will be new. These earthly, gross, animal bodies, will become pure, refined and spiritual. These vile bodies will be changed, and fashioned like to Christ's glorious body.

3. It will be a new thing, and as happy as it will be new, to find ourselves freed from sin, and mingling with those, who, like us, are made perfect in holiness. Into heaven nothing enters, that defiles, or works abomination, The fearful, the unbelieving and abominable will be separated from among the just and pure, and detruded into the dark and dismal abodes of guilt, misery and despair. How happy the saints above, who feel no impurities and corruptions within, and see none without-who have no cause of repentance for iniquities of their own, and behold nothing to disgust them in the manners

of others.

"The Son of man shall send forth his angels; and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things which offend, and them who do iniquity-and shall cast them into a furnace of fire-then shall the righteous shine forth in the kingdom of their Father."

4. It will be a new thing to see all united in love. Here on earth are Christians, who profess the same religion, acknowledge the same Redeemer and hope for the same heaven; but how divided in sentiment about the smaller things in religion-how distant in affection for the circumstantial differences -how apt to contend about trifles-how hasty to judge and reprobate one another-how active, in the heat of uncharitable passion, to set up altar against altar-how much more zealous to strengthen the cause of a party, than to promote the great cause of the Redeemer and the general interest of Christians?

In heaven we shall see all things new. There will be no interfering passions, separate interests and party designs-no evil surmises and unfriendly insinuations. There will be one common interest, and one universal spirit of love to unite the whole. Jews and Gentiles, yea, angels and men will all meet in one assembly. Angels will not disdain to mingle with saints before the throne of God. Filled with reverence of him who sits on the throne, they will forget, or overlook the little distinctions between creature and creature-between angel and man.— These distinctions will vanish in the presence of him, who filleth all in all.

5. The saints, while on earth, experience a sensible delight in communion with God, and in the stated and occasional exercises of piety and devotion. But this delight is often interrupted by the infirmities of the flesh and the avocations of the world.

In heaven things will be new. There the saints will be continually before God's throne, and will serve him day and night; and they will not intermit their holy exercises for rest or refreshment, for they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them, and Jesus who is on the right hand of the throne shall feed them with celestial food, and shall lead them to the fountains of immortality and joy.

6. Here we need the word of God to instruct and quicken us. We need threatenings to awaken us, promises to allure us, and precepts to guide us. We need sensible representations to affect the mind through the eye, and living sounds to reach the heart through the ear. But in heaven things will be new,

There we shall be all eye-all ear-all intellect-all devotion and love. We shall see God face to face; know as we are known; dwell in him, and he in us. "I heard a voice," says Saint John, "The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people; his servants shall serve him, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads."

7. Here we need the vicissitudes of day and night for labor and rest. The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. The night, though favorable to repose, is, however, a gloomy season. The gloom we endeavor to dispel by artificial lights. But in heaven there is no need of a candle, for there is no night there; and no need of the sun, for the glory of the Lord doth lighten it, and Jesus is the light thereof.

8. Here we have our seasons of sorrow and affliction. Our joys are transient. Our bright and happy days are interrupted with dark and stormy nights. Our smiling and cheerful suns are obscured by scowling and angry clouds. Death is stalking around-we see his frightful footsteps-we hear his hollow voice. We tremble for our children and friends-we mourn the loss of brethren and companions-we have no security for our most pleasing connexions—we are doomed to suffer the anguish of their dissolution, In heaven things will be new. All friendship there will be the union of pure and immortal minds in disinterested benevolence to one another, and in supreme love to the allglorious Jehoyah. Holy souls will mingle together in a manner new and ineffable. Their affections will all concentrate in the same spiritual objects, and their friendly feelings will be transfused into each other. The benevolence of each will embrace the whole system of

virtuous intelligences, and will suffer no interruption or abatement from the incursion of malevolent passions; for these will be unknown there. This union will never be dissolved. "God will wipe away all tears from our eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away."

While we contemplate this grand and wonderful renovation, let us remember, that, in order to our entering into the new heaven, we must experience a similar renovation here on earth. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are pass. ed away; all things are become new," "We must put off the old man, be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

He who sits on the throne says, "Behold, I make all things new."

The citizens of the new Jerusalem must be new creatures. They must be made new, as well as the city which they inhabit. "Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Nothing can enter thither which defiles.They only who are pure in heart shall dwell with God. "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? He who hath clean hands and a pure heart."

While we lament the corruptions of the world, let us look forward and rejoice in the persuasion that truth and virtue will hereafter triumph.

Let us pray for the general spread of the gospelfor the enlargement of the church-for the revival of pure religion-for the extinction of error and vice, and the subversion of the kingdom of satan in our world.

Let us attend to our own spiritual state; see that the new creature be formed in our souls; and be watchful to promote its growth, that, whatever may be the state of the world, in our day, we may be admitted hereafter into the new heaven above, and may rejoice forever in that which God creates.