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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
them
Were
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
of
an
ancient
Eusebius,
(g)
and
the
later
spirits
of an
Usher,
(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 rendered
his 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
of
the
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.