370 THk CON-COYEST OVER DEATH. [DISC. t. service of God, and they shall be neither weak nor weary. For all the inconveniences that attend mortality shall be swallowed up and lost for. ever. Alas how poor and imperfect-is the: service which our bodies yield to God in this world ! How heavily do our souls complain of the. clog: of this flesh, and move on- wards heavily in the discharge of duty ! and in the grave the.body is quite cut off from all service. But when death shall' be dispossessed, when we shall arise from the dust, and put on bodies of glory; then with our whole natures and with all their powers, we shall do honour to God our Creator, our Redeemer, , and our Ring. The time will come- when` we shall hunger no more,_ .neither thirst any more ; and the refreshments of sleep shall be-no more necessary to support life. When deathshall be destroyed; sleep,. the image and picture of death, shall be destroyed too. There shall be nothing that looks like death in all that vital world, that world of immortality. We, shall serve the Lord day and night in his temple ; that is continually, for there shall be no night there ; ", Rev. vii. 15, 16. and xxi. 25. . Then we shall taste all the true blessedness that human nature is'oapable Hof, and that without danger ofexcess or sin. When God first united these two pieces of his workmanship, the soul and body, and composed a man, he designed, him the subject of various pleasures, wherein each part should have been subservient to the other, to render the felicity of the creature perfect. It is sin and death that have entered into our natures, and prevented this noble design in our present state : but the counsel of the Lord shall stand. And when he raises up the body from the grave, it shall leave all the seeds of death behind it. The faculties and the senses shall awake in all their original sprightliness and vigour, and' our future heaven shall be furnished with objects suited to entertain those powers, and to convey intense pleasure to glorified minds without danger of satiety or weariness. When the time comes that " there shall be no more death, God shall_ wipe away ali tears from our eyes ; there.shall be no sor- row nor crying, nor 'any more pain ; for the former things are passed away, and he that sits upon the throne shall say, behold I make all things new !" Rev. xxi. 4, 5. Then shall we 'enjoy the constant society of our best
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