God shall wipe away all 
 tears from their eyes." 
 
 The redeemed in glory shall be placed far 
 above the reach of a sinful world, and shall 
 dwell securely in heavenly bliss. There, they 
 shall flourish in our God's holy place. There, 
 they shall be crowned with blessedness, and 
 glory and immortality. How attractive does 
 the blessedness of heaven appear, as presented 
 in the Holy Scriptures 1 No heart can conceive 
 it — no tongue can express it. It is a boimdlesa 
 ocean of eternal delights. Here, the Christian 
 tastes but drops from the ocean above ; but soon 
 he shall stand on the " crystal sea of glass" be- 
 fore the throne, and drink endless pleasures in. 
 
 Blessed Jesus I Prepare us all for serving 
 thee in mansions above — for participating in 
 those joys which are in thy presence — in those 
 pleasures which are at thy right hand forever. 
 " In thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right 
 hand there are pleasures for evermore." 
 
436 immanuel's tAND, 
 
 In attempting to speak of the blessedness oi 
 heaven, we may, in the first place, conceive of it 
 negatively. " Not only what is in heaven should 
 attract ns to it, but what is not there."* And 
 do you ask what is not there? We answer, 
 there is no sin — ^no sorrow — no tears — ^no pain — 
 no disease — ^no death, in heaven. 
 
 1. No sin there. It reigns in this world ; but 
 in heaven its very existence will be eradicated. 
 There the children of God shall never complain 
 of a body of sin and death. Those immortal 
 forms that surround the throne of God are all 
 sinless beings. Sin will never shed its baneful 
 iofluence in the Paradise above. Satan can find 
 no admittance there. None of his fiery darts 
 will be cast in glory. 
 
 2. No sorrow there. In heaven there will be 
 no more " sorrow." It is here — ^within us — ^all 
 around us. Who has not felt the withering 
 touch of sorrow ? This is a world of sorrow. 
 Here, one wave of trouble after another sweeps 
 over us until we close our eyes in death. " In 
 the world," says the Saviour, "ye shall have 
 tribulation." It is expressly declared, that " we 
 must through much tribulation enter intc the 
 kingdom of God." How often have we tasted 
 this biiter fruit of sin! How often have oui 
 
 • Nevias 
 
IjtMANUEL'S LAND. 487 
 
 hopes been blasted; our expectations disap* 
 pointed! How often have we been called to 
 mourn the loss of near and dear relatives ! Here 
 our hearts are almost constantly filled with 
 some kind of sorrow. But, dear fellow-pilgrim, 
 cheer up. There lies a bright prospect before 
 us. Has not your eye caught a glimpse of 
 yonder golden plains beyond the grave, where 
 no sorrow ever comes, and where you hope to 
 dwell with Jesus, in endless glory ? Then go 
 on your way rejoicing in tribulation. Heaven 
 will make amends for all your momentary sor- 
 row here. You will soon forget all sublunary 
 grief in that land of blessedness, where sorrow 
 is no more. 
 
 3. No tears there. " God shaU wipe away all 
 tears from their eyes." No expression of grief 
 is there — ^no "crying" — ^no mourning. There 
 "sorrow and mourning shall flee away." Hap- 
 py world, where all the redeemed are, with 
 cheerful countenances, rejoicing in God their 
 Saviour I There no tears bedew the cheek. 
 What a striking contrast is there between hea- 
 ven and earth in this respect. This world, with 
 all its fancied happiness, is nothing in reality 
 but a vale of tears ; and you have not to live 
 many years before you experience the sad truth 
 of this. Here sin has entered; and sorrow has 
 entered, and *jars flow but in the celestial Je- 
 37* 
 
438 IMJIANCEL S LAND. 
 
 nisalem "the voice of weeping shall be no 
 more heard, nor the voice of crying." There, 
 dear Christian, " thou shalt weep no more ; the 
 days of thy mourning shall be ended." Here 
 the people of God are called to shed many tears. 
 " Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and 
 givcst them tears to drink in great measure." 
 How consoling, in such a vale of tears as this, 
 to think of heaven I How attractive does that 
 joyful l.*>nd appear to the mourning Christian I 
 He knows that God will there gently wipe away 
 all his tears. The tears of the righteous wiU 
 soon cease to flow. In a little while " the Lord 
 God will wipe away tears from off all faces." O, 
 what a happy thought, to think that it is God 
 himself who will wipe away every tear of sor- 
 row in glory I Surely the Christian ought to 
 rejoice how. 
 
 4. In heaven there will be no pain nor dis 
 ease. "Neither shall there be any more pain; 
 for the former things are passed away." Of that 
 celestial world, " the inhabitants shall not say, I 
 am sick." Pain and disease ravage this Mien 
 world. " The whole creation groaneth and 
 travaUeth in pain together." Here even the 
 righteous "is chastened also with pain upon hia 
 bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong 
 pain;" bat there God will remove from him all 
 pain and sickness forever. Here the children 
 
IMMANUEl S LAND. 43& 
 
 of God are often laid on beds of afflicticn, and 
 "wearisome nights are appointed unto them;" 
 there blooming health shall cheer their souls, 
 and they shall experience pain and disease no 
 more. "What a great blessing to be eternally 
 free from all pain and sickness ! To tbe sons 
 and daughters of affliction bow attractive should 
 that world appear, where a hind Heavenly 
 Physician not only wipes away every tear, but 
 heals all diseases and frees from all pain I " Bless 
 the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his 
 benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; 
 who healeth all thy diseases !" 
 
 6. Heaven is a land of immortality. Jesus 
 Christ hath abolished death, and brought life 
 and immortality to light through the gospel. 
 In those happy regions beyond Jordan's stream 
 there is no death. "And there shall be no 
 more death." Immortal life will be enjoyed by 
 all the blessed inhabitants of Immanuel's land. 
 How animating in a dying world like this, to 
 think of a glorious immortality I How unlike 
 this land of death is heaven! There all is 
 blooming immortality. Here, in the midst of 
 life we are in death ; we are surrounded with 
 the dying and the dead , thousands fall within 
 our view. The 3''0ung, the beautiful and the 
 vigorous, are not exempted from the painful 
 stroks of the king of terrors. There death it 
 
440 immaxuel's land. 
 
 self is swallowed up in victory. Here the dear- ■■ 
 est ties that bind us to earth are cut asunder. 
 Death does not even spare our nearest and dear 
 est relatives. His icy hand is often stretched 
 over the face of a beloved vrife — an affectionate 
 husband — ^a smiling babe — a tender son or 
 daughter — a loving sister or brother — a dear 
 parent. But in heaven, death shall strike its 
 darts no more. How reviving to the Christian 
 who is mourning the loss of pious relatives, to 
 think that in those joyful regions of bliss, he 
 shall meet his dear departed friends who now 
 sleep in Jesus. Then shall we ever be with 
 the Lord in his temple of glory, where parting 
 is no more, and where there is no more painful 
 separation of kindred souls in death. 
 
 Let the mourning Christian take comfort 
 from this blessed hope. The last enemy will 
 soon be destreyed. God is just ready to say of 
 his people, " I will ransom them from the power 
 of the grave ; I wUl redeem them from death :" 
 and of death, " death, I wiU be thy plague I 
 grave, I will be thy destruction!" "This 
 corruptible must " soon " put on incorruption, 
 and this mortal must put on immortality : then 
 shall be brought to pass the saying that is writ- 
 ten, Death is swallowed up in victory." As 
 we enter the portals of glory and place our feet 
 o:. the blessed shores o' immortal'ty, we may 
 
immanuel's laxd. 441 
 
 triumphaatly exclaim, " death, -wliere is thy 
 Bting I grave, where is thy victory 1" "And 
 there shall be no more death." 
 
 We come now to notice the positive blessed- 
 ness of heaven. And what is there that is so 
 attractive? In heaven, there is not only the 
 absence of all evil, but the actual enjoyment of 
 the highest good—of blessedness unspeakable. 
 There is the tree of life in the midst ef the 
 Paradise — ^the hidden manna — fulness of joy — 
 rivers of pleasures — crowns of glory that fade 
 not away — eternal life — society the most pure, 
 perfect and lovely — sweet communion with God 
 — the glorious presence of the blessed Saviour. 
 And this is enough — enough to satisfy the most 
 capacious desire. 
 
 What heart can conceive, or what tongue can 
 describe, the blessedness contained in this single 
 verse of Scripture : " Therefore are they before 
 the throne of God, and serve him day and 
 night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the 
 throne shall dwell among them." This blessed- 
 ness awaits all the children of God. Happy 
 thought I In heaven the saints will be perfectly 
 blessed, in the full enjoyment of God through 
 aU eternity. The eternal God will be the inex- 
 haustible source of all their blessedness. From 
 the fountain of Infinite Love they will derive 
 the purest bliss In the ocean of divine blessed- 
 
442 immaxuel's lind. 
 
 nesa and glory, they shall, bathe forever and ever 
 The blessed less of the saints wiil be derived 
 directly &om God, the fountain of all goodness. 
 He will supply tlie wants of all his people. He 
 will crown their beads with immortal bliss. 
 What blessedness must fill the ransomed soul 
 when it is brought to dwell in the presence of 
 Him, " who only hath immortality, dwelling in 
 that light which no man can approach unto; 
 whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom 
 be honor and power everlasting. Amen." 0, to 
 bask in the full beams of His light, who.se glory 
 kindles up the realms above in inconceivable 
 splendor I What must those blessings be which 
 a God of love will confer upon his blood-bought 
 flock 1 How innumerable, how invaluable, how 
 soul-ravishing will they be! In heaven, the 
 blessedness of the saints will flow in an eternal 
 stream fi-om God, their Saviour. There, every 
 soul will be filled with all the fulness of God. 
 0, what rivers of blessedness will flow firom 
 the' Eternal Fountain! 
 
 The redeemed will enjoy all that unspeakable 
 blessedness, arising from a display of the divine 
 glory — from sweet, unrestrained intercourse 
 with God — ^from the manifestation of a Sav- 
 iour's love — from the enjoyment of that love 
 through eternity. What more does an immor- 
 tal soul djs're — ^wha more can it enjoy ? 
 
tMMAKDEL'S LAND. 443 
 
 This single attraction, the enjoyment of God 
 in Chi ist through a blessed eternity, should draw 
 every soul to glory. Such a blessedness, eternity 
 alone can unfold. This blessing will enrich 
 your soul to all eternity. 
 
 If you have found the " pearl of great price," 
 all the bliss of heaven will be yours — the pleas- 
 ures at God's right hand — fulness of joy in his 
 presence — a right to the tree of life ; in a word, 
 the inheritance of all things. " He that over- 
 cometh shall inherit all things; and I will be 
 his God, and he shall be my son." " All things 
 are yours ; whether Paul, or ApoUos, or Cephas, 
 or the world, or life, or death, or things present, 
 or things to come; all are yours, and ye are 
 Christ's, and Christ is God's." 
 
 Blessed with the presence of Christ, the saints 
 shall enjoy that glorious rest which remained 
 for them. Wearing the crowns of glory which 
 a Saviour's love placed upon their brow, they 
 shall participate in the ecstatic joys of heaven. 
 They shaU eat of the tree of life, which is in 
 t1-.e midst of the Paradise of God. Yes, 
 
 The tree of life shall bless their sighti 
 With golden fruit their taste delight • 
 Beneath its green and spreading boagh^ 
 The harp shall lull them to repose ; 
 And in seraphic pleasures deep, 
 Tliei ; powe .-ful senses ever steep. 
 
444 immanuel's land. 
 
 They shall eat of the hidden manna, and re- 
 ceive a white stone ; and in the stone a new 
 name ■written, which no man knoweth, saving 
 he that receiveth it. They shall be clothed with 
 white raiment, and their names shall not be 
 blotted out of the book of life. They wUl en- 
 compass the throne of God with everlasting 
 songs of praise ; they shall even sit with Christ 
 on his throne. " To him that overcometh will 
 I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I 
 also overcame, and am set down with my Father 
 in his throne." 
 
 The Lamb in the midst of the throne, la 
 the immediate source of heaven's blessedness. 
 Christ will ever remain the glorious Head of 
 his living members — his mystical tody, the 
 church. He will supply their every want. He 
 will provide for them rich blessings — ^the ines- 
 timable blessings of eternal salvation. " They 
 shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall 
 be in all high places. They shall not hunger or 
 thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite 
 them : for he that hath mercy on them shall 
 lead them, even by the springs of water shall he 
 guide them." 
 
 The Lamb not only feeds them with heaven's 
 richest fruits, but also guides them to fountains 
 of bliss — springs of living water. " The Lamb 
 which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed 
 
immanuel's land. 445 
 
 them, and stall lead them unto Uving fountains 
 of waters." Blessed lot of the righteous I 
 Happy is that people, that is in such a case ; yea, 
 happy is that people whose God is the Lord I 
 In contepiplating such blessedness, well may 
 we exclaim with the inspired Penman, "Happy 
 art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, 
 people, saved by the Lord, the shield of thy 
 >elp, and who is the sword of thy excellency ?" 
 
 Heaven is a place of eternal blessedness. Ko 
 change from happiness to misery is experienced 
 there. None of the vicissitudes of earth shall 
 be there. One perpetual scene of bliss crowns 
 all. One wide, unbounded field of expanding 
 blessedness spreads away, far away before every 
 soul clad in glory. 
 
 In heaven, there will be an eternal progress- 
 ion in knowledge and happiness. Every new 
 discovery of the ways and works of the Al- 
 mighty, will roll new tides of glory and blessed- 
 ness around the ransomed soul. 0, what pow- 
 erful attractions are these ! Should they not 
 draw you to glory ? What are all the pleasures 
 of a dying world compared with one hour's en- 
 joyment of heavenly blessedness ? How worth- 
 less ! May you possess more permanent joys 
 than those of earth. May it be your happiness 
 to reign with Christ forever and ever. May 
 God grant that every reader of this little volume 
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446 immanuel's land. 
 
 may be brought to enjoy that blessedness which 
 is reserved for the righteous, in another and a 
 better world ; and to his glorious name be ever- 
 'jisting praise. Amen. 
 
immakukl's land. 447 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE JOT. 
 
 "In thy presence is fulness of joy." — Psaui ivi, U 
 
 " There, in thy blissful presence, reigns 
 Immortal joy serene ; 
 No wintiy storms are heard to roar, 
 Nor desolation seen. 
 
 Around thee flow unmix'd delightuj 
 
 Like rivers deep and iride ; 
 While from the ocean of thy lore^ 
 
 Proceeds an endless tide. 
 
 "Thou of all joy the centre art ; 
 Oh I never from my soul depart ; 
 Blest Jesus I let thy saving love. 
 Like dew, drop gently from above." 
 
 When the Christian has passed the vale of 
 life, and done with mortal care and grief, the 
 Saviour mil welcome him home to glory with 
 this joyful invitation, "Enter thou into the joy 
 of thy Lord," Then begins the heavenly joy of 
 the believer. He rests with Jesus; he enters 
 into the joy of his Lord. And what is this joy ? 
 What is there about it that is so attractive ? It 
 ia a joj imspeakaMe and full of glory The 
 
448 IMMA-fUEL'S LAND. 
 
 pen cannot describe it, nor the tongue ieclare 
 it. It is the joy of being with Christ — the joy 
 of possessing the heavenly inheritance — a ful- 
 ness of joy. The joy of heaven is full, satisfying, 
 and eternal. It is ecstatic joy. It transports the 
 ransomed soul with ineffable delights. 
 
 This joy is to be found in the blissftd presence 
 of Christ. Blessed Jesus I Thou art the source 
 and centre of heavenly joy. Enable me to fix 
 my heart upon thee. Bestow upon me, thy un- 
 worthy servant, the joys of thy salvation. Let 
 me not wander one moment from the path of 
 life. Guide me safely through the wilderness — 
 over Jordan — ^till, landed on Canaan's happy 
 shores, I see thee face to fece, and, in thy pres- 
 ence, taste, through eternal ages, the joys of a 
 redeemed soul. 
 
 " In thy presence," cries the Psalmist, " is 
 fulness of joy." There is an abundance to fill 
 every soul. There will be no want of joy in 
 heaven. The saints will always " be joyful in 
 glory." 
 
 How ravishing will be the joys of the re- 
 deemed in the mansions of glory I What inef- 
 fable joy win flu the soul of the believer, when 
 he sits down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 
 in the kingdom of God — when he reigns with 
 Immanuel on his throne — when he views all 
 heaven's bliss as his Amidst such joys as 
 
IMMANUJLS LAND. 449 
 
 these, surely his enraptured soui must be lost in 
 wonder, love, and praise. 
 
 But the joy of the glorified saint in the pres- 
 ence of Christ is beyond human comprehension 
 or knowledge. 
 
 "His joys are all alike unknown, 
 As, seated on Immanuel's throne. 
 He drinks the liring streams of bliss 
 And views all heaven's joys as his." 
 
 Let us contemplate the joy of the saint who 
 is presented faultless before the presence of God. 
 There is a glorious day approaching, when " the 
 redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come 
 with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy 
 shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain 
 gladness and joy ; and sorrow and mourning 
 shall flee away." Then shall ransomed sinners 
 begin their songs of joy fulness in the celestial 
 Zion. Then shall aU their tears be wiped away, 
 and eternal joy and gladness fill their happy 
 souls. 
 
 There are three sources from which joy will 
 be brought to the saint in his glorified and ex- 
 alted state; a contemplation of the past, the 
 present, and ^e future. 
 
 1. When he arrives at the realms of glory 
 and looks back upon his past sufferings, how 
 will joy arise in his heart "W 'th pleasure will 
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450 immandel's lind. 
 
 he contemplate the way through which the Lord 
 has led him. Now he sees that all his earthly 
 trials, and afflictions, and sorrows, and tears have 
 come to an end. He has got safely over the 
 tempestuous ocean of hfe and reached the bless- 
 ed haven of Immanuel's land. This reflection 
 will afford him unspeakable joy. He views 
 with a joyful heart all the former dealings of 
 God with his soul. Though, during his pil- 
 grimage on earth, he was often ready to exclaim 
 with the afflicted Patriarch when contemplating 
 the providences of God with regard to himself, 
 "All these things are against me ;" yet now he 
 sees that " all things" have worked together for 
 his good. In heaven, Christ will make every 
 thing plain to the believer. " What I do thou 
 knowest not now," says the Saviour, but thou 
 shalt know hereafter." The blessed " hereafter" 
 has come when the Christian will know why so 
 many calamities befel him on earth ; why so 
 many afflictions were sent upon him, why so 
 many sorrows were strewed around his pathway 
 to immortal bliss. All was fitting him for glor}'. 
 Every trial, every affliction was lifting him 
 higher towards heaven. Now, that he has reach- 
 ed the blessed shores of glory, he will joj? fully 
 exclaim, in the view of thejpas^, "0, Lord, thou 
 hast led me forth by the right way." 
 
 2. Look again at the joy of the saint with 
 
ijimanuel's land. 451 
 
 Christ as he views his present glorious state. 
 How will his heart overflow with seraphic joy 
 and love, when he sees his Eedeemer, who is to 
 him the most attractive of all objects, and the 
 blessed source of his joj's ! If, not having seen, 
 he loves him, and in him, though now he sees 
 him not, yet believing, he rejoices with joy un- 
 speakable and full of glory, what will be the 
 joy when he shall see him as he is, face to face, 
 in the heavenly Icingdom, in all his matchless 
 beauty ! Of this joy we can know but little. It 
 passeth human thought. All the preciousness 
 and loveliness of the Saviour will then appear 
 to view. This will fill the soul with unutter- 
 able joy. The enraptured saint will be enabled 
 to exclaim without fear or hesitation, " My Be- 
 loved is mine and I am His ; He is the chief 
 among ten thousand and altogether lovely." 
 The presence of the Saviour will be a source of 
 unspeakable joy to the Christian. Nothing will 
 cause the heart to rejoice more than this biissful 
 sight of a glorified Redeemer. Christ cheered 
 his sorrowful disciples with this blessed hope. 
 " I will see you again," says he, " and your 
 heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh 
 from you." From- the blessed Jesus will ema- 
 nate swelling streams of joy to refresh and in- 
 vigorate fae people of God. How s-jveet is this 
 thought Has heavenly joy any attractions 
 
452 immanuel's la>id. 
 
 for my readers ? Is not this single considera- 
 tion — the joy arising from a sight of Christ 
 and his glory, sufficient to lead them to inquire 
 the way to Zion? "What more powerful at- 
 traction could present itself to allure sinners to 
 glory ? But there are innumerable rivulets of 
 joy that issue from this fountain. The pres- 
 ence and society of the glorious Saviour is a 
 boundless ocean of joy ; while the enjoyment of 
 heavenly bliss, the communion with saints and 
 angels, are the streams of pleasure that are lost 
 in this fathomless abyss. As the saint views his 
 present condition, he sees that it is one of per- 
 fect blessedness. What emotions of joy must 
 thriU through his soul when he sees himself en- 
 circled with divine glory ; when he views all the 
 present bUss of heaven as his ; when he is made 
 a partaker of all the soul-ravishing enjoyments 
 and delights of paradise ! 
 
 3. But this is not all. As he views the future, 
 one perpetual scene of blessedness lies before 
 him. Ages of glory in endless succession, in 
 which he is to possess fulness of joy in the pres- 
 ence of Grod, roll away before his blissful imagi- 
 nation. What ineffable joy must spring up in 
 his heart as he contemplates eternal bliss! He 
 sees before him an ocean of glory without a 
 shore, and without a storm. An eternity of 
 glory must surrly fil his soul with inexpressible 
 
immanuel'3 land, 453 
 
 joy. "With the greatest delight ■will he meditate 
 on eternity. This is the crowning glory of the 
 whole. The anticipation of the future will af- 
 ford the saint present felicity ; and as he sails 
 over the boundless ocean he wiU rejoice with 
 joy unspeakable and full of glory. 
 
 Concerning his people, a God of infinite love 
 has said, " Everlasting joy shall be unto them." 
 
 The joys of the redeemed in glory have no 
 end. Those happy souls before the throne of 
 Grod fear no termination to their heavenly feli- 
 city. Well may the poet exclaim : — 
 
 " Conld you, so rich in rapture, fear an end ; 
 That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, 
 And quite unparadise the realms of light." 
 
 Thus we have briefly noticed heavenly joy , 
 but the half is not told. 0, that every reader 
 may be attracted by those unspeakable joya 
 which are in the presence of God. Let him con- 
 template these joys, let him anticipate them, and 
 he win look beyond the fleeting delights of an 
 evil world, to those pleasures which are at God's 
 right hand forever. Earth will then lose its at- 
 tractions, and heaven be ever in his eye. 
 
 Let the Christian take courage in his pilgrim- 
 age ; let the joy of the Lord be his strength. 
 Let him remember, that though this world is a 
 nigh.'' of W3eping, yet there is a bright mornincj 
 
454 immanuel's land. 
 
 coming — a morning, of everlasting joy. " Weep- 
 ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh in 
 the morning." Let the weeping Christian re- 
 member that he will soon reap in joy — that he 
 shall joy in God, his unfailing portion through 
 a glorioss eternity. "They that sow in tears 
 shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weep- 
 eth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come 
 again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with 
 him." 
 
 May a bleeding Saviour be your all and in 
 all ; and when his glory shall be revealed, may 
 you, among countless millions, be one who shall 
 be glad also with exceeding joy. 
 
 Eest in Jesus, and in a little while all will bo 
 well. 
 
 "Now unto him that is able to keep you 
 from falling, and to present you feultlcss before 
 the presence of bis glory with exceeding joy, 
 to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
 majesty, dominion and power, both now and 
 ever. Amen." 
 
 "Joy ia a fruit that will not groTT 
 la nature's barren soil ; 
 All we boast till Christ we know. 
 Is vanity and toil. 
 
 * But where the Lord has plRoted graoe^ 
 And icaj-? Lis irloriaa known 
 
IMUAKUEL'S LANb. 466 
 
 There fruits of lieavenlj joy and peam 
 Are found, and there alone. 
 
 ' A bleeding Saviour seen by fuith, 
 A sense of pard'ning love ; 
 A hope that triumphs overdeath. 
 Give joys like those abovo. 
 
 To take a glimpse trithin the veil. 
 To know that God is mine; 
 
 Aie springs of joy that never fail. 
 Unspeakable I divine t 
 
 • These are the joys which satisfy^ 
 And sanctify the miud ; 
 Which make the spirit mount on high, 
 And leave the world behind. 
 
 ^ So more, believers, mourn your Tift, 
 But if you are the Lord's ; 
 Resign to them that know him BCt, 
 8ueh joys ns earth oifordn,' 
 
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466 immanuel's land. 
 
 OHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE QLORT. 
 
 * The glory Trliich thou gavest me, I iave given them *— 
 JoHK zriL 22. 
 
 * The ransom'd soul, in glory clad. 
 Shines brighter than meridian snn , 
 The weary pilgrim, now so sad, 
 There finds his toilsome journey doce. 
 
 ' Cheer up, ye saints, oppress'd with grit^ 
 With joy expand your drooping wing ; 
 Jesua affords the kind relief; 
 Jesus extracts the envenom'd sting. 
 
 ijoon will yon reach the blest abode. 
 Where happy pilgrims ever reign ; 
 
 &oon shall yon see the face of God, 
 And all the bliss of heaven obtain." 
 
 Heaven is a glorious place. Its glory should 
 attract us. How delightful to think of heavenly 
 glory! How it raises the soul above earth! 
 Let us soar on high and view the glory of the 
 New Jerusalem, and of the saints in light. We 
 have seen that the glory of God and the Lamb 
 irradiates the celestial world. There, the Sun 
 of Eighteousness always shines, and his beams 
 gladden the hearts of a ransomed host. There 
 
immaxuel's _,and. 457 
 
 God smiles, and the nations of the saved walk 
 in the light of his countenance. There is one 
 perpetual noontide of glory in the mansions 
 above. There is glory — "an exceeding and 
 eternal weight" — ^reserved in heaven for them 
 that love God. 
 
 When the whole assembly of the redeemed 
 shall stand on Mount Zion, they wUl shine as 
 the sun in eternal glory. "Then shall the 
 righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom 
 of their Father," Then "they that be wise, 
 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; 
 and they that turn many to righteousness, as the 
 stars forever." Glory shines in Immanuel's 
 land. The city, the mansions, the inhabitants, 
 are all glorious. Every believer in Jesus will 
 be crowned with everlasting glory. Though we 
 could not bear the effulgence of heaven's glory, 
 should it now beam upon us, yet we know that 
 when we awake to immortaUty, that glory shall 
 be revealed in us. "We know that when Christ, 
 our glorious Head, shall appear, we shall be like 
 him ; for we shall see him as he is. to be 
 like the blessed Jesus ! What heart can desire 
 nore ? If we are His people we shall soon be 
 like him. Our bodies shall shine like his — 
 like that wondrous Personage whose original 
 glory once beamed on Mount Tabor, when his 
 face shone as the sun, and when his raiment 
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458 immanuel's land. 
 
 was wliite as the light. In heaven, tiie ■wordera 
 of Mount Tabor will ever be exhibited ; and 
 there the pure radiance of the Saviour's glory 
 win always beam upon redeemed millions. 
 Who can conceive this blessedness ? How de- 
 sirable, how attractive does it appear to an im- 
 mortal mind 1 From those heighta of bliss, every 
 soul will be ready to exclaim with Peter, " Lord, 
 it is good for us to be here." But more than 
 this. The saints will be made partakers of the 
 Redeemer's glory." " The glory which thou 
 gavest me, I have given them." " The Lord 
 will give glory." Amazing love! that Christ 
 should exalt his followers to such bliss, and 
 crown them with such glory I 
 
 But who can describe the glory of the saints 
 with Christ, contrasted with which, the splendor 
 of this world is darkness itself 1 
 
 On what John saw in the revelation of the 
 heavenly world, and of the redeemed in gloiy, 
 an eloquent living writer* has the following 
 beautiful and glowing expressions : 
 
 " The glory of the meridian sun — the intense 
 brightness of the furnace — ^the pure radiance of 
 the light — the transparent beauty of the rain- 
 bow — an ocean of gold, translucent as the orys 
 
 * Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., of Sew York, one of the most 
 eloquent diriueB o ^e present age. 
 
imjtanuel's land 459 
 
 tal — precious stones, of every hue, and af the 
 richest forms — fountains, ever sparkling with 
 living water — streams, with an unceasing flow 
 of perfect purity — trees of unchanging verdure, 
 clothed with endless varieties of beautiful fruit 
 — ^living beings, of the noblest and most exalted 
 aspect, clad in garments which earthly art in 
 vain would imitate — music, of the tenderest in- 
 fluence and of the most overwhelming power ; 
 sometimes the single melody of a heavenly harp 
 and voice, and again flowing forth in a volume 
 of harmony, like approaching thunders, or the 
 majestic waterfall, or the mysterious rolling of 
 the sea — a state of being, in its aspect of loveli- 
 ness, feebly illustrated by the most perfect bridal 
 beauty and purity of earth. All these, and 
 many like them, are efforts to express to man 
 the things which he saw and heard. But they 
 are all in vain. One sentence of his own con- 
 clusion sums up his acknowledged inability to 
 describe the glory of the saints with Christ: 
 ' Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it 
 doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we 
 know that when He shall appear, we shall be 
 like Him : for we shall see Him as He is.' " 
 
 To see Christ as he is — ^to behold his glory- 
 to be made a partaker of the glory that shall be 
 revealed — this is heaven ; this is the glory of 
 the saints. I. is to this glory that God is "bring- 
 
460 IMMANUE^'S LAND. 
 
 ing many sons." It is to " eternal g-cry" that 
 we are called. God is leading his people to his 
 temple of glory — to that city ■where there is no 
 night, and where they need no candle, neither 
 light of the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them 
 light, and they shall reign forever and ever. 
 There, a gracious God will bestow upon us the 
 " riches of his glory," and we shall shine to all 
 eternity, in the garments of glory and of beauty. 
 We shall inherit a glorious kingdom, and wear 
 a glorious crown. Our bodies shall be fashioned 
 like unto Christ's " glorious body ;" and we shall 
 obtain an exceeding and eternal weight of glory 
 in the smile and presence of God. 
 
 In view of our future glory, how insignificant 
 do these present afflictions appear? "For I 
 reckon, that the sufferings of this present time 
 are not worthy to be compared with the glory 
 which shall be revealed in us." Let the afflicted 
 Christian remember, that his momentary trials 
 and sufferings here, are preparing for him a 
 weighty crown of glory hereafter. 
 
 " Out light affliction, which is but for a mo- 
 ment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and 
 eternal weight of glory." How animating is 
 this hope of a glorious immortality I joyful 
 hopel It cheers us amidst the surrounding 
 gloom of life ; it illuminates our pathway to the 
 tomb; it sheds its radiance beyond the grave; 
 
immakusl's land 461 
 
 it enables the believer to exclaim, -wten he ia 
 just finishing his earthly course, and about to 
 embark upon the boundless ocean of eternity, 
 " Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of 
 righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
 Judge, shall give me at that day : and not to 
 me only, but unto aU them also that love his 
 appearing. 
 
 Then, let us run with patience, the race that 
 is set before us, and soon we shall reach the goal 
 of immortal blessedness; then shall the glory 
 of heaven gladden our blissful sight, and the 
 streams of Paradise re&esh our weary souls. 
 Let every reader be attracted by the glory of 
 heaven. Let him look to a bleeding Saviour 
 for salvation, and press onward with eagerness 
 to receive the crown of glory that fadeth not 
 away. 
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462 imitanuel's laud. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 THB REST. 
 
 "There lem&meth therefore a rest to the people of God" 
 — ECeb. iv. 9. 
 
 " We seek a rest beyond the skies, 
 In everlasting day; 
 Through floods and flames the passage lies^ 
 But Jesus guards the way 
 
 " The swelling flood and raging flanae^ 
 Hear and obey his word ; 
 Then let us triumph in his name, 
 Our Saviour is the Lord." 
 
 There is something peculiarly attractive in the 
 description of heaven as a place of rest. Here 
 is something that tends 'powerfully to lead the 
 soul upwards. This fleeting scene of trouble is 
 overlooked when the land of Rest is in view. 
 
 Heaven is a state of rest — ^rest reserved for 
 the righteous. How cheering is the blessed 
 truth, " There remaineth a rest to the people of 
 God." How desirable, how delightful is rest to 
 the weary traveller; to those who are almost 
 overwhelmed with the cares and anxieties and 
 afflictions, incident to human life! How re- 
 
immanuel's land. 463 
 
 freshing to tlie sons and daughters of affliction 
 — ^to those whose bodies are "chastened with 
 pain" — is the enjoyment of rest. But what is 
 the rest of earth to that of heaven? 0, how 
 delightful will it be for the Christian, after the 
 storms of life to enter the desired haven of eter- 
 nal rest I 
 
 " Then are they glad because they be quiet ; 
 so he bringeth them unto their desired haven." 
 Every believer will be enabled to shout, as he 
 steps on the shores of glory, " This is my rest 
 forever: here will I dwell, for I have desired 
 it." What a rest is here presented to our view, 
 to animate us in our lonely pilgimage I A rest 
 fi-om sin and suffering — ^from toil and pain ; but 
 not from praise, A rest in the arms of Infinite 
 Love ; a rest in Abraham's bosom, with Jesus, 
 the sinner's friend. A rest perfect, complete, 
 and eternal. This is the saint's rest. O blessed 
 rest! where all are resting in eternal love — 
 blooming in eternal joy. Let this attract you. 
 "There the wicked cease from troubling, and 
 there the weary are at rest." 
 
 You can find no rest in this world. To the 
 Christian, life is a continual battle-field; with- 
 out are fightings, within are fears. " We wrestle 
 not against flesh and blood, but against princi- 
 palities, against powers, against the rulers of the 
 darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked- 
 
464 IMMANUELS LAJTD. 
 
 ness in high places." We are comma ided to 
 "put on the whole armDr of God, that we may 
 be able to stand against the wiles of the devil ;" 
 and exhorted to fight the good fight of faith. 
 There is no rest for the Christian here; it is 
 above — ^in our Father's house — ^in the mansions 
 of glory. 
 
 How animating to think that our rest is near 
 at hand — that our warfare will soon be over — 
 that our pilgrimage will soon be ended ! Every 
 day is bringing us nearer our blessed home. 
 That joyful morning will soon dawn, when the 
 soldiers of the cross shall honorably lay aside 
 their weapons, and, with the garlands of victory 
 on their brow, enter triumphantly upon that 
 rest which remaineth for the people of God. 
 
 How long and loud will be those songs of vic- 
 tory that shall ring fi:om rank to rank, through 
 that mighty host, who have been more than con- 
 querors through the blood of the Lamb, and who 
 are now brought to enjoy sweet, eternal rest in 
 the bosom of God I How sweet will heaven be to 
 the weary Christian pilgrim when he finds his 
 toilsome journey ended ; when from the heights 
 of glory he looks back on a world of sorrow 
 through which he has passed I To the afflicted 
 saint, that "rest" will become sweeter when he re- 
 flects on his past sufferings. There, he finds that 
 all his tears are wiped away, and not one joy is 
 
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IMMANUELS LAND. 465 
 
 wanting in the presence of his Savicur, and in 
 the smile of his God, 
 
 Heaven is now presented to us weaiy pilgrims 
 with this powerful attraction — ^Eest. "Would 
 you enjoy it? Does your heart aspire after 
 heaven's blessed rest ? Then believe in Jesus ; 
 rest in him now, and you will soon rest with 
 him in the Paradise of God. 
 
 Eemember that this is not your rest. "Here 
 we have no continuing city, but we seek one to 
 come." We are strangers and pilgrims on the 
 earth. This is not our home. "We are coming 
 up from the wilderness with our faces Zionward ; 
 we are travelling to the celestial city. Our path 
 is rough, but the Saviour sustains us. Our pil- 
 grimage lies through a wilderness, but faith 
 cheers us with a view of the glorious rest of the 
 redeemed in our Father's house — in mansions 
 of blessedness. 
 
 And how reviving to think that faith shall 
 soon be turned into sight ! Let this considera- 
 tion animate us amidst the conflicts of life. In 
 a little while we shall obtain a joyous entrance 
 upon the rest above. The storms of life's ocean 
 will soon carry us into the haven of peace, 
 where there is no trouble. We shall soon rest 
 with Christ. Then our pilgrimage will have 
 ended, and our eternal rest have begun. From 
 the temple of God there shall be no more going 
 
466 immanuel's land. 
 
 out There, the saints shall enjoy the everlast- 
 ing rest— the Sabbath of etemitj. Let us be 
 admonished to seek the saint's rest now. The 
 language of inspiration is, " Arise ye, and de- 
 part, for this is not your rest." Your Saviour, 
 pilgrim Christian, has prepared for you a nobler 
 rest than this polluted world. In his Father's 
 house are many spacious mansions, where your 
 happy spirit, after tasting the bitter cup of life's 
 sorrow, shall rest in eternal blessedness. No 
 restlessness ■« ill be experienced in the realms oi 
 glory. Kor sorrow nor trouble of any kind will 
 be there. There, the redeemed rest from their 
 labors and cares, and doubts and fears, and 
 spiritual conflicts. For them there is an eternal 
 calm — a rest of perfect satisfaction in the enjoy- 
 ment of God their Saviour. 0, what a world is 
 that, where not a wave of trouble shall roll over 
 the soul, where all are resting in the enjoyment 
 of Him, who is "as a hiding-place from the 
 wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers 
 of water in a dry place, as the shajow of a great 
 rock in a weary land." 
 
 Heavenly rest should attract us. "Let ra 
 labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any 
 man fall after the same example of unbelief" 
 " Ketum unto thy rest, my soul : for the Lord 
 hath dealt bountifully with thee." 
 
 Li view of such a glorious rest beyond Hie 
 
IMMANUEL3 lAKD. 4fl7 
 
 gravs, -well may we exclaim, "Blesse.l are the 
 dead wWch die in the Lord from henceforth : 
 yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from 
 their labors ; and their works do follow them." 
 " For he that is entered unto his rest, he also 
 hath ceased &om his own works, as Grod did 
 from his." 
 
 Blessed Jesus ! enable me to rely, with cheer- 
 ful hope, on thy dying love, until I reach the 
 blissful mansions, and enter upon my jiyful 
 rest; — 
 
 " Then shall I bathe my weary soul, 
 In seas of heavenly rest ; 
 And not a wave of trouble roll 
 ^to^ my peaceftU brenet.' 
 
CHAPrEK \'L 
 
 THE EMPLOTMEUT, 
 
 "■Therefore ire tliey before the throne of God, and eetVi 
 him day and night in his temple." — ^Eev. Tii. 15. 
 
 " And they simg a new song." — Ret. t, 9. 
 
 'I'HERE is muoh in the employment of heaven • 
 to engage our hearts and warm our affections. 
 Heavenly employment is the most delightful 
 work in which the soul ever engaged. The re- 
 deemed will be filled with ecstasy while engaged 
 in celestial work. The rest of heaven which 
 we have been describing, is not a state of inac- 
 tivity, O, blessed rest, where " they rest not 
 day and night, saying. Holy, holy, holy, Lord 
 God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to 
 come." The mansions of glory will be filled 
 with the sweetest melody. The employment in 
 which the redeemed in glory are engaged, is one 
 that should attract every sinner. It is one of 
 everlasting praise and adoration. How delight- 
 ful to spend eternity in praising God — in con- 
 templating his wonderful works — ^in admiring 
 Lis redeeming love I When all the redeemed 
 are brought home to glory, they shall servo God 
 
IMMANXJEL3 LAND. 469 
 
 day and night in his temple. They shall sing 
 the song of Moses and the Lamb through a glo- 
 rious eternity. 
 
 In heaven the saints will be meditating on the 
 "wonders of creation, providence, and redemp- 
 tion. There the power, wisdom, and goodness 
 of God, as manifested in the works of a vast 
 universe, will be brought to full view. In con- 
 templating Jehovah's mighty empire, all those 
 radiant inhabitants of heaven's mansions shall 
 cast their crowns before the throne of God, and 
 cry, " Thou art worthy, Lord, to receive glory, 
 and honor, and power ; for thou hast created all 
 things, and for thy pleasure they are and were 
 created." What pleasures are to be derived 
 from the contemplation of nature I With what 
 delight have the minds of Bacon and Boyle, of 
 Newton and Herschel, surveyed the magnifi- 
 cence of creation's works 1 But in heaven, the 
 Christiau, with a knowledge infinitely surpass- 
 ing that possessed by any of these eminent cha- 
 racters, shall range with exquisite pleasure 
 amidst the beauties of Paradise. He shall spend 
 eternal ages in contemplating those wonderful 
 Ivorks which an omnipotent arm has scattered 
 in endless variety and beauty around him, and 
 which declare the glory of God, and exhibit his 
 power, wisdom, goodness, and love. The beauty 
 of the cele-itial universe, the charms of science, 
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470 .MMANUBIi'S LAND 
 
 and tlie pleasures of religion, wiU forever attract 
 tlie redeemed in glory. To those who have a 
 proper estimate of the value and importance of 
 natural and divine knowledge, how attractive 
 does that world appear where all are engaged in 
 contemplating the most delightful subjects that 
 can be presented to an immortal mindl In 
 heaven, knowledge will have arrived at perfec- 
 tion. Here, we see through a glass darkly; 
 there, face to face. Here, we know but in part ; 
 there, we will know even as we are known. 
 
 In heaven, the providence of God over hia 
 church and people, and every particular saint, 
 will be beautifully exhibited, causing each heart 
 to exclaim, " Thou hast done all things well." 
 But above all, redemption will be the chief 
 theme of the redeemed before the throne. That 
 glorious work, executed on Calvary by the Sor 
 of God, win employ the souls of ransomed 
 saints in holy meditation through the blessed 
 Sabbath of eternity. 
 
 With what wonder shall that happy multi- 
 tude look into this mystery of love to fallen 
 man — the redemption of the soul 1 "With what 
 astonishment will they gaze upon a crucified 
 Saviour, bearing the print of the nails and of 
 the spear on his glorious form. How wiU se- 
 raphic love and gratitude rise in the bosoms of 
 those who have been washed in the blood ot 
 
IMMA]SrD.j;L'S LAND. 47l 
 
 Jesus, when they behold Him in the midst of 
 the throne as the Lamb that was ^ain for them ! 
 A crucified Jesus will be eternally admired as 
 the Lamb slain for the redemption of sinners. 
 He will receive the homage and praise of all the 
 redeemed through eternity. Eternity itself will 
 be too short in which to speak his praise, or tell 
 his preeiousness, or proclaim the vastness of his 
 dying love on Calvary. This everlasting song 
 in which all voices shall unite in melodious 
 strains, will be sung in the realms of glory : — 
 " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive 
 power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, 
 and honor, and glory, and blessing. Blessing, 
 and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him 
 that sitteth upon the throne, and nnto the 
 Lamb, forever and ever." 
 
 In the contemplation of redemption, the souls 
 of the redeemed will be lost in wonder, love, and 
 praise. How overpowering will be the display 
 of divine love that shall then shine in the glo- 
 rious plan of salvation I 
 
 The eternal love of the Father, in giving his 
 Son, his only -begotten Son, to die for sinners— 
 the amazing love of the Son, in exchanging the 
 throne of glory for the cross of Calvary — the 
 wonderful love of the Holy Spirit, in applying 
 redemption to tk? soul, will then appear in fall 
 resplendency. 
 
472 IMMANDJIL'S LAND, 
 
 How brightly will that love which v^aa cuce 
 manifested on Calvary shine in the habitation 
 of t!ie redeemed, while glorified saints are em- 
 ploying their noble powers in its sublime con- 
 templation! Eedemption will farnish eternal 
 employment for the Christian in that brighter 
 world — ^his happy home. Eternal ages of glory 
 can never unravel the mystery of redeeming 
 love. Eedemption is a theme on which the 
 soul may unceasingly dwell with rapturous de- 
 light, and discover brighter and brighter dis- 
 plays of divine love and glory to all eternity. 
 How sweet will be the study of redemption in 
 heaven ! That glorious salvation of which " the 
 prophets have inquired and searched diligently," 
 and which the angels desire to look into, will 
 ever be the delightful and soul-ravishing theme 
 of the redeemed in glory, while eternal ages 
 roll away. 
 
 Then the employment of heaven will include 
 in it unending praise. Eternal songs will re- 
 sound through the mansions, of glory. The 
 saints will be employed in praising God — in ad- 
 miring the beauty and glory of Him who died 
 on Calvary for their redemption. One theme, 
 — one song will employ every soul in glor3\ It 
 is the wondrous theme — the new song of re- 
 demption, that will draw from their lips the 
 loudest notes of praise. " And tliey sung a new 
 
immanuel's land. 473 
 
 song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, 
 and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast 
 slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood 
 out of every kindred and tongue, and people, 
 and nation," "And they cried with a loud 
 voice, saying, salvation to cur God who silteth 
 upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." " And 
 they sing the song of Moses, and the song of the 
 Lamb." 
 
 Such is the delightful employment of the 
 heavenly world. Should not this blessed work 
 attract you ? Do you not long to join with the 
 redeemed above in those celestial songs of praise 
 to him who died for man? 0, then, be entreated 
 to choose a loving Saviour now ; and the happy 
 hour win soon arrive when you shall raise your 
 joyful voice m glory, and unite -vith the ran- 
 somed of the Lord in that sweet song which has 
 no dying cadence, and with which the arches of 
 heaven shall entirely resound ; — " Unto Him that 
 loved us, and washed us from our sins in his 
 own blood, and hath made us kings and priests 
 unto God and his Father, to Him be glory and 
 dominion forever and ever. Amen." 
 
 " Oh, holy, holy, holy Lord 1 
 Whom angel hosts adore ; 
 When shall I join in raptured strairr 
 The bright celestial choir } 
 
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474 IMMANLELS LAXD. 
 
 In pity view a sinful worm, 
 
 A prisoner here below ; 
 A pilgrim journeying through the Imd 
 
 Of darkness, sin, and woe. 
 
 " Ten thousand voices round thy thiono 
 Unite in hymns divine ; 
 ' Salvation to the Lamb t' they cry. 
 As high in bliss they shine. 
 
 Fain would I now begin the son^ 
 To thee my God and Friend; 
 
 Then mingle with the choirs sbove^ 
 Ii prnise which n«'<>T aheJ' mv/l." 
 
immanjel's land 475 
 
 CHAPTER YII. 
 
 THE SOCIBTT. 
 
 "To are come uui.o Mount Zion, ana onto the o ty of who 
 liring God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an inniimer&ble 
 company of angels, to the general assembly ,"vnd church of 
 the first born, -which are written in heaven, atd to God the 
 Judge of all, and the spirits of just men made perfect, and 
 to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant." — Heb. xii, 
 22-24. 
 
 The society of Immanuel's land forms a prin- 
 cipal part of celestial happiness. "Were a saint 
 to be excluded from the society of the uppei 
 sanctuary, he could not be happy though sur- 
 rounded by all the glories of the heavenly Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 Heaven is a state of sweet, uninterrupted 
 communion. There the redeemed will meet in 
 blissful harmony, no more to separate. There, 
 they shall meet with the people of God who 
 have lived in every age of the world ^ there 
 they shall converse with those bright angelic 
 beings that never sinned ; and there they shall 
 have the bhssful society and glorious presence of 
 Him whom their souls love above everv sublu- 
 nary ?bject — they shall he ever ivith the Lord. Tixq 
 
476 xmmanuel's land. 
 
 contemplation of heayenly society should lead 
 ■ every reader to seek tte happy shores of thai 
 world where all the inhabitants are united in 
 one sweet bond of affection and love. 
 
 We shall briefly notice the pure and perfect 
 society that the redeemed are to enjoy through 
 countless ages, in Immanuel's land. 
 
 1. In heaven, the saints shall have the society 
 of their redeemed brethren of every age and na- 
 tion. There, we shall sit down with Abraham, 
 Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of Immanuel. 
 "We shall meet with the excellent of the earth. 
 We shall be associated with Patriarchs and Pro- 
 phets — with Apostles and Martyrs — with all 
 the lovers of the Saviour. And what a blessed 
 society will this be, where every heart is full of 
 love and every tongue flowing with praise. 
 
 Can a doubt be entertained that the saints 
 will know one another in glory? Surely not. 
 If the disciples knew Moses and Elias standing 
 on Mount Tabor, may we not expect to know 
 them too, when standing on the Mount of God? 
 Paul tells the Thessalonians that they are his 
 hope, and joy, and crown of rejoicing at the 
 coming. of the Lord; and when he would com- 
 fort those who were mourning the loss of pious 
 friends, he sets before them the blessed hope of 
 meeting them on that great and joyous morning 
 when the dead in Christ shall burst the fetters 
 
IMMANUEL's tAND. 477 
 
 of the grave and arise to immortality. Nothing 
 will be wanting to perfect the happiness of the 
 redeemed m glory. We may then anticipate 
 the most delightful association — ^the most inti- 
 mate acquaintance. how delightful will it be 
 to converse with Moses and Elias, with David 
 and Isaiah, with Paul and the twelve Apostles 
 of the Lamb ; to hear from their own lips the 
 tale of their wonderful history ! How joyful 
 will such society be! When we land on the 
 shores of glory we shall enjoy the society of all 
 those faithful embassadors of the cross of Jesus, 
 who proclaimed salvation to a dying world. 
 There we shall be associated with such men as 
 Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Flavel, Owen, Watts, 
 Doddridge, Edwards, Payson, Chalmers and Mc 
 Oheyne ; men who were so strongly attached to 
 the cause of Christ, and so entirely devoted t(» 
 his service. 'AH the ransomed of the Lord shall 
 dwell together in one happy home. In the 
 word of God heaven is represented as a social 
 state: "I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, 
 which no man could number, of all nations, and 
 kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before 
 the throne, and before the Lamb." We shall 
 have the most endeared society in the world of 
 glory. We shall meet again, on the peaceful 
 shore, those dear friends with whom we took 
 sweet cou icil together, and wei^t to the houae 
 
478 immanuel's laxi>. 
 
 of God in company, till death parted us. How 
 joyful will that meeting be, when we shall min- 
 gle again with our Christian relati\es in the 
 Celestial Sanctuary I Then shall we be made 
 pillars in the temple of God, to go no more out 
 
 In Imu.anuel's land, there is no more parting , 
 and there the word " FareweU" never breaks the 
 heart. What a consolation does this blessed 
 truth administer to the bereaved Christian I 
 Perhaps the eyes of such are no^f resting on 
 ihese Jines ; if so, we say to you, dear reader 
 "Sorrow not, even as ottiers, which have no 
 hope. For if we believe that Jesiis died and 
 rose again, even so them also which sleep in 
 Jesus will God bring with him." 
 
 Be followers of them who through faith and 
 patience inherit the promises; and very soon 
 you will reach the peaceful shores of glory, and 
 meet your godly relatives in blissful harmony 
 am adoring praise. "Wherefore comfort one 
 another with these words." 
 
 2. In the celestial world, the saints shall have 
 the society of holy angels — an innumerable com- 
 pany of angels. Those ministerng spirits who 
 watched over our footsteps on earth, will be om 
 companions in glory. With them we shall unitt 
 in the contemplation of redemption, and join ii 
 the praises of Immanuel, saying with a loud 
 voice, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to 
 
IMMANUEi S LAND. 479 
 
 receive power, and ricliea, and wisdom and 
 Btrength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. — 
 Blessing, and iionor, and glory, and power, be 
 unto him that sittetb upon the throne, and unto 
 the Lamb, forever and ever." 
 
 3. But the crowning bliss of heaven is the 
 enjoyment of God — Father, Son, and Holy 
 Spirit. In those bright realms, we shall enjoy 
 the society of our Heavenly Father ; we shall 
 see his face. " Blessed are the pure in heart, for 
 they shall see God." " And they shall see hia 
 face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads." 
 This blissful sight and enjoyment of God is the 
 perfection of happiness — ^all that the soul desires. 
 No heart can conceive how sweet that commu- 
 nion between a holy God and redeemed sainta 
 will be in the mansions of bliss. 
 
 There, God wiU be near his people in a pe- 
 culiar manner, to bl )ss them with his glorioua 
 prescHce — ^to comfort them with the fuU. assur- 
 ance of his love, and the eternal smiles of hii 
 countenance. 
 
 Then shall " the tabernacle of God be with 
 men and he will dwell with them, and they 
 sha. be his people, and God himself shall be 
 with them, and bb their God." Standing before 
 his throne, and seeing his face in righteousness, 
 we shall behold the glorious manifestation of 
 hia grace and Jove beaming upon us to all eter 
 
480 immanuel's land. 
 
 nity. When we enter the portals of glory, we 
 shall see the King of Zion in his beauty, and be 
 perfectly blessed in the full enjoyment of his 
 endearing society through heaven's eteraal day. 
 
 "There shall I 6ee thy emiling face 
 And never, never sin, 
 There, from the rivers of thy grace, 
 Brink endless pleastires in." 
 
 4. The saiiiJs shall have the society of Christ 
 in glory. This is the principal attraction of the 
 heavenly world. In those blessed regions, dwells 
 the glorious Saviour with his people. " He that 
 sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them." 
 Oh I to dweU in the presence of Him who loved 
 us and washed us &om our sins in his own blood. 
 What heart can conceive the unutterable joy I 
 The presence of Jesus makes the heaven of the 
 believer. It is the heartfelt desire of every re- 
 newed soul to be with Christ — to enjoy hiq so- 
 ciety. The saints never feel themselves happy 
 till they are with Him, who is, in their estima- 
 tion, the chiefest among ten thousand, and alto- 
 gether lovely. The presence of Jesus is the 
 very centre of heavenly bliss. It is the felicity 
 -4he glory of the saints above. In the presence 
 ^f our Immanuel there is fulness of joy, and 
 pleasures for evermore. 
 
 When th 3 Christian meditates on the glories 
 
immanuel's land. 481 
 
 of the Saviour — when he considers that this 
 adorable Saviour died for him — when he reflects 
 that he is soon to dwell with Him in the courts 
 of Paradise, no wonder that he should soar on 
 the wings of faith, beyond the visions of a mor- 
 tal scene, and exclaim with the Psalmist, " Whom 
 have I in heaven but thee ? and there is none 
 upon earth that I desire besides thee!" The 
 sweet thought of the society of Jesus in glory 
 made Paul long to be dissolved, that he might 
 be with his Saviour. " I am in a strait betwixt 
 two, having a desire to depart, and to be with 
 Christ ; which is far better." " For to me to die 
 is gain." The blessed hope of entering into the 
 immediate presence of a loving Saviour, made 
 the martyrs pass through flames to the portals 
 of bliss ; and it will make every one who knows 
 and is fully assured that his Redeemer liveth, 
 meet death with a smile. When the Christian 
 knows that to die is only to depart and be with 
 Christ, no wonder that he should exclaim with 
 his departing breath, in transports of joy, "Come, 
 Lord Jesus, come quickly." 
 
 The redeemed will ever enjoy the glorious 
 presence and blissful society of the Lord Jesus, 
 in mansions of endless felicity. "So shall we 
 ever be with the Lord." " Where I am," says 
 Christ, " there shall also my servant be." And 
 again, "Father, I will that they also whom thou 
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482 immanuel's laud. 
 
 hast ^ven vie be with me where I am, that they 
 may behold my glory." This is heaven, the 
 glorious habitation of the redeemed. 
 
 To enjoy sweet communion with a" glorified 
 Baviour, is to be in a state of perfect happiness. 
 This unspeakable blessedness awaits all the 
 friends of Jesus in a world of glory. happy 
 thought 
 
 "When the bright morning of the resurrection 
 shall dawn upon our enraptured souls, we shall 
 behold, with our bodily eyes, that Saviour who 
 once left the realms of bliss and poured out hia 
 precious blood on Calvary for our redemption. 
 How lovely and attractive will he appear then 
 as our Kedeemer I How will his glory shine in 
 the celestial sanctuary ! And how will our souls 
 burn with seraphic love, and rise in adoration 
 and praise when we shall behold him as he is, 
 on his heavenly throne, radiant in glory ; when 
 we shall see his hands and feet, and side and 
 head, which were once wounded for our trans- 
 gressions, and bruised for our iniquities ; when 
 we shall forever bask in the light of his life- 
 giving countenance, and taste through eternity 
 the sweetness of his immortal love ! 
 
 What fountains of joy and rivers of pleasure 
 will emanate from his blissful presence to ex- 
 hilarate our happy spirits while eternal ages 
 roll on] 
 
immanuel's land. 483 
 
 Dear believer, in a little wMIe your eyes sliall 
 heboid tbe King in bis beauty, and tbe glcrious 
 land tbat is afar off. 
 
 "A fevr more rolling suns, at most, 
 Will land you on fair Canaan's coast ; 
 Then yon shall sing the song of grsoa, 
 And see your Saviour face to fsoa '* 
 
484 immanuel's land. 
 
 CHAPTER YIII. 
 
 THE PERPETUITY OF BLISS. 
 
 " And tliey shall reign forever and ever." — Eev. sriL S. 
 
 "O ye blest scenes of permanent delight t 
 Full, above measure! lasting, beyond bound I 
 A perpetuity of bliss, is bliss." 
 
 The glory of Immanuel's land will shine with 
 increasing splendor through eternity. The blisa 
 of heaven is eternal. This stamps an infinite 
 value on all celestial enjoyments. How noble 
 are those pleasures which are to endure forever ! 
 Such are the pleasures which are at God's hand. 
 They never fade. Forever is attached to every 
 enjoyment in Immanuel's land. Eternity is the 
 measure of the saint's bliss. " And they shall 
 reign forever and ever." 
 
 That happy land which we have been de- 
 scribing in this little volume is an eternal world. 
 It is an iuheritance incorruptible and undefiled, 
 and that fadeth not away. How different from 
 this earthly abode are those bright mansions in 
 our Father's kingdom I How fleeting are the 
 pleasures of time This w:>rld itself, with all its 
 
liTMANUEL'S LAND. 486 
 
 grandeur, is passing away. Mutability, and de- 
 cay and dissolution are indelibly written on all 
 beneatli ihe skies. Every object around ua 
 feels the wittering touch of time, and fades be- 
 neath its corroding energy. The.proudest monu- 
 ments of antiquity have crumbled into dust, and 
 the most powerful nations and cities of other 
 days have been swept from the face of the earth, 
 and over them oblivion hangs its dismal mantle. 
 But eternity is inscribed on the gates of Para- 
 dise ; and an eternal weight of glory crowns all 
 the inhabitants of Immanuel's land. There they 
 will ever dwell in an eternity of bliss. what 
 ineffable delight must spring up in the souls of 
 the redeemed in glory, when they contemplate 
 eternity I How sweet will that solemn word be 
 to those happy spirits before the throne I As 
 they look forward into the boundless ocean, 
 they see — they fear no end to tieir bliss. "While 
 ages of glory roll on, the happiness will be un- 
 bounded, and eternal. When millions of ages 
 shall have run their ample round, the inhabi- 
 tants of Immanuel's land will stUl be young in 
 immortality, and before them will still roll an 
 eternity of glory. The mansions of our Father's 
 house are eternal. The blessedness — the joy — 
 the glory — the rest — ^the employment — ^the so- 
 ciety of Immanuel's land are also as lasting aa 
 eternity itself. Let that solemn word eternity, 
 41* 
 
486 IMMANUELS LAND. 
 
 impress upon your mind tlie importance of sal- 
 vation. If you are saved, it is with an everlast- 
 ing salvation ; if you are lost, you are lost fob- 
 ever ! 
 
 Said a dear dying saint to tlie writer, as she 
 gave her parting look, "Think often of Eternity ; 
 that short word. Eternity 1 Oh 1 what does it 
 not comprehend ?" 
 
 We would also entreat you with the utmost 
 compassion for your immortal soul, to " think 
 often of Eternity. Eternity is yours ; you are 
 an heir of immortality. You must soon enjoy 
 a perpetuity of bliss or of woe. be entreated 
 to forsake the world and cleave closely to Jesus ! 
 Live to Him who loved you with an everlasting 
 love, and when death shall terminate your earth- 
 ly course, the portals of heaven wiU open for 
 your reception, and eternity, with all its untold 
 glories will burst upon your ransomed spirit, 
 and you shall be ever with the Lord. 
 
immanjel's land. 487 
 
 CONCLUSION, 
 
 HEAVENLY MEDITATION. 
 
 " There is a place of sacred rest, 
 Far, far beyond the skies. 
 Where beauty smiles eternally, 
 And pleasure never dies. 
 
 0, MY soul, rise on the wings of meditation, 
 and survey the glories of Immanuel's land I 
 Look beyond the dim visions of mortality — ^be- 
 yond the swellings of Jordan — beyond the 
 gloomy grave, and behold, with the eye of faith, 
 those delectable mountains where shines the 
 city of our God in more than earthly splendor ; 
 and where millions of happy saints are to reign 
 in glory, while infinite ages roU away. This is 
 our happy dwelling place — our Father's house. 
 How brightly shine those celestial mansions 
 irradiated by the glory of Immanuel! No 
 cloud rests on these peaceful dwellings. There 
 all is light and joy. Our Heavenly Father is 
 there; and in his gracious smile there is joy 
 unspeakable and full of glory. There we shall 
 rest in Aoraham's bosom. There, we shall 
 dwell with that Friend who "loveth at all 
 
488 IMMANUEL'ii LAND. 
 
 times ;" — there tlie Saviour will be in our midst, 
 to refresh our souls with the glorious manifesta- 
 tions of his eternal love. He will appear in per- 
 fect beauty from Zion's holy hill. There Shar- 
 on's lovely rose will bloom in everlasting day. 
 
 " Oh 1 blessed Spirit, to my heart 
 This dear celestial flower impart ; 
 "With Joy I'll prize the SaTioar here. 
 Then go to heaven and view him there." 
 
 In glory, Christ shall appear in all the loveh 
 ness of his person and character. The presence 
 of Him who loved us, and gave himself for us, 
 will make a sweet, glorious heaven indeed. 
 Clad in the spotless robes of redeeming righte- 
 ousness, we shall follow the Lamb to living 
 fountains of waters — to perennial streams of 
 pleasures — to boundless oceans of joys ; and in 
 the enjoyment of the Saviour's presence we 
 shall be perfectly happy. Within us, all will 
 be peace ; around us, all will be glorious. 
 
 Immanuel's land is a place of unfading beauty. 
 Eternal spring blooms ia the realms of endless 
 day. 
 
 "Hovr unlike this state below I 
 There the flowers unwithering blow 
 There no chilling blasts annoy, 
 All is love, and bloom, and joy' 
 
 How sveet for the weary Christian pilgnm, 
 
immanuel's lakd. 489 
 
 •while passing througli this wilderness scene, to 
 think of that blessed abode I Dear follower of 
 Jesus, meditate mnch on heaven — your happy 
 home. Think of the rapturous delight you 
 must experience in the courts of Paradise, while 
 vast eternity glides along. 0, what ecstatic joy 
 must reign in the ransomed family of the Lord 
 when they are §,dmitted to see the Eang in his 
 beauty ; — when they come to dwell forever in 
 the Paradise of God ! "With joy anticipate that 
 glorious hour, when your happy spirit, freed 
 from its clayey tabernacle, shall take its flight 
 to those pure regions of bliss, where it shall 
 receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. 
 
 " Oh, glorious hour, it comes with speed 1 
 ■When we, from sin and darkness freed, 
 Shall see the God who died for man. 
 And praise him more than angela can.* 
 
 Live with heaven always in view. Endeavor 
 to obtain a glimpse of the happy land, and in a 
 little while you will have reached the blissful 
 coast. You will soon enjoy the refreshing 
 breezes of the saint's rest. One step more and 
 you wiU have gained the happy shores of Im- 
 manuel's land, where you shall tread with your 
 Eedeemer the ceaseless round of eternity. 
 
 In view of such blessedness, who would not 
 exclaim in joyful tones, "Come, Lord Jesus. 
 
490 immanuel's land. 
 
 Come quickly." O, that the happy hour waa 
 come when we shall rest with Jesus in the 
 Paradise of God I 
 
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 let us look beyond this dying world, and gaze 
 on the glories of our heavenly home, till hope is 
 turned into fruition, and faith into vision. Let 
 us long for the sight of that blissful city — ^that 
 happy home in which we are to spend a glorious 
 eternity. 
 
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 word of his grace, which is able to build you 
 up, and to give you an inheritance among all 
 those who are sanctified. Hoping to meet you 
 on the shores of Immanuel's land, where the 
 Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall 
 feed us, and lead us unto living fountains of 
 waters; where God shaU wipe away all tears 
 from our eyes; and where we shall sing the 
 song of redeeming love through countless ages 
 of glory. I would, till then, leave you in the 
 tender and compassionate arms of Jesus, the 
 Friend of Sinners 
 
 Jerasaleml Jsrnsaleml 
 
 ■Would God I were with thee I 
 Oh that my sorrows had an end. 
 
 Thy joys that I might see I 
 Thy walls are made of precious stone, 
 
 Thy bulwarks diamond sqvsre ; 
 
IMMANUEl/S LAND. 491 
 
 Thy gates are made of Orient pearl % 
 O God, if I 'w^ere there I 
 
 O happy harbor of God's saints! 
 
 O B-^eet and pleasant soil I 
 In thee no sorrows can be found, 
 
 Ko grief, no care, no toil. 
 Ko dimming cloud o'ershadows thee ; 
 
 Ko gloom nor darksome night. 
 But every soul shines as the sun, 
 
 For God himself gives light. 
 
 Lord, in my forehead plant thy name 
 
 And take me hence away, 
 That I may dwell with thee in bliss, 
 
 And sing thy praise for aye 1 
 Jerusalem 1 my hapT)y home, 
 
 O how I long for thee I 
 Then shall my labors have an end. 
 
 When once thy joys I see." 
 
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 T-A-BXiB OF COI>TTEI>TTS, 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Ague : Air : Asiatic Cholera : Asthma, Cure of BilUoua Cholic ; BilUous Complaints : Bite of 
 Poisonous Creatuiea : Bleeding at the Lungs, Stomach, and from the Nose : Bloody Urine : 
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 Humors, No. 2 : Hysterics ; Inflammatory Fever : Itch ; Jaundice : Joints. Stiffened : Keeping' 
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 cine for Children : Menstrual Discharges : Mortification : Mumps : Nervous Affections : Nip- 
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 Cholic : Palpitation of the Heart ; Pectoral Syrup for Coughs : Piles : Piles, Bleeding : Phthis- 
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 Corros. Sublimate ■ Polypus : Kaising Blood : Rattlesnake Bite ; Rattles in Children ; Uecipes 
 for Rheumatism : Remedy for Dropsy in the Head : Rheumatic Plaster : Rickets, Symptoms 
 of: Rickets, Retnedy for. Ring Worms: Rupture: Salt Rheum ; Scarlet Fever : Scrofula. Humor: 
 Scrofula: Scrofula, Remedy for : Scurvey ;^ Sleep, to procure it; Smallpox : Sore Throat, Pu- 
 trid : Sore Legs : Sore Lips : Spine Comp2aints : Sprains ; St. Anthony's Fire : Stomach Sick- 
 ness ; Strengthening Plaster ; Strained Stomach : St. Vitus' Dance : Sweat ; Swelliugs, to 
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 [Continued on next page. 
 
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 Volatile Liniment ; Vomiting prevented ; Warts, Na. 1 Warts, No. 2 ; Weak Eyes ; Weak / 
 
 Limbs ; Weak Stomach ; Wen ; White Mixture for > I ough. No. 1, No. 2 ; Whites ; White . 
 
 S«'(iUing ; Whooping Cough, No. 1 ; Whooping Cough, W ■ 2 ; Windy Stomach ; Worms. S 
 
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 Dyspepsia Cake : Dough Nuts : Dyspepsia Bread : Ginger 1 /ead : Ginger Nuts : Ginger Snaps : ? 
 
 Good Family Cake : Green Corn Cake ; Hard Wafers : Uoe' ake ; Icing forCakes ; Indian Cakes ; ) 
 
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 bala ; Tea Cake, No. 1 ; Yeaet— to make it good ; do. Milk , do, of Cream Tartar and Saleratua. / 
 
 Fiu, Pbisertis, JxLura, Saucx, &o. 
 
 Apple Sauce ; Arrow Root Custard ; Barberries, to Preaerve ; Black Currant Jelly ; Blanc- 
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 YlQEUBLEa, &o. 
 
 Cabbage : Coffee, how to Make : Green Peas : Mashed Potatoes ; Onions ; Potatoes, to Boil; 
 Turnips. 
 
 PART III. 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS. i 
 
 Part I. — The Arts Recealed, or, Secrets made Known — The Celebrated Chinese Cement, for J 
 Mending Glass, Marble, China, Earthenware, Jfec. ; The Ma-ric Copying Press or Manifold Writer, S 
 Recipe for the Colors used ; to make a Powder by which you Write with Water ; Powder for ^ 
 Removing Superfluous Hair ; Imperial Ginger Pop ; Volatile Soap for remOTing Paint, Urease- t 
 spots, &c. ; White Spruce Beer ; Cheap and Excellent Blue Color f(jr Ceilings, &c. ; Unsurpassed } 
 Blacking ; Ink Powder for- Immediate Use ; to make Ink for marking Linen with Type; For In- ) 
 delible Ink; Common Small Beor ; Root Beer; to make Cologne Water; to takd off instantly 
 the Copy of a Print ; to Prepare a Transparent Paper for Drawing ; to make Water Oil for 
 Painters ; to make Paint without White Ijead and Oil ; to Prepare Gun Cotton ; to Remove 
 Writing Ink from a Printed Page ■, Composition for Lucifer Matches ; Lemon Syrup ; To make 
 SaraapariUa Mead ; Essences ; A Waterproof Glue ; Celebrated Recipe for ailver Wash ; Remark- 
 able Chemical Erasive Compound ; Oold and Silver Coin Detector ; Irou Cement ; Wood Cement ; 
 Infallible Cure for Cancer. 
 
 Part II. — Invaluaiile Recipes for Families. — To setColors Fast in Calicoa.'? and other Goods : to 
 take Stains out of Mahogany ; to Restore Colors taken out by Acids ; to take Mildew out of 
 Linen ; to Clean badly-soiled Bed ticks ; to Ue.strpy Red Ants ; to Cleanse Black Veils ; to Clean 
 Britannia or Silver : Cure for Bleeding at the Stomach ; Hard Soap ; Method of Cleaning China ; 
 to Cleanse Foul Casks ; to Destroy Bed bugs ; To Preserve Hams ; Labor saving Soap ; To Clean 
 Light Kid Gloves -to Clean Stoves and Stone Hearths ; to Clean Mahogany and Marble Furni- 
 ture ; to Restore Rusty Italian Crape ; to Clean Phials and Pie Plates ; to Cleanse Feather Beds 
 and Mattresses ; to Remove Paint and Putty from Window Glass ; to extract Stains from Whiie 
 Cotton Goods and Colored Silks ; to Extract Grease from Silks, Paper, Woolen Goods, and Floors , 
 to Remove Black Stains on Scarlet Woolen Goods ; to Remove Stains from Broadcloth ; to Ex- 
 tract Ink from Floors ; on the Mixture of Colors ; Names of Principal Dyeing Drugs ; Causes for 
 the Holding of Colors ; Lime Water ; of Blue, Black ; to make Chemic Blue and Green ; on Dye- 
 ing Silks in the Small or False Dye ; for Discharging Colors ; Light Blue Silks, Green Silks ; A 
 very pretty Hair Brown : for Slate colored Silks ; for a Stone colored Silk ; to Make Half Violet 
 or Lilac ; to Dye a Shawl Crimson ; to make Flesh Colors ; for a Common Shawl ; for Dyeing 
 Straw and Chip Bonnets: for Dyeing Silk Stockin^«( Black ; on Dyeing Blacks and Browns ; to 
 take Stain of Dye from Hands ; for Bleaching Cotwn ; for Slate-colored Cotton ; for an Olive 
 Green : for a Full Yellow ; to Dye a Pelisse Black ; to Dye Woolen StulTs Black ; A Pretty Red 
 Brown, very bright, the Dye costing but sixpence ; for Dyeing Black Cloth a Dark Green ; Direc- 
 tions for Washing Calicoes ; for Gleaming Silk Goods ; for Washing White Cotton Cloths ; for 
 Washing Woolens ; to Clean Woolen and Silk Shawls. 
 
 Part IV.— I mprrrtant Ini^ntcHons to Toung Ladies and Tmmg Gentlemen in Ee!>ped to DresSf 
 CUanlinexs (fc— The Dress, Evening Dresses ; the Hat, High-neck Dresses ; Flounces, Tucks ; 
 Short ('loiti;f Drt»s-;ing the Hair ; Caps, Purity of Breath; Important Hints to Young Men ; Style 
 and I>rt*-id '.rGfu'lci'ifn ; ChoiM of a Wife ; How to Treat & Wife ; A Guide in all Things. 
 
 [CotUinued on next page. 
 
^ AUTS REVEALED.— ^niewiJ Oontinued, ^ 
 
 Part V —Needlework far Towng Ladies, embracing Instructions in EmbroiiUrry on Muslin. StUc ( 
 Velvet cCr.— Knibrnidery with Floss, 'three-corded Silk, Chenille, Worsted. &c. ; Ruise.i Krj,l>roid 
 ery ■ rititclies in Kmbroidery on Muslin and Lace-Work ; Double Button hole ttilch ; i.l .ryr s 
 Stitch Eyelet Holes: Embroidery, Feather Stitch; Formation of Bars; Buttonhole ciilch, 
 Darning ■ Eyeltst holes in Lace work ; Interior Stitch, Chain Stitch ; Veining Open Hem ; I earl- 
 ing Lines ; Straight Open Hera ; Half Herring bone Stitch ; Tambour Stitch, hpotw on \et ; Em- 
 broidery on ituslin ; Embroidery in Gold Thread ; Instructionfl in Lace-work ; Embroidery for 
 insertion \ Thingii to be Bemembered. 
 
 Part VI —Rules of Politeness for Ladies emd Oentlemen.~-^\i\ea of Politeness ; Models of loTita" 
 tion Cards ; How to Address a Lady ; Language of the Finger Ring ; Rules of Conversation j 
 Young People's Primary Instruction in the Art of Drawing. 
 
 Part Xn.^ilisceUaneous B«ctp«.— To,ke^ the Hair from-fallizig off ; Oil forUhe Hair, to make 
 it Curl ■ to Cure Freckles, Shaving Soap ; Tincture for Diseased Gums : Red Boitle Wax ; White- 
 wash tiat will not Rub off; to make Cloth wind and rainproof; Feathers, Icy Steps ; to Polish 
 Stoves Black Ball ; Inflamed Eyes ; to Blacken the Eyelashes ; to Perfume Clothes ; Certain Cure 
 for Eruptions, Pimples, &c. ; Cheap, white House Paint ; Confectionery : Ornamental Frosting ; 
 to Clarify Sugar for Candies ; Fine Peppermint Lozengea ; Icing for Cakes ; Saffron Lozengies ; 
 Strawberry Ice Cream. 
 
 Part Vm, iTie Doctar ai Home. — ^New Cure for Consumption, Scrofula, Rickets, Diarrhea, &c. j 
 
 Cure for a Nail Run into the Foot ; Fever and Ague ; Cure for the Toothache ; A very Strength- 
 ening Drink : Cure for Rheumatism ; Very Valuable Remedy for Rheumatism ; Cure for Hydro- 
 phobia ; Tonic Bitters, Bowel Complaints ; Inflammation of the Bowels ; Common Canker, Gravel; 
 Prevention of Bilious Fever ; Consumption ; Hypochondria, or Hysteric Passion ; Rabes, or Hy- 
 drophobia; Incubus, or Nightmare ; Cough Compound, Canker Cure ; Piles, Dysentery ; Pain in 
 the Breast or Side ; Convulsion Fits, Inward Ulcer's ; Sore Eyes, Numb Palsy ; Flying Bbeunia- 
 tism : Rheumatic Oil, Soothing Lotion ; Dysentery Specific, particularly for Bloody Dysentery ; 
 Invalid Cordial ; Balm of Life, Headache Drops ; for Cleansing and Purifying the Blood ; for 
 Strengthening and Invigorating the Nerves ; A Shrunk Sinev or Sti£f Joint ; Cancer of the 
 Breast ; Remedy for Cancer. 
 
 Part IX. — Medical QttalUies of Roots and Herbi. — Black Alder : Alum Root — ^Angelica : Thorn 
 Apple ; Arrow-Root — Avens Root ; Asarum, or Swamp Asarabacca : Agrimony : Beech Drops ; 
 Baarberry : Five Fingers, or Cinquefoil : Crawley, or Fever Root : Comfrey , Feather-few : Black- 
 berry : Dandelion— Wild Turnip ; Blood Root — Thoroughwort : Indian Tobacco : Wlntergreen ; 
 Burdock — Pleurisy Root : Queen of the Meadow : Cicuta, or Poison Hemlock : Broad Leaved 
 Laurel : Sweet Flag, Rose Willow : Dogwood, Dwarf Elder : American Gentian: Sampson Snake- 
 root : Foxglove, Tobacco : Mustard, Mallows : Oak Ba^k, Deadly Nightshade : American Ipecac, 
 or Indian Physic ; Camomile : Rhubarb Root : Mandrake, or May Apple : Colt's Foot, Bitter-: 
 sweet : Pokeweed : Shumach, orShoemake : Slippery Elm, Poplar : Santcle, Black Snake roott 
 Skunk Cabbase : Tansy : Wormwood, Horse Radish : King's Evil Weed: Oak of Jerui^alem, o: 
 Wormseed : American Senna : Yellow Dock, Gravel Weed : SarsapariUa, Beth Root : Tag Alder : 
 Langworth, Ladies' Clipper : Rattlesnake's Plantain, Blue Flag: Sassafras, River Willow: 
 Milkweed : Peach Tree, Valerian : Butternut Tree, Ground Pine : Blue Kohosh : White Poppy : 
 Peppermint, ( harcoal of Wood : Ergot, Smut Rye, or Spurred Rye : Hops : Sweet Ffern : Mea- 
 dow SulTroa : Witch Hazel - Prickly Ash : Directions for Collecting and Preserving Vegetables : 
 Roots, Seeds and Fruits : Leaves and Flowers. 
 
 Part X. — Dv^eanes nf Children. — Treatment of Infanta ; Infant's Syrup ; Cholera Infantum, 
 Hiccups; finping and Flatulency ; the Tbrush, Diarrhoea ; Cutaneous Eruptions ; Falling dow» 
 of the Fundament ; Dentition or Cutting Teeth ; Convulsions, the Rickets ; Inward Fits ; Distor- 
 tion of the "Spine; Dropsy on the Brain, or Hydrocephalus, Causes, Treatment: Inflamma- 
 tion of the Trachea, Hives, Rattles, or Croup ; Croup, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment : the 
 Sleep of Infants : the Yellow Gum : Aphthoe or Thrush, Acidities : Galling and ^coi'iation : 
 Vomiting. 
 
 Part XIl. — AccidenU or Emergencies. — How to be Prepared for Accidents and Emergencies ; Re- 
 
 j medies for Poiiona ; tor Corrosive Sutlimate ; Sugar of Lead ; for Opium, Laudanum, Hemlock, 
 
 L and other Vegetable Poisons ; for Tartar Emetic ; Bite of a Rattlesnake ; for Oil of vitriol, Tar- 
 
 ^ taric or Prusaic Acid, or any other Acid ; for Potash or other Alkalies ; for Arsenic, Drowned 
 
 ,- Persons ; Cautions in Visiting Sick Rooms ; Security against Lightning ; The Tongue ; to make 
 
 S Leeches Take Hold ; Castor-Oil made Palatable ; Poultices ; to Purify the Atmosphere of a Sick 
 
 \ Room ; Importance of Well-Ventilated Apartments ; Three Rules for Preserving Good Health ; 
 
 ( Consumption ; Codfish Liver Oil for Consumption ; Rules for Diet and Digestion ; General Rulev 
 
 f for Preserving Life and Health ; Sir R. Philip's Rules ; Dr Boerhaave's Rules. 
 
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THE WORD AND WORKS OF GOD. 
 
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 ! Oriental Languages, and of Jewish Antiquities ; of his learned defence of the 
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 1^ the eternal purpose which he purposed in himself. It is not from our own spirit- f 
 
 jg ual history, nor from the text of , scripture, that we are led to question the doc- \ 
 
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 M from unauthorized reasoning, as to what is consistent with our ideas of the moral \ 
 
 ^ character of God, or the free agency of man, subjects too profound to be fuHy ex- ' 
 
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 g < Who art thou. Oh man 1 that repliest against God V" 
 
 » From the Christian Chronicle, 
 
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