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.THE wAT,C
}uUL
CHRISTIAN DYING
IN
PEACE.
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blessed
is
the pure
in
heart,
who
bath watched against
the
pollutions
of
the world,
for
he
,shall see
God,
Mat.
V.
8.
It
is
certain,
that
when
the
soul
departs
from the
body,
"it
returns
to
God,
who
gave it," Eccles.
xii.
7.
And
probably
to
God,
as
a Judge too;
Heb.
ix.
9.7.
"
after
death, judgment."
There
is
some
sort
of
determination
of
the state
of
each
single
person at death before
the
great and general
judgment
-day, because
that
day
is
äp-
pointed rather
for
the public vindication
of
the equity
of
God,
in
his
distribution
of
rewards
and
punishment9t
and
is
particularly
put
into the hands
of
bur
Lord
Je-
sus:
Now, since
the,
separate
soul
returns
to
God
who
gave
it,
it
is
of
vast importance,
that
we
be
then
prepared
to
come
before
him.
Some
of
us
here would be
,mightily
afraid
of
appear-
ing
before
a prince, or a great and honourable person
in an
undress;
but
for
our
souls, in
a naked
state,
or
.
in a garment
of
sinful
pollution, to
be
surprized
by
the
great and
holy
God,
to be
set
on
a
sudden
in his
pre-
sence, what
terror
is
contained
in
this
thought! Now
the
watchful christian has this blessedness,
that
he
is
washed, from
his
defilements, in
the blood
of
the Lamb,
"
he
is
clothed
with
the robe
of
righteousness, and the
garments
of
salvation," Is.
lxi.
10.
He
is
prepared
to
.appear
before
a God
of
infinite holiness
without
terror,
for
he
is
made
like
him,
he bears
his
image, he
appears
as one
of
his
children,
and
he
is
not afraid
to
see his
Father.
However
.some
commentators
may confine,
and
impo-
verish the sense
of
David,
in
the
end
of
the
xvii.
Psalm,
yet,
I
am
persuaded, the Spirit of.
God
in him
designed
to express
his
faith and
joy, either
at
the
hour o£death,
or
in
the
morning
of
the
resurrection,
I
shall
behold
thy
face
in
righteousness,
I
shall
be
satisfied when
I
awake with thy
likeness:" When the Psalmist had de-
scribed,
what were the satisfactions
of
the
men
of
this
world
in
death,
verse
14.
viz.
that
they had
filled
their
houses
with
children, and
leave
their substance, or riches
to them, he
then declares what
was
his
support
and
hope
in his dying
hour,
"As
for
me,
saith
he,
I
have
other
views
:
I
am
not
afraid, O
my
God,
to
appear
before
thee
in
the
other
world, for I
shall see thy face,
not
as
a
2,
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