There your divine Redeemer is gone—there the glorious armies of martyrs have ascended—there the millions of pious souls, who have waded through the cares and sufferings of the present life, have found a safe and joyful retreat. Raise your thoughts and desires to this blessed abode, and seek, by every mean in your power, to put yourselves in possession of it. But how shall you seek? By repentance of your sins; a repentance deep and unfeigned: by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; a faith which works by love, and purifies the heart: by a course of self-denial and mortification to the world; by a diligent attendance upon every Christian duty, and especially, upon the duties of holy watchfulness and prayer:—In a word, by seeking God, the author and giver of this rest.

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