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mised on account of blood, the world would doubtless, stand, not only remitted, but, justified before God!

REGENERATION.

216. As our preceding remarks fully exhibit a common substitution of artificial evil for natural good-in a requisition of blood, as an oblation of death to the source of life-in a propensity to subdue this world, and to attempt at attaining even Heaven by "violence," instead of goodness; to depopulate rather than "replenish;" to decrease more than to "multiply ;" and to be "fruitful" in subtle inventions, tending, in general, to the sacrificing of one creature "in the stead of another;" from the first bloody oblation to the last; but, as the substitution do not appear as acceptable to, or as representing or imitating our God-the God of Nature.

217. To divest theological good of its artificial

evil; and truth of its extuberences, the "thorns and thistles" with which the good seed is choaked, as a work of extended labour, is the combined duty of ma nknd.

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218. This accomplished, nature will resume its paradisiacal state; for, mercy and truth" will have "met together: righteousness and peace" will have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from Heaven."

219. Our God "shall give us that which is good, and our land shall yield her increase," until the earth become a terrestrial paradise and man shall have regained his paradisiacal bliss.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Dedication,-(Romans, i. part of 19, 20. Isaiah, Ix.

19, 20.)

"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth His handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath He set a tabernacle for the Sun. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuits, to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."-(Psalm, xix. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.)

"Great source of day! best image here below of thy Creator;" enlighten me to see Him in His wondrous works, and seeing to adore Him: "Whose presence shines in every atom, and at each revolving season.”Jan. 1790.

May the Eternal! who never but in unapproached light dwelt from eternity," for "God is light,"+" In Him was life; and the life was the light of men."—(John 1.4.) In whose calculation a thousand years are but as a day with whom "There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old, but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed;"

*Thompson's Hymn.

Milton's Address to Light.

-(Isa. lxv. 20.) "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."-(Psalm xc. 12.)

Thus" number not my days, like man, by mortal periods! but by progressive virtue! so each succeeding year shall find me stronger in thy love and service, and approaching, as far as nature will admit, to thy perfection."—January, 1790.

"For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work ; I will triumph in the works of thy hands."-(Psalm xcii. 4.)

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