Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more. I. THE NATURE OF HEAVENLY FELICITY. It is living in the presence of God. It is living at the right hand of God, that is, in a state of exaltation, dignity, and glory. It is a state of joy. It is a state of pleasure. II. THE PLENITUDE OF HEAVENLY FELICITY. Expressed by the word "fulness." Here our enjoyments, even our religious enjoyments, are accompanied by fear, mixed with sorrow, frequently interrupted, at best but partial, and at most but small. There will be fulness, what is pure, without any alloy; perpetual, without any interruption; and what is enough, without any satiety. III. THE DURATION OF HEAVENLY FELICITY WILL BE FOR EVERMORE. "Evermore" is one of the scriptural expressions denoting interminable duration. (Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. |
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