CONCLUSION. .517 ideas ; circumstantial details would be disparaging; theywould debasewhat they pretended to exalt. We cannot conceive the blessings prepared for us, until he who has prepared reveal them. If, indeed, the blessedness of the eter- nal world could be described, new facul- ties must be given us to comprehend it. If it could be conceived, its glories would be lowered, and our admiring wonder diminished. The wealth that can be counted, has bounds ; the blessings that can be calculated, have limits. We now rejoice in the expectation of happiness inconceivable. To have conveyed it to our full apprehension, our conceptions of it must then be taken from something with which we are already acquainted, and we should be sure to depreciate the value of things unseen, by a comparison with even the best of the things which are seen. In short, if the state of heaven were attempted to be let down to human intelligence, it would be far inferior to theglorious but indistinct glimpses which A A
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