178 THE WORLD TO COME. you to maintain your conflict with all the mighty obstacles of your faith and hope ; it is his grace hash renewed your nature, bath weaned you from this vain flattering world, and given you a sacred relish of divine blessedness. It is he who bath formed you again after his own image, and bath trained you up, and made you meet for the inheritance of the saints in light. Call up all your powers to praise his goodness, and say, Bless the Lord, O my soot, and all that is within me, bless his holy name: Bless the Lord for ever, and forget not all his benefits; Ps. ciii. 1, 2. It is God who bath called me out of darkness into his marvellous light, and given me to see the things that belong to my everlasting peace. It is God who washed away my iniquities in the blood of his own Son, and bath renewed me unto holiness by his blessed Spirit. It is God who bath taken me out of the family of sin and satan, and given me a place among his chil- dren ; who hath begun to prepare me for the joys and blessings of heaven, and in his own time he will fulfil all my hopes, and complete my felicity. Walk before him with all holy care and watchfulness, and take heed that you lose not the things which you have wrought, nor the things which God has wrought in you, but that persevering to the end you may receive the full reward, and obtain the crown of everlasting life ; 2 John, verse 8. Amen.
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