Le 26,5

Za 2,4

Ap 3, 12

Is 33, 20

Ps 35, 10

1J3, 2

Ps 15, 11

Ap 21, 22

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shall the beasts of the earth of our Solemnity: thy eyes
devour them; but they shall see Jerusalem, a Rich
shall dwell securely without Habitation, a Tabernacle that
any terror.
cannot be removed: neither

You shall dwell in your shall the nails thereof be
Land without fear.
taken away for ever, neither

Jerusalem shall be in- shall any of the cords thereof
habited without walls.

7. STABILITY FOR EVER. He that shall overcome I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God: and he shall go out no more.

be broken.
His Kingdom itself shall
stand for ever.

My mercy shall not depart
from thee, and the Covenant
of My Peace shall not be
moved: saith the Lord that

Look upon Sion, the City hath mercy on thee.

II.-Fruition of all Goods.
1.-ESSENTIAL GOODS.

1. THE BEATIFIC VISION. with My Father, in His
With Thee is the Fountain Throne.

of Life; and in Thy Light
we shall see Light.

Da 2,44

Is 54, 10

In My Father's House there Jn 14, 2-3 are many Mansions. If not, We know that, when He I would have told you, that I shall appear, we shall be like go to prepare a Place for you. to Him: because we shall-And if I shall go, and presee Him as He is. pare a Place for you: I will Thou shalt fill me with joy come again, and will take with Thy Countenance. you to Myself, that where I

I saw no temple therein. am, you also may be. For the Lord God Almighty Father, I will that where I Jn 17, 2 is the Temple thereof, and the am, they also whom Thou Lamb. And the City hath hast given Me may be with no need of the sun, nor of the Me, that they may see My moon to shine in it. For the Glory which Thou hast given Glory of God hath enlightened Me, because Thou hast loved it, and the Lamb is the Lamp Me before the foundation of thereof. And the nations the world.

shall walk in the light of It. The Lamb, Which is in Ap 6, 17 Ap 22, 3-4 The Throne of God and of the midst of the Throne, the Lamb shall be in it, and shall rule them.

7,21

:

His servants shall serve Him. I beheld, and lo a Lamb Ap 14,1
-And they shall see His stood upon Mount Sion, and
Face and His Name shall with Him an hundred forty-
be on their foreheads.
2. FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST.
To him that shall overcome,
I will give to sit with Me in
My Throne as I also have
overcome, and am set down

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four thousand having His
Name, and the Name of His
Father written on their fore-
heads.

3. PERFECT SANCTITY.
In their mouth there was Ap 14,5

Ps 36, 18

Ap 21, 27

He 10, 14

Is 60, 18

Is 60, 21

Ap 6, 10

Mt 25, 46

Is 45, 17

Mk 10, 30

Jn 10, 28

Ro 6, 23

1J2, 25

1J5, 11

Ga 6, 8

Is 54, 13

Is 22, 18

found no lie for they are Tabernacles of confidence,
without spot before the and in wealthy Rest.
Throne of God.

The mountains shall be Is 54, 10

The Lord knoweth the days moved, and the hills shall
of the undefiled: and their tremble; but My mercy shall
inheritance shall be for ever not depart from thee, and
There shall not enter into the Covenant of My Peace
it any thing defiled.
shall not be moved: said the
By One Oblation, He hath Lord that hath mercy on
perfected for ever them that thee.
are sanctified.

The meek shall inherit the Ps 36, 11

Iniquity shall no more be Land, and shall delight in
heard in thy Land, wasting abundance of Peace.

nor destruction in thy Bor- Thus saith the Lord: Be- Is 66, 12
ders, and Salvation shall hold I will bring upon her as
possess thy Walls, and praise it were a River of Peace.
thy Gates.

Ghost.

The Kingdom of God is Ro 14, 17 Thy people shall be all Peace and Joy in the Holy just, they shall inherit the Land for ever, the Branch of I will give Peace in your Le 26, 6 My planting, the work of My coasts: you shall sleep, and hand to glorify Me. there shall be none to make you afraid.

White robes were given to
every one of them.

4. ETERNAL LIFE.
The Just shall go into
Life Everlasting.

Israel is saved in the Lord
with an Eternal Salvation.

He shall receive in the world to come Life Everlasting.

I give them Life lasting.

Ever

The grace of God is Life

Everlasting.

They that are redeemed Is 51, 11
by the Lord, shall return,
This is the promise which and shall come into Sion
He hath promised us, Life singing praises, and Joy
Everlasting.
Everlasting shall be upon

God hath given to us their heads, they shall obtain
Eternal Life, and this life is joy and gladness, sorrow and
in His Son.
mourning shall flee away.

He that soweth in the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap Life Everlasting.

5. ETERNAL PEACE.
Great shall be the Peace of
thy children.

My people shall sit in the
Beauty of Peace, and in the

They shall rejoice before Thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.

Is 9,3

I will see you again, and Jn 16, 22 your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man shall take

Jb 3, 17

Ju 11, 19

Ps 54, 7

He 12, 2223

Ps 86, 7

Ps 132, 1,

3

Jn 11, 5152

Ap 7, 9

There the wearied in his Rest, the same also hath
strength are at Rest.
rested from his works, as
Thou shalt rest, and there God did from His.-Let us
shall be none to make thee hasten therefore to enter
afraid.
into that Rest.

Who will give me wings I will give thee Rest.
2.-ACCESSORY GOODS.

1. COMPANY OF THE

BLESSED.

You are come to Mount Sion, to the Company of many thousands of Angels, -And to the Spirits of the just made perfect.

The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

shall know even as I am
known.

Ex 33, 14

In Thy Light we shall see Ps 35, 10 Light.

He gave some Apostles... Ep 4, 11For the work of the Ministry

.. Until we all meet into the Unity of Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man.

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This is Eternal Life, that Jn 17, 3 they may know Thee.

He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. We

Os 6, 3

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Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity,-As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon Mount Sion. For there the Lord hath shall know. commanded blessing, and Thou shalt no more have Is 60, 19life for evermore. the sun for thy light by day, He prophesied that Jesus neither shall the brightness should die for the nation.- of the moon enlighten thee : And not only for the nation, but the Lord shall be unto but to gather together in One thee for an Everlasting the children of God, that Light, and thy God for thy were dispersed. Glory.-Thy sun shall go I saw a great multitude down no more, and thy moon which no man could number, shall not decrease: for the

When one of them that Lu 14, 15

1 C13, 12 We see now through a sat at Table with Him, had glass in a dark manner: but heard these things, He said then face to Face. Now I to him: Blessed is he that know in part but then I shall eat Bread in the King

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dom of God.

:

of the noon-day shall arise Lu 22, 29- I dispose to you, as My to thee at evening and Father hath disposed to Me, when thou shalt think thya Kingdom :-That you may self consumed thou shalt eat and drink at My Table rise as the day-star. in My Kingdom: and may

Ps 35,9

Ap 2, 7

Ap2, 17

sit upon thrones judging the
Twelve Tribes of Israel.

5. GLORY AND HONOUR.

If any man minister to Me, Jn 12, 26 him will My Father honour.

The wise

They shall be inebriated
with the plenty of Thy glory.

shall possess Pv 3, 35

House; and Thou shalt Glory and honour to every Ro 2,1)
make them drink of the one that worketh good.
Torrent of Thy Pleasure.

The glory which Thou Jn 17, 22

He, that hath an ear, let hast given Me, I have given
him hear what the Spirit to them.
saith to the Churches: To

Walk worthy of God Who 1 T2, 12

him, that overcometh, I will hath called you unto His
give to eat of the Tree of Kingdom and Glory.
Life, which is in the Para-
dise of My God.

It is sown in dishonour, it 1 C 15, 43 shall rise in glory.

To him that overcometh,| I will give the Hidden Manna, and will give him a White) There appeared also ano-2 M 15,13 Counter, and in the Counter a ther man,+ admirable for age, new name written, which no and glory, and environed man knoweth but he that re- with great beauty and

If any man love Me, My Jn 14, 23 Father will love him.

ceiveth it.

Ap 21, 6

Ap 7, 17

Da 13, 3

Mt 13, 43

W 3,7

Jb 11, 17

majesty.

To him that thirsteth I When the Prince of Pas- 1 Pt 5, 1
will give of the Fountain of tors shall appear, you shall
the Water of Life gratis. receive a never-fading crown

The Lamb shall lead them of glory.
to the Fountains of the
Waters of Life.

4. BRIGHTNESS.

6. THE VOICE OF HARPERS.

I saw them that had over- Ap 15,2-3 come the beast standing They that are learned on the sea of glass, having shall shine as the brightness the Harps of God.-And of the firmament: and they singing the Canticle of that instruct many to justice, Moses the servant of God, as stars for all Eternity. and the Canticle of the Then shall the just shine Lamb. as the sun in the Kingdom I heard a Voice from 4p 14, 2 Heaven, as the Voice of The just shall shine, and many waters, and as the Voice shall run to and fro like of great thunder: and the sparks among the reeds. Voice, which I heard, was as

of their Father.

The Brightness like that the Voice of Harpers, harp

*Learned-viz. in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing and loving God.

I. E. St. Jeremias the Prophet.

Ap 14,3

Ps 32, 2

Ap 5, 8

ing on their harps.

delights even to the end.

And they sung as it were I shall be satisfied when Ps 16, 15 a new Canticle before the Thy Glory shall appear.

Throne, and before the Four Blessed is he whom Thou Ps 64,5
Living Creatures, and the hast chosen, and taken to

Ancients and no man could Thee: he shall dwell in
say the Canticle but those Thy Courts.
hundred forty-four thousand,
who were purchased from the
earth.

Give praise to the Lord on the Harp.

We shall be filled with the Good Things of Thy House.

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Rejoice with Jerusalem, Is 66, 10and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy When he had opened the with her, all you that mourn Book, the four Living Crea- for her. That you may tures, and the four-and-suck, and be filled with the twenty Ancients, fell down breasts of her consolations : before the Lamb, having that you may milk out, and every one of them Harps, flow with delights from the and Golden Vials full of abundance of her glory. odours, which are the prayers Blessed are they that Mt 5, 6 hunger and thirst after jusPs 150, 1, Praise the Lord in His tice, for they shall have Holy Places.-Praise Him their fill. with Psaltery and Harp. O God, I will sing to Thee with the Harp, Thou Holy One of Israel.

3

Ps 70, 22

Ps 15, 11

Mt 7, 21

Mt 11, 12

of saints.

I will fill the soul of the Je 31, 14
Priests with fatness, and My
people shall be filled with My
Good Things, saith the Lord.
The Lord ruleth me, and I Ps 22, 1

7. FULNESS OF DELIGHT.
At Thy Right Hand are shall want nothing.

5. HOW HEAVEN IS TO BE WON.
Not every one that saith
to Me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven but he that doth
the will of My Father, Who
is in Heaven, he shall enter
into the Kingdom of Heaven.

2. And worketh justice :
3. He that speaketh

Jesus said to them; Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to Me: for the Kingdom of Heaven is for such. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away. Ps 14, 1-5 Lord, who shall dwell in Thy Tabernacle, or who shall rest in Thy Holy Hill ?—

1. He that walketh
without blemish,

truth in his heart,
4. Who hath not used

deceit in his tongue :
5. Nor hath done evil
to his neighbour :
6. Nor taken up a re-
proach against his
neighbours :

7. He that sweareth to
his neighbour, and
deceiveth not,

8. He that hath not put
out his money to
usury,

9. Nor taken bribes
against the inno-
cent.