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[sERM.
XtV.
devotion
many
a
-time here, and takes away the pleasur-
able
sensations
of
religion, because
we
ourselves
know
not
whether God accepts
us
or
no
:
There a
full
assurance
of
our
being beloved
of God,
and
being for ever
accept
-
ed
of
him,
shall
snake
every exercise
of
devotion a most
agreeable and perfect
pleasure. O
my
soul, how
should
it
quicken
thy race,
and exalt
thy
joy,
to
think
how
fast
thou
art
removing
from
this
world
of
sinners,
and from
all
thy
own
doubts and
"fears,
to
a glorious
assembly
of
.holy souls,
where
not
one
doubt, or fear
shall
remain
in
their
consciences,
nor
in
thine
2.
In
this world the
saint
apears
among
a few
to
worship
his
God, but then
among millions. Now many
times
we
have
worshipped
in a
secret corner,
for fear
of
men
;
but
then it
is
all
in
public glory; for there
all the
worship
that
is
paid,
is
the established worship
of
the
whole
country;
and honours, and
kingdoms,
and
wealth,
are
all
on
that side:
All
the
inhabitants are
made rich
for
ever, with the
riches
of heaven; and
all the
children
of
God are
the sons
and daughters
of
a king,
and all
heirs
and
possessors
of
glory,
and
reign
together
with
the
Lord Jesus,
Rom.
viii.
17.
2 Tim.
u.
12.
Here
many times
the children
of
God
are
forced to
be
separatists
from
their
neighbours and
fellow
-
citizens,
they
are
divided from the multitudes
and crouds
of
man
-
kind, they
are but a little
flock;
but
there they
shall shine
in
the
midst
Of
the
general
assembly
of
the first-born, and
a
great
multitude
which no man
ciuld
number,
Rev.vii.
9.
that
with victories
and
songs
are
for ever addressing
the
throne
of
God and
the
Lamb.
O
when
s
all
I
hear
the
voice from heaven
say,
Come up
hither
3.
Now
we
worship
in
p.
way
of
preparation;
there
for enjoyment and
full
delight.
Ordinances
here
are
but
slight
shadows,
and
very
faint
and imperfect resem-
blances,
Of
what
the worship
in
heaven
shall
be.
Now
the
word
of
God
is
spoken
by
a
man,
and it
loses
much
of
the divinity
and 'Amer,
:
by
the means
of
conveyance;
there it
will
'be
spoken
by
God
himself to
our
spirits,
or
by
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ, to
the
ears
of
our
bodies,
raised, sanctified,
and
immortal
;
and our
souls shall
receive as much
of
the
express
ideas, as
God
designs to
convey
by all his
conversation
with
that
sanctified
num-
ber: nor
shall they
miss
of
any
of
the,
beauty, or spirit,