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v.1
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HAPPINESS
OF
SEPARATE
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dwelling
in his
bosom
;'
Mat.
viii.
11.
and
Luke
xiv.
15.
and
xvi.
There
Paul
and Moses shall
join together
to
give
us
an
account
-óf
the
Jewish
law,
and
read
wondrous and
enter-
taining lectures on the
types
and figures
of
that
oeco-
nomy,
and
still
lead our thoughts
to the
glorious
antitype
with
surprizing encomiums
of
the blessed
Jesus.
Paul
shall unfold
to
us
the
dark
places
of
his own
writings,
better
than
he
himself once understood them
;
and
?loses
shall become
an
interpreter of
his own
law,
who
knew
so
little of
the
mystery and beauty
of
it
on
earth
himself.
There
we
shall
acquaint
ourselves
with
some
of
the
ancient
fathers
of
the christian church, and the martyrs,
those dying cban
pions
of
the
faith and
honours of
the
christian
name.
These
will
recount
the various
pxovi-
dences
of
God
to the
church
in
their several
ages,
and
chew
the
visions
of
St.
John
in
the book
of
the Revela
tions,
not
in
the morning twilight
of
prophecy,
but
as
in
the
light of
noon, as
a public
history, or
as
an
evening
rehearsal of the transactions
of
the
day.
The
witnesses
themselves shall tell
us how
they prophesied in sackcloth,
and
were slain
by
the man
of sin;
how they
rose
from
the dead
in
three
days
and
a
half,
and
how
the
church
was
at
last reformed from the
popish mysteries
of
iniquity
and
superstition,.
Cranmer and
Ridley, Calvin and
Lu-
ther, and
the
rest of
the
pious
reformers, shall
make
known to
us
the labours and
suffer.ings.of
their
age,
and
the
wonders
of pure christianity
rising
as
it
were out
of
the
grave,
and throwing off the chains, the darkness
and
defilements
of
Antichrist:
And those holy souls
who.
la-
boured
in the
reformation of
Great-
Britain,
while
they
relate
the
transactions
of their
day, shall
perhaps
enquire
and
wonder
why
their
successors
put
a stop
to
that
blessed
work,
and
have
made
no
further
progress
in
a
hundred
and
fifty
years.
Did
one
of
the elders
near
the
throne
give notice
to.
the apostle
John
concerning the martyrs
;
Rev.
vii. 14.
These
are
they which
came
out
of
great
tribulations,
and
have
washed
their
robes,
and
made
them.white
in
the
blood
of
the
Lamb;
and shall
we
not
suppose
that
the
happy
spirits
above
tell
one
another their
victories over
sin
and
temptation,
and the powers
of this world?
Shall
not
the.
martyrs, who
triumphed
in.
their
own
blood,
and
overcame.