We must " not be conformed to this world, but be trans- formed in the renewing of our minds, if ever we would prove, to the satisfaction of our God, what is his good and acceptable and perfect wills."]
3. The happiness of real piety —
[Where the soul is really in accordance with the revealed will of God, there will God delight to " dwell, as in a temple*." To such persons " he will manifest himself as he does not unto the world11;" " He will come unto them, and make his abode with themx;" and " they shall walk in the light of his coun- tenance5'." O! who shall adequately declare the blessedness
of friendship with God ? And if in this world the saints
have such great advantage, what shall they have in the eternal world ? Who shall declare their felicity, when they shall stand in his immediate presence, and behold the full brightness of his glory in the person of his dear Son? If it be so sweet now to have " the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost2," what shall it be to behold the Saviour "face to facea?" If a taste of the waters of life, though taken from polluted cis- terns, be so sweet, what shall it be to drink of them at the fountain-head? Let those who walk with God in this world know, that they shall, ere long, " walk with him in white," where distance and parting shall be no moreV]
6 Rom. xii. 2. * 2 Cor. vi. 16. u John xiv. 22.
x John xiv. 23. y Ps. lxxxix. 15. z Rom. v. 5.
a 1 Cor. xiii. 12. 1 John hi. 2. b Rev. hi. 4, 12.