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THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH
,God approved aiid rewarded the faith of Abraham, and of
Isaac and Jacob as well, by preparing for their inhabita-
tion, and for all the redeemed of all ages, a city whose
foundations had, even in their day, been laid prospectively
in the blood of Jesus Christ (cf. Heb. 12:22-24).
2. Note, in the secoiid Place, that Abraham’s Pilgrim-
age of faith was desigmd to be typical of the believer’s
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(1) “A voyage to a distaiit land”-sucb is the life of
every Christian believer.
“Our life is like the hurrying on the eve
Before we start on‘some long journey bound,
When fit preparing to the last we leave,
Then run to every room the dwelling round,
And sigh that nothing needed can be found;
Yet go we must, and soon as day shall break;
We snatch an hour’s repose; when loud the sound
For our departure calls; we rise and take
A quick and sad farewell, and go ere well awake.”
(2) Here we walk by faith, and not by sight, if we
are true Christians. Though in the world, we are not of
the world, The worldly spirit deals with things present,
but the spirit of faith anticipates the more glorious “things
to come.” The worldly spirit is neither far-reaching nor
far-sighted. Its range is bounded by the horizon of time
aiid sense. It has no wings with which to soar into realms
invisible. It is of the earth, earthly. Whence comes the
manna? why gushes the water from the rock? whither
guides the pillar of cloud and fire?-these are questions it
never asks. It knows not how to soar, how to anticipate
and trust aiid wait, how to endure as seeing Him who is
invisible, how to repose under the shadow of His wings,
unmindful of the dangers of the wilderness and unalarmed
by foes. But the heavenly-minded man walks by faith-
that faith which is the substance of things hoped for, and
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