E 340 .Sl?8 Glass.. .S7Book . - (Eljrtstian Suffering; its jUtgnitjj anb its (EftuarjK SERMON OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THE HON. AMBROSE SPENCER, PREACHED IN ST. PETER'S CHURCH, ALBANY, SUNDAY,MARCH 1848.19, POTTER,BY HORATIO D. D., M RECTOR OF SAID CHURCH. ALBANY: JOEL MUNSELL, PRINTER 1849. SERMON. XII., 6.HEBREWS " He chasteneth."Whom the Lord loveth the world inThe bitter things which came into consequences and itsthe train of sin, came as its suffering,punishment, poverty, trouble, sorrow, been transformeddeath,how wonderfully have they obtaining a blessinginto blessings, or into means of Christ In and ofby the power of the Cross of ! fruits oftrans-themselves, considered merely as the the earnestgression, they might be looked upon as beginning of thatof Hell ; as tokens in time of the fully revealed inwrath ofGod, which is to be more blessed Lord and Sa-eternity. But now that our hath partaken of allviour, the adorable Son ofGod, become efficacious forthese bitter things, they are the children of God,good ; they are changed, for purifying for Heaven,into tokens oflove ; they are a forward step by step toward itsand they carry us A divine virtue has flowedeverlasting blessedness. all from Him who is our life.