3J2 TIIE iiAPPIN$SS or SEPARATE 9pIRITS. CD/SC. fI: ries of divine art and workmanship in the inanimate and brutal or animal world, and left the higher sort of crea tunes all of one genius and one turn and mould, to replenishall the intellectual regions ? Surely it (s,hard tò believe it. In the, world of angels we find various kinds and orders. St. Paul tells us of " thrónes and dominions, and principalities ;" Col. i. 16. and St. Peter speaks of " angels and authorities, and powers ;" -1 Pet. iii. 22. and in other parts of the word of Godwe read the names of an arch-angel, a seraph, and a cherub. And no doubt, as their degrees and stations in the heavenly world differ from each other, so their talents and genius to sustain those different stations are very various, and exactly suited to their charge and business. And it is no improbable thought, that the souls of men differ from each other as much as angels. But if there were no difference at first betwixt the turn and genius of different spirits in their original for- mation, yet this we are sure ot; that God designed their habitation in flesh and blood, and their passage through this world as the means to form and fit them for various stations in the unknown world of spirits. The soûls of toen having dwelt many years in particular bodies, have been influenced and habituated to particular turns of thought, both according to the various constitutions of those bodies, and the more various studies and busi- nesses, and occurrences of Life. Surely then we may with reason suppose the spirits departing from flesh to carry with them some bent and inclination towards va- rious pleasures and employments. So we may reasonably imagine each sinful spirit that leaves the body, to be more abundantly inflamed with these particular vices which it indulged here, whether ambition, or pride, or covetousness, or malice, or envy, or aversion to God, and to all goodness: and their vari= ous sorts of punishments may arise from their own variety of lusts, giving each of them a peculiar inward tórment. And why may not the spirits of the just made perfect have the same varietyof taste and pleasure in that happy weirld above, according as they are fitted for various kinds of sacred entertainments iñ their state of prepa-
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