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and all shall acknowledge him to be the Son of God, and every tongue confess him to be Lord and King! If when he riseth again, the grave and death have lost their power, and the angels of heaven must roll away the stone, and astonish the watchmen till they are as dead men, and send the tidings to his dejected disciples; if the bolted doors cannot keep him out; if the sea be as firm ground for him to walk on; if he can ascend to heaven in the sight of his disciples, and send the angels to forbid them gazing after him: O what power, and dominion, and glory then is he now possessed of! and must we ever possess with him!

Yet think further, are his very servants enabled to do such miracles when he is gone from them? Can a few poor fishermen, and tent-makers, cure the lame and blind, and sick? open prisons, destroy the disobedient, and raise the dead? O then what a world will that be, where every one can do greater works than these! It were much to have the devils subject to us; but more to have our names written in the book of life. If the very preaching of the gospel be accompanied with such power, that it will pierce the heart, and discover its secrets, bring down the proud, and make the stony sinner tremble; if it can make ⟨p. 367⟩men burn their books, sell their lands, bring in the price, and lay it down at the preacher's feet; if it can make the spirits of princes stoop, and the kings of the earth resign their crowns, and do their homage to Jesus Christ; if it can subdue kingdoms, and convert thousands, and turn the world thus upside down; if the very mention of the judgment and life to come, can make the judge on the bench to tremble: what then is the glory of the kingdom itself? What an absolute dominion have Christ and his saints! And if they have this power and honour in the day of their abasement, what will they have in their full advancement?