effect ? God forbid. " Let God be true, but every man a liar1" ]
3. Others were effectually saved by it —
[Yes, some " glorified the word of life ; and, having been ordained to eternal life, believed itm," and were saved by it. Thus let it be glorified by you. It is worthy of all your sub- mission, and all your trust, and all your confidence : and if you will " glorify it" by faith and obedience, it shall surely " glorify
you" with everlasting life" From this moment, therefore,
let nothing divert you from it, but " continue steadfastly in the grace of God0."]
1 Rom. iii. 3, 4. m ver. 48. n 2 Thess. iii. 1. ° ver. 43.
Acts xiii. 32, 33. We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath ful- filled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
THE resurrection of Christ was the foundation whereon the whole edifice of our religion was built. To that Jesus himself directed his Disciples to look forward as the evidence of his Messiahship ; and, after he had risen, he appeared to them repeatedly for the space of forty days, that they might be enabled to testify of it with the fullest assurance. A select number were chosen by him for the very purpose of bearing witness to this wonderful event : and because St. Paul had not enjoyed the same advantage as the other Apostles, he was favoured with a vision of his Lord long after his removal from the sight of all other mortals, in order that he, as well as the others, might be able to testify of it from ocular demonstration.
In the words before us he speaks of Christ's resur- rection, I. As an accomplishment of prophecy —
The passage quoted by the Apostle is very properly applied to this subject —