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 asunder? O beware of this. Let not one link of the golden chain be broken. God for Christ's sake hath forgiven me. He is now renewing me in his own image. Shortly he will make me meet for himself, and take me to stand before his face. I whom he hath justified thro' the blood of his Son, being throughly sanctified by his Spirit, shall quickly ascend to the ''New Jerusalem, the city of the living God''. Yet a little while and I shall ''come to the general assembly and church of the first-born, and to God the judge of all, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant''. How soon will these shadows flee away, and the day of eternity dawn upon me! How soon shall I drink of ''the river of the water of life, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb? There all his servants shall praise him and shall see his face, and his name shall be upon their foreheads. And no night shall be there; and they have no need of a candle or the light of the sun. For the Lord God enlighteneth them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.''

5. And if you thus ''taste of the good word and and the powers of the world to come'', you will not murmur against God, because you are not yet meet for the inheritance of the saints in light. Instead of repining at your not being wholly delivered, you will praise God for thus far delivering you. You will magnify God for what he hath done, and take it as an earnest of what he will