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itbe.Pm

ano

familp'Zook

427

than

for life.

Commit

and truff

your

-Souls

to

Chrill

He had never done

fo

much

for

Souls,

if

he

had

not

lo-

ved

them, and

been

willing

to

receive them.

How

wonderfull y came he

down to man, to bring

up man

to

the fight

of God!

He

is

gone before

to

(t)

prepare

.

us

a

Manfion in

the.

City

of

God;

and hash

promifed

to

take

us

to

himfelf,tlaat we

may

dwell

with

hits,

and

fee

his

Glory

1

The

world

which you

are going

to,

is (cs)

unlike

to this

;

There

is

no

Pride, or

Luft,

or

Cruelty,

Oppreffion,

Deceit,

or

any

fin

no

wicked

men

to fcorn

or

perfecute

you;

no

Vanity

to allure

us

;

no

Devil

to tempt

us

;

no

Corruption of our

own

to

burden

or

endanger

us

;

no

Fears,

or

Cares, or Griefs,

or

Difcontents

;

no Povercy,Sicknefs,

Pain,or Death

;no

doubtings

of

the love

of God,

or

our

Salvation But

the

fight

of God

and

the

feelings

of

his

Love,

and

the

fervent

flames

of

our

love

to

him,

will

be

the

everlaft-

ing pleafure

of

the Saints.

Thefe will break

forth

into triumphant

and

harmonious thanks

and

praife in

the

pre.fence

of

our glorified Redeemer,

and in

Con-

cord

with

all

the Heavenly

Hoft,the

bleffed

Angels,and

the Spirits

of

the JuíL.This

is

the

end

of

Faith

and

Ho-

linefs, Patience and

Perfeverance

:

when

Hell

is

the

end

of

Unbelief, Ungodlinefs, Senfuality, and

Hypo

-

crifie.

How juftly

are

they condemned who

fell

their part

of

endlefs

joy

es,

for

a

fhadow

and

dream

of

tranfitory

pleafures

!

and can

delight more

in the

filth

of

fin, and in

a

fading vanity, than

in

the love

of

God,

and

the

fore

-

thoughts

of

Glory

!

What

Love can

be

too great

?

what

defines

too fervent

?

what

Prayer

and

Labour

can

he

too

much

?

what

Sufferings

too

dear

for

fuck a Blefl'ednefs

?

C

t;

j'c.hn 17

.24.

ei

r

2.26.

(ts)

Rev.

d-

2.

VII.

La"ly,