And what if the limits of our capacity shall be for ever stretching themselves on all sides, and for ever drinking in larger measures of glory; What an astonishing state of ever-growing pleasure! What an eternal advance of our heaven! The godhead is an infinite ocean of life and blessedness, and finite vessels may be for ever swelling, and for ever filling in that sea of all-sufficiency. There must be no tiresome satiety in that everlasting entertainment. God shall create the joys of his saints ever fresh: He shall throw open his endless stores of blessing, unknown even to the first rank of angels; and feast the sons and daughters of men with pleasures a-kin to those which were prepared for the Son of God. For verily he took not upon him the nature of angels, but the likeness of sinful flesh: And when he shall appear the second time without sin to our salvation, we shall then be made like him, for we shall see him as he is. _Amen._ HYMN FOR SERMONS IX. and X. _The Hidden Life of a Christian._ O happy soul, that lives on high, While men lie groveling here! His hopes are fix’d above the sky, And faith forbids his fear. His conscience knows no secret stings, While grace and joy combine To form a life, whose holy springs Are hidden and divine. He waits in secret on his God; His God in secret sees: Let earth be all in arms abroad, He dwells in heavenly peace. His pleasures rise from things unseen, Beyond this world and time, Where neither eyes nor ears have been, Nor thoughts of mortals climb. He wants no pomp, nor royal throne To raise his figure here; Content, and pleased to live unknown, Till Christ his life appear. He looks to heaven’s eternal hills, To meet that glorious day; Dear Lord, how slow thy chariot-wheels! How long is thy delay! Footnote 23: The bible, of old, was written on several sheets of parchment tacked together, and rolled up in a volume. SERMON XI. _Nearness to God the Felicity of Creatures._ PSALM lxv. 4.—Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts. THE FIRST PART.