DISCOURSE 1. 371 that looks like death in all that vital world, that world of immor- tality. 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 capable of, and that without danger of ex- cess or sin. WhenGod first united these two piecesof his work- manship, 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 pf satiety orweariness. When the timecomes that thereshall be no more death, God shall Wipe away all tears from our eyes; there shall be no sorrownor crying, nor anymorepain ; for theformer things are passedaway, andhe that sits upon the throne shall say, behold I make all things new l Rev. xxi. 4, 5. Then shall we enjoy the constant society of our best friends, and dearest acquaintance; those that have arrived at the new Jerusalem themselves, and have assisted us in our travels thither. And we shall delightfully entertain, and be entertained with the mutual narratives of divinegrace, and the wise and holy methods of providence, whereby we have been conducted safe through all the fatigues and dangers of the wilderness to that heavenly country. And that which shall add an unknown relish to all the former blessings, is the full assurance that we shall possess them for ever. For every one of our enemies are then destroyed, and the last of them is death. Here on earth it is a perpetual pain to the mind to think, that those whom we love are mortal ; the next moment may divide them from us far as the distance of two worlds. They are seized on a sudden from our eyes, and from our embraces ; and this thought allays the delight that we take in their company, and diminishes the joy ; but in that world all our friends are immortal, we shall ever be with the Lord, and ever with one another too; 1 Thess. iv. 17. May I be permitted here to make a, short reflection on that mournful providencethathas joined two lovelyrelatives indeath`, and given occasion for the sad solemnities of this day h The The Lady Hartopp, daughter ofSharles Fleetwood, Esq. and wife to Sir John.Hartopp, of Newington, baronet, died Nov. 9, 1711. Mrs. Gould, their daughter, and wife to Mr. Gould, now Sir Nathaniel Gould, of Newington, died six days after, viz. Nov. 15, and left their households'behind them oppressed with double uo[TOwr. äa 2
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