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It is very natural for us to take delight in inquiries concerning any 
foreign country, where we are some time or other to make our abode; and 
as we all hope to be admitted into this glorious place, it is both a laudable 
and useful curiosity to get what information we can of it, while we make 
use of Revelation for our guide. When these everlasting doors shall be 
opened to us, we may be sure that the pleasures and beauties of this place 
will infinitely transcend our present hopes and expectations, and that the 
glorious appearance of the throne of God will rise infinitely beyond whatever 
we are able to conceive of it. We might here entertain ourselves with 
many other speculations on this subject, from those several hints which we 
find of it in the holy Scriptures; as whether there may not be different 
mansions and apartments of glory to beings of different natures; whether, as 
they excel one another in perfection, they are not admitted nearer to the 
throne of the Almighty, and enjoy greater manifestations of his presence; 
whether there are not solemn times and occasions, when all the multitude of 
heaven celebrate the presence of their Maker in more extraordinary forms 
of praise and adoration; as Adam, though he had continued in a state of 
innocence, would, in the opinion of our divines, have kept holy the Sabbath- 
day, in a more particular manner than any other of the seven. These, and 
the like speculations, we may very innocently indulge, so long as we make 
use of them to inspire us with a desire of becoming inhabitants of this 
delightful place. 
O happy time! when shaking off this clay, 
The human soul at liberty shall stray 
Through all the works of Nature! shall descry 
Those objects which evade the mortal eye! 
No distance, then, shall stretch beyond its flight, 
No smallness ’scape its penetrating sight; 
But, in real essence, shall be shown 
Worlds unexplord , Creations yet unknown. 
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