There is no good in this life but what is mingled with some evil: honours
perplex, riches disquiet, and pleasures ruin health. But in heaven we
shall find blessings in their purity, without any ingredient to imbitter;
with everything to sweeten it.
O! who is able to conceive the inexpressible, inconceivable joys that are
there! None but they who have tasted of them. Lord, help us to put such
a value upon them here, that in order to prepare ourselves for them, we
may be willing to forego the loss of all those deluding pleasures here.
How will the heavens echo for joy, when the bride, the Lamb’s wife, shall
come to dwell with her husband for ever!
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the
Father; what solace then must the soul be filled with, that hath the
possession of him to all eternity!
O! what acclamations of joy will there be, when all the children of God
shall meet together, without fear of being disturbed by the
anti-Christian and Cainish brood.
Is there not a time coming when the godly may ask the wicked, what profit
they have in their pleasure? what comfort in their greatness? and what
fruit in all their labour?
If you would be better satisfied what the beatifical vision means, my
request is, that you would live _holily_ and go and see.