vi PREFACE. 



The greater portion of what is contained in Part III. having been written 

 above eight years ago, several apparent repetitions of facts alluded to in the 

 preceding Parts may perhaps be noticed by the critical reader ; but, in genera) 

 it will be found, that where the same facts are repeated, they are either exhib 

 ited in a new aspect, or brought forward to elucidate another subject. 



The practical reflections and remarks imbodied in the last Part of this work, 

 will not, the Author is persuaded, be considered by any of his readers, as either 

 unnecessary, or unappropriate to the subjects treated of in the preceding parts 

 of this volume. It is of the utmost importance that every individual be con 

 vinced, that he cannot be supposed a candidate for a blessed immortality, unless 

 the train of his affections, and the general tenor of his conduct, in some meas 

 ure correspond to the tempers and dispositions, and the moral purity which 

 rrevail in the heavenly state. 



The favourable reception which the public have given to the volumes he has 

 formerly published, induces the Author to indulge the hope, that the present 

 volume may not be altogether unworthy of their attention. That it may tend 

 to convince the skeptical of the reality of an immortal existence to expand 

 the believer s conceptions of the attributes of the Divinity, and the glory ol 

 &quot; that inheritance which is reserved in heaven&quot; for the faithful and to excite 

 in the mind of every reader an ardent desire to cultivate those dispositions and 

 virtues which will prepare him for the enjoyment of celestial bliss is the 

 Author s most sincere and ardent wish, as it was the great object he had in 

 view when engaged in its composition. 



