268 COIVTEMPLATION PROMOTED it," All this will thy Lord give thee, who hast believed in him, and been a worshipper of him. 'It is the Father's good pleasure to give thee this kingdom.'(d) Seest thou this astonishing glory which is above thee ? All this is thy own inheritance. This crown is thine, these plea- sures are thine; this company, this beautiful place, are all thine? because thou art Christ's, and Christ is thine ; when thou wast united to him, thou hadst all these with him." 'Thus take thy heart into the land of promise; show it the pleasant hills, and fruitful values; show it the clusters of grapes which thou hast gathered, to convince it that it is a blessed land, flowing with better than milk and honey : «Enter the gates of the holy city walk through the streets of the New Jeru- salem, walk about Sion, and go round about her tell the towers thereof, mark well her bulwarks ; consider her palaces; that thou mayest tell it to thy soul.(e) IJath it not the glory of God, and is not her light like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper- stone,. clear as Crystal? See the twelve foundations of her walls, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the building of the walls of it are of .jasper; and the city is pure gold like unto clear glass, and the foundations are garnished with all manner of precious stones. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, every several gate is of one pearl; and the street of the city is purè gold, as . it were transparent glass, There is no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. It hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof; and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his an- gels and his own Son, to show` unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. "(f) Say now to all this, "This is thy rest, O my soul ! And this must be the place of thy everlasting habitation !" Let all the sons of Sion rejoice, -let the daughters of Jerusalem be glad for Wgreat is the Lord, and greatly to be praised (d) Lui,e xii. 52. (e) Ps; xlviii. 12, 15. (f) Rev. xxi. 11, ?4. xxii 6.
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