Watts - Houston-Packer Collection BX5207.W3 S4x 1805 v.3

394 THE HAPPINESS py. SEPARATE SPIRITS. DISC. Ir. win, (e) and an Owen, (f)who have laid out the vigour of their enquiries in the glories and wonders of the person of. Christ, his bloody sacrifice, his dying love, and his exalted station at the right-.hand of God. The first of these, with a penetrating genius, traced out 'many a new and Uncommon thought, and made, rich discoveries by digging in the mines of scripture. The latter of them humbly pursued and confirmed divine truth; and both of themWere eminent in promoting, faith and piety, spiri- tual peace and joy, upon the principles of grace and the gospel. Their labours in some of these subjects, no doubt, have prepared them for some correspondent pe- culiarities in the state- of glory. For though the doctrines of the person, the priesthood, and the grace of Christ, are themes which all the glorified souls converse with and rejoice in; yet spirits that have been ,trained up in them with peculiar delight for forty or fifty years, and devoted most of their time to these blessed contempla- tions, have surely gained sortie advantage by it, some peculiar fitness to receive the heavenly illuminations of these mysteries above their fellow-spirits. There is also the soul ofan ancient Eusebius, (g) and the later spirits of anUsher, (h) and a Burnet, (i) who have entertained themselves and the world with the sa- cred histories of the church, and the wonders of divine providence in its preservation and recovery. There is a Tillotson, (k) that has cultivated the subjects of holiness, peace, and love, by his pen and his practice : There is a Baxter, (l) that has wrought hard for an end of contro- versies, and laboured with much zeal for the conversion. (e) Dr. Thomas Goodwin. And (f) Dr. John Owen,"'two famous divines' of prime reputation among the churches in the last century. '(g) Eusebius, one of the fathers of the Christian church, who wrote. the history of the primitive ages of Christianity. (h) Dr. John Usher, in the last century archbishop of Armagh, whose chronological writings and his piety have renderedhis name honourable in the world. (i) Dr. Gilbert,&Irnet, late bishop of Salisbury, whose serious religion ànd zeal to promote it among the clergy, made him almost as famous as his History ofthe English Reformation. (k) The names of Dr. John Tillotson, late Archbishop of Canterbury. ; and- of (t) Mr. Richard Baxter, a divine of great note among the protestant dissenters, need no further paraphrase to wake them known.

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