The dream ends
Here ends his pleasing dream, his delusive rest, his false peace, his vain security. His joy now vanishes as a cloud. Pleasures once loved delight no more. They pall upon the taste. He loathes the nauseous sweet. He is weary of bearing them. The shadows of happiness flee away, and sink into oblivion. So that he is stripped of all, and wanders to and fro, seeking rest, but finding none.
1771 text
6. Here ends his pleasing dream, his delusive rest, his false peace, his vain security. His joy now vanishes as a cloud: pleasures, once loved delight no more. They pall upon the taste; he loaths the nauseous sweet; he is weary to bear them. The shadows of happiness flee away, and sink into oblivion. So that he is stript of all, and wanders to and fro, seeking rest, but finding none.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 9 in the 1771 Works. Romans 8:15.
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