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No
rA::
A1ioN,G
Tiír
sLSSSfin.
slant
manner
in
the heavenly world;
They
relish the
sweetness
of
all
those
words of
mercy,
in reviewing
the
means
whereby divine
grace sustained them in
their
former state of
trial, and
in
the complete accomplishment
of
the
best
of
those promises in
their present situation
amidst ten thousand endless beings.
And
if
any
of
them were too cold
and
remiss,
and
infrequent
in
their
applications to the mercy-seat by
prayer,
when
they were here on earth,
and
stood
in
need
of
chastisement
to make them
pour
out their prayers to
God, yet
they can never
forget
the
value
of
this
privi-
lege; while they
themselves dwell
round about
the
throne,
and behold
all
their ancient
sincere
addressees
to
the
mercy
-seat
answered and swallowed
up
in the
full
fruition
òf
their present
glories and joys.
Praise
is
properly
the
language
of,
heaven, when
all
their
wants are
supplied,
and their
prayers
on
earth
are
finished
;
and whatever
further
désires they may have
to
present before God, the
throne of grace
is
ever
at
hand,
and
God
himself
is
ever
in
the
midst
of
them to bestow every
proper
blessing in
its season
that
belongs
to the heavenly
world.
Not
one
of
them
can any more stand
in
need
of chastisement'or
painful exercises
of
the
flesh
to
drive to the
throne
of
God,
while
they
are
at
home
in
their Father's
house,
and
for ever
near
him
and
his
all
-
sufficiency.
It
is
from
thence they are constantly deriving immortal supplies
of
blessedness,
as
from
a spring
that
will
never
fail.
SECTION
V.
I
proceed
now
to
consider
in the
last
place,
what
are
the
practical
lessons which
pain
may
teach
us while
we'
are
hereon
earth,
in
our state of probation and
disci-
pline,
and
shall
afterward make it evident,
that there
is
no need
of
pain
in
heaven
for
the
same
purposes."
1.
The frequent returns
of4pain may
put
us in
mind
"
to offer to
God
his
due
sacrifices
of praise for
the
Months 'and
years
of
ease
which
we
have enjoyed."
'We
áre
too
ready
to
forget the mercy
of God
herein,
unless
we
are awakened
by
new
painful sensations; and
w.ien
we
experience
new relief,
then
our
lips
are opened
with
thankfulness, and
our
mouth
chews
forth
his
praise
Then
we
cry
out
with
devout language,
"
Blessed
be
the
Lord
that
has
delivered
us
!"
When
we
have been
op-
pressed
for
soirie
time with
extreme anguish,
then
on
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