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V Whmu the heaveos mu » t receive * till the times of the restitution of all things , whkjh God bath spoken by the mouth of ail his- holy prophets , since the world begaa *"
" Thus the eye of prophecy looks through and beyond the general judgment at . the end of this world and the execution of its sentence on the impenitent , and represents another judg-. roent-seat , whereon love divine shall
sit triumphant and supreme , with which justice , now fully satisfied , shall coalesce and combine , pronouncing the general sentence of release and amnesty , and absorbing all into itself as into a boundless and unfathomable
ocean ; when all rational natures shall haye passed through their several states of purification that were be- * fore € found wanting , ' and the long * lost spirit shall return ti ^ its great Original ; then will this general redemption be accomplished , and the mediating office of our great High Priest be at an end , for he will then
deliver up the kingdom thus completed to his Father , that * God may be all in all' ! " * jj * The Pharisaical professor walks the streets of a crowded metropolis by night or by day ; he sees vice in its most odious and disgusting forms ,
and where he sees none he ; suspects it , and regards the multitude as ignorant and brutish , and standing every moment upon the brink of destruction : and he says in his heart , Shall such as these ever be partakers of the heavenly felicity ? Impossible ! ** Can
the Ethiopian change bis skin , or the leopard his spots V They are sealed unto suffering and a curse . " Reprobate sil ver shall men call them / ' and heaven itself shall re-echo the sound , " because the Lord hath rejected them 1 "
Very different is the conclusion which many wise and reflecting men have drawn frotxi these considerations . " As all men /* sitys a profound but comparatively Unknown author" As all men stand in a near relation
to God , so they have still so much of his image stamped upon them as may oblige and excite us to love them . In some this image is more eminent ami conspicuous , and we may discern the lovely traces of wisdom and good * ness ; and though in others it be mi-— - " ¦¦ ' "" ' ' ¦ "" ¦ r-v—r ^ -t-, _ 7 r ^ vim' ' ¦ - * Iloach .
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serabfy suHicd and defaced ; yet it fe not altogether rase $ 3 some lineament * do still remain . All men are endowed with rational and iminortal souls , with understandings and wills capable of
the highest and moat excellent things ; and if they he at present disordered and put out of time by wickedness and foHy , this may indeed move our compassion ,, but ought not in reason to extinguish our loveL "
" When , we see a person of a rugged knmour and perverse disposition , full of malice said dissimulation * very foolish and very proud , it is hard to fall in love with an object that presents itself to us under an idea so little grateful ami lovely ; bufc when
we consider these evil qualities as the diseases and distempers of a soul , which in itself m capable of all t&at wisdom , and goodness * wherewith the best of saints have ever been adorned ,
and which may one day come to be raised to such heights of perfection as shall render it a fit companion for the holt / angels ; this will turn our aversion into pity , and make us behold him with such resentment as we
should have in contemplating a beau * tiful body mangled with wounds or disfigured by some loathsome disease ; and however we hate the vices , we should not cease to love the man / ' *
" Thus * heavenward all things tend , for all were once Perfect , a « d all must be at length restor ed : So God has greatly purpos ed , who would
else . In his dishonour ed works , Mfnself endure Dishonour , and be wrong'd without redress 1 Haate , then ! and wheel away a shatter ed world , Ye slow revolving seasons V'f
< And every creature which is in heaven , and on the earth , and under the earth , and such as are in the sea , and all that are in them , heard I saying , Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne , and unto the . Lamb , for ever and ever ! " Rev . v . 13 .
" Amen I even so ! come Lord Je sus . AN OCCASIONAL READER .
* ScougaVs " Life of God m the Soul / + Cowper .
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720 4 " Long-Lost Truth . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/16/
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