DtSCOÙRSE IH. gry he is möre prepared for any post of danger and hazardous enter - prize, and better furnished to sustain the roughest assaults. We Shall he less shocked at sudden afflictions here on earth, if our Souls keep heaven in view, and are ready winged for immor- tality. When we are fit. to die, we are fit to live also, and to do better service for God, in which- soever of his worlds he shall please to appoint our station. '' My business, O Father, and my joy is to do thy will among the sons of mortality, or among the spirits of the blessed on high." V. 00 Let us remember we have slept too long already in days past, and it is but a little while that we are called to watch." We have worn away too much of our life in sloth and drowsiness. The night is far spent with many of us, the day is at hand; it is now high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed; Rom: xiii. 11, 12. Another hour or two, and the night will be at an end with us ; Jesus the morning-star is just appearing ; What ! can we not watch one hour? Mat. xxvi. 40. 0 happy souls that keep themselves awake to God in the midst of this dreaming world ! Happy in- deed,. when our Lord shall Call us out of these dusky regions, and we shall answer his call with holy joy, and spring upward to the inheritance of the saints in light ! Then all the seasons of darkness and slumbering will be finished for ever; there is no need of laborious watchfulness in that world, where there is no flesh and blood to hang heavy upon the spirit ; but the sanctified powers of the soul are all life and immortal vigour. There is no want of the sun-beams to make their daylight, or to irradiate that city ; the glory of God enlightens it with divine splendors, and the Lamb is the light thereof; Rev. xxi. 23. No inhabitant can sleep under such an united blaze of grace and glory: No faintings of nature, no languors or weariness are found in all that vital climate ; every citizen is for ever awake, and busy under the beams of that glorious day ; zeal and love, and joy are the springs of their eternal activity, and there is no night there; Rev. xxii. 3. Voc. vt( G
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