Part 107

Let me therefore, to conclude, exhort you, my brethren, to have always before you the unspeakable happiness of enjoying GOD. And think withal, that every degree of holiness you neglect, every act of piety you omit, is a jewel taken out of your crown, a degree of blessedness lost in the vision of GOD. O! do but always think and act thus, and you will no longer be labouring to compound matters between GOD and the world; but, on the contrary, be daily endeavouring to give up yourselves more and more unto him; you will be always watching, always praying, always aspiring after farther degrees of purity and love, and consequently always preparing yourselves for a fuller sight and enjoyment of that GOD, in whose presence there is fulness of joy, and at whose right-hand there are pleasures for ever more. Amen! Amen!