492 REMNANTS nr TIME. Jerusalem above, where praise is constant and never ceasing, and rejoice to think that you shall be made inhabitants of that city, and united to the glorious church. It is your,chief pleasure here to be praising your God, and it is the chief pleasure of your fellow- saints on high : Where happiness is perfect, praise is perfect too and never silent. It is the chief delight of happy souls there to run over the glories of their God, and tell one another joyfully, and humbly tell their God, what a wise, what a holy, what an almighty and all - gracious God he is. Every breath of praise is a new gale of pleasure there ; it is sweet breathing in air perfumed with praises, and this climate is most agreeable to your new nature and your constitution, you that are members and parts of Zion ; and you shall be translated thither to your kindred souls. In heaven the river of pleasure springs from God's right hand, because Jesus the Saviour sits there. It is a river that makes glad the city of God, and every stream, as it flows along the golden streets, mur- murs sweet praises to the fountain. But heaven and the state of glory are not yet complete : The church waits above for many promises that are not yet fulfilled, and future blessings that are yet unknown. The work of grace is not finished till the great resurrection-day ; and heaven itself, in all the blissful regions of it, waits for such praises as the ear of men or angels has never yet heard. While the whole church of God on earth is in a state of bu- perfection and trial, a state of sins and sorrows, praise waits in all the sanctuaries below, and in Zion above too. The souls in glory wait for complete salvation and the redemption of their bodies from the grave. On the harps of angels, praise sits waiting, and it waits also On the tongue of Jesus the intercessor. His prayers shall one day change all at once into praises, and lift the praises of angels and of embodied saints to higher notes than ever yet they knew. O the voices, and the songs, the joys, the raptures of that mo- ment, of that day, of that eternity, when such a multitude ofpraises shall burst out at once, that have been waiting long in that Zion, and shall become an everlasting praise! When Jesus the Son of God, the Mediator, shall lead the worship, and the praises that have been growing these seventeen hundred years on his tongue, shall break forth and spread themselves abroad, and all the creation shall hear, and all echo to his song, glory to God in the highest. This is what we wait and hope for, and long to bear a part in these pleasures and those praises. XIX. Job xxiii. 3. 0 that I knew where I might find him! AMONG all the various kinds and orders of God's intel- lectual creation, there is not one that uses this language besides a mourning saint in this lower world. As for all other spirits,
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