Revelation 20:15

REFLECTIONS

Oh! the unspeakable joy, the Church, both in heaven and earth, must feel, in Christ's triumphs over the devil! What a glorious sight, even in contemplation, to behold Christ coming down from heaven, and seizing upon the monster, to cast him into the bottomless pit, where hell and horror reigns.

Praises to our All-conquering Jesus, for shutting him up, during his thousand years reign with his saints, that their joy shall have no interruption. And blessed be his holy Name, that he will raise up his saints and faithful ones, to sit on thrones with him, during this blissful age, of light, and life, and glory. Nothing of sin, nothing of sorrow, shall interrupt this blessed Millennium. And Jesus will have the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and the word of God, and that have not worshipped the beast, but hated the whore; to reign with him. Oh! the felicity of beholding Jesus, and the glory of his Person, and the love of his heart, to his redeemed, his people!

They are indeed blessed, and holy, who have part in the first resurrection. God the Holy Ghost hath said it. And, my soul, beg the Lord to seal the everlasting remembrance of it, in thy inmost affections. On such, the second death hath no power!

And while thy Church, O Lord, are rejoicing with holy triumph, over the devil, and the beast, and the false prophet, in beholding them forever cast into the lake of endless torment; oh! for grace, in a life of faith on the Son of God, to be waiting for that great day of the Lord, when Jesus will come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe. Then will Jesus say to all his redeemed: Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world. Lord! shall this be my happy portion? Will Jesus so own me, when he cometh to make up his jewels? Oh! for the Lord to bless my soul now with grace; and sure I am, that then the Lord will give me glory.