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of
their
°dwelling?
er
shall all
those
shining
worlds
be
mansions
of
various residence,
as
than
shalt
lèad thy
saints
successively
through
the vast
and numerous
pro
-
vinces
of
thy
boundless dominion
r
Sorrow,
'sin,
and
temptation,
shall
be
named
no
more, unless to
triumph
over thein
in
immortal
songs,
The
fairestrspirits
of
light,
in
their
own
heavenly
forms,
shall
be
the
,
companions.
and attendants
of
the
children of God. Jesus, the Lord
of
glory,
is
their
king
and
head, the
leader
of
their tri-
umph, and
the
pattern
of their exaltation.
Jesus
shall
appear
in his
meridian lustre,
as the
Sun
of
Righteous-
ness
in
the
neon of
heaven
;
yet the beams
of
his influ-
ence
shall
be
gentle
as
the morning-star:
There
needs
no other
sun in
that
upper
world
;
the Lamb
is
the light
thereof, Jesus,
the
ornament
of
paradise, and the de-
light
of God,
shall
be
the
eternal
and beatific object
of
their
senses,
and their
souls
;
they
must
be
where he
is,
to
behold
his glory.
The
blessed
God
shall dwell
among:
them,
and
lay
out
upon
them the riches
of
his own ail
sufficiency;
riches
of
wisdom,
grace,
and
power, all
-
surprizing,
and all-
infinite. Divine
power shall
then reveal
all the
glory
that
has
been laid
up for
them,
of old,
in
the purposes
of
God,
or
in
the,
promises
of
the
book
of
life.
But
it'
was
fit
it should
be
hidden there,
while
the time
of
their
Rrobation lasted
;
it
was
fit
they should live
by
faith,
and
tinder
some
degrees
of
darkness,
while
the
ages
of
sin
and temptation
were
rolling
away
:
It
was divinely
pro-
per that
'eternal
life
should
not
break
forth,
nor
the
splendors
of
the
third
heaven
be made
too
conspicuous,
till the
six
thousand
years
of
mortality and death
had
finished
their revolutions round the
lower
skies,
and had
answered the scheme
of
divine counsel
andjudgment, oa
a world
where
sin
had
entered.
But
life
and heaven must
not
be hid for ever.
The
almighty
word,
in
that
day,
shall
hid
the
ancient
decree
bring
forth,
and
the
promise unfold
itself
in .public light.
What
new
worlds
of
unseen
felicity
!
what scenes
of
de-
Iight,
and celestial
blessings,
never yet revealed
to the
race of
Adam! When the rivers
of
pleasure,
that
had
run under
ground
from the
earth's foundation,
shall
break
up
in
immortal fountains.
Mercy and
truth
shall
lavish
out
upon
men with
an