OZ. THE tWOita TO COME. There is no more time for you to be vexed with the society of sinful creatures: Your spirit within you shall be no more ruffled and disquieted with the teizing conversation of the wicked, nor shall you be interrupted in your holy and heavenly exercises by . any of the enemies of God and his grace. The time of your painful labours and sufferings is no more. Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from all their labours that carry toil or fatigue with them : There shall be no more complaints nor groans, no sorrows or crying ; the springs of grief are for ever dried up, neither shall there be any snore pain in the flesh or the spirit. God shall wipe away all tears from your eyes, and death shall be no more ; Rev. xxi. 4. It is finished, said our blessed Lord on the cross : It is finished, may every one of his followers say at the hour of death, and at the end of time : J%Iy sins and follies, my distresses and any sufferings, are finished for ever, and the mighty angel swears to it, that the time of these evils is no longer : They are van -. ished, and shall never return. O happy souls, who have been so wise to count the short and uncertain number of your days ou earth, as to make an early provision for a removal to heaven. Blest are you above all the powers of present thought and lan- guage. Days, and months, and years, and all these short and painful periods of time, shall be swallowed up in a long and . blissful eternity , the stream of time which has run between the banks of this mortal life, and bore you along amidst many dan- gerous rocks of temptation, fear and sorrow, shall launch you out into the ocean of pleasures which have have no peroid. Those felicities must be everlasting, for duration has no limit there ; time, with all its measures, shall be no more. Amen.
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