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The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne (1847)
The Works of the Late Rev Robert Murray McCheyne - 1847 Author:Robert Murray M'Cheyne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sight of glory ; and, O rejoice in the happy ordinance that sets a broken Saviour so plainly before you. (2.) Consider Christ as making Intercession.—When Chr... more »ist ascended from the Mount of Olives, and passed through these heavens, carrying his bloody wounds into the presence of God: and when his disciples had gazed after him, till a cloud received him out of their sight, we are told that they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. What! are they joyful at parting with theii blessed Master ? When he told them he was to leave them, sor row filled their hearts, and he had to argue with them and comfort them, saying, Let not your heart be troubled ; it is expedient for you that I goaway. How, then, are they changed! Jesus has left them, and they are filled with joy. Oh ! here is the secret, they knew that Christ was now going into the presence of God for them, that their great High Priest was now entering within the veil to make intercession for them. Now, believer, would you share in the great joy of the disciples? Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. He is above yon clouds, and above yon sky. 0 that you would stand gazing up into heaven, not with the bodily eye, but with the eye of faith. Oh ! what a wonderful thing the eye of faith is: it sees beyond the stars, it pierces to the throne of God, and there it looks on the face of Jesus making intercession for us, whom having not seen we love, in whom, though now we see him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh ! if you would live thus, what sweet peace would fill your bosom! And how many droppings of the Spirit would come down on you in answer to the Saviour's prayer. Oh ! how your face would shine like Stephen ; and the poor blind world would see that there i...« less