These are made treasuries and pure habitations of
God: For I will dwell in them, said God, and walk in them, and I will
be their God Levit. xxvi. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 16.. The
divine Scripture likewise saith that the souls of the just are in
God’s hand Wisd. iii. 1. and death
cannot lay hold of them. For death is rather the sleep of the
saints than their death. For they travailed in this life and
shall to the end Ps. xl. 9, 10., and
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
saints Ibid.
cxvi. 15.. What
then, is more precious than to be in the hand of God? For God is
Life and Light, and those who are in God’s hand are in life and
light.