Excerpt: ...unites them to Him whose strength is put forth in their weakness, and from Whom a life endless and indestructible is communicated to every stone that rests in Him. There they are sensibly borne up above despondency, above a spirit of heaviness, above the meditations of terror, above the dark regions of the shadow of death. There faith plants her foot, hope casts in her anchor, and love raises her joyous carol, that at length she has found peace to her troubled conscience, and rest to her wearied soul. And as on ...
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Excerpt: ...unites them to Him whose strength is put forth in their weakness, and from Whom a life endless and indestructible is communicated to every stone that rests in Him. There they are sensibly borne up above despondency, above a spirit of heaviness, above the meditations of terror, above the dark regions of the shadow of death. There faith plants her foot, hope casts in her anchor, and love raises her joyous carol, that at length she has found peace to her troubled conscience, and rest to her wearied soul. And as on this foundation the sure mercies of David are built up for ever, so in laying it, judgment was laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: the undertakings of Emmanuel were entered on in divine love, and executed in divine power. The everlasting righteousness which he brought in answered all the demands of line upon line, and precept upon precept: the inflictions which he endured satisfied all the penal exactions of avenging justice to the uttermost. Whatever is truly reared upon this foundation must be a complete building, and go up with the seven eyes of the Lord upon it: there can be no breach in it, no shake, no settlement, to occasion any dishonour to the law, nor can any part overhang to the injury of divine justice, or an offence to divine holiness. The divine architect has himself chosen the Foundation Stone, elect and precious, and every living stone in it; and He himself has engraven it with grace, grace unto it, and has announced its name, the Temple of the living God; and the city in which it stands, Jehovah Shamma." " Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them." My friends, it is a most fearful thing to consider how many there are around us, who imagine that because they attend, or seek out here and there, what they think, and by way of eminence style, Gospel preaching, and are not doing habitually, grossly, and palpably, what they think, and by way of eminence, style the works of the...
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