DISC. III.], SURPRIZE IN DEATH. 393 do thy will, among the sons of mortality, or among the spirits of the blessed on high." V. " Let us remember we have slept too long already in days past, and it is but a little while that we are called to watch." We have worn away too much of our life in sloth and drowsiness. " The night is far spent with many of us, the day is at hand; it is now high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed ;" Rom. xiii: 1 1, 12. Another hour or two, and the night will be an end with us;. Jesus, the morning-star, is just appearing; " What, can we not watch one hour Mat. xxvi. 40. 0 happy souls, that keep themselves awake to God in the midst of this dreaming world ! Happy indeed, when our Lord shall call us out of these dusky regions, and we shall an- swer his call with holy joy, and spring upward to the inheritance of the saints in light ! Then all the seasons of darkness and slumbering will be finished for ever ; there is no needof laborious watchfulness, in that world, where there is no flesh and blood to hang heavy upon the spi- rit; but the sanctified powers of the soul are all life, and immortal vigour. There is no want of the sun- beams to make their day-light, or to irradiate that city; " the glory of God enlightens it with divine splendors, and the Lamb is the light thereof;" Rev. xxi. 23. No inhabitant can sleep under such an united blaze ofgrace and glory : No faintings ofnature, no langu ors or weari- ness are found in all that vital climate ; every citizen is for ever awake, and busy under the beams of that glori- ous day ; zeal, and love ; and joy are the springs of their eternal activity, and there is no night there ;" Rev. xxii. 5.
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