Meditation LXIV.
Meditation LXIV.
ON BEING IN HOT CLIMATES IN A FEW DAYS.
Under sail for Gibraltar, Feb. 2, 1759.
How a few days sailing can chill us in the freezing north—or warm us in the pleasant south! Of the last we had experience, while with expanded sail we approached the sunny warmth!
This short and sudden change suggests an interesting thought to my mind—that at the hour of death, in a shorter time than this—the soul shall either be placed in that degree of distance away from God, where eternal winter blows dreadfully, with all the angry storms and tempests of vindictive wrath.
Or the soul shall into eternal communion with the Most High God, where the Sun of righteousness shall shine from his cloudless meridian, and pour down assimilating glory in every beam.
This stupendous thought I cannot, I dare not pursue—but, in silence, give way to deep Meditation.
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