Heaven Author:Edward McKendree Bounds Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill HEAVEN: A KINGDOM, A CROWN, AN INHERITANCE " Happy will I be and forever happy, if after death I might hear the melody of those hymns and hallelujahs w... more »hich the citizens of that celestial kingdom and the squadron of those blessed spirits sing in praise of ihe eternal king. This is that sweet music which St. John heard in the Revelation, when the inhabitants of heaven sang, ' Let all the world bless thee, O Lord.' To Thee be given all honor and dominion for a world of worlds.—Amen." —Jeremy Taylor. WHAT magnificence and splendor are there in a kingdom! What ambitions by the desire of possessing a kingdom! What a stimulant this to noblest effort! Heaven is to be won as a kingdom is won. Heaven is to be struggled for as a kingdom is struggled for. Heaven is to stimulate as a kingdom stimulates. The work of grace in the human heart is called a kingdom, the kingdom of grace. Heaven is called a kingdom, the kingdom of glory. " Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you "—these are the words as Jesus rewards the honored ones who are on His right hand in the day of judgment: " That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory," warns Paul. Here we have a combination of the two, kingdom and glory. Magnificent combination! " Rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom," says James. " Have an entrance administered abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," declares Peter. The future life is declared to be a throne: " To him that overcometh, will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne " (Rev. 3:21). A crown it is: " Hold fast that thou hast, that no man take thy crown." It is an incorruptible crown, a crown whose g...« less