affections, nor imperfection in our love; no uneven walking, nor grieving of the Spirit; no scandalous action, nor unholy conversation; we shall rest from all these for ever. Then shall our will correspond to the Divine will, as face answers face in a glass, and from which, as our law and rule, we shall never swerve. _For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his._[164] [Footnote 161] Revelation xxi, 27. [Footnote 162] 1 John iii, 8. [Footnote 163] 2 Corinthians vi, 14, 15. [Footnote 164] Hebrews iv, 10. § 12. Our sufferings were but the consequences of our sinning, and in heaven they both shall cease together. We shall rest from all our doubts of God's love. It shall no more be said, that "Doubts are like the thistle, a bad weed, but growing in good ground."[165] They shall now be weeded out, and trouble the gracious soul no more. We shall hear that kind of language no more, "What shall I do to know my state? How shall I know that God is my Father? that my heart is upright? that conversion is true? that faith is sincere? I am afraid my sins are unpardoned; that all I do is hypocrisy; that God will reject me; that he does not hear my prayers." All this is there turned into praise. We shall rest from all sense of God's displeasure. Hell shall not be mixed with heaven. At times the gracious soul _remembered God, and was troubled; complained, and was overwhelmed, and refused to be comforted_; Divine _wrath lay hard upon him, and God afflicted him with all his waves_.[166] But that blessed day shall convince us, that though God _hid his face from us for a moment_, yet _with everlasting kindness will he have mercy on us_.[167] We shall rest from all _temptations of Satan_. What a grief is it to a Christian, though he yield not to the temptation, yet to be solicited to deny his Lord? What a torment, to have such horrid motions made to his soul? such blasphemous ideas presented to his imagination? Sometimes cruel thoughts of God, undervaluing thoughts of Christ, unbelieving thoughts of Scripture, or injurious thoughts of Providence? To be tempted sometimes to turn to present things, to play with the baits of sin, and venture on the delights of flesh, and sometimes to atheism itself? Especially when we know the treachery of our own hearts, ready, as tinder, to take fire, as soon as one of these sparks shall fall upon them? Satan hath power here to tempt us _in the wilderness_, but he entereth not _the holy city_; he may _set us on a pinnacle of the temple_ in the _earthly Jerusalem_, but the _new Jerusalem_ he may not approach; he may _take us up into an exceeding high mountain_, but the _Mount Sion_ he cannot ascend; and if he could, _all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them_,[168] would be a despised bait to a soul possessed of the kingdom of our Lord. No, 'tis in vain for Satan to offer a tempation more.—All our _temptations from the world and the flesh_ shall also cease.