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upper
world,
we
are
ready
to
say,
"
What
should
we
stay here
for?
Our God
is
on
high,
our
Saviour
is
on
Sigh,
multitudes
of
our
friends are
departed
from us,
and
dwell on
high.
Farewell earth,
and
time,
and
sensi-
ble
things
:
We long
to
be
with
our
best friends,
and
with
our God
;
we
are ready, O Jesus,
for thy first
summons;
take
us
when thou pleasest
into heaven and
eternity?
4.
The comfortable death
of
a
saint instructs
us
how
to
die,
and
makes
death
easy.
When
we
see
and
hear
a
fellow
-
christian examining
his
heart, searching
his
soul
to
the bottom,
turning
all
his
secret thoughts outward,
and
looking
over
the past conduct
of
his
life
;
when
we
be-
bold
him
reviewing
his own
follies
and iniquities,
and
recalling
to
mind also
all his
sacred
transactions
with
God
;
when
we see
him
surveying all
these most
import-
ant
concerns
in the
light
of
the last
judgment;
and,
as
it
were,
under
the piercing rays
of
the
great
tribunal:
when
we
hear
him
abasing himself to the dust
in
the
most
villifying
expressions, because
Of
his
sins,
and yet rejoicing
in the evidences
of
his
graces,
and repeating the
pro-
mises
of
the gospel with
a pleasant hope
;
this
teaches us
to converse with
our
own souls
in
a more
lively
manner,
about
sin
and
forgiveness,
about
death and
eternity;
for
it
brings these awful themes
into open
view,
and sets
them
before
us in
their
infinité
importance: This
reads
us
a
glorious
lecture upon
the
gospel
of
Christ, and
par-
doning
grace,
and the sanctifying Spirit,
and
the hope
of
glory,
beyond what
we
ever found before
in
the best
of
sermons,
and
under
the warmest preachers.
Come, my
friends, come into the
chamber
of
a
dying
christian,
come, approach
his pillow,
And
hear
his holy
language
:
"
I
am going
up
to
heaven, and
I
long to
be
gone, to
be
where
my
Saviour
is.
"
Why
are
his
cha-
riot-
wheels
so
long a coming
?"
Then
with
both arms
stretched up to
heaven,.
I
desire to
'be
with
God.
I
hope
I
am
a sincere
christian;
but
the meanest,
and the
most
unworthy:
I
know
I
am
a great
sinner: but
dick
not Christ
come to save the
chief
of
sinners
;
I
hope
I
shall
find
acceptance
in
Christ Jesus. I'have trusted
in
him,
and I
have strong
consolation.
I
have been looking
into
my own
heart, what are
uy
evidences for heaven?
Has
not
the
scripture
said,
"
He
that
believeth shall
not
perish,
but
shall
have everlasting
life;. Jplan
iii.
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