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of
perfect
holiness,, safety,
and
peace.
The spirits
of
the
just
are made perfect
in
holiness,
when
they
leave
this
sinful
and
mortal
flesh,
they
stand without spot
or
blemish,
without
fault or
infirmity
of
greater
or lesser
size,
and appear
pure and undefiled before
the
throne
of God;
Rev.
xïv. 5.
"'Their
robes are washed,
and
made
white
in the
blood
of
the Lamb,
and
they
serve
him
without
sin,
day and night,
in
his temple"
Rev.
vii.
14, 15.
When death carries them
away from this
world,
it
carries them out
of
the
territories of
the devil; for
he
has
no power
in
that
land
whither
:happy
souls
go
:
And
all the
remaining
lusts
of the
flesh,
that
had
their death's
wound
given them by
renewing grace,
are
now
destroy-
ed
for
ever; for
the death
of
the body
is
the
final
death
of
sin,
and
the
grave
is,
as
it
were,
the
burying-place
of
many
unruly iniquities,
that
have too
often defiled
and disquieted the
spirit.
And
as
the
corrupt
affections which
are mingled
with
our
flesh
and blood, and which are
rooted
deep
in
ani-
mal
nature,
are left behind
us in
the bed
of
death,
so
when
we
ascend to heaven,
we shall
find no
mannerof
temptation
to revive them.
There
is
no
malice
or angry
resentment
to
be awakened there, no
incitements to
envy,
intemperance, or
the cursed
sin
of
pride,
that
cleaves
so
close to
our natures here
on
earth.
When we are encompassed
with
those blessed
crea-
tures,
angels
and
saints made perfect,
we
shall
meet with
no
affront, no
reproach,
no injury, to
provoke
our
an-
ger,
or
kindle an uneasy passion.
Most perfect friend-
ship
is
ever
practised
there; it
is
a
region
of
peace,
la
'world
of
immortal
amity.
Marshall
we find
any temptation
to
envy,
in
that happy
state
;
for though there
are different ranks
of
glorified
creatures,
yet
each
is
filled
with a holy
satisfaction,
and
'bath an
inward
relish
of
his
own
felicitysuited
to his own
capacity and
state,
and
they have all a general relish
of
the
-
common
joy, and
a
mutual satisfaction
io
each
others-
happiness. Envy,
that
fretful passion,
is
no
more.
In
heaven
there are
no
provocations
to those
unruly
appetites,
which
break
in
upon
Our
temperance,
and
pollute our
souls.
Pride
and haughtiness
of
spirit
have no
room
in
that
'blessed-world
:
The superior
order
of
saints,
:.which
are