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pleasures; but
now
I
taste,
tläeni;
with
delight, and
I re-
joice
in the,
hopes
of
a,
s
efiter-
awl;
.more
complete
taste
of..
them on
high.
(Flee
1
],14d:
no love to God
:
it
is
true,
I
feared him
as some unknown
used
G
traordinary
terror;
I?u,t
I
had
no.
deli-g
ty,in
him,.
no
desire
after
him.
Now
he
is
the object
of
my warmest
love,.
and of my
sweetest meditations,
1leayen,
itself, as
it
is
described
in
the,
word
of
God,
was
not pleasant
-to
me.
.
What
!
The
everlasting
cóntinuiar3Ge
of
a sabbath
?
Perpetual
employments of worship and service
o
be
dóne.
for God,
everla$ir
gly
?
These are things
that
were
not
agreenllle
i
o
carnal.
nature;
but
by
the.;
influence
@,f
this
gospel,
of
Christ
my
heart
is.
new
-
moulded,
and
I;
delight
in
the
fare
thoughts,
of
such
a,
heávep
a/
the.
gospel.
deseril?es."
Such
ins,tahces,as.these
otì
tlpe;sweet
eflieá,cy
of
the
gospel/
upon
the
soul,
of
man,
turnixg
it
into
a,
divine
temper
and' fitting
it:
for
the
enjoyment
'of
God;
are
sn
many
proofs
the
powet.of
this,
gospel
unto
salvation,
anal:
so
may
grourtds,a.nd,
reasons
why
the
believer
cannot
be
ashamed,of it
But
I
must
add,:
in;the
fifth place,
it
is
the
gospel
of
Christ
that
brings believers
to the final, possession
of
beaven. Then, and.
net
till then,
is the:
salvation
per-
fect,
it
is
the
gospel,
that
has given
us-
an
unchangeable
premise
of
heaven, when
our state of trial
is ende.d;here
on
earth, and Christ
is
bound.
to
fulfil it.
The
gospel
assures-
us,
thatwhen
we
are absent
from
the
body,''we-
shall
he
present
with
the Lord.
When_ we
see: the:
heavens open
at
the death
of
Stephen the
first
martyr;
and. Jesus,.
Christ
standing there
to
receive
his
departing
spirit
;
we
believe that:
the
same
Jesus
will fulfil
the same
kind
office
to
us also,
and
receive.our
spirits,
if
we
have
been found
faithful:
to
the
death.
The
same gospel
also gives,us
a
more.
distant
hope
and
glorious assurance
of
the
resurrection of
our
bodies
from
the. prison
of
the
grave.
When
we
behold the body
of
our
blessed
Saviour.
rising from the tomb,
and
ascending
to
glory, and when
we
are
told,.
that
his
resurrection_
is
a
pledge
and
pattern of
ours
;
then
with
a
joyful,
expec,
tation
we
wait for the
same blessedness.
The
gospel
lays an obligation
upon
Christ;
himself
to raise his.saints
from
the
dead;
for.
he
himself
tells
.us,
that.it'is
the
will
of
his
Father,
that everyone
which_
seeth.
the
Son,
and