A Saint Indeed

There are but two ways of the Souls living known in Scripture, viz. the life of faith, and the life of vision, 1 Cor. 5. 5. those two divide all time both present and future betwixt them, 1 Cor, 13. 12. If when faith fails, Sight should not immediately succeed, what should become of the unbodied Soul? but blessed be God, this great, heart-establishing truth is evidently revealed in Scripture, Luke 23. 43. •ou have Christs promise John 14. 3. I will come and receive you to my self. O what a change will a few moments make upon your condition? rouse up dying Saint, when thy Soul is come out a little farther; when it shall stand like Abraham in its tent door, the Angels of God shall soon be with it: the Souls of the elect are as it were put out to the Angels ⟨p. 177⟩to nurse, and when they dye, these Angels carry them home again to their fathers house: if an Angel were caused to fly swiftly to bring a Saint the answer of his prayer, Dan. 9. 21. How much more will the Angels come post from Heaven to receive and transfer the praying Soul it self?

There are but two waies of the Souls living known in Scripture, viz. the life of faith, and the life of vision, 1 Cor. 5. 5. those two divide all time both present and future betwixt them, 1 Cor, 13. 12. If when faith fails, Sight should not immediately succeed, what should become of the unbodied Soul? but blessed be God, this great, heart-establishing truth is evidently revealed in Scripture, Luke 23. 43. •ou have Christs promise Iohn 14. 3. I will come and receive you to my self. O what a change will a few moments make upon your condition? rouse up dying Saint, when thy Soul is come out a little farther; when it shall stand like Abraham in its tent door, the Angels of God shall soon be with it: the Souls of the elect are as it were put out to the Angels