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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
replenish
all 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 God
we
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
to
en
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
variety
of taste and pleasure
in
that
happy
weirld
above,
according
as
they
are
fitted for various
kinds
of
sacred entertainments
iñ
their state of prepa-