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sins
can
be
committed there,
nor
can they
hope for
any
screen
to
defend them from the
eye
of God,
and
the
Lamb,
whose eyes
are
like
a
flame
of
fire.
The
light of
God
shines
round
every
creature
in
that
country, and
there
is
not
a
saint or
angel
there,
that
desires
a
cover-
ing from the sight
of
God, nor
would
accept
of
a veil
or
screen
to
interpose
between
him
and
the lovely glories
of
divine holiness and grace. To behold God, and
to live
under
the
blessings
of
his
eye
is
their everlasting and cho-
sen joy.
O
that
our
world were more like it
!
7.
When
the
night
returns
upon
us
here
on
earth, the
pleasures
of
sight vanish
and are
lost.
Knowledge
is
shut
out at
one
entrance,
in
a great
degree, and one
of
our
senses
is
withheld from the
spreading beauties and
glories
of
this lower
creation, almost
as
though
we
were
deprived
of
it,
and
were
grown blind
for a
season.
It
is
true,
the
God of nature
has
appointed the
moon
and
stars
to relieve
the darkness,
at
some seasons,
that
when the sun
is
withdrawn,
half
the world,
at
those
hours
may not
be in
confusion
:
And,
by
the
inventions
of
men,
we
are
furnished
with
lamps
and
candles to relieve our
darkness
within doors
:
But
if
we
stir abroad
in
the black
and dark
night,
instead
of
the various and delightful
scenes
of
the
creation
of
God,
in
the
skies
and the
fields,
we
are presented
with
an universal blank
of
nature, and
one
of
the
great entertainments
and
satisfactions,
of
this
life,
is
quite taken
away from
us.
But,
in
heaven,
the
glories
of that
world
are
for ever
in view
:
The
beauteous
scenes
and prospects
of
the
hills
of
paradise
are never
hidden
:
We
shall
there continually behold
a
rich variety
of "
things which
eye
hath
not
seen on
earth,
which
ear
bath not
heard,
and
which
the
heart of
man
bath
not
conceived,"
1
Cor.
ii.
9.
Say,
ye souls
in
paradise,
ye
inhabitants
of that
glorious world,
is
there any
loss
of
pleasure
by
your
absence from those works
of
God,
which are
visible
here on earth,
while you
are
for
ever
entertained
with
those
brighter
works
of
God
in the
upper
world
?
While
every
corner of that country
is
en-
lightened
by
the glory
of
God
himself,
and
while
the
Son
of God,
with
all his
beams
of
grace, shines for ever
upon it
?
8.
It
is
another
unpleasing circumstance
of
the night
season,
that it
is
the coldest
part of
time.
When
the
sun
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