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THE SAINTS.
'SEEM:
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of
glory
in
his
eye,
and
,ends
the
war
with
courage, plea-
sure, and
victory.,
II.
Death
frees us
for
ever from all
our errors and
mistakes, and brings
us
into
a
world
,of
glorious know-
ledge
and
illumination.
The
vale
of
death
is
a
dark
passage indeed,
but it
leads into the regions
of
perfect
light.
"
Now
we
know
but
in
part,
says
the apostle,
I Cor.
xiii.
12.
Now
we
see
but
through
a glass
darkly,
then
we
shall
see
God
and our
Saviour
face
to
face,
and
know
them even
as
we
are
known
;"
not
in
the
same
degree
of
perfection indeed,
but
according
to our
mea-
sure
and
capacity,
we
shall know
theca, in
a
way
of
vision,
or
immediate
sight,
as God
knows
his
creatures,
as
one man
knows his
friend,
whose
face
he beholds
with
his
eyes;
ar
as
one
spirit
knows
another,
by
some
un-
down
ways.
of
perception
which
belong
to spirits.
O
what
a new
and unspeakable pleasure
will
it
be
to
thedisciples of
Christ, and the ministers
of
the
gospel,
that
have
been
tired and
worn
out
in
tedious controversies
in
this
world,
and
sorely
perplexed amongst the
difficult
passages
of
scripture,
when they shall
arrive
at that
re-
gion
of
light and
glory,
where the darknesses
of
the
mind shall
be all
scattered, the
veil shall be
taken off
from sacred
things,
and
doubts
and
difficulties
shall
vas
nish for ever
!
Alas
!
What
desolatión
and
mischief
has
the
noise and
clamour of
controversy
brought
on
the church
of
Christ
in
all
ages!
What quarrels
and sharp contests
has
it
raised among
fellow-
christians, and especially, where
zeal
and ignorance
have
joined together,
and brought
fire
and
darkness
into
the sanctuary
!
This
has banished
charity and
love
out
of
the
house
of
God, and
made the
Spirit
of
God
himself
to
depart
grieved. Surely
death
carries
a
considerable
blessing
in
it,
as
it
delivers
us
from these
disorders,
these
bitter
quarrels, and appoints
us
a place
in
the
temple
of God
pan
high,
where the
axe'
and the
hammer never sound,
where the
saw
of
conten=-
tion
is
never drawn,
where the
noise
of
war
is
heard
no
.
more,
but perfect light
lays a
foundation
for
perfectand
everlasting
love.
III.
Death
makes
an
utter
end
of
sin,
it
delivers
us
from a state
of
temptation, and
conveys us
into
a
state