May we not supp• •he sou• and body of every saint, — in mutual embraces, to rejoice in each other, and triumph in the•r happy ⟨p. 258⟩meeting again? And may not one imagine the body to address the soul thus? O my soul, have we got together again, after so long a separation! art thou come back into thine old habitation, never more to remove! O joyful meeting! how unlike is our present state to what our case was, when a separation was made betwixt us at death! now is our mourning turned into joy; the light and gladness sometimes sown, are now sprung up; and there is perpetual spring in Immanuel's land. Blessed be the day, in which I was united to thee; whose chief care was to get Christ in us the hope of glory, and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which, in the time of our pilgrimage, kept thine eye on the land then afar off, but now near at hand! thou tookest me up into secret places, and there madest me bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliations before him: and now is the one time, and I am lifted up. Thou dist employ this tongue, in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings; which henceforth shall be employed in praising for evermore. Thou madest these (sometimes) weeping eyes s•w that seed of tears, which is now sp•ung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beat down by thee, and kept in subjection; while others pampered their fl•sh, and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction: and, now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory; whilst they are dragged out of their graves, to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, thou shalt complain no more of a sick and pained body; thou shalt be no more clogged with weak and weary flesh: I shall now hold pace with thee in the praises of our God for evermore. And may not the Soul say? O happy day in which I return to dwell in that blessed Body, which was, and is, and will be for ever, a member of Christ, a temple of the Holy Spirit! now shall I be eternally knit to thee: the silver cord shall never be loosed more: death shall •e•er make another separation betwixt us. Arise then, my Body, and come away: and let these eyes, which served to weep over my sins, behold now, with j•y, the face of our glorious Redeemer; lo! this is our God, and we have waited for him.
May we not supp• •he sou• and body of every saint, — in mutual embraces, to rejoice in each other, and triumph in the•r happy ⟨p. 258⟩meeting again? And may not one imagine the body to address the soul thus? O my soul, have we got together again, after so long a separation! art thou come back into thine old habitation, never more to remove! O joyful meeting! how unlike is our present state to what our case was, when a separation was made betw•xt us at death! now is our mourning turned into joy; the light and gladness sometimes sown, are now sprung up; and there is perpetual spring in Immanuel's land. Blessed be the day, in which I was united to thee; whose chief care was to get Christ in us the hope of glory, and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which, in the time of our pilgrimage, kept thine eye on the land then afar off, but now near at hand! thou tookest me up into secret places, and there mad'st me bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliations before him: and now is the one time, and I am liftted up. Thou dist employ this tongue, in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings; wh•ch henceforth shall be employed in praising for evermore. Thou mad'st these (sometimes) weeping eyes s•w that seed of tears, wh•ch is now sp•ung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beat down by thee, and kept in subjection; while others pampered their fl•sh, and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction: and, now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory; whilst they are dragged out of their graves, to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, thou shalt complain no more of a sick and pained body; thou shalt be no more clogged with weak and weary flesh: I shall now hold pace with thee in the praises of our God for evermore. And may not the Soul say? O happy day in which I return to dwell in that blessed Body, which was, and is, and will be for ever, a member of Christ, a temple of the Holy Spirit! now shall I be eternally knit to thee: the silver cord shall never be loosed more: dea•h shall •e•er make another separation betwixt us. Arise then, my Body, and come away: and let these eyes, which served to weep over my sins, behold now, with jy, the face of our glorious Redeemer; lo! this is our God, and we have waited for him.
