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DEATH
A
BLESSING TO
THE.
SAINTS.
225
soul,
"
so
many
rich
promises
of
the covenant
fulfilled
already,
and
I
am in
the
possession
of
so many divine
blessings
that God
once
foretold,
that
I
am
well
assured
that
my
God
is
faithful
who has
promised,
and
the
rest
shall
be
all fulfilled."
V.
Death
raises us above
the mean
and
trifling
plea-
sures
of
the
présent state,'
as
well as
delivers
us
from
all
present
pains,
and brings
us
into a
world
of
perfect
ease,
and
superior and
refined
delight.
.
It
divides
us
from the
pains and pleasures,
that
We
derive from the
first Adam,
and
sets us in
the
midst of superior
blessings, which
the
second Adam has purchased for
us.
"
We shall
hunger
no
more,
we
shall
thirst
no more,
neither
shall
the
scorching
heat
of the
sun light
upon
us,
or
any painful
influence from the elements
Of
this
world
The Lamb
which
is
in
the midst
of
the
throne
shall
feed us
with ce-
lestial,food, suited'
to
our
purified natures, and
lead
us
to
drink
full
draughts
of
unknown pleasúre,
which
is
de-
scribed
by
living
fountains
of
water."
We
shall see
God
himself,
the original
beauty,
and
the spring
of
all
de-
light:
We
shall
see
our Lord
Jesus
Christ," the
most
it
lustrions
copy
of
the
Father,
"
the brightness
of
his
glory,
and
the
express
image
of
his
person, and
God
himself shall
wipe away all
tears
from
our
eyes,"
Rev.
vii.
16,
17.
"
Though the
wages
of
sin
is
death,
by
the
appoilitment
of
the
làw
of
God, Rom.
vi.
23.
yet
this
very
death"
is
constrained
to serve
the purposes
of
our
great
Redeemer;
and it brings
us
into
the possession of
that
eternal
life,
which
is
the gift
of God
through
Jesus
Christ our
Lord."
VI. Death
not
only
gives us possession
of
promised
blessings,
but it
banishes
all
our
fears
and doubts for
ever, by
fixing us in
a state
of
happiness unchangeable.
They
that
are once
entered
into
the temple
of
God
on
high shall no more
go
out of
it;
Rev. iii.
N.
For
they
are
established
in
the
house
of
God, they are
as
pillars
there, they
become
a
part of
that
vast and
living
temple,
in which
God
dwells
for ever in
all
his
glory.
Death
is
ours
:
for
it
finishes
our
fears,
it
fulfils
our
wishes and
our
hopes, and leaves
us
no
more room
to
fear to
all
eternity.
When
we
behold the
face
of God
in righteousness,
and
awake
out of
this
world
of
dreams
and shadows,
in
the
world
of
happy spirits with the
like-
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