Fri.-Sabbath, 6/4-6/10 Devotion

Yippee--it's almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for church and worship, here is Thomas Watson, in his, "A Body of Divinity" book. He is dealing with the benefits of the church's redemption below. . . .

"Use three: Of comfort to such as are redeemed. You are happy, the lot of free grace has fallen upon you. You were once in the devil's prison, but have broken from that prison; you were once bound in the chains of sin, but God has begun to beat off your chains, and has freed you from the power of sin, and the curse due to it. What a comfort is this! Is there any consolation in Christ? It is yours. Is there any sweet fruit growing upon the promise? You may gather it. Are there any glorious privileges in the gospel? They are your jointure, justification, adoption, coronation. Is there any glory in heaven? You shall shortly drink of that river of pleasure. Have you any temporal comforts? These are but a pledge and earnest of more. How you may be com-
forted in all worldly afflictions, though the fig-tree flourish not! Nay, in case of death, it has lost its sting. 'Mors abiit morte Christi,' [Death takes its leave, through the death of Christ]. Death shall carry you to your Redeemer. Fear not dying since you cannot be perfectly happy but by dying."