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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt:...of Christ. But Christ in us is still the hope of glory. In the power of an endless life, we shall yet serve and glorify Him. Even as He had in all former ages in His Church every vessel for His use, so now He hath the same; and if we will be enlarged, He will bring them all forth and be enlarged toward us, and pour out again His spiritual treasures; until the blessing be so ample that the resurrection of the saints must needs come, because nothing less than the whole general assembly and Church of the first-born shall suffice to contain it. And now unto the Father, &c. p 248 SERMON X. THE OFFICE OF THE CHURCH. "That ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all."--Ephesuns i. 18-23. God has bestowed upon us perfect peace in the blood of His-Son, that we may no longer think of ourselves, but that we may mind the things of Christ. He gives us perfect peace as to past sin; through the faith of His forgiveness, and of the power and preciousness of the blood of His Son. And He gives us perfect peace amid the daily burdens of our Christian life--burdens that coirie upon us through our own infirmities, through the temptations that...