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THE HAPPINESS
oP,
SEPARATE SPIRITS.
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why may he
not
use
the same methods
to
communicate
knowledge
to the
spirits
that
newly
arrive
at that
upper
world
?
There
we
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 angels
whom 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 covenant
of
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 how
much the
promised
seed
transcends
all the
poor
low
ideas
he had
of
him in
his
obscure
age
of
prophecy.
For
we
cannot
sup-
pose
that
all
intimate
converse with
our
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,