Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live. - Jonathan Edwards

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

As God carries on the work of converting the souls of fallen men through all ages, so He goes on to justify them, to blot out all their sins, and to accept them as righteous in His sight through the righteousness of Christ. He goes on to adopt and receive them from being the children of Satan to be His own children, to carry on the work of His grace which He has begun in them, to comfort them with the consolations of His Spirit, and to bestow upon them, when their bodies die, that eternal glory which is the fruit of Christ's purchase.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.