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other's happiness:
And
I
might
add
also,
could there
be
such a
thing
as
sorrow
and
misery
in
those regions,
this
divine principle of
love would work
sweetly
and
power-
fully
toward
such objects
in
all necessary
compassion.
Whatif
pain was once
made,
a spur
to
our
duties
in
this frail
state of
flesh
and blood
?
What
if
pain
were de-
signed as
a guard against temptation, and a
means
to
awaken
our
watch
against
new
transgression and guilt
?
B14 in
a climate where
all
is
holiness,
and
all
is
peace,
in
the full enjoyment of the great God,
and secured
by
that.
everlasting covenant
which
was
sealed
by
the blood of.
the
Lamb, there
is
no more
danger
of
sinning.
The
soul
is
moulded into
the
more
complete likeness
of
God,
by
living
for ever
under the light of
his
countenance,
and
the
warmest beams
of
his love.
What if
we
had need
of
the
stings
of
pain
and
anguish
in time past, to wean us
by
degrees from this
body,
and
from all sensible things,
and
to
make
us willing to
part
with them all
at
the call
of God
?
Yet
when
we
arrive
at
the heavenly
world, we shall have no
more need
of
being weaned from earth, we shall
never
look back upon
that
state
of
-pain and frailty with a
wishful
eye,
being
for
ever
satisfied in
the
affluence
of
present joys.
O glorious and happy state
!
where millions
of
creai
tunes who
have
dwelt
in
bodies
of
sin
and
pain,
and
have
been guilty
of
innumerable
follies
and
offences
against
their Maker, yet
they
are
all forgiven,
their
robes are
washed, and made white
in
the blood
of
Jesus,
their ini-
giuities
are
cancelled for ever,
and there
shall
not
be one
stroke more
from
the hand
of God
to
chasten
them,
nor
one more sensation
of pain
to
punish
them. Divine
and
illustrious
privilege indeed,
and a
glorious world, where
complete sanctification
of
all
the powers
of nature
shall
for ever secure
us
from
new sins,
and
where the
springs
and
causes
of
pain
shall
for ever
cease,
both
within
us
and without
us
!
Our
glorified bodies shall
have
no aver
nue for
pain to
enter
;
the gates
of heaven
shall
admit
no
enemy to
afflict
or
hurt
us
;
God
is
our
everlasting
friend; and
our
souls shall
be
satisfied with
the "
rivers
of
pleasure
which
flow
for
ever
at
the right
hand of
God;"
Ps.
xvi.
'11,
Amen.