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i 1 Cor. xv.

53.

Phil. iii. 21.

Happiness eternal.

shall be fitted for torment, and the bodies of the Saints changed in quality, and made glorified bodies, immortal and incorruptible, fitted for heaven and eternally to love and enjoy Thee; for which glorious vouchfafement I will always praise and love Thee.

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And the Life Everlasting.

BELIEVE, O Great Judge of heaven and earth, that after all the quick and dead have appeared before Thy Judgmentfeat, then the most just and unrepealable Sentence fhall pafs, and be executed to all eternity; joyful only to thofe that love Thee; and therefore all Love, all Glory be to Thee.

I believe, O Righteous Jefus, that the wicked shall be set on Thy left hand, and be damned to hell, to be tormented with

i For this corruptible | fashioned like unto His must put on incorruption, and this mortal muft put on immortality.

Who fhall change our vile body, that it may be

glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to fubdue all things unto Himself.

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everlasting and unconceivable anguish and despair, by the devil and his angels and Mat. xxv. their own confcience, both in foul and body, in the lake of fire and brimstone,' 'Rev. xiv. 10, from which there never can be any redemption; O juft reward of those that do not love Thee.

O Merciful Jefu, how defirous art Thou that we should be happy in loving Thee, when Thou haft created hell on purpose to deter us from hating Thee, and heaven to compel us to love Thee; and therefore all Love, all Glory be to Thee.

I believe, O my Lord and my God, that the righteous fhall be rewarded with joys unspeakable and full of glory, with the

k Then shall He fay alfo unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

1 The fame shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he fhall be

| tormented with fire and

brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in
the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their
torment afcendeth up for
ever and ever and they
have no reft day nor
night, who worship the
beaft and his image, and
whofoever receiveth the
mark of his name.

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beatific vifion and love of Thyself in heaven," with a happiness of body and soul, which shall be in all respects most perfect, eternal, and unchangeable," that they shall never forrow nor fin more, which is all the free Gift of Thy infinite Love," O Heavenly Father, and the purchase of Thy Blood, O God incarnate; for which I will ever, to the utmost of my power, adore and love Thee.

O boundless Love, when fhall I love Thee in heaven without either coldness or

m Beloved, now are we the fons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we fhall be: but we know that, when He fhall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall fee Him as He is.

For now we fee through a glafs, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then fhall I know even as alfo I am known.

n To an inheritance

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incorruptible, and unde-pared for you from the

filed, and that fadeth not

away, referved in heaven

foundation of the world.

interruption, which, alas! too often seize me here below?

When, O my God, O when shall I have the transporting vifion of Thy most amiable Goodness, that I may unalterably love Thee, that I may never more offend Thee?

O Thou whom my foul loveth, I would not defire heaven, but because Thou art there, for Thou makest heaven wherever Thou art.

I would not, O Jefu, defire life everlafting, but that I may there everlastingly

love Thee.

O inexhaustible Love, do Thou eternally breathe love into me, that my love to Thee may be eternally increasing, and tending towards infinity, fince a love less than infinite is not worthy of Thee.

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Amen.

THOU Great Author and Finisher of our Faith, do Thou daily increase my Faith and heighten my Love; O grant that in holy ardours of love, to Love crucified, my love may at laft afcend to the

region of Love, that I may have nothing to do, to all eternity, but to praise and to love Thee. Amen. O Infinite Love, Amen, Amen.

FINIS.

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