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Rh accordingly, by laying up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal. Would you know what these treasures are? They are the love, the wisdom, the favour, the blessing, the protection of the Whom he daily worships, and to Whom he daily looks, as the  of all good, and the powerful preserver from all evil. Pie is moreover convinced, to his inexpressible joy, that this and  has His eternal kingdom, prepared for all those who love Him and keep his commandments; and that, after bodily death, all true Christians live for ever happy in this kingdom, according to His gracious promise, “Where I am, there shall also My servant be,” [ John xii. 26; xiv. 3.]. In this kingdom, therefore, the heart of this true Christian lives, as in its proper habitation, even during his continuance here below in a body of flesh; agreeable to the Divine declaration, “Where your treasure is there will your heart be also,” [ Matt. vi. 21.]

And what now, let me ask, is the judgment which you conceive such a Christian will form respecting bodily death? Is it possible that he should regard it as an evil, or as an enemy? Rather will he not view it as a good, and as a friend? Will not the thief, the robber, and the assassin be thus converted into a kind