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agam, hrom being' slave ; and from being a man^ he passeth onwards to become one of the choBcn people of God. And thus his affectlonti to his master, to his cbitdren, to his fellows, lo all living men, to the spiriti of just mCQ made perfect, to Christ the Saviour. and to God the Judge of all, arc recovered from a state of death, into a more than earthly even a heavenly life. Next, the hopes of the slave are represcntetl,whieh heretofore had nothingupa earth to rest upon, no children to bear bta nana honourably down the stream of time; no field of action in which to set tip trophies that idicKiU carry down his fame ; nothing to call bis own, waA no power to possess any thing which could in viy way bear his name or rei>reseDt his conditioa, « namcIesG, hopeless creature. This Taeuum d hope the Gospel filleth with things which cannot be removed, with an incorruptible inheritance, in tinfading crown, a glorious name, an immortality of honour. He hopes for saKaliun from bis &tns, for llie favour of God, for the fellowship of the sainus, for the triumphs of fuith, for the coaqnest of death and the grave, and for life evcrlastiof. But the chamber of hope within the aouI will DOt V.) Tilt: CUftSC AS TO noDll-V TABOUk, 1061 contain UieHc glorious tliit^git, they pa£^ inward into the chamber of ffiitfa, ITcbolievcA them, he trusts itpOD them, he is ftAsiired of (hem. Ht doubtcth not, but builds upon thcro as upon a Toek, Then comes heavenly ftmhition, hiM »oul fpuleth not in iU preHenc condition, but pEt«srt)i evcrj- bound. He triumphs over discontent, and over l^ief Labour annoys him not, and the Tear of a tyrant mMter rufSeth not the serenity of bis peace. Bonds nffiict him not, nor any form of suffering beneath the sun; for he is bosied with the feeling of another thraldom, and the desire of R higher emanripation hath posfiesfled hin sent. He careth little for immtmitie». of the earth who hath in thoufrht the immunitiee of heaven. He £areth not for houae. who hath mansions prepared for him on hi^h. He carcth not for labour, for wfanm an everlasting rest remaincth ; and hia soul i« ftl ehi^ from nil care, and ifi blessed, to whom God imputelh not his lranKgr«^»sion, and who«e •in 18 covered. In this n-^y the spirit of a slare n emancipated firom its bonds, and hiB heart ia eolargod, al- though his outward man is enslaved. His thoughts are not only free, hut directed by the ever-present Spirit of God : his hopes are held by the proiniset of God ; his aHections have a hid