It is sweet consolation to new-born souls to know the state they are come to. Verily, saith Paul, ‘unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, and unto the heavenly Jerusalem.’ Heb. 12:22. Even to all the glorious privileges of Christ’s church and kingdom, of love, grace and peace. The utmost stretch of thought comes infinitely short of our highly favoured state. See also the blessed society you are come to: 'an innumerable company of angels, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are

Oh thou man of God, let not this truth forsake thee; ‘bind it about thy neck, write it upon the table of thine heart; it shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.’ Prov. 3:3, 8. In the faith of this, thou wilt live in love and gratitude to God, in cheerful obedience to his sovereign will, and in confident hope and earnest expectation of eternal glory. While thou wilt be daily dying to every carnal hope and legal confidence, by the atonement and righteousness of Jesus, his grace will be all thy plea, all thy hope, and all thy glorying.