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AND
JOY
AT
THE
RESURRECTION.
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sure, than ever
this world
could
shew
them
in
!
They are
not
perished, but sent
a
little before
us
into God's hid-
ing-
place, where
though they
lie in
dust and darkness,
yet
they are
safe
from the
dangers
and vexations
of
life
;
but
they shall
spring up
in
the happy
moment into
im
mortality, and
shall
join
with
thee
in a
mutual surprize
at
each other's divine
change.
"
Or dost
thou
feel
the
corruptions of
thy
heart
work-
ing within thee,
and the
sins
of
thy
nature
restless in
their endeavours
to
bring defilement upon thy
soul,
and
guilt
upon
thy
conscience:
Go
on
and maintain
the holy
warfare
against
all these rising
iniquities
?
This
thy
war-
fare
shall
not continue long: Thou shalt
find
every one
of
these
sins,
buried
with thee in
the
grave,
but
they shall
arise to assault thee
no
more.
The
saint shall leave every
sin behind
hirn
when
he
breaks
out of
the
dust at the
summons
of
Christ, and thou
shalt
find
no
seeds
of
ini-
quity
in
thy body when
it
is
raised
from the grave.
Ho-
liness to the
Lord shall
be
inscribed upon
all
thy powers
for ever.
"
Or art
thou
perplexed,
O
my
soul,
at
the
near
pros-
pect of
death
and
all the
terrors
and
dismal
appearances
that
surround
it
?
Art
thou
afraid
to lie down
in
the
cold
and
noisome grave
?
Does
thy
nature shudder
at
it
as
a
gloomy place
of horror
?
These indeed are the prejudices
of
sense
:
but
the
language
of
faith
will
tell
thee,
it
is
only
God's
hiding
-place
where he secures
his
saints
till
all
the
ages
of
sin
and
sorrow
are
overpassed.
Look for-
ward
to
the glorious morning
when
thou shalt
rise
from
the dust among ten thousand
of
thy
fellows,
every one
in
the image
of
the
Son
of
God,
with
their
bodies
formed
"
after
the likeness
of
his
glorious
body
;"
Phil.
iii.
21.
and
rejoicing together
with
divine
satisfaction
in the
plea-
sure
of
this heavenly change.
Try
whether the
medita-
tion
of
these
glories,
and the
distant prospect
of
this
illustrious
day,
will
not scatter
all the gloom
that
hovers
round
the grave,
and vanquish the
fiercest
appearance
of
the
king of
terrors.
"
What
is
there, O
my
soul,
among
all the miseries
thou hast
felt,
or
all
that
thou fearest,
that
can
sink
thy
courage,
if
the faith
of
a
resurrection
be
but
alive
and
wakeful
?"
But this
leads
me
to the
Observation V.
"
The
saints
of
God,
who
are resting
in
the beds
of
dust,
will
arise
joyfully
at
the
call
of their
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