The Glory of Christ Author:Gardiner Spring 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: it with the same individuals whose nauseous character is described in the first chapter of the epistle to the Romans. We look at the licentious, debased, and pol... more »luted Corinthians, and then at those same Corinthians, " washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus ;" and while we love and honor them for their piety, it is not the persons themselves whose character is thus transformed, that we so much think of, as that Lord Jesus, by whose grace they were thus beautified, and whose reflected glory they show forth. Could we unroll the catalogue of all those holy men and women, so many of whom were stars of the first magnitude, and so many more of whom whose light was less resplendent, but not the less lovely and attractive; and could we add to these those untold myriads of infant minds, born in sin, but made pure and bright by him that " maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning;" and could we then bring before you the names of those now on the earth who were once as notorious for their wickedness as they now are more or less illustrious for their piety, we should furnish some adequate illustration of the glory of Christ in the character of his followers. The moral hemisphere is lighted up with these reflections of his love and power. " Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patins of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb that thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim." Yet all this celestial harmony is but an echo; and these brilliant lights in the vault of heaven shine by rays from the Sun of righteousness. If from such a survey, you take the map of the world as it now is, and trace those lands where the national character and government and law...« less