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DISC.
VIII.]'
PA
SOUL
PREPARED
FOR
HEAVEN.
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not
any longer neglect
your preparation
for
this
hap-
piness,. which consists
in the enjoyment
of
God, lest you
should
be
cut
off before you
are prepared.
2.
Consider again what
Jesus
the Son
of
God
has
done and suffered; and consider what he
is
yet doing
towards
the
preparation of
souls
for
heaven
:
He
came
down
to
our
world to
undertake
the glorious
and dread-
ful
work
of
the redemption
of
sinners from
the
curse
of
the
law
and
the
terrors of
hell,
and
to
procure
a
heaven
for
every
rebellious creature
that
would
return
to
God
his
Father. Think of
the agonies
of
his
deathwith
which
he
purchased mansions
of
glory for those
that
receive his
grace
in
his own
appointed
methods, those
that
are
will-
ing
to
have
their
hearts and minds formed into
a suitable
frame
to
receive this-felicity.
Remember
that
he
is
risen
from
the
dead,
he
is
ascended
to
prepare a
place in
glory for those
that
are
willing to follow him
through the
paths of
holiness.
Hearken
to
the
many kind
invitations
and allurements
of,
his
gospel, which calls to
the worst
of
sinners to
return
and
live,
and entreats and
exhorts,
those
who
are
in
the ends
of
the
earth,
and upon
the
borders of
hell,
"
to look
unto
him
that
they may be
saved,"
Is.
xlv.
e2.
Take
heed
that
you suffer
not
these seasons
of
his
inviting
love to slide
away
and
vanish
unimproved; take
heed how you rebel against the
'an.
guage
of
the grace
of
his gospel,
and thereby prepare
yourselves for double and everlasting
destruction.
3.
Think
again,
what blessed assistance
he
has
pro-
posed
to those who
are desirous
to be
trained,
up for
heaven;
how
many thousand
souls, as
carnal,
as sensual,
and
as criminal,
as
yours are,
have been
recovered
by
the,word
of
his gospel,
and
the
influences
of
his
Spirit,
to
a
new
nature
and
life
of
holiness? How many
are there,
who from
children of
wrath, have
become the
sons
and
daughters
of the most high
God,
heirs
of
this blessedness,
and prepared
for the enjoyment
of
it?
O
take
heed
that
you
resist
not
his
grace,
-nor
rebel against the
kind
and
sacred motions
of
the
blessed
Spirit within
you,
when
his
very
office
and
business
is
to
change your
sinful
natures,
and to
prepare
you
for the regions
of eternal
holiness and
peace,
4.
Think,
yet further, what advantages
you
have had
from the
weeicly
ministrations
of
the
word
of glace,
fromn,
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