Why, there I hope to see him alive that did hang dead on
the cross, and there I hope to be rid of all those things that to
this day are in me, an annoyance to me: there, they say, there is no
death; and there shall I dwell with such company as I like best.
For, to tell you the truth, I love him because I was by him eased of
my burden; and I am weary of my inward sickness. I would fain be
where I shall die no more, and with the company that shall
continually cry, "Holy, holy, holy!"
Be often remembering what a blessed thing it is to be saved, to go
to heaven, to be made like angels, and to dwell with God and Christ
to all eternity.
ADOPTION.
The Spirit cannot, after he hath come to the soul as a Spirit of
adoption, come again as a Spirit of bondage to put the soul into his
first fear, to wit, a fear of eternal damnation, because he cannot
say and unsay, do and undo. As a Spirit of adoption, he told me that
my sins were forgiven me and I was included in the covenant of
grace, that God was my Father through Christ, that I was under the
promise of salvation, and that this calling and gift of God to me
are permanent and without repentance. And do you think that, after
he told me this, and sealed up the truth of it to my precious soul,
he will come to me and tell me that I am yet in my sins, under the
curse of the law and the eternal wrath of God? No, no; the word of
the gospel is not yea, yea; nay, nay.
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