A 226 THE WOItLD TO coME. and one soul, that yon have wished them all the same blessings that you wished to yourself, and that without the least shadow of grudging or envy, if every one of them were partakers as much as you ? There is no envy among the heavenly inhabi- tants ; nor cloth St. Paul receive the less because Cephas or Apollos has a large share. Every vessel has its capacity en- larged to a proper extent by the God of nature and grace, and every vessel is completely filled, and feels itself for ever full and for ever happy ; then there cannot be found the shadow of envy amongst them. Now to sum up the view of these things in short ; who is there that enjoys these blessed evidences of an interest in the in- heritance on high, who is there that has any such foretastes of the felicity above, but must join with the whole creation in groan- ing for that great day when all the children of God shall appear in the splendour of their adoption, and every thing in nature and grace among them shall attain the proper end for which it was at first designed ? And whensoever any such christian hears some of the last words in the bible pronounced by our Lord Jesus; surely I come quickly, he must immediately join the universal echo of the saints with unspeakable delight, Even so come, O Lord Jesus ; Rev. xxii. 20.
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