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DEATH
A
BLESSING TO
THE SAINTS.
[SEEM.
XLIII.
and
to hold sweet
communion with them
in
the purest
intercourses of
love
?
"
But
there
are
still
sweeter allurements to a holy.
soul
;
God,
even thy God,
dwells
in
the midst
of
his
saints on
high,
and
that
in
the
full glories
of
his love
:
Jesus
thy Saviour, whom
thou hast
known,
and
whom
thou hast
loved,
though thou bast
never
seen him
;
Jesus
is
Lord
of that
country,
he waits for
thee
there
:
God
himself
dwells
there
as
the
fountain
of
felicity,
and
shall
be no more
absent
from thee.
Thou
shalt no more com-
plain of
the withdrawings
of
the light
of
his
countenance,
or
the
short
visits
of
his
grace
:
Thou
shalt
sitsolitary:no
more,
nor
mourn
under
the
dark
eclipses
of
the sun
of
righteousness.
It
is
the
pleasure
of
that
heaven
thou
hopest
for,
"
to
be for ever
with
thy
Lord,
to behold
his
glory, to
see him as he
is,
and
to
be
made like
him,
and
wilt thou
not enter
in
at
the gate into the
new
Jerusalem
when
he calls thee,
but
trembie and
start
backward,
because there
is
a short
dark
valley
that
lies
on the side
of
it
?
"
Remember, O
my soul,
death
is
thine
:
There
is
no-
thing in
that
dark
valley shall
hurt
thee. Lift up thy
head,
arise,
and
shake
thyself
out
of
the dust.
Let
thy
faith take a
sweet
prospect
over the little
hills
of
time,
and
beyond the vale
of death
.
Look
far into the
invi-
sible world,
and banish
all
'thy
fears
under
the strong
allurement
of
the
joys
that
are prepared..
for
thee;
watt
with pleasure
for
the
hour of
thy
departure,
and rejoice
and
triumph when the
divine message shall
come.
While
thou continuest
here,
"
life
is
thine.
When
thou goest
hence, death
is
thine
:
things
present
and things to come
are thine
;"
and the
invisible world to which thou
art
hastening,
has
everlasting joys
in
reserve for
thee:
Hea-
ven
itself
is
thine:
Heaven
is
the
inheritance
of
all the
saints
:
The
glories
laid up there are
waiting for thy pos-
session
:
The
dissolution
of
thy
earthly tabernacle
shall
çonvey
the
einto the midst
of
them."
"
Awake, arise, and
meet the happy moment,
when
thou
shalt
be
undressed
of
this sinful
flesh
and
blood
:
O
let
these
defiled
garments
ever sit
loose about
thee,
that
they
may be
cast off without pain and
regret:
Go,
my soul,
at
the
summons
of
thy
God
and Father, and
when
the