The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

It is Faith which overcometh the world and the flesh, which must also overcome the fears of death; and can look with boldness into the loathsome grave, and can triumph over both as victorious through Christ. It is Faith which can say, [Go forth O my soul; depart in peace: Thy course is finished: Thy warfare is accomplished: The day of triumph is now at hand: Thy patience hath no longer work: Go forth with joy: The morning of thy endless joys is near; and the night of fears and darkness at an end. Thy terrible dreams are ending in eternal pleasures: The glorious light will banish all thy dreadful spectres, and resolve all those doubts which were bred and cherished in the dark: They whose employment is their weariness and toil, do take the night of darkness and cessation for their rest: But this is thy weariness: Defect of action is thy toil; and thy most grievous labour is to do too little work▪ And thy unceasing ⟨p. 79⟩Vision, Love and Praise, will be thy unceasing ease and pleasure; and thy endless work, will be thy endless rest! Depart, O my soul, with peace and gladness! Thou leavest not a world, where Wisdom and Piety, Justice and Sobriety, Love, and Peace, and Order, do prevail; but a world of ignorance and folly; of brutish sensuality and rage; of impiety and malignant enmity to good; a world of injustice and oppression; and of confusion and distracting strifes! Thou goest not to a world of darkness, and of wrath; but of Light and Love! From hellish malice, to perfect amity; from Bedlam rage, to perfect wisdom; from mad confusion, to perfect order; to sweetest unity and peace; even to the spirits of the just made perfect, and to the celestial glorious City of God! Thou goest not from Heaven to Earth, from holiness to sin, from the sight of God, into an infernal dungeon; but from Earth to Heaven; from sin and imperfection unto perfect holiness; and from palpable darkness, into the vital splendour of the face of God! Thou goest not amongst enemies, but to dearest friends; nor amongst mere strangers, but to many whom thou hast known by sight, and to more whom thou hast known by faith, and must know by the sweetest communion for ever. Thou goest not to unsatisfied Justice, nor to a condemning unreconciled God; but to Love it self; to infinite Goodness; the fountain of all created and communicated good; to the Maker, Redeemer and Sanctifier of souls;

It is Faith which overcometh the world and the flesh, which must also overcome the fears of death; and can look with boldness into the loathsome grave, and can triumph over both as victorious through Christ. It is Faith which can say, [Go forth O my soul; depart in peace: Thy course is finished: Thy warfare is accomplished: The day of triumph is now at hand: Thy patience hath no longer work: Go forth with joy: The morning of thy endless joyes is near; and the night of fears and darkness at an end. Thy terrible dreams are ending in eternal pleasures: The glorious light will banish all thy dreadful specters, and resolve all those doubts which were bred and cherished in the dark: They whose employment is their weariness and toil, do take the night of darkness and cessation for their rest: But this is thy weariness: Defect of action is thy toil; and thy most grievous labour is to do too little work And thy uncessant