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Are believers immediatly with God after their dissolution,* 1.1 then how surprizingly glorious will Heaven be to believers! Not that they are in it before they think of it, or are fitted for it, no, they have spent many thoughts upon it before, and been long preparing
for it; but the suddenness and greatness of the change is amazing to our thoughts. For a soul to be now here in the body, conversing with men; living among sensible objects, and within a few mo∣ments to be with the Lord. This hour on earth, the next in the third heavens. Now viewing this world, and anon standing among an innumerable company of Angels, and the Spirits of the Just made perfect. O what a change is this! What! but wink and see God! Commend thy soul to Christ, and be transferred in the arms of Angels into the invisible world, the world of Spirits! To live as the Angels of God! To live without eating, drinking, sleeping. To be lifted up from a bed of sickness to a Throne of Glory! To leave a sinful troublesom world, a sick and pained body, and be in a moment perfectly cured, and feel thy self perfectly well, and free from all troubles and distempers! You cannot think what this will be. Who can tell what sights, what apprehensions, what thoughts, what frames believing souls have before the bodies they left, are removed from the eyes of their dear surviving friends!
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