A40 THE HAPPINESS oP, SEPARATE SPIRITS. [-DISC. I/. why may he not use the same methods to communicate knowledge to the spirits that newly arrive at that upper world ? Therewe shall see the patriarchs of the old world, and prophets of the old dispensation, as well as the apostles and evangelists of Christ and his gospel. There we shall be conversant with those blessed angelswhom he has used as ministers of his vengeance, or his mercy, to persons and churches, families and nations : and they will not be unwilling to inform us of those great and surprizing transactions of God with men. There we shall find a multitude of other eminent saints before and after Christ. Adam doubtless will take a peculiar pleasure in ac- quainting all his happy posterity with the special form and terms of the covenant of innocency ; he shall tell us the nature of the trees of knowledge and of life, and how fatally he fell, to the ruin of his unborn offspring. Un- happy father, deriving iniquity and death down to his children ! But with what immense satisfaction and ever- lasting surprize he views the second Adam, his Son and his Saviour, and stands in adoration and transport, while he beholds millions of his seed that he once ruined, now raised to superior glories above the promises of the law of works, by the intervening influence of a Mediator ?. Enoch, the man that walked with God, and Elijah, the great reformer, shall instruct us how they were translated to heaven, and passed into a blessed immortality without calling at the gates of death. Noah will relate to his sons among the blessed, what was the wickedness of the . old world before the flood, that provoked God their Ma- ker to drown them all; he shall entertain us with the wonders of the ark, and the covenantof the rainbow in all its glorious colours. Abraham, the father of the faith- ful, and the friend of God, shall talk over again with us his familiar converse with. God and angels in their fre- quent apparitions to. him, and shall tell us howmuch the promised seed transcends all the poor low ideashe had of him in his obscure age of prophecy. For we cannot sup- pose that all intimate converse withour father Abraham, shall be forbidden us, by any of the laws or manners of that heavenly country, since heaven itself is described by our sitting down as at one table with Abraham,. and,
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