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mourn the flesh lusting against the spirit ; the law in their members is now at an end, and no longer wars against the law of their mind, and brings them into captivity to the law of sin. There is no root of bitterness left, no re mains even of that sin which did so easily beset them : no forgetfulness of " Him in whom they live, move, and have their being : " no ingrati tude to their gracious Redeemer, who poured out his soul unto the death for them : no un faithfulness to that blessed Spirit, who so long bore with their infirmities. In a word, no pride, no self-will is there ; so that they who are thus delivered from the bondage of corrup tion may indeed say one to another, and that in an emphatical sense, " Beloved, now we are the children of God ; and it doth not yet ap pear what we shall be, but we shall be like Him ; for we shall see him as he is." 6. Let us view a little more nearly the state ef a Christian, at his entrance into the other world. Suppose the silver cord of life just loosed, and the wheel broken at the cistern ; the heart can now beat no more ; the blood ceases to move ; the last breath flies off from