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'TFPE CO'NQ17E3T
OVER
DEATH,
[MSC.
Y.
yet
to have
such
an intimate union
dissolved
between
flesh
and
,blood
carries something of
terror
in
it
;
and
there
may be an
innocent
reluctance in the
nature
of
the
best christian against
such
an
enemy as this
:
therefore
St.
Paul,
in
2
Core
v.
4.
does
not
directly
desire
"
to be
uncloathed, but
rather
to
be
cloathed upon,
that
morta-
lity might
be
swallowed
up of
life
;
that
is,
to
be
trans-
lated
at
once:
into
an immortal
state.
The
soul
and
body
have been long
acquainted
with
each
other, and
the
soul
has
performed almost
all its
operations
by
the
use
of
the.
senses and the limbs
:
It
sees
by
the
eye,
it
hears
by
the
ear,
it acts
by
the hands, and
by
the
tongue it
converses.
Nov
to
be
separated at
once
from all these,
and
to
be
at
once
conveyed
into a
new
strange world,
a
strange
and
unknown
state
both
of
being and, action, has something
in
it so
surprizing,
that it
is
a
little frightful to the
nature
of
man,
even
when he
is
sanctified and fitted
for heaven.
And as the
soul
is
dismissed
by
death into
a
state
of
separation,
so
the
body,
like
a
fallen
tabernacle,
is
for-
saken,
lies
uninhabited and desolate.
Shall
I
lead
your
thoughts
back
to the
bed where
your dear
relatives
expired
?
and
give
you a sight
of the dead,
whose
beauty
is
turning apace into corruption,
and
all
the
loveliness
of
countenance
fled
for ever
?
The
body,
that
curious
en-
gine of
divine workmanship,
is
become
a
moveless lump
:
Death
sits heavy
upon
it
;
and
the
sprightliness and
vi-
gour of
life
is
perished
in every
feature
and
in every
limb?
Shall
we
go
down to
the
dark
chambers
of
the
grave, where
each of the dead
lie
in
their
cold mansions,
in
beds
of
darkness and
dust? The
shadows
of
a long
evening are stretched
over them,
the
curtains of
a
deep
Midnight
are drawn
around
them,
and
the
worm
lies
un-
der
them, and
the
worm covers
them.
A .saint is
no
more exempted
from all these frightful
attendants
of
death
than
a sinner
is.
Those
eyes
that
have been
perpetually
lifted up to the
God of
heaven
in
prayer,
lie closed
under ground.
That
tongue
that
has
spoken
much for
God
in
the
world, lies
silent
in death.
Those hands that
have
ministered to the
necessities
of
the
saints,
and
those feet
that
have gone often to the house
of
God,
death
has confined them in
his
chains, Those
natural
powers
that
have been
active
in
the
service
of
the
gospel,
can speak, can
move,
can
act
no more. But
I
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