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FINITELY PERFECT BEING is an ocean, an abyss, which 

 the cherubim presume not to look into. 



If we enjoy a very sensible pleasure on seeing col- 

 lected, in one place, the principal productions of nature, 

 how great must tlie exstasy of celestial spirits be, when 

 they survey those worlds which God has thick sown in 

 the vast expanse, and when they contemplate the im- 

 mensity of his works ! 



O ! "the delightful employment those superior intelli- 

 gences are exercised in, when they compare the differ- 

 ent economies of these worlds, and weigh in the balance 

 of reason each of these globes ! 



But all celestial intelligence, doubtless enjoy not these 

 advantages in the same degree. There may be some 

 perhaps to whom is granted the knowledge of one 

 world only : others may know several ; others a much 

 greater number. 



How immense must that MIND be, which beholds 

 with a single glance the sum of all beings, and which by 

 fathoming the spirits of all orbs, discerns in an instant, 

 and without confusion, the result of all the ideas that 

 bave* do now, arid will hereafter occupy them? 



Ye inhabitants of the earth, who have received rea- 

 son sufficient to convince you of the existence of these 

 worlds, wui you for ever be denied entrance into them? 

 Will the INFINITELY GOOD BEING, who r.hews them 

 to you at a distance, always refuse you a innttance into 

 them ? No ; since you are called to reside ere long 

 among celestial hierarchies, you will like them fly from 

 planet to planet : you will eternally advance from per- 

 fection to perfection, and ev< .-. / ^stant of your dura- 

 tion will be distinguished In kh acquisition of farther 

 degrees of knowledge. Whatever has been with-held 

 from your terrestrial perfection, you will obtam under 

 this economy of glory : you will know even as you are 

 known. 



Man is sown corruptible; he will rise incorruptille and 

 glorious : these are the words oi" the apostle aiid philo- 



