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II.I
THE WATCHFUL
CIlRISTIAN
DYING
IN
PEACE.
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inhabitants, the nations
of
the
saved,
or the crouds
of
'damned
souls;
and
blessed
is
the watchful christian,
for
he
is
ready to
enter
into the unseen regions
:
fie
knows he
shall
not
be
placed among those,
whose
company
and
whose
character
he
never loved here
on
earth
"
his
soul
shall
not
be
gathered
with
sinners,
nor
his
dwelling be with
the workers
of iniquity
;"
Ps.
xvi.
3.
" but
with
the saints,
the excellent
in the
earth,
in whom
was all his
delight
;"
Ps.
xxvi.
9.
Everyone
when dismissed from the
prison
of
this body,
must
go
as.
the apostles did, when
released
from the prison
of Jerusalem,
"
to
their
own
company;"
Acts
iv.
23.
Judas
the
traitor
went
"
to
his 'own
place
;"
Acts
i.
25.
And the watchful
christian
will
be
disposed
among spirits
of
the
just
made perfect,
he will
find him
-
self
in
that
blessed society
at
his
dismission from
flesh
and
blood.
Read, and
see;
what a glorious society
it
is;
Heb.
xii.
22,
23.
"To
the innumerable company
of
an-
gels,
the
general
assembly
and church
of
the first
-born,
who
?,re
written
in heaven, to
God,
the
judge
of
all,
and
to
the
spirits
of
just
men
made perfect,
and Jesus, the
Mediator of
the
new
covenant.
The
apostle
says,
we
are
come
to them already,
that
is,
by
the covenant
of
grace,
as
administered
under the
gospel, we
are brought
into a
blessed
union
with them, in
spirit and
in
temper,
even in this
life, we
are
members
of
the
same body, we
are
united
to the same
head, and made
parts
of
the same
.household,
though
we
are
not
yet brought
home
:
But
at
death
we
are actually present
with them,
and
dwell.
and
'
converse among them
with holy
familiarity,
as citizens
of
the
same heavenly
Jerusalem,
as
parts
of
the
saine
sacred
family,
and
at
home, as
children
of
the same
God, and in
their
Father's
house.
The
watchful
christian
is
at
once
carried into the midst
of
the blessed world
by
ministering
angels,
the world
where Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob
dwell,
and made
a
speedy
partaker of
their blessedness;
Luke
xvi. 22.
Cónsideration
VI. Death
brings
with
it
a
most amazing
and
inconceivable change
of
all
our present
circum-
stances and
thoughts, our
actions
and pursuits,
our
sensa-
tions
and enjoyments,
I
mean, all those
that
relate
to this
life
only,
such
as
eating, drinking,
buying, selling,
&c.
It
dislodges
us
from these bodies,
and thereby
finishes
all
those affections,
concerns and labours
which
belong to.tlle