It were a sad sentence if we were bound over to dwell in this poor world forever. Are we not satisfied to take our lot with the holy men and women who already sleep in Jesus. When marriage is merry-age it is natural to desire a long life of it; but when it is mar-age the thought of parting is more endurable. What if I call it “a superfluity of naughtiness” to doubt Him whose life and death are crowded with infallible proofs of his unchanging love to us. Nobody is so wise but he has folly enough to
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