"But the hands of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight f the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken from misery, an their going from us to be utter destruction but they are in peace." -WISDOM OF SOLOMON iii. 1-3.
BUT souls of His own good life partake,
He loves as His own self; dear as His eye
They are to Him: He'll never them forsake:
When they shall die, then God Himself shall die;
They live, they live in blest eternity.
-HENRY MORE
THOUGH every good man is not so logically subtile as to be able by fit mediums to demonstrate his own immortality, yet he sees in a higher light: his soul; being purged and enlightened by true sanctity, is more capable of those divine irradiations, whereby it feels itself in conjunction with God. It knows that God will never forsake His own life which He hath quickened in it; He will never deny whose ardent desires of a blissful fruition of Himself, which the lively sense of His own goodness hath excited within it; those breathings and graspings after an eternal participation of Him are but the energy of His own breath within us; if He had had any mind to destroy it, He would never have shown it such things as He hath done.
DR. JOHN SMITH
