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OVER DEATH.
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service
of God, and
they shall
be
neither
weak
nor weary.
For
all
the
inconveniences
that
attend
mortality
shall be
swallowed
up and lost
for.
ever.
Alas
how
poor
and
imperfect
-is
the:
service
which
our
bodies
yield to
God
in
this world
!
How
heavily do
our
souls
complain
of
the. clog:
of
this
flesh,
and
move
on-
wards heavily
in
the discharge
of
duty
!
and
in
the
grave
the.body
is
quite
cut
off
from
all
service.
But
when
death
shall'
be
dispossessed,
when
we
shall arise from
the dust, and
put
on
bodies
of glory;
then
with
our
whole
natures
and with all
their
powers,
we
shall do
honour
to
God
our Creator, our Redeemer,
,
and
our
Ring.
The
time
will come-
when`
we shall
hunger
no
more,_
.neither
thirst
any more
;
and the refreshments
of
sleep shall be
-no
more necessary
to
support
life.
When
death
shall
be
destroyed;
sleep,.
the
image
and picture
of
death,
shall
be
destroyed
too.
There
shall
be
nothing
that
looks
like
death
in all
that
vital
world,
that
world
of
immortality.
We,
shall
serve
the Lord
day
and night
in
his
temple
;
that
is
continually,
for there shall
be
no
night there
;
",
Rev.
vii.
15, 16.
and
xxi.
25.
.
Then
we
shall
taste
all
the
true
blessedness
that
human
nature
is'oapable
Hof,
and
that
without danger
of
excess
or
sin.
When
God
first
united
these
two
pieces
of
his
workmanship,
the soul and
body,
and
composed
a man,
he designed, him
the subject
of
various pleasures,
wherein
each
part
should have been subservient to the other, to
render
the felicity
of
the
creature
perfect.
It
is
sin
and
death
that
have
entered
into
our
natures, and prevented
this noble
design in
our present
state
:
but the counsel
of
the
Lord
shall
stand. And
when
he
raises
up
the body
from
the
grave,
it shall
leave
all
the
seeds
of
death
behind
it.
The
faculties and the senses shall
awake
in all
their
original sprightliness
and vigour,
and' our future
heaven
shall
be
furnished
with
objects suited
to
entertain
those
powers,
and
to
convey
intense pleasure
to glorified minds
without danger
of
satiety
or weariness.
When
the time
comes
that
" there shall
be
no
more death,
God
shall_
wipe away
ali
tears
from
our
eyes
;
there.shall be no
sor-
row
nor
crying,
nor
'any
more pain
;
for
the
former
things are passed
away,
and he
that
sits
upon
the
throne
shall
say,
behold
I make all
things
new
!"
Rev.
xxi.
4,
5.
Then
shall
we
'enjoy
the
constant
society
of our
best