3. We see the reason why there are no more revivals of religion in our midst.
NOTES OF A SERMON.
TAKEN BY HIS DAUGHTER CYNTHIA, SABBATH MORNING, DEC. 29, 1867
Job 13: 15.-"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him." (In Welsh, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him.")
Here we have an example of the experience of a Christian in deep affliction, of one who retained his confidence in God in the midst of all his afflictions. It is a part of Job's answer to Zophar the Naamathite.
1st. A few remarks touching the nature of hope, and the nature of the objects of hope. Hope is more than longing desire. It has a firm foundation of expectation.
The nature of the objects of a Christian's hope. They are things unseen. "For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?" Great things. Redemption from all affliction, and from the cause of all affliction. Inheritance of eternal blessedness. Things to come. "It doth not yet appear," &c. The Christian is now in possession and enjoyment of many things, but the objects of his hope have not been realized, they are still in the future.
The grace of hope to continue after death. As God has prepared infinite fullness to be unfolded, age after age, as the soul shall be expanded, it seems proper to infer that the redeemed shall ever exercise hope for objects yet to come.
