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11HE
HAPFINESS
OF
SE?ARATli sP'tRITS.
CDiSe.ÌI.
sense,
with
him.
There
Enoch
and Elijah are
in
their
immortal
bodies,
and other
saints
who
rose
at
the
resur-
rection
of
Christ.
They
may
be,
for
ought
we
know,
in
or among
some
of the planets,
or
amongst the
stars,
though
the
distance of
the stars
is
so
prodigious and
amazing, according
to
the
exactest
calculations of the
new
philosophy,
that
if
the motion
of
a
spirit
or glorified
body were no swifter than
that of
a
cannon
bullet, they
would
not
get
so
far
as
the
stars
in
a
thousand
ages
;
nor
would
the journey
of
so
swift
a
traveller
to any
of
the
planets, except
the
moon, cost
less
than the
labour
of
se-
veral
years.
7.
These
things
are
so
puzzling
to
our reason,
so
con-
found our imagination, and
so
far
transcend the
reach
of
our present
faculties
to
enquire and
determine,
that
it
is
sufficient
for us to
know
and believe,
that
the
spirits
of
the
just
made perfect have
an
existence under
the bliss-
ful influences
of the
grace and
glory
of
God.
And
though
we freely
speak
of
them,
and the scripture leads
us
to conceive
of
them,
as
dwelling
in
a world
of light,
and
in
some special
place of magnificence and
apartments
of
glory, or
as
moving
from
one
place
to
another
;
yet
perhaps
it
is
to
be
understood
chiefly in
condescension
to
the weakness
of
our present capacities,
or in
relation
to vehicles to which
they
may
be
united.
But our igno-
rance
in
these matters
shall
be
no
hindrance
to
our
ar-
rival at
heaven, if
we
tread the
paths of
faith
and
holi-
ness, though
we
know not
in
what part
of
the creation
it
lies.
I
proceed
to
the
second
remark.
REMARK
II.
If
all
the spirits
of
the
just
that
depart
from
this
world
are
made perfect,
then
there
is
much
better
company above than there
is
below.
The
society
in heaven
is
much
more
agreeable than the
best
society
on
earth.
Here
we
meet with
a
multitude of
sinners
;
they are
ready
to
mingle
in all
the
affairs
of life, and sometimes
hypocrites
join
with
us
in
the
sacred ordinances
of the
sanctuary.
The
apostle himself
hath
told
us,
that
in
the
civil
concerns of
this
life
we
cannot
avoid
them
;
for
if
we
will
keep
no
company with
sinners, we must
have no-
thing
to do
in
this
world,
"
we must needs
go out
of
it;"
1
Cor.v.1O.
But
in
the
world
above there
are
nothing
but
saints;
no
inhabitant
there
but what
is
holy.
There
are