{"id":25544,"date":"2025-08-18T01:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25544"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:15:51","slug":"all-the-glorious-privileges-of-christs-church-and-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/all-the-glorious-privileges-of-christs-church-and-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Glorious Privileges Of Christ\u2019s Church And Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWoe is me, my mother, that thou hast home me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth. I have neither lent oh usury, nor have men lent to me on usury, yet every one of them doth curse me.\u201d\u2014Jeremiah 15:10<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is sweet consolation to new-born souls to know the state they are come to. Verily, saith Paul, \u2018unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, and unto the heavenly Jerusalem.\u2019 Heb. 12:22. Even to all the glorious privileges of Christ\u2019s church and kingdom, of love, grace and peace. The utmost stretch of thought comes infinitely short of our highly favoured state. See also the blessed society you are come to: ‘an innumerable company of angels, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven; and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling.\u2019 And hath distinguishing grace thus honoured us? Shall the church, our mother, bring us forth? And will not the world take knowledge of us, that we have been with Jesus? That cannot be, for then we should be bastards, and not sons. All are partakers of the world\u2019s hatred, as soon as they appear to be the objects of God\u2019s love, and live as his adopted children by faith.<\/p>\n

What a strict harmony is there between the prophets and saints of the old testament, and the apostles and disciples of Jesus under the new. What strong confirmation, that both are taught by the same Spirit. Jn this one truth they both perfectly agree: \u2018We are not of the world, therefore the world hateth us.\u2019 John 15:19. But marvel not, saith our loving Jesus, it is not you, but me they hate. I am the principal object of hatred, you only for my sake. But poor souls are ready to cry out, ‘Woe is me.\u2019 What am I always to live thus in strife and contention? Is not my deportment and carriage towards the children of this world quiet and inoffensive? No: they will not think so, unless you do as they do, live as they live, follow their vain customs, and partake of their carnal joys. \u2018I have neither borrowed nor lent.\u2019 Verily, this plea of excuse is the cause of offence: for this they will curse us as over-righteous, precise fools. But stoop to borrow their ways, and lend yourself to their customs and practices, cast in your lot with them, and all will be well; peace and friendship will subsist. But no; we prefer spiritual fellowship with Jesus above all: we dare not forsake him, nor incur our Father\u2019s displeasure. We know ‘the friendship of the world is enmity with God.\u2019 James 4:4.<\/p>\n

Hast thou thy Saviour\u2019s mark, my soul?<\/p>\n

Hated of men for Jesu\u2019s sake?<\/p>\n

Such honor is thy chiefest joy,<\/p>\n

Christ\u2019s glory, thou should\u2019st ne\u2019er forsake.<\/p>\n

My Jesus, teach me, day by day.<\/p>\n

To glory in thy cross:<\/p>\n

Oh may I live and prove this truth,<\/p>\n

All gain but thee is loss.<\/p>\n

M.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is sweet consolation to new-born souls to know the state they are come to. Verily, saith Paul, \u2018unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, and unto the heavenly Jerusalem.\u2019 Heb. 12:22. Even to all the glorious privileges of Christ\u2019s church and kingdom, of love, grace and peace. The utmost stretch of thought comes infinitely short of our highly favoured state. See also the blessed society you are come to: ‘an innumerable company of angels, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1239],"class_list":["post-25544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-sovereign-grace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25551,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544\/revisions\/25551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}