And as they are delivered from sin, so from sorrow, for that is the immediate consequent of sin: All tears shall be wiped from their eyes. And as from moral evil, so from natural evil; from external and internal evil, from all weakness of parts, and from all pains, and sickness, and deformities, from all labours, all incumbrances here in the world; freed from the company, and madness, and opposition, and tyranny, and injustice of wicked men; they shall be above Satan, and above the men of ⟨p. 500⟩the world. Gal. 1. 4. It is said, that Christ hath given himself to deliver us from this present evil world; it is a part of the purchase of Christ, to be wholly freed from all the evils of this present world; and this purchase of Christ we shall have. Under the highest regions are the tempests and storms, but above there are none; so in this world the Saints meet with tempests and storms, but above are none. As the Psalmist says, In thy light O God we shall see light: so in the light of God we shall see nothing but light: now when Gods light does shine into us, it does discover darkness; but time will come, though Gods light shall shine never so brightly, we shall see no darkness, but altogether light. We read concerning Moses and Elijah in Luke 9. in the transfiguration of Christ, the Text says, They did confer about his decease that should be accomplished at Jerusalem: the Saints of God shall meet together, and Moses, and Elijah, and the Patriarchs, and shall confer no more about deceases, about troubles and sufferings that shall be accomplished; all those evils shall be done away. We may say of evils all, as Moses did to the people of Israel concerning the Egyptians, Those your enemies that now you see, you shall never see any more: So we may say to Gods people that go out of the world to partake of the recompense of reward; be quiet, be still: those evils of sin, of sorrow that now you see, and feel, you shall never see, never feel any more; that is something though it be negatively.
And as they are delivered from sin, so from sorrow, for that is the immediate consequent of sin: All tears shall be wiped from their eyes. And as from moral evil, so from natural evil; from external and internal evil, from all weakness of parts, and from all pains, and sickness, and deformities, from all labors, all incumbrances here in the world; freed from the company, and madness, and opposition, and tyranny, and injustice of wicked men; they shall be above Satan, and above the men of ⟨p. 500⟩the world. Gal. 1. 4. It is said, that Christ hath given himself to deliver us from this present evil world; it is a part of the purchase of Christ, to be wholly freed from all the evils of this present world; and this purchase of Christ we shall have. Under the highest regions are the tempests and storms, but above there are none; so in this world the Saints meet with tempests and storms, but above are none. As the Psalmist says, In thy light O God we shall see light: so in the light of God we shall see nothing but light: now when Gods light does shine into us, it does discover darkness; but time will come, though Gods light shall shine never so brightly, we shall see no darkness, but altogether light. We read concerning Moses and Elias in Luke 9. in the transfiguration of Christ, the Text says, They did confer about his decease that should be accomplished at Jerusalem: the Saints of God shall meet together, and Moses, and Elias, and the Patriarchs, and shall confer no more about deceases, about troubles and sufferings that shall be accomplished; all those evils shall be done away. We may say of evils all, as Moses did to the people of Israel concerning the Egyptians, Those your enemies that now you see, you shall never see any more: So we may say to Gods people that go out of the world to partake of the recompence of reward; be quiet, be still: those evils of sin, of sorrow that now you see, and feel, you shall never see, never feel any more; that is something though it be negatively.
