Quote #49904
For in Christ’s coach saints sweetly sing
As they to glory ride therein.
As they to glory ride therein.
Edward Taylor
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The couplet imagines salvation as a joyful journey: Christ is figured as the driver or owner of a “coach,” and the faithful (“saints”) are passengers who sing as they are carried toward “glory” (heaven). The image fuses everyday colonial conveyance with Puritan devotional theology, emphasizing grace over self-propulsion: believers do not reach glory by their own power but are borne there “in” Christ. The sweetness of the singing underscores assurance and communal praise, suggesting that the Christian life, rightly oriented, is not merely arduous striving but a foretaste of heavenly worship while still en route.

