4. That by all, whatever their conduct be, he will eventually be glorified —
[That God will be glorified in the obedience of the right- eous, is a truth which needs not to be confirmed : whatever they do, it is " to the praise of the glory of his grace :" and at the last day the Lord Jesus will come " to be glorified in his sahits, and to be admired in all them that believe." But will he be glorified in the ungodly also ? Yes. He declared that he would " get himself honour upon Pharaoh and all his hosts h:" and this he did by overwhelming them in the sea : and so he will do, also, in the destruction of the wicked, at the last day: he will then make known the inflexibility of his justice, and " the power of his wrath :" and the whole universe shall be constrained to say, " Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments1."]
Having thus explained the declaration in my text, I proceed, II. To improve it —
All Scripture is said to be " profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness," or, in other words, for the establish- ment of sound doctrine, and for the enforcing of a holy practice. For these two ends I will endeavour to improve the subject before us. And,
1 . For the establishment of sound doctrine — [The doctrine which I hinted at, in the commencement of
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Isai. x. 7. f Eph. i. 11 e Isai. xlvi. 10.
h Exod. xiv. 17. l Rev. xvi. 0, 7. and xix. 2.