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SECT.
IIT.]
THE HAPPINESS
OF
SEPARATE SPIRITS.
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ration, and during
their
residence
in
flesh
and
blood
?
He that
hath wrought
us
for
the self-same
thing
is
God;
Cor.v.5.
In
the world
of
human spirits
made perfect,
David
and
Moses
dwell:
Both
of
them were
trained
up
in
feeding the
flocks
of their fathers
in
the
wilderness, to
feed
and
to
rule
the
nation of
Israel, the chosen
flock
of
God.
And
may
we
not
suppose them
also
trained up
in the arts
of
holy
government
on
earth,
to be
the
chiefs
of
some blessed army, some sacred
tribe
in
heaven
They
were
directors of
the forms
of
worship in the
church below
under
divine
inspiration
:
And
might
not
that
fit
them
to become
leaders
of
some celestial assem-
bly, when
a
multitude
of
the
sons
of God
above come
at
stated seasons
to
present
themselves
before
-the
throne?
Both
of
them
knew how
to
celebrate
the praise
of their
Creator
in
sacred melody; but David
was
the
chief
of
mortals
in this
harmonious
work:
And
may
we
not
,imagine
that
he
is
or
shall be
a master of heavenly
music,
before or after the resurrection, and teach
some
of
the
choirs above
to
tune their harps
to
the lamb
that
was
Slain
?
But
to
come down to
more modern
times,
is
there
not
a
Boyle,
(a)
and a
Ray,
(li)
in heaven
?
Pious
souls
who
were
trained
up
in
sanctified philosophy
:
and sure
-
-1y
they
are
fitted beyond
their
fellow
-
saints, to
contem-
plate
the wisdom
of
God
in
the
works
of
his
hands.
Is
there not
a
More,
(c) and
a
Howe,
(d) that
have
exer-
cised
their
minds in an
uncommon
acquaintance
with
the
world
of
spirits
?
And doubtless their thoughts
are
refined
and
improved
in
the
upper
world,
and
yet
still
engaged
in
the same pursuit.
There
is
also
a
Good-
(a)
The
honourable
Robert
Boyle, Esq. a most pious
enquirer into
na-
ture, and
an
improver of the experimental philosophy.
(b).
Mr. John
Ray,
one
of
the ministers ejected
for
nonconformity
16ti1;
hè
employed most of
his
studies afterwards
in
the cultivation of
natural
philosophy,
in
collections
and remarks
on
the
variety of
plants, birds,
beasts,
fishes,
&c:
and writ several
treatises to improve
natural philosophy
in the service of religion.
(e)
Dr.
Henry
More,
a
great
searcher
into
the
world
of spirits, and
a
pious divine of the
chinch of England.
(d) Mr. John Howe,
a
name
well known and
highly
honoured
for his
sagacity of thought,
his
exalted
ideas, and converse
with.the spiritual
world,
as
appears
in his
writings,