Come, ye blessed of
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. Thou shalt see that those who have served me in truth
shall lose nothing, but they shall be as pillars in my temple and
inheritors of my glory, and shall have place to walk in among my
saints and angels. Oh, who would not be in this condition? who would
not be in this glory?
At the day of judgment, Israel will be sufficiently weary of this
world; they will even as it were inexpressibly groan to be taken up
from hence: wherefore the Lord will come, as making use of the
weariness and groaning of his people, and will take them up into his
chambers of rest, and will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
That we are justified in the sight of the divine Majesty by free
grace, through that one offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all, I bless God I believe it; and that we shall be brought to
glory by the same grace, through the same most blessed Jesus, I
thank God I believe that also Again, that the glory to which we
shall be brought by free grace through the only merits of Jesus, is
unspeakably glorious and complete, I question no more than I
question the blessed truths but now confessed.
But notwithstanding all this, there is a reward for the righteous, a
reward for their works of faith and love, whether in a doing or in a
suffering way, and that not principally to be enjoyed here, but
hereafter: "Great is your reward in heaven.
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