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AND
JOY
AT
THE
RESURRECTION.
56.E
mops
with
holy courage,
satisfaction and joy,
enter into
the
chamber
of
rest
till all
the
days
of
sin,
sorrow
"and
wretchedness
are
overpassed
:
Lie down
there
in
a
wait-
ing frame, and commit thy
flesh
to his
care and
keeping,
till
the
hour
in which
he
has
appointed
thy glorious
change."
Observation
IV.
"
The
lively view
of
a
happy
resur-
rection, and
a
well-
grounded
hope
of
this blessed change,
is
a
solid
and
divine
comfort
to the
saints
of
God,
under
all
trials
of
every kind both
in life
and death."
The
faith
and hope
of joyful
rising-day has
supported
the children
of
God under
long distresses and huge agonies
of
sorrow
which they sustain here.
It
is
the
expectation
of
this
de
.
sirable
day
that
animates the
soul
with
vigour and
life
to
fulfil
every
painful and dangerous duty.
It
is
for
this
we
expose ourselves
to
the
bitter reproaches and persecu-
tions
of
the
wicked world
;
it
is
for this
that
we
conflict
with all
our
adversaries on earth, and
all
the powers
of
darkness
that
are sent
from hell
to
annoy
us;
it
is
this
joyful expectation that
bears up
our spirits under
every
present burden
and calamity
of
life.
What
could
we
do
in
such
a painful
and dying world, or
how
could
we
bear
with
patience
the long fatigues
of
such
a wretched
life,
if
we
had
no
hope
of
rising again from the
dead
?
Surely
we
are the
most miserable
of
all men
in
the days
of
public persecution,
if
we
had
hope only
in
this
life,"
i
Cor.
xv.
19.
It
is
for this
that
we
labour,
and
suffer,
and endure
whatsoever our
heavenly
Father
is
pleased to
lay
upon
us.
It
is
this
confirms
our fortitude, and
makes
"
us
stedfast, unmovable,
always
abounding
in
the
work
of
the
Lord,
for
àsmuch
as
we
know
that our labour
shall
not
be in
vain
in
the
Lord,"
1
Cor,
xv.
58.
It
is
this
that
enables
us
to
bear
the
loss
of
our dearest
friends
with
pa-
tience and
hope,
and assuages the
smart
of
our sharpest
sorrows
:
For
since
"
we
believe
that
Jesus
died
and
rose
again,
so we
rejoice
in
hope
that
they
which
sleep in
Jesus
shall
be
brought
with him
at
his
return, and
shall
appear
in
brighter and
more glorious circumstances
than
ever
our
eyes
were blessed with
here
on
earth,"
1
Thesc.
iv. 13, 14.
This
teaches
us
to
triumph over death and
the
grave
in
divine language,
"
O death, where
is
thy
sting
?
O
grave, where
is
thy victory."
1
Con
xv. 55.
Reflexion.
"
What are
thy chief burdens,
O my
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