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SECT.
ü.]
THE HAPPINESS
OF
SEPARATE
SPIRITS.
the inhabitants
of
that
city,
of
the heavenly
Jerusalem,'
"
shall
never
say I am sick
;
for the people
that
dwell
therein shall
be forgiven
their
iniquity
;"
'is.
xxxiii.
When the
righteous are
dismissed from this
flesh,
"
they
enter into
peace,
their
bodies
rest
in
their beds
of
earth,
and
their
spirits
walk
in
heaven, each
one
in his
own up-
rightness
;"
Is.
And
as
there
is
no
sin
within
them:
to
render:
theta
uneasy,
so
there
is
no
troublesome
guest,
no
evil
atten-
dant
without
them,
that
can
give
them
fear or
pain;
no
sinners
to vex them, no
tempter
to deceive them,
no
spi-
rit of,hell
to
devour
or
destroy;
Is.
xxxv. 9,
10.
No,
lion
shall
be
there,
nor any
ravenous beast
shall
go
up
thereon,.
it
shall
not
be
found
there ; but
the
:redeemed
shall
walk there.
And
the
ransomed
of
the
Lord
shall
return
and
come
to
Zion
with
songs,
and everlasting
joy
upon
their
heads
:
they
shall
obtain
joy and
gladness,
and
sorrow
and sighing shallflee
away.
God
himself shall never
be
absent,.
and
then.
they can-
not
be
unhappy.
They
"
behold
his
face in
righteous_.
ness,
and 'they
.are
satisfied when
they awake
with
his
likeness
;"
Ps.
xvii.
15.
When they
leave this
world
of
dreams and
shadows, and
awake,
into that bright world
of
spirits, they behold the face
of God,
and
are made
like
him,
as
well as
:when
their
bodies
shall awake
out
of
the
dust
of
death
in
the morning
of
the
resurrection,
formed-
.
in the image
of
the
blessed.
Jesus.
That glorious scrip-
ture,
in
Rev.
xxi.
3,
4. be .the
sense
of
it
what
it
will,
can
never
be
fulfilled in
more glory
on
earth than
belongs
to
the state
'of
heaven. The
tabernacle
of
God
is
with
men,
and
he
will
dwell
with
them,
and
they
_
shall
be
his
people,'
and
God himself'
shall
be
with
them,
and
be
their
God.
And
God
shall
wipe
away
all tears
from
their
eyes;
:
and
there shall
be
no
more death;
neither
sorrows
note
crying,
neither
shall
there
be
any
more
pain
:
for
the
former
things
are
passed
away.
The
saints above
see
their
blessed
Lord and
.Saviour
all
his
exalted glories,
.
and
they
are
with
him
where
he
is,
according
to his own
prayer
and
his
own promise
;.
'Jahn
xvii.
24.
and
xiv.
3.
"
They are, absent
from the
body,.
and present
with
the
Lord." They
have esteemed
hint
on
earth
above_all.tlhings,
and longed
after
the sight
of
his
facé,
"
whom having
not
seen
they.
loved
;"
1
Pet.
i.
8,
Mc