is this ! Can you, my brethren, glorify the Father, and mag- nify the Lord Jesus, and will you not strive to do it ? Know assuredly, that " your professed subjection to the Gospel of Christ" does cause him to be exceedingly magnified : and the more "the exceeding grace of God" appears in you, the more of praises and adoration and thanksgiving will abound to him2. Let this blessed prospect animate your souls : and wherein- soever you have hitherto glorified him, seek to " abound more and more."]
4. By the consideration of the glory that will accrue to him in the day of judgment —
[In that great day the Lord Jesus " Christ will be glo- rified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe3." The brighter his image shone upon them here, the more radi- ance will appear around them there ; and all will be as jewels to compose his crown b. When the demoniac had confessed his inability to withstand the Lord Jesus, and yet had pre- vailed over seven men who attempted to cast out the evil spirit, we are told that " the name of the Lord Jesus was mag- nified0." How then will it be magnified, when the extent of his power in you shall be seen, and your once dark polluted souls shall shine forth as the sun in the firmament for ever and ever! Now then is the time for you to exalt his name, and to augment his glory to all eternity. It is but a little time that you will be able to do any thing for him : when death comes, all your opportunities to advance his glory will cease for ever. Up then, and be doing. We have shewn you how to walk and to please God, and you have begun the blessed work : but O, we entreat you to abound more and more! And may "the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you per- fect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ : to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever. AmenV]
z 2 Cor. ix. 13, 14. a 2 Thess. i. 10. b Mai. iii. 17.
c Acts xix. 17. d Heb. xiii. 20, 21.