THE SAINT'S REST. 53 tion, nor vexed with their presence; no pride, passion, slothfulness, insensibility, shall enter with us ; no strangeness to God, and the things of God ; no cold- ness of affections, nor imperfection in our love; no uneven walking, nor grieving of the Spirit; no scan- dalous action, nor unholy conversrtion : we shall rest from all thesefór ever. Then shall our will correspond to thé divine will, as face answers face in a glass, and from which, as our law and rule, we shall never swerve. "For he that is entered into his rest, he also bath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.(9n) § 12. Our sufferings were but the consequences of our sinning, and in heaven they both shall cease to- gether. --We shall rest from all our doubts of God's love. It shall no more be said, that, "Doubts are like the thistle, a bad weed, but growing in good ground."(n) They shall be now weeded out, and trou- ble the gracious soul no more., We shall hear that kind of language no more; "What shall I do to know my state ? How shall I know that God is my Father ? that my heart is upright ? that my conversa- tion is true? that my faith is sincere? I am afraid my sins are unpardoned; that all I do is hypocrisy; that God will reject me ; that he does not hear my pray - ers." All this is there turned into praise. We shall rest from all sense of God's displeasure. Hell shall not be mixed with heaven. At times the gracious soul remembered God and was troubled ; complained, and was overwhelmed, and refused to be comforted ; divine wrath lay hard upon him, and God afflicted him with all his waves, "(o) But that blessed day shall convince us, that though God "hid his face from us for a moment, yet with everlasting kindness will he have mercy on us." (p) We shall 'rest from all the, temptations of .Satan. What a grief is it to a Christian, though he yield not to the temptation, yet to be, solicited to deny, his Lord ? What a torment to have such hor- rid motions made to his soul ! such blasphemous ideas presented to his imagination ! sometimes cruel (m) Heb. iv. 10. Gen. ii. 2. (o) Psalm lxxvii. 2, 3. lxxxviii. (n) Dr. Preston. (p) Isa...liv, 8.
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