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XIV.]
HERE
AND
HEREAFTER.
253
corruptions. In
this valley
of
tears
we
must have
a
con-
flict
before
we
get
to
the promised
land
;
there every
worshipper
has in
his
hand a palm
of
complete victory
;
Rev.
vii.
9.
and
he
is
for ever discharged
from
fighting:
Him
that
overcometh
will
I
make
a
pillar
in
the
temple
of
my
God
:
and
he
shall
go
no
more out,
Rev.
iii: 12.
So
necessary
is
the presence
of
the saints
in
heaven,
that
our Lord
Jesus Christ
has
represented
them
as
pillars
of
that
building.
Ged
dwelling in
the midst
of
his
saints,
counts
himself
dwelling in one
of
his
glorious
heavens;
and
every
saint there
is,
as
it
were,
a
pillar, and
a sup-
port
of
it.
We are
lively stones
in
that
building in
which
God
will
for ever
inhabit.
Now
we
come to
the
house
of
God
as
visitants;
but
there
as
inhabitants,
as
the
children
of
God,
who
abide
for ever
in
the house
:
There
every
saint obtains what
holy
David
wished for,
and
that
in the
literal perfection
of
it,
that
he
might dwell in the house
of
the
Lord
for.
ever,
Ps.
xxvii.
4.
and
xxiii.
6.
Use.
The
reflection
I
shall
make
on
the second
part of
my
discourse,
is this,
that
we
should raise
our
hope,
our
consolation,
and our joy,
by
a meditation
of
such
future
worship in heaven,
as
this
is,
when
we
lie
under
many weaknesses,
restraints, and
defilements, in
our
best worship
on
earth.
O
!
how
would this
hope
rejoice
our
hearts,
if
we
could
but
live
upon
it
!
What
sacred
comfort would it be.to
a
poor
humble
soul, who
is
hindered from drawing
near
to
God
in worship
now,
because
his
affections
are
perpetually ready
to wander,
to think
that
he shall come
and
appear
before
God here-
after, and
see him
without
ceasing,
and
his
thoughts
shall never
wander
from
his
God. When
he
ooínplains
under
the temptations
of
Satan,
and absence
of
God
from his
ordinances, what
a
pleasure
to
think
he
is
go-
ing above to worship
at
the
general
assembly,
where Sa-
tan never enters, and where
God never
conceals himself;
but
appears
universally gracious,
and without a frown;
where the
God
of
glory
and
mercy
appears unchahge
a
y,
and
for
ever the
same.
Those
of
us
who
have been
long restrained
from all
t
°e
pleasure and profit
of
public ordinances,
what
a
blessed
release
will
it
be to
our
souls,
when
we
shall
be
dismissed from t»e bonds
of
flesh,
into
that great and