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vIII.]
A
SOUL
PREPARED
FOR
HEAVEN.
4.91
vation, yet
let God
arid his
grace have all the
honour
of
this work.
It
is
to
God
you
owe
your
sacrifices
of
praise.
He that
hath
wrought
you
up
for
this felicity
is
God.
It
was he who
awakened you
first,
and set
you a
thinking
of
your
most
important
concerns
:
It
was he
that
led
you
first into the
way
of
salvation
by
Jesus Christ
his Son,
and
bath thus far crowned
your labours
and
your prayers
with success
and
blessing.
Every stumbling-block
in
your
way
might
have
thrown
you down to
perdition
:
Every
temptation
might
have
turned
you back from
this
glorious
pursuit
:
Every enemy
of
your
souls
might have
discouraged or overcome
you,
if
God
and
his
grace
had
not
been
engaged
on
your
side.
It
is
he
bath upheld
you when you were
falling, he
bath
taken you
by
the
hand and
led you
right
onward
when
you were
wandering, and
he
bath supported
you
by
his
divine cordials
of
promise when
you were
faint-
ing.
It
is
God
who
hath enabled
you to
maintain
your
conflict with all
the
mighty obstacles
of
your
faith
and
hope
it
is
his
grace
hath renewed your nature,
bath
weaned you from this vain flattering world, and
given
you
a sacred
relish
of
divine blessedness.
It
is
he who
bath
formed
you
again
after
his own image,
and
bath trained
you up, and made you
meet
for the
inheritance
of the
saints
in
light.
Call up
all
your
powers
to praise
his
goodness, and
say,
"
Bless
the Lord, O
my
soul,
and
all
that
is
within
me, bless his
holy
name
:
Bless
the
Lord
for
ever,
and forget
not
all his
benefits
;"
Ps.
viii.
1,
4.
It
is
God
who
bath
"
called
me
out
of darkness into
his
marvellous
light," and
given me
to
see
the things
that
be-
long to
my
everlasting
peace.
It
is
God
who
washed
away my
iniquities,
in
the blood
of
his own Son,
and
bath
renewed
me
unto
holiness
by his blessed
Spirit.
It
is
God
who
hath taken
me
out of
the family
of
sin
and
Sa-
tan, and
given me a
place among
his
children
;
who
hath
begun
to
prepare
me
for
the joys and
blessings
of heaven,
and
in
his
own
time
he will
fulfil
all
my
hopes,
and
corn-
plete
my felicity.
Walk
before
him with
all holy
care
and watchfulness,
and
take
heed
that
you lose
not
the
things
which you
have wrought, nor the things
which
God
has wrought
in you,
but that
persevering
to the
end
you
may receive
the
full reward,
and
obtain
the crown
of
everlasting life;" e
John,
verse
8.
Arisen.