Heaven will not be then unhabitable by Men, nor the Afcent up to it impoffible; the Earth will not now be difficult to be tilled, and force Man to Labour, but shall of its own Accord produce all Fruits for the Happiness of the World, according as the Lord fhall appoint. Beafts will no more procreate their like; neither will the other Animals have longer a Nature proper for Generation: For Man will no more beget Children; but the Number of the Just shall continue always the fame, and in an indefectible Condition, together with the Holy Angels and Spirits of GOD, and with His Word. The Affembly of just Men and Women continues free from old Age and Corruption, praifing GOD, who for a Life led regularly, and according to the Law, fhall have brought them hither: Together with whom the whole Creation, being freed from Corruption,. fhall fing a perpetual Hymn, being glorify'd by the Splendor and Purity of the Spirit, and not forced by any Chain of Neceffity: But in perfect Freedom fhall, together with Angels, and all other Intellectual and Rational Beings, voluntarily celebrate the great Creator. AND if you Gentiles, being perfuaded of thefe Things, will not forfake the Vanity of your Philofophy, the Pride of your Pedigree, and the Superfluity of your Riches, and not occupying yourselves about the Sub. Subtilties of Words, lead yourselves into Errors, but hearken to the divinely inspired Prophets, the Interpreters of GOD, and of the Logos; you then shall be made Partakers of, and fhall enjoy those future Goods; fhall clearly fee the Afcent of the immense Heaven; and that Kingdom which is there prepared, GOD will give what must now be pass'd over in Silence: For Eye hath not Seen, Ear hath not heard, neither hath it enter'd into the Heart of Man, to conceive the Things which He hath prepared for them who Love Him. IN whatsoever Ways I shall find you, for them I will judge you, fays the End of all Things: And whofoever at firft hath lived a vertuous Life, but towards the latter End of it falls into Vice, these Labours by him before endured fhall be altogether vain and unprofitable, even as in a Play brought to an ill Catastrophe. Whofoever shall have lived wickedly and luxuriously,may repent. However, there will be need of much Time to conquer an evil Habit; and even after Repentance, his whole Life must be guarded with great Care and Diligence. After the Manner of a Body, which hath been a long time afflicted with a Diftemper, requires a stricter Diet and Method of Living. It is indeed poffible to break off the Chain of our irregular Affections at one Stroke; but yet our Amendment cannot be fecured, without the the extraordinary Grace of GOD, the Prayers of good Men, the Help of the Brethren, and our own fincere Repentance, and conftant Care. It is beautiful not to have finn'd; it is good, having finn'd, to repent. As it is beft to have Health always, but it is good to recover from an Illness. Glory and Power be to GOD for ever and ever. Amen. A Fragment of St. Methodius concerning the Refurrection. HO hath knit together the hard W made the Limbs pliable in the Joints, and capable of being ftretch'd and drawn in, by Means of the Mufcles? Who gave the Fluids a due Fermentation, and moiften'd with Blood the foft Flesh on our Bodies? The great Artist alone, who form'd Man in the Womb a rational living Image of himself. Who is it that takes Care that the Embryo in the Womb is not fuffocated by Moisture, and Straitness of the Veffels about it? Or who, after : GOD is after it is born, and is come into the World, brings it to Stature, Beauty and Strength, from being weak and little? Who but the great Artist I mention'd before, GOD, who by his creating Power fram'd every.Species in its Contexture and Beauty. Immortality, and Life, and Incorruptibility. Man is the immediate Workmanship of GOD; but every Work of an immortal Being must be Immortal. And GOD Himfelf formed Man, but commanded the Air, and Earth, and Seas, to bring forth Creeping Things, and Birds flying upon the Earth in the Firmament of Heaven, and let the Earth bring forth every living Soul according to its Kind, four-footed Creatures and Creeping Things, and Beafts of the Earth, according to their Kind. But of Man, He faid not, let it bring forth, but let us make Man in our own Image, according to our own Likeness And GOD took of the Duft of the Earth, and formed him. Baroc, ΑΡΡΕΝ DIX. Baroc. MS. 26. ΙΩΣΗΠΠΟΣ ἐκ το Λόγο το π γεγραμμές και ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ, περὶ τὸ παντὸς αὐτίας πει Αδε ἐν ᾧ συνέχον ψυχαὶ δικαίων τε καὶ ἀδίκων. KA Α δε μ ὁ πεὶ δαιμόνων τόπΘ· πεί Α συνέχον ο ψυχαί δικαίων τε καὶ ἀδίκων, ἀναγκαῖον ἐπᾶν. Ὁ ᾅδης τόπθ δαὶν ἐν τῇ κλίση ακαλασκαςΘ, χωρίον (2) ὑπόΓειον, ἐν ᾧ φῶς κόσμε ἐκ ἐπιλάμπς· φωτὸς τοίνων ἐν τέτῳ τῳ (1) χωρίῳ μὴ καταλάμπον, ἀνάγκη σκότ διεκῶς τυγχάνειν. Τῖτο τὸ χωρίον (C) ὡς φρορίον ἀπενεμήθη ψυχαῖς ἐφ ̓ ᾧ καλεςάθης ἄγγελοι φρουροί, πρὸς τὰς ἑκάσων πράξεις διανέμοντες (α) τὰς 7 τρόπων προσκαίρες πολάσεις. Ἐν τέτῳ ἢ τῷ χωρίῳ τόπΘ ἀφώεισαι τῆς λύμνης πυρὸς ασβές, ἐν ᾧ ἐδέπω τινὰ (ε) καλεῤῥίφθαι ὑπαλίφαμεν. Ἐσκλάπη ἢ εἰς προορισμού των ἡμέραν ὑπὸ Θεῖ, ἐν δικαίας κρίσεως Σπόφασις μία πᾶσιν ἀξίως (f) προσωέχθη καὶ οἱ μ' άδικοι, καὶ Θεῷ ἀπειθήσανες τά τε μάταια έργα (2) γρ. ὑπίνι . (5) γρ. τὸ χωρίον. (c) γρ. ὃ ὡ; (d) γρ. τάς τε (ε) γρ. κατά ερεθαι, (Ε) προσενεχθείη. Moeich. χειρῶν |