a Gathered Fragment.

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THE highest and most stupendous thought in the salvation of God concerning me is, not only that I am saved; but that the heart of God is gratified in my salvation; and that He has saved me for His own glory. Wonderful! that man, by nature a sinner, and a rebel against God, should have been picked up in sovereign grace, as a mere lump of clay out of this vast graveyard, or cemetery (the world), and made the material upon which Divine skill should be displayed, in producing the most wonderful object for eternal glory, so that God Himself could look upon it, and say, "That is my own peculiar piece of work, produced by myself, for myself, suitable to myself, and for the gratification of myself.”
“What hath God wrought?”