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THE
HAPPINESS
OF
SEPARATE SPIRITS.
DISC.
II.
The
things of heaven
are
not
to be
expressed
in
any fo-
reign language.
Among
the various themes of christian
contemplation,
he
took
peculiar pleasure
in
the
doctrines
of
grace,
in
the
display
of
the glories
of the
person of Christ,
God
in
our nature, and
the
wondrous work of redemption
by
his cross.
He
adored
him
as
his
Lord and
his
God
:
And
while
he
trusted
in his
righteousness
as
the great
Media-
tor, and beheld
him
as his
crucified Saviour,
he
was
ever
zealous
to
maintain the honours due
to
his
divine nature
and
majesty.
And
we
may
be sure this
is
a
study
in
which
he
is
still
engaged,
and he spends the
days
of
his
eternity
in
the pleasurable contemplations of
his
glorified
Redeemer,
and
the sacred mysteries
of
his cross,
and
his
throne,
which
things the angels desire
to pry
into.
His
practice
in
lite
was
agreeable
to his
christian prin-
ciples,
for
he
knew that
the grace of
God, that brings
salvation
to
men, teaches them
to
deny
all
ungodliness,
and
to live
sober,
righteous and religious
lives,
that
in
all
things they
may
adorn the doctrine of God their
Sa-
viour.
Now that
this
part of
his
character
is
continued
and
exalted
in
the region of blessed spirits,
is
too
evident
to
need
any
amplification or proof
;
for
holiness
in
every
part of
it
is
made
perfect there, and
all
under
the
sweet
constraint of
love.
His
conversation
was pious and
learned,
ingenious
and instructive
:
He
was inquisitive into the
affairs
of
the learned
world, the progress
of
arts and
sciences, the
concerns of the
nation, and the
interest of the church
of
Christ:
And upon
all
occasions was
as
ready to commu-
nicate
as he
was
to
inquire.
What
he
knew of
the
things
of God
or man, he resolved not to
know
them
only
for
himself, but
for
the benefit of
all
that
had the
honour
of his
acquaintance. There
are
many
of
his
friends that
will
join
with
me to
confess, how often we
have
departed
from
his
company
refreshed and advanced
in
some useful
knowledge.
An.d
I
cannot but
reckon
it
among
the blessings
of heaven,
when
I
review those
five
years
of pleasure and improvement, which
I
spent
in
his
family, in
my
younger part
of
life ;
and
I
found.