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APPEARANCE BEFORE
MOD
tSERM.
XIV.
holy society
of
spirits, and shall
feel no
more restraints
for
ever?
"(We
who have been
detained
from the house
of
God,
by
the uncharitable
laws
of
men,
or the painful
providence
of
God,
with
what
a
divine relish shall
we
embrace our
liberty
in
that
day,
and
be
eternally
free
from all
forbidding
laws,
and
all
imprisoning provi-
dences
?)
O
how
heartily should
it
engage
our
affections
to
one
another,
and increase the pleasure
of
our
worship, when
we come to
wait
on
God together
here
below,
to
think
that
we shall worship
God
'together
in
the
upper
world?
How should
it
unite the hearts
of our
congregations one
to
another
in
divine
love,
and make christians for ever
forbear
wrath and anger here,
since they
must
be
ever-
lasting
fellow-
worshippers above?
(What
a
glorious
joy
will
it
be
to
you who
are the
heads and rulers
of
this family, who
have
so
often
joined
in sweet
devotion here
on
earth,
when you shall
meet
each
other
there,
and
worship
together
before the
throne
in heaven
?
What
a mutual endearment,
and
mutual
delight
does such
a prospect
raise between the
nearest re-
lations:
How doth
it
exalt
the sweetest
passion,
heighten
and refine the warmest love?
What
a
blessed
transport
will
it
be
to
the parents, to
find
their children there, en-
gaged in the same work
?
And what a joyful meeting
will
it
be to you,
the children, the hopeful
offspring
of
this house, to
find
each
other
in
that
company,
and
to
see
your
pious
parents
with you
?
With
what a glorious
and unspeakable
joy
shall
parents render up their
ac-
counts
to
God
in
this
language,
"
Lord, here
am I,
and
the children
that
thou bast
given
me;"
imitating the
words
of
the Lord
Jesus,
giving
up
his
account
to his
Father.?
Heb.
How
will
our
glness
increase,
and
our
souls enlarge
themselves
in holy
joy, to behold our christian
friends,
.
and
_our
dear
relatives,
standing
in
the.
same assembly,
as
fello<i--
worshippers
at
the
throne?
How
will
the heads
of
this, family,
rejoice,
if
their
whole
household should
be found there, whom they have
endeavoured
tO
encou
-,
rage
in
their
way
to
heaven, by
a
religious care to main
tain household worship?
how
will
the
joy
of
faithful mi-
nisters
be
advanced
by
every one
of
their
hearers,
.whom,