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Tal;
GOFSaUEST
ovER
DEATH.
[DIK.
I.
so
.complete
arid;
glorious,
as
it
shall
be, when with.
our
eyes
we,shall.see God
in
the form
of
a man:
It
is
granted, that
the
separate
heaven
of
souls
is
abun-
dant
pleasure
beyond
what
we
can
now
conceive
or ex-
press
;
and.
our,
friends,
departed
in
the faith, enjoy
the
delightful presence
of their
..Lord,
and the
.heavenly
con-
verse
of their fellim-
spirits.
That
honoured and de-
ceased
saint,
whom_
we
this day mourn,
dwells with
that
Jesus
with whom
she
had long been acquainted
:
She
converses. with him in
.
heaven,.
whom
she
loved much
upon
earth:,
She tinds
herself
safe
for, ever in his
bands,
to
whose:
-care she
committed
her
immortal
concerns;
and
she rejoices
in the,
sight
of
him
above, with
whom
s.be
held many
hours of
sweet
correspondence
by
faith
here
below.
'Doubtless
also,
she holds sweet conversa-
tion
with
the holy
souls
that
went to heaven before her.
A
soul
so
greatly:
desirous
of spiritual
intercourse
.as
she
was,,
so
constaì
tly
prepared
for
pious conference
and
mutual communications of
sacred
knowledge,
must needs
enjoy
that
privilege,
and that
pleasure,
in that upper
iyorld, where
there
is
nothing
all
round
her,
but
what
is.holy and
divine.
But it
is
certain
she
cannot
enjoy
that
perfection
of
humble society with
Christ
in his
glo-
rifled
human nature, nor
with fellow-saints,
while she
is
deprived
of
one
part of
herself,
her
body
lying
silent
and
moveless in
the prison
of
the grave
:.
and she
yet,
waits for
the
more complete satisfaction
of
all
her
hopes,.
when .death her
last:
enemy shall be destroyed,
and her
body redeemed from the dust, together
with
the bodies
of
-all
the saints.
This leads
me to
the
next particular
.4.
Death
is
an
enemy to
believers, because
it
divides
them
for:
a
season from the company
of
their
known
and
valuable friends, and
parts the dearest
relatives
astin-
'der.
Though
dying saints be
transmitted into
better
coin
-
pany,
-even
to
the spirits
of
the
just
made perfect,
yet
it
is
a mournful thought to
be
separated
so long from
those
whom
they loved
with
so
strong and
just
an
affec-
tion.
It
adds
a
sharpness
even
to
the last
agonies,.
when
we
think
we
must leave
parents,
children,
or
friends
be-
hind
us,
whom
we
love so
tenderly; that
we
must
leave
them amidst
the sorrows
and the temptations of
a
vain;
world
and a
corrupt
-age;
that
we
must
leave
them