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biSC. VIL]
NO
NIGHT
IN
HEAVEN.
441
.
fortable
affections
prevail
in the soul.
I
might cite
par
-
ticular
texts
of scripture
to exemplify all this. And
when
it
is
said,
"
there shall
be
no
night
in
heaven," it
may be
very
well
applied
in
the spiritual sense; there
shall be
no
errors or
mistakes amongst
the blessed, no such
igno-
rance
as
to lead them
astray, or to make them
uneasy;
the
will
shall never
be
turned
aside from its
pursuit
of
holiness and obedience
to
God
;
nor
shall the affections
ever
be ruffled with
any thing
that
may
administer
grief
and
pain.
Clear
and unerring
knowledge,
unspotted
ho-
liness,
and
everlasting
joy
shall
be
the
portion
of
all
the
inhabitants of the
upper
world.
These are more
com-
mon subjects
of
discourse.
But
I
chuse
rather
at
present
to
consider
this word,
NIGHT,
in its
literal
sense,
and shall
endeavour
to
repre-
sent part
of
the blessedness
of
the heavenly state
under
this special
description
of
it,.
"
There
is
no
night there."
Now,
in
order
to
pursue
this design,
let
us
take a
brief
survey
of
the
several
evils
or inconveniences,
which
at-
tend
the night,
or
the season
of
darkness here on earth,
and
shew how
far
the heavenly world
is
removed,
and
free from
all
manner
of
inconvenience
of
this kind.
1.
Though night
be
the season
of
sleep,
for
the
relief
of
nature, and for
our
refreshment after the labours
of
the
day,
yet
it
is
a certain
sign
of
the weakness
and wea-
riness
of nature,
when
it
wants such refreshments,
and
such
dark
seasons
of
relief.
But
there
is
no
night
in
heaven.
"
Say,
O
ye
inhabitants
of
that
vital world,
are
ye
ever
weary
?
Do
your natures
know
any such weak
ness?
Or
are
your
holy
labours
of
such a kind, as to
expose
you to
fatigue,
or
to
tire your spirits
?"
"
The
blessed
above
mount
up towards
God
as on
eagles'
wings,
they
run at
the command
of God,
and are not
weary,
they
walk on
the
hills
of
paradise, and never faint,"
as
the
prophet
Isaiah
expresses
a
vigorous
and
pleasurable
state,
chapter
xl.
31.
There
are
no
such animal bodies
in
heaven,
whose
natural
springs
of
action can
be
exhausted or weakened
by
the
business
of
the day
:
There
is
no
flesh
and blood
there
to
complain
of
weariness,
and
to
want
rest. O
blessed state, where
our
faculties shall
be so
happily suit-
ed to
our
work,
that
we
shall never
feel
ourselves weary
of
it
nor
fatigued
by it.