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JOY AT THE
RESURRECTION.
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that
he
rises
not
till the
dissolution
of
these heavens
and
these
visible
things
:
And
by
calling
death
a
sleep,
he
supposes an awaking
time,
though
it
may
be
distant
and
far
off.
Then
he
proceeds
to
long for death, O
that
thou
wouldst hide
rne
in the grave
!
that
thou wouldst keep
me
secret
till
thy
wrath
be
past
!
till these times
and
sea-
sons
of
sorrow
be
ended,
which seems to be
the
effect
of
divine
wrath
or
.anger
:
But then
I
entreat
thou
wouldst
appoint
me
a set
time for
my
tarrying
in
the
grave,
and
remember
me in
order
to
raise
me
again.
Then with
a
sort
of
surprize
of
faith
and pleasure
he
adds,
"
if
a
man
die
shall
he live
again
?"
Shall
these
dry bones
live
?
And
the
answer
is
in the
language
of
hope
:
"All
the days
of
that
appointed
time
of
thine
I
will
wait
till
that
glorious
change
shall
come.
Thou shalt
call from
heaven, and
I
will
answer thee
from
the dust
of
death."
I
will
appear
at
thy
call
and
say,
"
Here
am
I
:
thou wilt
have a
de-
sire to
the work
of
thy
hands,"
to
raise
me
again
from
the
dead, whom
thou hast
made
of
clay,
and fashioned nie
into
life.
From the words thus expounded
we
may draw
these
several observations,
and make a
short
reflexion
upon
each
of
them,
as
we
pass
along.
Observation
I. This
world
is
a
place wherein
good
men
are exposed
to
great
calamities, and they
are
ready
to
think the anger
or
wrath
of
God appears
in
them.
Observation
II.
The
grave
is
God's
known
hiding
-
place for
his
people.
Observation
III.
God
has
appointed a
set time
in
his
own
counsels for all
his
children
to
continue
in
death.
Observation
IV. The
lively view
of
a
happy
resurrec-
tion,
and
a
well
-
grounded hope
of
this blessed
change,
is
a
solid and divine
comfort
to
the
saints
of
God,
un-
der
all
trials
of
every kind
both
in
life
and death.
Observation
V.
The
saints
of
God
who
are resting
in
their beds
of dust
will
arise
joyfully
at
the call
of
their hea-
venly Father.
Observation
VI. God
takes delight
in his works
of
nature,
but
'much
more when they
are
dignified
and
.
adorned
by
the operations
of
divine
grace.
Observation
VII.
How
much
are
we
indebted
to
God
for the revelation
of
the
New Testament,
which
teaches
us
to
find
out
the
blessings which
are contained
in
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