228 AUXILIARIES OB [Chap. 14. for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. It bath no need of the sun, neither of the moon in it, for the glory of God Both 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 angels," and his own Son, " to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done." 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 great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountainof his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Sion. God is known in her palaces for a refuge." Yet proceed on ; the soul that loves, ascends frequently, and runs familiarly through the streets of the heavenly Jeru- salem, visiting the patriarchs and prophets, saluting the apostles, and admiring the armies of martyrs ; so do thou lead on thy heart as from street to street bring it into the palace of the Great King; lead it, as it were, from chamber to chamber. Say to it, " Here must I lodge ; here must I live ; here must I praise ; here must I love, and be beloved. I must shortly be one of this heavenly choir, and be better skilled in the music. Among this blessed company must I take up my place; my voice must join to make up the me- lody. My tears will then be wiped away ; my groans be turned to another tune; my cottage of clay be changed to this palace; my prison rags to these splendid robes; andmy sordid flesh shall be put off, and such a sunlike, spiritual body be put on; ' for the former things are here passed away.' Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God !' When I look upon this glorious place, what a dunghill and dungeon methinks is earth ! Owhat difference betwixt a man, feeble, pained, groaning, dying, rotting in the grave, and one of these triumphant, shining saints ! Here shall I ' drink of the river of pleasures, the streams whereof make glad the city of God.' Must Israel, under the bondage of the law, ' serve the Lord with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things V Surely I shall serve him withjoy- fulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of glory. Did persecuted saints ' take joyfully the spoiling of their
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