Besides, this word "enter
in" signifies that salvation to the full is to be enjoyed only
there, and that there only is eternal safety; all other places and
conditions are hazardous, full of snares, imperfections,
temptations, and afflictions. But there all is well; there is no
devil to tempt, no desperately wicked heart to deliver us up, no
deceitful lust to entangle, nor any enchanting world to bewitch us;
there all shall be well to all eternity. Further, all the parts of
and circumstances that attend salvation, are only there to be
enjoyed: there only is immortality and eternal life; there is the
glory and fulness of joy and the everlasting pleasures; there is God
and Christ to be enjoyed by open vision; and more, there are the
angels and the saints; there is no death nor sickness, no sorrow nor
sighing for ever; there is no pain, nor persecution, nor darkness to
eclipse our glory. O this mount Zion! O this heavenly Jerusalem!
SOUL AND BODY GLORIFIED IN HEAVEN.
"When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
that saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
So when this comes to pass, then we shall be saved, then will
salvation in all the parts of it meet together in our glory, then we
shall be every way saved: saved in God's decree, saved in Christ's
undertakings, saved by faith, saved in perseverance, saved in soul,
and in body and soul together, in the heavens; saved perfectly,
everlastingly, gloriously.
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