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throne , will either subordinate every previous inmate , or bid it away . Beside the world , it places before the eye of the mind Him who made the World , &c— * * *
" Now conceive a man to be standing on the margin of this green world ; and that , when he looked towards it , he saw abundance smiling upon every field , and all the blessings which earth can afford scattered in profusion
throughout every family ; and the light of the sun sweetly resting upon all the pleasant habitations—the joys of human companionship brightening many a happy circle of society—conceive this to be the general character of the scene on one side of his
contemplation , and , on the other , beyond the verge of the goodly planet on which he was situated , he could descry nothing but a dark and fathomless unknown . Think you , that he would bid a voluntary adieu to all the brightness and all the beauty that were before him on earth , and commit
himself to the frightful solitude away from it ? * * * Would he not cling to the regions of sense and of life and of society ; and , shrinking away from the desolation that was beyond it , would he not be glad to keep his firm footing on the territory of this world , and to take shelter under the silver
canopy that was stretched over it ? "But if , during the time of his contemplation , some happy island of the blest had floated by : and there had burst upon his senses the light of its surpassing glories , and its sounds of sweeter melody ; and , he clearly saw that , there , a purer beauty rested upon
every field , and a more heartfelt joy spread itself among all families ; and if lie could discern there-a peace , a piety and benevolence , which put gladness into every bosom , and united the whole society in one rejoicing sympathy with each other , and with the Father of them all—could he farther
see that pain and mortality were there unknown : and , above all , that signals ot welcome were hung out , and an avenue of communication opened to him , —perceive you not that what was , before ,- the wilderness , would be now
the land of invitation : and that , now , the world would be the wilderness ? What unpeopled space could not do , can he done by space teaming with beatific -scenes and society . And let
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the existing tendencies of the heart be what they may to tlie scene that is near and visibly around us , still , if another stood revealed to the prospect of man , either through the channel of
faith or through the channel of his senses , —then , without violence done to the constitution of his moral frame , may he die unto the present world , and live to the lovelier world that lies in the distance away from it . " E .
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Thoughts on Titus ii . 13 , Bloocham , Nov . 18 , 1824 . 1 . DOME persons seein ttf think that k 3 this passage of Scripture is not designed to teach us , that the great God will appear as a distinct person
from our Lord at the last day ; but only that our Lord will come in a very glorious manner , clothed with the power and authority of the Father , And in support of this they observe , that Godis invisibleo and that we never
read in the Scriptures of the appearance of God . But I shall endeavour to shew that tlie Father will then appear . 2 . It is granted that God , strictly speaking , is invisible : hut it is also
maintained , that the Shechinah , or eloud of glory , which appeared so ofr ten to our first parents , to the patriarchs , to Moses and the prophets , was the symbol of the Divine presence , i . e . an appearance of the great God . Many persons have denied that this
appearance was the symbol of the great God , i . e . of our heavenly Father ; but the number of such persons , I hope , is daily decreasing-. It is said , Gen . xii . 7 , "And Jehovah appeared unto Abram , and said , " &c . So Jacob said , " God Almhrlhtv aDoeared
to me at Luz . " Gen . xlviii . 3 . "Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah , and dwelt in the land of Nod . " Gen . iv . 15 . He also appeared to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush ,
and said unto him , " 1 am the God of thy father , the God of Abraham , the ( iod of Isaac , and the God of Jacob . ' Exod . iii . 6 . And the law . of Moses directed all religious worship to him ) , and him alone , Avho dwelt in the cloud of glory .
Therefore , this appearance was the appearance ..-of the Supreme Being , L e . of the Father . And , therefore , tliougli God is , most strictly speaking a :
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Thoughts ' on Titus ii . 13 . 137
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/9/
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