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NO
PAM
AMONG
THE BLESSED.
roue.
X.
an
everlasting
victory.
Blessed be
God
for the
grave
as
a
refuge from
smarting
pains
!
Thanks
be
to
God
through Christ Jesus,
who
enables
us to
triumph
over the
last
pain
of
nature,
and to'
say,
O
"death
!
where
is
thy sting
?
And, O grave
!
where
is
thy
victory
?"
1
Cor.
xv. 55.
In
the
fifth
and last
place, by the
pains
that
we suffer
in this
body,
"
we
are
taught
to
breathe after
the
bless
-
edness.of
the heavenly state, wherein
there
shall be no
pain," When
the soul
is
dismissed from
the
bonds
of
flesh,
and presented before
God
in the world
of
spirits
without
spot
or
blemish
by
Jesus, our great forerunner,
it
is
then appointed
to
dwell
among the
"
spirits of
the
just
made perfect,"
who
were all
released
in
their
several
seasons
from the
body
of
flesh
and
sin.
Maladies
and
infirmities
of
every
kind
are buried in
the
grave, and
cease for ever
;,
and
if
we
survey the
properties of
the
new-raised body
in
the
great resurrection
-day, as
de-
scribed
;
1
Cor.
xv.
42
-44.
we
shall
find
nó
room for
pain
there, no avenue or residence
for
smart
or anguish.
It
will
not
be
such a body
of
flesh
and blood
which
can
be
a source
of
maladies, or subject
to
outward
injuries;
but
by
its own
principles
of innate
vigour and immor-
tality,
as well as
by
the
power and mercy
of
God, it
shall
be
for
ever
secured
from
those uneasy sensations
which
made
our
flesh
on
earth
painful and burdensome, and
which
tended toward
dissolution
and
death.
It
is
such
a
body
as
our
Lord
Jesus
wore
at
his
ascent
to heaven
in
a.
bright
cloud,
for
ever
incorruptible;
"
for
flesh
and
blood
cannot inherit
the
kingdom
of
God, neither
doth
corruption inherit
incorruption,"
verses 49, 50.
"
As
we have borne the
image
of,
the earthly
Adam in the
frailties and
sufferings
that
belong to
it, so
shall we also
bear
the image
of the
heavenly,
even
the
Lord Jesus
Christ,
who shall
change our
vile body,
that it
may
be
fashioned like
unto
his
own glorious
body,
according
to
the
working
whereby he
is
able to
subdue
all things
unto
himself:"
Phil.
iii.
21.
"
We
shall
hunger
no more,
we
shall
thirst
no
more,
nor
shall the
sun
light
on us with its
parching
beams,
nor
shall
we
be
annoyed
with
fire
or
frost, with
heator
cold, in
those temperate and happy
re-
gions."
"
The
Lamb
which
is in
the midst
of the
throne
shall feed his
people for ever there
with
the
fruits
of
the