"Who fhall feparate us from the love of "Chrift? fhall tribulation, or distress, or 66 perfecution, or famine, or nakedness, or "peril, or fword?--Nay, in all these things "we are more than conquerors, through "him that loved us. For I am perfuaded, "that neither death, nor life, nor angels,

nor principalities, nor powers, nor things "prefent, nor things to come, nor height,

nor depth, nor any other creature, shall "be able to feparate us from the love of "God, which is in Christ Jefus our Lord." -Once more,

4thly, The life of Chrift fecures to his people the refurrection of their bodies, and the happiness of the whole man, in the full and everlasting enjoyment of God.

As Adam, by his apoftafy, became the fource of death to all his natural defcendants; fo Christ, by his expiatory fufferings, and the glory that followed, is become the fountain of life to all his fpiritual offspring; who accordingly are faid to be "begotten "again to the lively hope of an inheritance "that is incorruptible, and undefiled, and "that fadeth not away;" and that by

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means of his refurrection from the dead. Hence the fecond Adam is called a quickening Spirit, having the fame virtue and efficacy to convey all the fulnefs of life to those who are new born into the family of God, that the first Atam had to tranfmit death to his pofterity. It was not the foul of Christ only, but his body also, that was exalted and crowned with honour: in like manner fhall the bodies of believers be rescued from the grave, and raised to glory, feeing these were redeemed by Christ as well as their fouls. Nay, the bodies of the faints are faid exprefsly to be "the temples of the

Holy Ghoft;" and it cannot be supposed, that these temples fhall remain always under the ruins of death. He who honoured them with his refidence, will certainly rebuild them in due time; as the Apostle reafons, Rom. viii. 11. "If the Spirit of "him that raifed up Jefus from the dead, "dwell in you; he that raised up Christ "from the dead, fhall alfo quicken your "mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth "in you." Then fhall that fong be fung by all the redeemed company newly raised from

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from the duft," Death is swallowed up "in victory.". "O death, where is now "thy fting? O grave, where is now thy

victory?—The sting of death was fin, and "the ftrength of fin was the law; but "thanks be unto God, who hath now given "us the victory through Jefus Christ our "Lord."

THUS have I endeavoured to lead you through a very extensive, but furely a pleafant and fruitful, field, wherein a variety of objects have occurred, interefting to all, and peculiarly comfortable to the people of God: upon whom I therefore call, in the conclufion of my difcourfe, to praise and magnify that compaffionate Saviour, and faithful High-Priest over the house of God, who ranfomed them with his blood; and amidst all the fplendors of his exalted state, is not unmindful of his charge upon earth, but continually appears in the prefence of God for them; whofe ear is always attentive to the voice of their fupplications; whofe mouth is ever open to plead in their behalf; and as if it had not been love enough to

die for them, ftill lives and reigns for them, and even glories in being," the head over "all things to the church, which is his 65 body, the fulness of him that filleth all "in all." To him, with the Father, and quickening Spirit, the one living and true God, be glory and honour, thanksgiving and praise, for ever and ever.

Amen.

SERMON X.

HOSEA xiv. 8.

Ephraim fhall fay, What have I to do any more

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we compare the reprefentation here given of Ephraim, with the account we have of him ch. iv. 17. we shall discover fuch a wonderful change, as must excite in us a defire to be acquainted with the caufe of it. There it is faid, 66 Ephraim " is joined to idols:" Here we behold him throwing them away, with every fymptom of contempt and abhorrence. Like a man awakened from a dream, or rather like one who had loft his reason, and was now reftored to the right ufe of it, he faith, What have I to do any more with idols?—It is my difgrace, no less than my crime, that ever I had any thing to do with fuch lying vanities; but now I caft them from me with fcorn and deteftation, and with a determined

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