"Good news from a far country." - Proverbs 25:25
From a far country, indeed; for it is no less distance than from heaven
to earth, and from beings as opposite as holiness and sin could
make-even from God to man, from a rich Saviour to poor sinners! And so
remote that had not this good news been sent, heaven must have remained
at an eternal distance, as an inaccessible region! And what is the good
news itself? The angels who were first sent to proclaim it, called it
glad tidings of good things, of great joy to all people. And indeed,
such glad tidings it contains, as language fails to describe. It is
pardon, mercy, and peace to poor rebels. It holds forth joy, happiness,
and everlasting felicity to poor sinners, enemies, and the fallen race
of men. God revealed; sin atoned; Satan conquered; death destroyed;
hell vanquished; heaven opened! And these not all. This good news
informs also of the stupendous way by which the blessings are given,
and everlasting happiness secured. Jesus, the Son of God, the author,
the finisher, the source, cause, sum, substance, beginning, end, and
portion of all his people. These, among an infinite and endless volume
of mercies, are contained in the good news from a far country: but we
must enter upon that country, to which indeed we are invited by the
proclamation of the gospel, before that we shall fully know, or even
conceive, the thousandth part of what God hath laid up for them that
love him. My soul, hast thou heard this good news? Dost thou know the
joyful sound? Art thou truly alive to the blessed things contained in
it, and anxious to be interested therein? Oh then, meditate upon them;
give thyself wholly to them. And while men of the world, from the world
are seeking their chief good, and asking one another, what news? do
thou turn a deaf ear to every other relation of a dying world, from
which thou art dying daily, and let thy meditation be all the day, and
let thine eyes prevent the night-watches to dwell upon this good news,
and this only, which cometh from a far country.
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