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blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither can corruption 

 inherit incorruplion; but, in the emphalical language of holy writ., 

 he is shewn the sublime mystery, that at the final dissolution, al- 

 though we shall not all sleep, we shall all be changed in a moment, 

 in the twinkling of an eye; when the last trumpet shall sound, 

 the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed; 

 for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must 

 put on immortality! Then shall the exulting disciple of a cruci- 

 fied Redeemer triumphantly exclaim, " O Death! where is thy 

 sting? O Grave! where is thy victory?" "Then shall he behold 

 a new heaven, and a new earth; he shall see the New Jerusalem, 

 that holy city, where there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor 

 pain; neither is there any temple therein: for the Lord God Al- 

 mighty and the Lamb are the temple thereof." 



That the faithful Christian may know who are to be his asso- 

 ciates in this heavenly inheritance, the inhabitants of those celes- 

 tial mansions, he is expressly told, in language which no sophistry 

 can weaken, no philosophy pervert, that he will be there intro- 

 duced to an innumerable company of angels; to the general assem- 

 bly and church of the first-born whose names are written in hea- 

 ven ; to God, the judge of all; to the spirits of just men made 

 perfect; and to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, the 

 Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the 

 last. The faithful witness and first-begotten from the dead; and 

 the prince of the kings of earth. Unto Him, therefore, who hath 

 loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood ; and hath 



