Eight lectures on fellowship with God Author:John Sandford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. ON FELLOWSHIP IN SUFFERING AND GLORY. It is a faithful saying, For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall... more » also reign with him.—2 Tim. ii. 11, 12. In my last discourse I adverted to the fact, that whereas to form any adequate conception of God's attributes, we must have learnt to contemplate them in the person of Christ,—there are some divine perfections of which his humanity affords our only idea. I shewed, further, how it was only in virtue of our fellowship with Jesus as a human personification of Deity that we could be said to be associated with God in suffering. And then, after observing in what points the sufferings of the disciple must be distinguished from those of his Lord, inasmuch as all His sufferings were expiatory, and all meritorious, and none of them a proper chastisement of personal sin ; whilethe sufferings of his people are none of them expiatory, none of them meritorious, because all merited, and many of them corrective,—I went on to shew that the disciple must be associated with his Lord in suffering,—must be made conformable to his death in tribulation for righteousness' sake,—in tribulation by reason of the sin prevailing in the world around him, and on account of the mortification of self to which he is bound by his christian engagement. I proceed, now, to consider that every disciple must drink of his master's cup, and be baptized with his baptism, by reason of his exposure to temptation. It was in the foreknowledge of the temptation to which his people would be subject, that Christ prayed for them, not that they might be taken out of the world, but preserved from the evil one. And in uttering this petition,he spoke as one who had himself passed through the ordeal in which they were to be tried ;...« less