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this profound ignorance we are yet able to receive such 

 a high degree of gratification from the revelations of God 

 in his works and his. word ; if in the contemplation 

 of the beautiful analogy that now subsists between 

 them, we are able to find so many delightful sources of 

 contemplation opened to us ; what indeed shall be our 

 enjoyment and satisfaction, when, in the highest sense 

 of the sacred language, " the secrets of the Most High 

 shall be with us, and by his light we shall be enabled 

 to walk through all darkness !" To that high and 

 holy fruition of glorified spirits, it must be our duty 

 continually to look forward. For in the midst of so 

 much that is lovely and captivating around us, theie 

 are still too many evidences of sin and wretchedness. 

 The whole creation as yet groaneth, and travaileth, and 

 waiteth for its redemption. (See Rom. viii. 18 — 23.) 

 It is only therefore, by directing the thoughts to a 

 world of boundless light, knowledge, and happiness, 

 of which the present affords but a dim anticipation, 

 that man can be assisted to learn how '* all things work 

 together for good to them that love God." And further, 

 it is only by connecting both worlds in his view, that 

 man can either understand his own place in the scale 



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