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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... xvi. "If so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together."--Rom. viii. 17.-1 of all who are really believers in the Lord Jesus Christ; they are called out of darkness into God's marvellous light; they are adopted sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty; they are made heirs--heirs of God, and joint-heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now He refers to another aspect of their sonship: a matter which has been always more or less a subject of anxious thought, of great difficulty, and of not a little perplexity to God's dear children, that notwithstanding what they sincerely believe that God for Christ's sake has forgiven them, and that He is their Father and their Friend, and that the Comforter, the Holy Ghost Himself, has become their indwelling Inhabitant; that even as is the risen Son of God in heaven, so are we in this present world; that the world, the flesh, and the devil are all beneath the feet of Him who represents us in Heaven, sitting at the right hand of the throne of the majesty on high; that we dwell in Him and He in us, united to Him, who sitteth above the waterflood, by an indissoluble union; yet that, nevertheless and notwithstanding, they are oftentimes full of troubles, beset by manifold temptations, trials, and sufferings, aggravated in their degree and in their nature beyond the ordinary trials, sufferings, and difficulties, with which they were familiar in the days that declared the surpassing dignity are past, and when they were living without hope, and without God in the world. Considerations like these have often tempted God's people to question whether those circumstances of conscious weakness and failure be not altogether inconsistent with the sacred relationship which they profess to believe...