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Archives' /'^ )'/ THEOLOGICAL AND UlJl'VE 9 DESCRIBING HEAVEN, EARTH AND E^ L, In 1 AttovAwiv &tAtt, ALSO:— A MEMORUL OF THE THREE GREAT POWERS, GOD, MAN, AND THE DEVIL : ^ ,( i •WITH raoor rosrriTK, OF Tfli 0]^IGIN OF SIK, OF SATAN, AND OF EVIL SPIR f iJBnra a bbfutatioh of uhiykrbalibt thbologv ; Fallowed up' in a Chronotogical ChairCof Universal History, * ^^^h^^TJ^fromtlie Creation of the World ; embracing the '^ '8i critical, curious andmomentous suhjccts ever published. fpIiTARO, k 4'; # DEDICATION. all who love the Lord Jcaus Christ and admire hia Gospel out^bv'all t^ *''\' "f"' '"^''^ °f *^ '^-'1 "« g'-t. nought ! vet Lr' ,0 Jv 'r P'"-"'"-^ «'---" tL original is Tn irf , ' '^ '"'P'"' """ *« ™* of vhe Lord are vos- m multitude, magnitude, and variety. , ^" Therefore every genuine christian, and every genuine nhilo 7^':^,rr\ T" °"' "-^ considere'thT;:^: We with tt fi rt' 't*' creative power, the redeei^ng ovc, with the finished perfection which every where abound m the .anifold works of God, and will admireV r/e^t: of To all such this work is m^ Saiot I T ""'^-^ i;5»>*^ V V M i • ADVERTISEMENT TO THEOLOGICAL AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY. i V We go to show that it is a Theological and Universal History, do- ficribing Heaven, Earth, and Hell, in panoramic order: beginning with the locution of heaven and the creation of angels, anUriar to Anno Miindi, with the derivation of the name of God. Next on Man, with a discussion in the first number, which continued for six (lays in succession, on the immortality of tliosoul, the conscious existence of departed spirits, and the future punishment of the im- penitent dead, &q. TJien on the fallen angels of the Scriptures ; proof positive of the origin of Satan and of evil spirits ; with a demonstration on demon- ology : followed up in a chronological chain of universal history, showing the principal events of the Church and of the world, up to the present century. We proceed with the history of Satan ; the origin of sin and sin- ners*; probation or trial of the angels who kept not their first estate,' and were cast out of heaven, with Lucifer, Son uf the Morning, and how he became a devil and the father of lies— for we are prepared to prove that he told four hundred lies at one time ! On Lucifer being overthrown and cast out of heaven, with a vast multitude of apostate angels— the number of which we prove, and which never before has been proved. Also of what^ecame of the wicked angels after their* fall. Is there a located hell, or not? -And how evil spirits get poUiiision of human beings ; of their shape, pow- er, and restrict ioBi^aB^ _.a*aifei.., pe|t catastrophe took place, ca i " war "'*'* rtly after the creation of this world, fore their full and expulsion from Of the tim in heaven," an of Adam an4J5v paradise. Satan finds his wa tia and devises the destruc- mttilcTquist. We go to 86 lost and regained in idam ; with an account world nn to t.hp. DAlnn-o in ^f Noah, froin their leaving ^^^^^^^^^ therein, following them in inatiwir being chie ' I * i guided by the m ■t\ ADVERTIfiKMKNT TO TnEOLOOICAL # vv commence with Asia, tlie 6tartiiia;-poBt of both worlrls na TST^ni. Of tlie settlement of Ham in Afrifa vt^t T?«,.»>f nf i -r. , . '" f " '^atioi,, and how thej- possessed tlie entsof She,„ Evorv ™hWf CHRONOLOOICAL CHAIN. / S „f !i w "'"' ''"= ^^der, as he passes along, may havr a correct Sdox Churches '"""""' ^°'''' ^"'"^ '" ""«'>'<'»''» "i* "» JJememdr/l "'"f i° '"? *"' "'7 "■^■' *""1'> P<»SC8B this book. 5sif .r:*;;;'^^ 1? "- "— -^ •!;« --tr,trs"s Ba" .n relation to tin.e and to eterni, JMBWCldesHn;"? ,Lan depondeth not only on wliat lie may know and do, we there powers, as they are revca " " Through de§jr^ meddleL with alf ing." Prov. xviii. ,._^. every mjstprious thin£ Wa„ ble things of God are clear) that are nmde ; so that the _11 ..1 . ■ ... . 1 u___. =:- rui i-iuiii to niiii liiHicmtn J^,no)^Jedge.» Prov. viii. 6. ^, Therefore the separated p^n fee m dc irtake 5crip| also on what he lesoribe these great ^ Solomon saith that iself, secketh and inter- '\t in undei^tand- md / V ^ AND UN1VEE8AL HlfeTOttY. / V ^ 8»Mjrcd spring is laid open, even after the most strenuouB igivefltif^fttion and painful researches, lie believes with Solomon that wiadoni isthe principal thin*:; — that it is better than rubies — and that all the thingr that may bo desired are not to be compared to it. Some who have seen the probjiectus of this work, have pronounced the subjectH impenetrable, not considerijig that the gifts of God arc not givoii to any man for his private advantage only, but also for the good of others ; as the Apostle saith, " There are diversities of giftn, but the same spirit. For to one is given the word of wisdom; to an- other faith ; to another the working of miracles; to another the dis- cerning of spirits," &c. 1 Cor. xii. 4-11. So the Apostle goes on to Bay that all these gifts of God are by the self-same spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. Now, " if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." James i. 5. It is almost useless for me to say that in getting up this work I have availed my:^clf of all the information within my reach for some twenty years, diligently searching the most ancient records that I could find on these subjects. I have frequently lectured on them in public, and have called upon the most learned of the audience to criticise, and I am happy to say that I have not met with any opposition from any of the orthodox bodies. It is well known that I have travelled foi a good many yeare, en- deavoring to convince the formalist and the deluded sceptic of the fatal error of their ways, that their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord. Some say that I have treated on some terrible subjecta— and so I have; but as Paul saith (2 Cor. v. 11), " Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men," in order to rouse them up to read and understand the Bible ; for they shall yet both see and hear more terri- ble things than these. Thank kind providence, your humble servant has been the means of turning the tide of unbelief in many instances. One Universalist I remember, who was a desperate case, and of whom I was told that it was of no use to talk to him, these lectures on demonolog__ his house a house of prayer, effort enough made to.convir cases we may " bray a tool not depart from him," b«t w( An iimdel ortce ^i^/og to m 4sa^ We talk^Pitil . ^^AX&f^m aft d before wliom I delivered some of lie a converted Christian, and made iTi still of opinion that there is not insayer. I know that in some and y^t hie foolishness will the result of a good elFort. dor to overthrow my ortho M., and until I was exhaust- .yingman ; joined the Church, t miuj- pecfpli^ who are not Universalists, -to Iehow how the clevil originated ; or how Ifprk is intended to explain that dilemma. 1!' * . '^^VEUTISKMKNTTOTWEOUKirCAi he word and undorHtand,.tI. it, hrin^.th fort), an In m c-d n 1 C W.>„d.tock. I dn.vo ulMH.t one hundred and thirty luiU-s-TcrcZd tlie settlcMuont-and .,,u,t three wcekH labourin-. hard to cunvinoo j.eople of the fatal d( Insion of Mormoni.in .tt '';V /^^/ ''\'''^etlio iytes was a man of hi^d, sta,uli„ra 3 J |\ioc^^^ n • ^"i"''' it was that he, bein^T, litera-y^l^^acl: .u dtl:ht\:t; o kn Z more than the common people, why ho suffered h m elt' to doco v^d and imposed upon l.y the sublilty and sophistry of tl.e s , ri/'rMor iMons ; ad( mg - S>r, you have a.toni.shcci every man on 't i S John nver who has known you." He stood aghast, and sail '' I must ac knowledge hat I have received a liberal education ;'' n,t said e «I have never been tamd.t the JJiblo, ar.dwhen the AL.rmons preiented ^ieir sehcme, I could not tell whether they were right T ror ^ " So much for a faslnonable education without' a knowfedge o? th^'Scrl^- " How empty Innrninff, and how vain is art 1 save as it mends the life or guides the heart." ^ ByjTood providence only two or three out of the sixty left for heathen countres : proving to tho MmTthai fvT "' pagan aM In all countries and in al acknowledged a good Ifi^ a good, and having hosts of go^g^ek protecting tliose^-ho strive to is represented as being the deai^te e having under him multitudes of dl^boli work in opposition t.n tlie crand He-n.:- " id the|e have still been ^^ KIK as superl^t^ly / ^ ^ acknowledged i#all couatries/dlffernii ^ AND UNIVEltSAL IIIslOUY. 7 jiinguagos by wliicli tlioy uro cxprosried, and luivo hold a name in tlio literary licathon and ChriHtian world ever since tlie (!reati(Mi. Until of iato a ])arty has arinen called ITniveraali.^s, or modern Suddncieef*, \yho are determined tliat one ot* these beings slnili exist no lom^or, jmt- tlng their veto on tlio belief of all past ages, and the inspiration of the vScripturort besides. Ah they deny any iiell deeper than th(! irrave, they deny any devil but the evil paH-sions ; they deny a day of judg- ment, and future punishment, &(•., tlio reality of whicli wo mean to ]ir<>v(! in the scMpiel. k ?'"^ ^'^^''^^ dilfureneo between the orthodox religion and the scepti- - •vlRl eydtem lieth in this : the orthodox bejievor with all his faults, when he Bees the api)roaelirvin<^, oxnkui;;, nupirinK, JJfhoidd a to-niuriuw of ciidlos!) delight. " Rut the infidel then he I»nows no to-morrow, \ Yet lie gee.s timl his life is fust fleeting awav ; Poor wretch ! can he feel, without heart-rending sorrow, That all hia fulso hope will expire with to-day !" ^ I would hero remark that some persons have tried to dissuade me from publishing this work, stating that the people of New Brunswick were not a reading people, and therefore 1 would not lind sale for it. J am well aware that — Many a bard, and many a painter, fell A prey to want, who wrote aiirt painted well ; Shall I bo silent, when 1 know I whould Publish this work, just for my country's good ♦ lam not in the least intimidato^yiowing the liberal patronage whieh I met with when I publishedJBPMarrow of tl^^ Scriotures," 8.,ne twenty-tliree years ago, and sfflKiiost three thousand .opies in one year. Jhis tells pretty fair fnrlm ixoplu of New -Brunswick. 1 am l)ersuadeathat if they seean impi: read it also. All scientific men unto whom Ih approved of the plan of thejwrk. book is put in ^oOd panoraiiJ|prdor, t*emcmbered fcjoine ork, they will purchase and mitted the Prospectus, have 'ybody knows that whe?i a more easily understood and lattlnb is more of a critical than of a rel-gicus work. . ...zz^„-.Zj i::_ ^^„t ^;;i:;, aiiu yci sncw I UiitO It way; now the more excellent way is undoubt- • ^dk ^^B 8 ADVEETISEMENT TO THEOLOGICAL AND TJNIVEBflAL mSTOBT. cdly the plan of salvation. On this point we mean to treat in its pro- per place, as we liave a large field before us. We therefore send this forth, in the name of Providence, on the open sea of public criticism ; if unworthy, let it die ; if found worthy, then we crave the patronage of a generous public, hoping that it may be the means of doing much good to our fellow mortals, which is the sincere wish and prayer of Your humble and devoted servant, THE ADTHOR. 8i John, N. B., 186?. •*.*» ""^. i'> y^ INTRODUCTION. \ ^' > iter M Christian Fjbiends— The object of the present work ia to establish truth and to confute error, and thereby to " take up the sturabhriff- block out of the way of the people," as saith the prophet Isaiah . (Ivii. 14). In order to illustrate the important subjects discussed m this work, we must begin at the source, and examine the case quite through. When Christ lectured to his disciples, " beginning at Moses and ail the prophets, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures. Now " whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning." Some think that mysterious matters should not be meddled with, for sacred things belong to the Lord our God. Yet it is also said that " those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever," Deut. xxix. 29. We do not intend to follow tradition in any matter of importance—well knowing that no tenet of salvation depends upon it— yet we may ask, how did the ancients come to a knowledge of tlie revolution -> heaven before writing was in use, but by oral instruction ? Go equires men to hear the voice of his servants, when they speak in accordance with his will. IIq upbraided his disciples because they believed not the testimony of those who told them of his resurrection. May we not allow that God revealed as much to Adam as he did to Abraham or Saint John. The Lord said (Gen. xviii. 17), when on his way to destroy Sodom, "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ?" Now it does not ap- pear that God would hide from Adam the fact that an arch-enemy was bent on his destruction, but rather that he would fully inform him of the wiles and wickedness of him who had already seduced a part of the original angels in heaven. The prophet Amos saith (iii. 7), '* Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." On account of the longevity <^^an in the forenoon of the world, narration must have been carri^Sp^ard very correct. Methuselah, who was, according to Hales, WS years contemporary with Adam, and also contemporaiy with Noafc^)__ years, besides hundreds of others of the pame stock, kindred, ar^ conversation from day to day, could 1 _ the head of creation, a full account of from the earliest period of time. . . We may judge of thie sagaci tj^o f Adam from his ability m giving such appropriate napes to ail J|^ammw creation, anu uvea to riis spouse. Ills intelJ^ence, ther«|P| cannot be doubted. Besides, he * ' " *M guai^a Angblst ti^ Eden and out of Eden ; yea, he had the ice of.J^^^igh^|^a4d«, the Most High, for an instructor,^. ;alogy, all intcimingling in miss receiving from Adam, things that had transpired 10 i INTUODUCTION TO TnEOLOOICAL who, by himself or by the ministration of angels, put Adam in M-ZH^T """ '^""i'^*' y^''",' ^^'^^ ^'^^^ ^^« informed of the tragedy of the fallen angels ; that he was told of the overthrow of Lucifer and his apostate party ; a knowledge of which he may have conveyed to fnd K^^^ r ^^ "" '^'^ patriarchs of his day-Methuselah to Noah' arv tho dl"-r%'r'~^ knowledge of the true God, and of an advert sar}, the devil: the account of Avhich they as faithfully spread over every region of the earth wherever their lot was cast; aU^io matter how degenerated these nations have become, still some vestiges of these truths remain to the present day. vtbiigcs oi And although these oral traditions are not salvational dogmas, vet n7tZ1 ""f, ' f"."^ guide-posts leading us up to the fountain of eter- nal truth. Also let us consider that the first men were very long-lived Two persons could give the whole history of the world from^Adam' to Abraham. Methuselah lived above 300 years while Adam was yet alive. And Shera was more than 100 years contemporary with Abra- (ham, therefore W5 conclude that these great and good men did not f/f»,'^ if« V^^'""''^ leaving some valuable information behind them to ttie tollowmg generations. Therefore— 'Tis fine to liear the ancients speak, In words of Latin, French, and Greek, irow mother Eve did first transgress, And father Adam did no less. How the first brothers had a strife, And where poor Cain first got a wife ; *' How Noah built an ark of wood, ^ To save his family from the flood- Yet shortly, in an evil hour, They built the famous Babel tower— They speak of ancient,,Greece and Rome, These various subjects all brought homo. 'Bout Israel's judges and their kings; And tell us of a thousand things— We never would hcac4^ word about, If learning had not iml|^em out. Now the three pillars of learni^re seeing much, hearing much, and writing much. In order to accomplish this we require vigilance vigour, and perseverance, ^^kndolence is said to be the daughter ot tolly the sister of vice, a9M|e mother of misfortune. Uur business in the preseWork is to shew the difierence between truth and error orthodoxy flim lieterodoxy, and salvation from dee- truction— to refute scepticism, superstition and infidelity. i'aul, speaking of '^lins^ian beB|^||ce and duty (Rom. xiv. 7), saith None^ot us live to himself." igKBtian doesiot live a selfish life. caring ror no one but iumseif; nMptirea.to do good attd to cai»mu^ nicate, for he knows that with such aikcrif ■ "" **"* % N ?leasct he as- cended on high ; that he led cap- tivity captive ; that he rideth upon the heaven of iieavens, which were of old— signifying that the eternal heavens of which we speak was prior to the ajrial heavens, and of course in existence long before the creation of this world. That hea- ven has a location, wo prove from in *h^ '^ ' ~- r~^ ^®"*' ^- 1*' " Behold the heaven *W .f 1!!' ana^ oth^and the heaven of heavens is the --.: i= r.--., ia Tuo jMLuLuru ihy_ God's; the earth also, The firmament over our head is often termed heaven. As, in the begmning God created the heavens and the earth. And he made two great lights, and set them in the firmament of heaven. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. (Gen. xix. 24.) This we understand to be the atmosphere, also the constellations and planetary worlds, systemati- cally arranged and set in the fir- mament or expanse, where clouds, vapour, hail and snow are treasured up. Thus we understand two natural heavens— the aerial and the starry heavens. But the heaven of hea- vens, of which we are now going to speak, is the third heaven. The heaven of heavens is the highest heaven, as the song of songs is the most excellent song ; the God of gods, or the Lord of lords, is the supreme Lord, &c. Some person? have formed an opinion that happiness is heaven, and that in whatever place they tnd enjoyment there is heaven. Ihis they build on the omnipre- sence and power of God, whofilleth all space ; and when a soal depart- eth this life, they have it anywhere orsomewhere : but on this hVpothe- 818 they cannot tell where. Some of the ancients thought that he%. ven was '" *^- — ■ ' thoiiifhf. .. .-. . aoinsferyMit iethedeiBredhaWPili ith all that therein Ib." ^1 I f% 16 -H Now what is meant by tlio hea- ven of heavona, if it bo not tlie great centre of the universe— the grand nucleus of all worlds— the more particular residence of the great God, and the residence also ?l l^ , spiritual beings. God the b ather is always represented as being on the throne, as any other monarch is, so that none may offer a petition in vain, if rightly direct- V y^^J^^ Son is represented as being for a time local on earth, and that he is now local in heaven as our high-priest, everintercedinff for us; but the Holy Ghost is thi omnipresent power and spirit, which filleth all immensity and boundless space; his all-seeing eye beholdeth all things, even in dark- ness as well as in the light. , We see that heaven is certified m tlie strongest terms, and earth only in a secondary degree. N"ow unless the heaven of heavens-so expressed by way of eminence- iias a real existence and location, ^IJ^ll as the earth, how can it be said to belong to God, if there be no such place? If there is no local Heaven of heavens, then there is no local earth ; for tlie one is as i5"« \/l "ded to in the text and Identified as tlie other. xx^•^^^^'".l ^"°*^''^' P^^^^ (^^''^^ XXVI. 15), the ownership, and con- sequently the locality of heaven is proved: -Look down (or forth) trom thy holy habitation, from heave,, and bless thy people Is- f< T , .^' ^**'"*^^i ^'^iii- 15 :— Look down (or forth) from hea- ven, and behold from the habita- tion ot thy holiness and of thfl ^lury.-- Again, Acts vii. 49 ^Heaven is my throne, an TttKOLOOIOAL AND fvm "Py^r^^iool, what house will ye build me, saith the Lord ; tSn 8?*'' ^^ ^'^""^^ "^^^^ ""^ ^^^^® Solomon believed" in a local hea- ven, and therefore directed his prayer thitherward at the dedica- tion of the temple, saying, " Hear tnou m heaven thy dwelling place, and when thou hearest forgive" let Kings viii. Now Solomon was not mistaken, for the Lord said "°»° \'i"' " ^ ^»^e heard thy pray- ?' A if,°^®*'7^''' *'^^ glory of the Lord filled the house, so that the P^'J^^ts could not stand to minister. Ihe .New Testament gives some Illustrious proofs of the location of heaven. Luke ii. 15: "Audit came to pass as the angels were gone away from them (the shepherds) into heaven." Now if. there is no heaven besides that which is called the firmament, in which the stars are situated, and the atmosphere, how could the angels go into it, as they were in multitudes hover- ing round in the air at that present time, and went up tlirough these elements into heaven, their home? Again, heaven must have a loca- tion, if it receives corporeal bodies ; and no one denies that Christ Je- sus had a corporeal body, even af- ter his resurrection : for his disci- pi^ handled him and knew him, and he eat with them a piece of a broiled fish and of an honey-comb. It, then, It be allowed that his body was local when on earth, we think that we have proved the fact, and established that the heaven of hea- vens—the home of happy spirits^, and thfi -niojio tirVt^xr. n„A \. . _. ^Gularly manifests, himself— is a bcation, because that g^e body UNTVERBAL mBTOBV. 17 ascended to heaven, and is set down at tlio right hand of God. Col. iii. I. And from. Acta i., when Christ had manifested himself forty days, then tellinff his disciples that they should bo his witnesses in Jerusa- lem, in Samaria, and unto the ut- termost parts of the earth. And when they had spoken these words, while they beheld, he (Christ Je- sus) was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. Now the Apostles and the Chris- tian multitude had no reason to act deceitfully in these statements, if not true. A poet asks the ques- tion^ — " Where but from heaven, could men, un- skilled in arts, In different countries born, in different parts, Wave such ascreeing truths— or how or why, Could all conspire to cheat ua with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gains, and martyrdom their price." It was evident that the body of Christ was local, viz., not being capable of being in more than one place at a time, and that he was not a spirit, as he himself testifies. It follows, therefore, that he as- cended up into a local heaven, situated somewhere in the ocean of boundless space, far above the firmament. We know that it is said, flesh and blood cannot enter heaven ; but how transformed that celestial body was, we cannot tell. It is called a house. John xiv. 3 : "In my Father's house (hea- ven) are many mansions ; if it were not so (said Christ to his disciples), I would havfe told yon. I go to prepare a place for you." *' Oh !" says the caption! scoi^ic, " then it wan nn^ ■n^a.^^n •• • ■« .. _- ..^ 1 fi )> ii*/W j Christ is called the first-fruits of them that slept, and no doubt w;is the first who entered heaven with a corporeal body. " () then, what will you do with Enoch and Eli-' jah 2 Is not this contradiction T I say, no ; for Enoch and Elijah never slept the sleep of death, but weresomehow transtiguied. There- fore the Scriptures are clear upon this point. Furthermore, the promise made by Christ to his disciples that th(;y would bo with him in the man- sions of his Father's house (hea- ven), and that there he would re- ceive them ; these promises cannot be fulfilled unless that heaven has a location, where the local bodies, souls, and spirits of all true Chris- tians are to be assembled and set- tled for ever. Therefore we think that the location of heaven is fair- ly made out. Heaven is called " an inheri- tance, incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away ;" therefore, " set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth." It is called "a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Ifeb. xi. 10. It is circumscribed by the Apostle John (Rev. xxi.) Paul was in full ex- pectation of enjoying heaven when he said, " God will preserve mo unto his heavenly kingdom.'' And again he saith, "We know that if our earthly house of this ta- bernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in tho heavens." 2 Cor. v. 1. Paul knew^ somethingabout this glorious kingdom, for it is the o^ niwa of all juUiciuuB men that h« ■y *.'*< u4 1^ -■;■ -- 18 * THEOLOOrOAL AND was tJie person wlm oleiiB and dciiZft.,.. ,. ^™"<' "n- manner «,„.„'' '''?''"'■ 'n 'ie right hand of G J ^ ^J"^ ^" ^''^ the iSed wl ^^ ^P^'"^" '^^^^ hold, I Z kn ' ''"'^ ^'^'■^J^I^e- to the n\,nT''"^?^«"otbelonir and thoTontf mTJT T'^'^S^^^^^^^ ^? P.^^^^ the rightJmnd of GoS ' '"a^\°^ ?? N^ "«ed of the sL tPt ''*^^?*'* 55, 66. John also saw .f "^l^"' ^^^ ^^^e glory of Ll'f" ^°, '* ' vens ODPtir:.^ „ i a^ the hea- tho To,^k ^ oi the Lord and of faithfaf and trn^ TJ^''^ the We r^d L^ *^ ¥* *'>«^^«of^' righteonsnei doJh fS ^^^^ ^" fi^'^ame" ^e^e X«r T^ f ^ war. Kev.xix 11 ''T^^"'^™a^e God placed thL-' '"^^?' t^^t witnesses who « li J '^ "'® ^^''^^ ary or mov,^. i ^ '" f re volution- ven, and teltifv if •^^^f ^^«« ^ea- dom of hS ""'^^^ ' ^"* the king- whether SFt^^f'pry. ^nd cannot' Je'To.ed ''^'^'^7^ A three holy div?ner-ptrs?J?^'f''^P^-«««»tda^^^^^ "What h'° '"^ N-ow, with a li„,„ • f'"""' '^""^^'l- m^ we «„t t,y .„ deSbfh":::|KV"-it of the bean,e„„, died sS 1 7T/^° a disembo- world o/k^^^^^ ^l^^^nse it is a ?3^lir%- Such r\fiy we not imagine hea- ven to bo, but ten tbousaiid times more in extent, and suited to tlie purity of a spiritual state, under the husbandry of the great Archi- tect, the creator of all worlds. No wonder that the Scriptures state that at the right hand of God there are pleasures for evermore ; for no calamity, sickness, pain, or death can trouble the inhabitants of this most glorious kingdom. ITNIVER8AL BI8T0BT. 19 No brother dead to God, By sin no more undone • No father there, in passion wild tries, O my son, my son-cries. my son, my son I It is said that love and truth stand as sentinels at the gate of found at.the door of every church Love prevents truth from exclu- ding any but those who are ene- mies to the King of glory; while truth prevents love from admitting friends ^""'^ ^^''^^ ^'^ Now if heaven has been, is, was and IS to be, the happy homrof angels, and of the spirits oTmst men made perfect, we do therefore aSV . "^""'^^'y ^^ ^^'"^ attention ; t&f /• ™'^ ^'''^^y confess' for « P ° ?Tu ^'"^ in „„i_-ii_i Of which we speak are not sub- ject to crude matter, ponderosity, i *l ( 30 TnEOLOOICAI, AND To itU-a tlie readei amy Idoa of' our Bitaning about a enblimated «««© of tan^bility, wo have only fO suppose Hiat all the subef ncee wf lliii «»rtb, and tlie rartli itself, to be fP » state of perfect crystalli- zation- ovuri oi nesjores, minerals, waters, oceans, lorests, animals, fowls, men, cities, towns, houses with every article of the globe brilliant and shining, fn such a state there would bo no obscurity • all would be bright and wonderful their different hues mingling their ten thousand dies, so that no rain- bow has ever been so richly adorned. "^ Such a state of things, as it re- apects heaven, is c en alluded to by the Revelator— see chap, xxi — where the New Jerusalem is com- pared to a most precious stone, -^ven like a jasper, clear as crystal ; md in the course of the chapter It is again said that the walls are of jasper, and the city jiure gold, like unto clear glass, and that its foundations were laid with twelve kinds of pellucid stones, blending their hues together. Also, Rev IV. 2, 3, God himself is said to ap- pear in splendor, like a sardine stone— which is of a blood-red co- lour—and that round about the throne on \vhich he sat, in sight, or at a greK.'. distance, there was a lialo, in form like a rainbow, the colour of which was that of sap- phire, which is a most brilliant blue. The ye. V throne of God is said by Ezekiel (i. 28), to be in colour as the sapphire, while deep therein was the colour of smber, like fire in mghtncsa, which shot off its f,rnhm splendour in th. distance, causini; T/)« halo above noticed by the Key.hu.r. Also, in Exodus xxiv. lu, the same idea is advanc- ed, where th(> bod;/ of heaven in Its ch-'arness is spoken of, with pa- ved w .rk ^f Bftpphire 8tonc8-a 8parklni_ blue. I would ask, what a wonderful wor d IS this— whose soil is golden earth, forming the base of heaven's diamond quarriefl, jutting out on , the ranges of eternal mountains, I from among which How the rivers of the waters of life— the drink of angels and of iust men made per- fect. Along these streams of hea- ven are endless profusion and groves of delight. Yea, such fruit grew not in old Canaan, nor in the fields of Adam's principality, even before the fall ; for from these fruits flow the wine of the king- dom, of which the Son of Man and hi3 disciples shall drink in heaven [\ "t ^ ^^7 "°*o y^^i (saith Christ) that I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it new with you in the kingdom of heaven, or ray Father's kingdom." Matt. XXVI. 29. If Christ expresses himself thus, where, then, is the impropriety of supposing heaven to be such aplace as we have been trying to describe, as it was the first residence of spi- ritual beings, the mighty centre of the universe, and the grand ivu-' clens of a]' worlds, suited toBa/^ a state of location and assocf-i .m as are essential to the happiness of all infinite existences. And if it is said of man that he was created in the Hirer auu UN! VERS AT niSTORT. image of his Creafor, should it lui thoufi;lit Btrangu Miat his place of dwollirii;, his bi utiful paradise, should in some sense correanund to hid inontal oondition, and likewise bo a faint type or shadow of the groat and sublime heaven of the angels, and tho final homo of all the good. Must there not bo some comparison between heaven and earth, when tho Lord himself oom- mand'd Mo.sea to make the taber- nacle Ira tho wilderness " after the puttcrn v/hi«;h was showed him in tho mount ?" Exod. xxv. Wo need not try any further to deacribo this glorious kingdom; for if any of us shall be so exceed- ingly happy as to get there, truly wo shall say that the one-half of its excellonco has never been told ns. So far as we can learn from priest or nrophet, they all agree in stating that these celestial plains are so magnificently grand, that they far surpass any description that we are able to give ; that for lofty grandeur and etherial beauty, they far outshine tho natural snu, and all other planetary worlds be- sides—being, indeed, one eternal 91 blaze of celestial glory, producing peace, joy, and felicity to all the inhabitants thereof for evermore. WHAT MUST IT BE TO BE THERE? " We speak of tho realms of the blest, That country so bright and so fair! And oft are its glories confoss'd ; But wimt mu.st it be to he there ! We speak of its pathway of gold, And its walla decked with jewels so rare, And ii:i beauty and pleasures untold ; But what mu«t it bo to be there But what must it be to be there I We speak of its freedom from sin, From sorrow, temptation and care. From afflictions without aud within, Oh ! what must it be to be there I I tppak of iti derrlt'e o' i .- The rohe which tho n'orKlccl wear, The church of ihii first-born above; I Oh t what muat it be to b« there— Wlmt muit it be to be there. \Ve speak of out fritrnd* who are gone— Tliiir happiuew soon we ^hnll share, Exalted with Christ on his tluotm Oh I vvli " must it 1(0 to be thoro ! Do thou, I,.,rd, 'midst pleaNi.re or woe. For that haven our ajilrits prepare, ' And shortly we also shall know, Shall feel what it Is to be the'r«- Shall feci what ii to bo there I " As to the magnitude of heaven, it is allowed by all the Christian fathers that tho kingdom of hea- ven is of very large ex tout, as the nations of them that are sa- ved shall walk in tho light of it, and the kings of tho earth d(» bring their glory and honor into it," (Rev. xxi. 24). They infer ti tit the extent of a place is estimated by the number of tho inhabitants thereof; that therefore heaven must be infinitely larger than thi^ earth. This they draw from tht parable of tlio lost sheep. " What inan of you having an hundred sheej), if he lose one of them, doth not lo'.tve tho ninety and nine in the wilderness, and goeth after that which is lost." Lukexv. 4. This they refer to Adam, as the representative of mankind, being the lost sheep, and that for his re- covery Christ, the great shepherd, came down from heaven, in order to save Adam and his posterity from the jaws of the devourer, though it cost him his life. The parable goes on to say (verse 7th), that joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just ones (as the original has it), who need no rf>Tif»Tii-ftti/>o XTrtur no »,,. ^ S2 TIlEOr-OOIOAL AND in earthly man, bo far as wo know, over lived and needed no repent- ance, therefore, it is our opinion that it was the holy angels who are confirnieil in glory, that our Lord meant hy thoninety-iiiuo juatonea, who needed no rcpontajice. Wo infer by this that the number of angola aro in proportion to that of men as ninety-nine is to. one, con- sequently that heaven is ninety nine times larger than this earth «)n which we live. Whosoever robatiou, and, without reason or eause, that they forfeited. Al- thousj:h havin<; no inherent dispo- sition to do evil, nor bad oxamnle to imitate, yo.t they fell. We a!.'»o | liaveone probationary state, whieh, if wo forfeitandcontiiiuostubltorn | and rebellions, wo die oternally. | Yet if thronjrh frailty wo err, hv \ ropontaneo and faith 'wo llnd mer- 1 cy, ami if thou faithful unto death, wo Khali reoeivo a crown of life, which tho Lord, the rightoous Judge, will jrivo to all who lovo ' his appearing. It i.s our opinion, that after tho immortal sonl has escaped the ^xtllutions, tho mise- ries, the sufferiniif8, and dangers, of this mortal life, heiuff saved by tho graeo of (Jod, and looking back at tho hole of tho pit from whetieo it was drawn, mid now having put on its frjoriii,,,! body, the soul being lllled with tho love of (Jod, tho kuovvlodnr,, porfected by tho beati- He vision, and tho prosonco of Jesus Christ, it is by no means likely tli.it W(> slumld ever think of ehiin^icitio; this ghu-ified state for! the chance of another. ! Besides, add to all this, tliattlu!! spirits of the just made perfi'ct ' liiwo oontiinuiUy before thoir eyes [ tho miacries of tho uannied, and \ especially that of the angels who kept not their lirst estate, and are reserved in chains of darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Also as the vengeaueo of heaven arrah, il-e., us we aro told that the-so things wore written for (tur example, and perhaps for the examiile of anjjels also. So in like manner has that great and ^rand trao;edy in heaven been ro- corded for the iii.struelion of both ' men and angels, that henceforth and for over they should tremble and fear before tho nn>hty (Jod of Jacob, throujxhout all time and % ; throu.s«hout eteriiitv. I Therefore, my beloved friends, I as.suro you, on the authority of the beloved A|H»rttlo of Christ, that if once yos p>t into heaven, vou will never be east out of it. How beau- tiful and eonsidini; are tho words whic!) Jesus spake to the Church at IMiiIadel|.hia< Ho that over- eometh, saitlrlle tliat boldeth tho seven stars in his rij^ht hand, who walkefh in (he niitlst <»f the seven ^'oldeii candlesticks. Hear tho promise of (tod, who never lied. Hoar tho pronjise. " Him that ovorcometh will 1 mnke a pillar in tho temple uf n)y Cioii, and ho shall ^n w) M.iUK dtrv," saith (tod ; therefore they shall be conlirmed for over in arlory. •• And. I uij! write upon him tho namo of my ^Vt 24 THEOLOGICAL AND God and the name of the city of my God which is the New Jeru- ealom, which cometh down out of heaven f,o,„ n^y God, and I will >vnte upon him my NKw name." llus promise, therefore, may be seemed to be pillars of the chnreb at Jerusalem ; but the Christian wJjo overcomes shall be an ever ast.ng pilla,. i„ the New Jen sa- lem, having his holy and dignitied character written upon his head and heart. As the 1 igh prie t of J eve that 'the nezo nai c silifies' Th. T '^'■*' ^' *^'° '"A'h priest o t^mt He, JehovaA, is not oi fv Tho ' l. 1'? ""'^^ '"^"^ *^ ^^^^^ ^ «h«P- God of the Jew but also J H o ' 7 • '"'''^.*" *^^^ lord-so the Gentile. This we c! n'ider to le LlVlTr",? P™^'^" shall wear a the new name. " u" that hah 7 ^^^^^'^ ^'' ^^'"^ ^^^ of both ears let him hear wt t U^e S ^ ~ '"^ ^^"^^'^' saithtothe churches." Now e promise is to him that overcometh lliat overcometh what? Surelv Ho shallnot T/np Jra cLimon 1 '^^ ^/i" J;*^'^'^^ ^''^'^^"^ '"" he citizen in the New^JerVLlem Z ""^^.^'^^^ ^^'^.-Jhe faithful and citizen in the New Jerusalem, but ap) arm the temple of God Jyea a pillar more permanent than that of Jachin and Boaz. These were t«o pillars which stood at the en- , trance or porch of the temple in Jernsalem of immense size, each ei,i;hteen cubits, or thirty feet liigh I and twelve cubits ro'und, or s x t\'om diameter. The one on the ' right, hand was called -Jachin, sig- Jnrjing strengtli and stability, be- S:;'l*^"St'.^'^'"g^l'>m was then ftnnly established. The other on Therefore brethren, persevere, scand firm labour incessantly, let no man take thy crown, thy kimr- dora thy priesthood, and thcTu slialt be a royal diadem in the true witness testifies that "he who overcometh the same shall be clo bed m white raiment, and I will not lloi out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess ns name before my Father and before his angels." (Rev. iii. 5.) bo, having our name entered in the book of life, and being made a pillar in the temple of God, we shall most certainly there continue 60 long as the temple endures- tliat temple which is made without hands, eternal in the heavens. the loft hand was called K^afT^.^ "^ *^^« '^^^^^^ds. tor the name of the patSi^ lit.. It ""f ^- *''" ^'hristian's home, fVom whom all the kim! of jX HM ""'""-; ''''^^- ^'« ^^'"^"^'^^ were descer.rl.rl Ti.^l"^^ ^^l^'' "t ''I ''e be in that eel ^ were descended. These m' lb, •« ? 1 ^m/" /''^'* ^'^^^^^'^^ ^'^""try, were famous anvMigho u the ea H n?" 1 ""''" ^^'^''^ ^« '-^c-ognized a for their strength," an 1 tbr iS; ^!'«« by men and angels," and by resplendent in^,Jai t ; b t t 'ef 'hrf Hr" '^ ,^"'^'^"^' '^"^ '^^^"^ h'ng since have perished a dr-nn? \ ^ the righteous. There will bled into dust. Eu U^ClusZ:ih '" ""'"'"^'^^ hy the family of hero of whom we speak shal out u -n'T'- '?• -^^^ '"^^"'''^'' '^^' ^^'bi^'h live the crash of imSfer an X" i iT • f 'T, ^'"^ "'^^b him, and enish of worlds. Paurn'nd i :i.:S'\i'^-Y;^;;tbose -bo .are 3haracter--that i'N^.li *!,; it.^?"^^^ ^'^ ?'''' «P'r *• ]ni ^onn, ^iio , that celestial country : it 18 his own inlieritance, his own inalienable lot, that never will descend from heir to heir, from one possessor to rariVERSAL HISTORT. 25 another. It is his own inheritance, '° perpetuity and without end. Hallelujah. Derivation of the Name of God. ■ In the first line of the Bible mention is made of the name of «od ; and it is the last sound that drops iron) the lips or falls on the ear of the dying Christian. And as the name often imports some- thing of the nature of the object winch It represents, we therefore tHinkit not amiss to make a few remarks on the derivation of the wise differing in character from each other, unless that it had been revealed from above. The name by which God is call- ed in the Hebrew language is Elo- him, which, being plural, is under- stood to imply a plurality of persons in the Godhead, and the plural number in either Hebrew or Greek is not regulated as our great, glorious, and ineffable nan P Fn„r i i '' "•"* rep;ulated as our of our^raciolis Creator and ^ fnl 1 a^E ^ '"^ '^"^"1^ deemer, as it is given in spvpral !!, /"^^^—t^^y liave singular languages; besidf Tt is one of tifi n i "^"f ^''^ ^"^ ^^'^'' P^^^^ ^8 thrle Ireat powers of whiVh tl T ^''' *''",'' ^^^'"- ^^ ^^'^ Arabic promisfdtos?X7nd1lu! ulh SS^IV! -"^d Allah, sig- promised to speak. And although no tnite bein^ can comprehend the glorious majesty of this sublime being, yet a voluntary ignorance of him 18 a crime of great magni- tude, for we are told that him to know is life eternal. And we hear of the awful degeneracy of some who when they knew God, ghjrihed him not as God, neither were thankful. Eom. i. 21. Kow If we do not know the author of our being, how can we love him ? And if we do not love him, how can we glorify him, or keep his commandments? The sacred ap- pellations which are given to the great Being by the coincidence of different nations, of different peo- ple, of different languages, all ".'j^yj"g that he covenanted or tes- tified : meaning that the blessed Innity bound themselves that if the creature man should fall, that they would redeem him. , Another meaning given to Elah, IS that he liberated, kept in safety, and defended— which is very good. lheref(^e, he is to be worshipped and adored. A fourth nanie is -b-l, which denotes him to be the strong and powerful God. The hfth IS Shaddai, the all-suffieient and almighty. Sixth, Adoni, which makes him the great protector, ruler, supporter, lord, and judge of all men. Jay, the seventh name, denoteo his self existence, and the giving of being to all his creatures, 'ighth, Jehovah, means the all- )earin<. on the =„» p^r° ' . '' ^'^^^*"' Jehovah, means the all tion,is^ po itUToofof d?Ji'''r'"^''^"iv^'^^ ^"'fi'« «» l"«p'o revektionias itTsCosfbte ^"^^S'^'- ^" *^« Greek les- 8uchanideamlllnveTH^n.^1 ^^^^^ ^?^ '^ ^'^"«d Curios- in Remind of r;S -• a ...Kuuuo or nations other- i J^ao., derived fr^m theami facto; i; I 86 11; I torn •-e,andtheami8pecto,to8ee, aad tueami pono, to place— be- eauBe that he made all things, sees *"/^^»g^' and placed them dfn Sorfn; ^'°*^' ^ AM-what the IBEOLOGIOAL AND almighty and everlasting Father Prince of Peace. The^leventh the I'o rx,T ------ v'cv.o. aiieeieventl IS what the ancients called the un- utterable name, because they could not pronounce it- Thvh, Iv M- jeh, Bigmfymg I am, 'and al- ways will be, &c. Twelfth, the • 5"/'f\"r" ^od came from the Anglo-Saxon g-o-a-d, because everything is good that comes from Now as all faith which leads to salvation is founded on our believ- ing in the existence and attributes , ot a supreme being, called God in said, "He that cometh to God must believe that he *., and that heisarewarderofthemthatdili gently seek him." Heb. ii 6 Some philosophers prove the ex stence ot God by the demonstra- tion order and regularity of his works, which are ver/ good Otherstake a certainrule of logic which 18 termed a mode of reason- lugapnon, or proof of the aprio- 1 On the creation of Angels, .n5^"fi ■\ ^ ^''^'J'^^'^ ^'"ch some may think out of order, out of time, and beyond date. Yet that tliere has been such a time, no matter how far back in the annals ^L ®*^"™I,V' ""'^ "^^ P^'oceed to prove. The reason for proving this article is to refute a false phi^ losophy that is abroad in the JJ^d' ^^/cj^ is this-that the an! gels rebelled and were cast out of ri, by the apoatenon, a proof of the former things by the la ter bleT; P'T"^ that ft is impo sT- wh nh ^"' ''* ^^''^ of '•masoning I j^hich does not attempt to provl I his being from the order o/^s works, because if God was not jui such a being as he has descriCd himself to be-that is, capab e of fnTt"o^ fP^"*' !"•« and underst!^,d- ing to his creatures-none of us "ClT'I ^T' ^''-^^ an.exist^nce because dead matter can neve^ think reason, or know any differ^ ?.r ^f'^'l J"^' ^0^^' hope or fear. An atheist or infidel in this city, 8ome twenty-five years a So ^^Sj«^archedout,saidthat1ie a God if ^'r' Z '}' existence of rade ^^n?•^^'^^^^^^"^ami- ^ ;. K^*"^*^^"'" to stand forth preset* \T^V"«^b^f«^-^i present. I then descr bed the ma- chinery of his body, the power of speech, penetration of the eyathe ti'P^ /understanding, if not stultified, _&c. -Then/oua,ea miracle, sir ; for nothing less ban an all-powerful God couTd produce sudi a being as you are."^ I am wVa\ltf'^^^*--^^^t^^^^^ antenor to Anno Mundi. ItT^'^f'"'^ this world was cre- ated. The number being great that heaven was thereby derived of a great part of its inhabitants Inorderthatheavenehouldbere: , populated, God created this world and man thereon, that out of his posterity he would select and elect a gpodly number to fill the vacan- cy in heaven.' This philosophy we do not -— ^mfiWf^ *: receive, because it is not countenan- ced by any part of Scripture. Tlie tnxe circumstances of this transac- tion we mean to prove in its pro- per place. At what period of time the angels were created, or how long they lived in heaven in hannony together, is not revealed : yet we wiU try to lay before the reader sufficient proof that there was no rebellion in heaven, nor angel cast out of it, until after the creation of this world on which we Jive. In our attempt to prove that an- gels were created. botbre that men were, we must of necessity put on the swift wings of imagination, and travel back through past ages to the period in which the Divme Being put forth his first creative act, before that time was subdivi- ded into days and hours. We have reason to suppose that there was a determination in the IJeity from all eternity to briuff into being existences, to consist of mind and matter. But whether the hrst creative act of God pro- duced rrnnd or matter, can scarce- ly amount to a question ; for we mean to prove that the solar sys- tem, the earth, or even our earthlv parents, Adam and Eve, were not I the first of God's creation ; but at an early period a more ancient cre- ation of spiritual beings took place prior to the creation of this world and It is more consistent with rea- son to think that the first creative power would be employed in some- thing more resembling the Author than mere matter could be. bpiritual beings, no doubt, were the first kind of beings that were brought forth, having intellectual trinVBBSAL HISTOEY. 27 r attributes, and in this respect bear- ing an honorable and glorious affi- nity and likeness to their divina origin, to which matter can never aspire. That spiritual beings ex- isted previom to the creation of Adam and Eve, and the heaveui and the earth, is evidently proved by the book of Job, the Proverbs, and the gospel of Saint John! Ihe question is asked Job by the Almighty, saying, " Where wast thou when I Jaid the foundations of the earth ? when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for foy ?" lliis implies that some intelligent beings existed previous to the crea- tion of this earth, and some have translated the passage that troops of angels shouted for joy on wit- nessing the creative power of God in completing the great machinery ot this lower world, perfected iu SIX times twenty-four hours, or six days. Solomon, describing the creative power of Eternal Wisdom before his works of old (meaning this earth), says that before the earth was, or the depths, or the fountains abounded with water : before the I mountains were settled ; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dmt of the world (Adam), ^ow he says, verse 25, " that be- fore the mountains were settled, before the hills was, / bought forth. N^ow, brought forth what ? burely angels, the first spiritual beings of lieaven— sons of the morning, of whom Lucifer was ?u^j f "^ •^"'*" states, in the third chapter of his gospel that 'S^^' S8 THEOLOGICAL AND deg„r£rg/s?„rt/,° when the Syrian Vin„ P ^-^J out ;.^it P'^P^"* « ^^'-^ant, VoTnff inwhich thev t ^' *" thetime "When jac. arJnp fi of V ^^''^ created, someL . ^^'b' argnethatlt was include.] '^n M ^nd bo we^'and worshipped in holy fear • ^ a the stone whinh hJu\.Jn, crcat on, because that on thpTn spection of the whole, when S" saw evervthino- t?iaf v. i i ^^^ > buen time. tie seven £4^ "-»"8?'! °' f. fall of horeea »n^ moimtain wa» sent forth to .irffj u?. *'= ^<"<1. («-<..o,)i;e„tS?^^i'^,"Ltio^ 1 UKflVEBSAIi HI8T0ET. David saith that "the angel of the Lord eacampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." In many instances we are bound to believe in the protecting hand of God, by the ministration of angels, or otherwise. The an- gels will, when necessary, turn thy steps out of t^ie way of danger, ward off the deadly blow, or di' rect thy mind how to escape. The wnter must bear witness to these truths. Both Jews and heathens believ- ed in guardian angels. Hesios, one of the most ancient Greek authors, says that there are good angels on the earth, whom he thus describes : — 29 •' ^rial spirits, by great Jove designed To be on earth the guardians of maakind ; invisible to mortal eyes they ^o And mark our actions good or ill below; The immortal spies vrith watchful care preside. Ana thrice ten thousand round their charees glide. " They can reward with glory or with gold— Huch power divme permission bids them hold." The prophet Daniel says (chap. lU), that as he stood by the river Hedekel, he saw a glorious angel, who appeared to be clothed in li- nen, and his loins girded with the hne gold of Uphaz, &c. With this angel Daniel conversed some time, who tells him (verse 13th) that the prince of the kingdom of -fersia had withstood him for twenty-one days; that Michael, one of the chief princes, had qame to help him. We wish to notice here that tJiere are various orders of angels ni the spiritual world. For as Mi- chael was one of the chifef angels or pnnces, there are aW nflior prmce3 among the angelic ordw, or it could not be said with pro- priety that he was one of them. This proves that angels are local, and cannot bo in two places at the same time. The angel that talked with Daniel was stationary, and as a faithful sentinel would not leave his station until relieved by an- other angel. It anpears that there wa^ au evil angel prompting the mind of Cyrus against the interest of the Jews, with whom thes^ good angels had to contend. For the angel told Daniel that he would then return to fight with' the prince of Persia, as the evil angel did not wish the rebuilding of the temple or the restoration of their religion, as it had been aU most lost during the captivity in Babylon. Satan, therefore, wished to keep them in heathenish darkness, and thereby to prevent the coming of the Messiah, so he fought againpt all impressions on the mind of Cyrus, by Michael, Gabriel, and, other spiritual beings, who favored the Jews in their holy enterprise. Thus far we have treated on the ministration and powers of good and bad angels. We have reason to believe that Satan and his demons would, if permitted, destroy all good from off the earth —they would blast the fruit, and inflict diseases, as in the case of Job; they would expel all thought or honour of God, and every emo- tion of piety and gratitude. Also we think that they try hard to ex- ceed their limits, and if not repul- ^d by good guardian angels under God, we cannot tell what amount J-VT tf^vr* t i\^ « 11-1 -v- ■ . "-" "-"p •"~j •vouiu CIO. 1 wouivi. mention one case, where Paul says, > I . i' so THKOLOOIOAX AKD Now his is not holy anSls- it?; *°-^^^'«' m heaven fh.n .t,„ .Jy demn; for if through ffraceT shall overcomfifl,.. ,.,°.ij« v ^^ ^ fn r«v.-- I- , " '^'^ ^"^" oe nearer to Chnstm heaven than the oriS- hira the form of an angel, but he once took the form of a^ man lie Bball oVercoiet^e wfridflfeflpT 1 ?°^« ^^^^ ^^^^ Srm ofTm'an" I?: and the devil, noStant^tt h« "°' '^' ^'"'^'^ ^^ «^gels, bu? depravity and corruption of^ornear.^.''"'; J'°*^"''- ^^^^e his nature and thereby gain the kin, uTf'''^^**'^^«' and shall stand crueJJy and shamefully apostati- J'teo^^i,"''''" '" ' '''"'^ «°^»o-n. 1 jeam to pity woes so like my own " nipreseCLt aSetf ^C^Sl' I H^i,?!!^ ^ >-ther proof .e alone, and no created beino--!hp ^I J" ^®'': ^^^- ^7- When IW he angel or Bpirit-has ever^^en 1 ^l^ '? *^° wilderness Tf possessed of tL latitude ofpo; L^TeeoH'l ^^^^'^^ ^^^°? «P«n er— not even the spirit nf 4a,'rf ^ toe bottle, she cast the lad un- Paul, Saint Peter, rLt of th.l-'^'^'°S'*^^* «J^« «%I^t not Le blessed Virgin Ma^y How then if^^.l'l^ ,^°' God hearf the voce Baith one, is there lov amoni fTi n ? ^^^' *°<^ ^^e angel of God angels of heaven ovef one sfnnerL ''^ *^ ^"P^ «»* of heaven! that repentoth, if the anlels d„ E'^^w^^^^^^''' " ^hat aileth notseef This is answerelhv fL« i ^^ ^,*S*^ ^ ^^ar not, for God touched him about the ime of S Lfon'of ?J'^ '!{' "°^ ^^^ ^^^^^^c evening oblation, and said, O Da tS ?^ *^^°^°tW Thus we find nel,at the beginning of thy sun tPd J f''°>.'^^^^^ plication the f.nmm„^^Ji„_7^"P *^d is found by applying to God nimself. wbn ^e nv.^.',i. ?.. thee,''&c. himsplf Tk < **PPVi°g to God This evidently proves tlmf ti,« all our ways. Therefore, no an^el or angel came at VeTom.^tVof ^^1?^^^'^ ^"^°^^^^' - ^-7 S?n' ?^^ ^^^ ''^ his own observa nravpr «n?fi. ' ^T' °^^ ^^^r thi tion; that the angel of hiSfK?r'*^JH'^,^^<> address them. had neither seen Daniel nor hWd to 1^^^° '^''^" ^°'^ ^^" ^°^« his prayer, therefore the repent LaJ^^^^ ance of the sinner must Te^an foir ^/L'^^'n^^^thoudoitnlt nounced inheaven by thealmthtv' tSv JT,,"'^ ^e "ow-servant, and of omniscient Boin^. Jhr^JL^l^rJ,' I .^7 brethren the prophets, and -^ ~" ■■•'"" " ""^ • '^^^ tiiat.keep the sayings of this ^ FNIVEBSAL mSTOBT. book: worship God." (Rev. xxii. From this we see that saints or angels are not to be worshipped. T 1® ?"^^ ^^° conversed with John had once been a fellow-crea- tnre, and therefore allows that God shonld have the glory. There is a popular error in the present day, that 18, we have the address of his wo^sUp the inayor of a city, sig- nifying he who ought to be WW- ^flipped; also we have the wor- A W/ "?^*®'' ^^ <'®'*tain societies. All this I must call a popular er- ror. The address ought to be his woTthahvp the mayor ; or his wcyrth- Bhvp the master of a certain society, because he is chosen by the people because of his worth, or at least, because he is thought to be worthy of the office. In fact, the word worshipful, when applied to man, 18 a corruption of the original word wormUp, which never should nave been changed. We have no proof from Scrip- ture that any departed saint or ori- ginal angel has any cognizance of 81 On Man, as God hath made him; It is an acknowledged proof of our state here below, unless sent by God on tome special errand, as that of the angel who was sent to Saint John. Tlierefore they can- not hear the prayers of those who address them, not being omnipre- sent, but local— consequently can only bo at onoplace at one and the same time. Then suppose that ten thousand persons in different conn- tries are praying to that certain saint at the same moment. I say then, that supposing that they could hear, they could only attend to one person at once, so that all the rest may die in their sins while praying to an angel that does not hear their cry. The Lord God saith, call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Ps. 1. Some have wished that the spirit of some dear departed friend would be allowed to be their guardian angoi. But even if this should be granted, it would be no benefit ; for any angel sent by God would do all the faithful services that could be done for thee. the benevolence of God, that he tormed the design of creating in- telligent beings, to whom he could coramumcate a part of his own eternal goodness. Moses tells us now the heavens and the earth were made and all the host of them, and although all good and proper in their place, yet there was nothing among them all that had any resemblance to God. A crea- ture of more exalted nature was stia wanting. Therefore the Al- mi^aij' caiied a councU on this also what he has made himself to he. occasion, and says. Let us make man in our image and likeness. ilere we find the divine plurality marked distinctly by the plural pronouns us and our. Thus to ehow that man was at the head of all created beicgs, all the perse - in the Godhead are represented as being united in council and effort m order to produce this most as- tonishing creature. When the bo- dily frame was completed, God breathed into his nostrils the breath of Hffi. Tha /Mnntn.i :«^. 1 -1_.. I aw, the breath of^M>e*, viz. : animal 39 and eternal i life, spiritual life, life. Of no creature but man can it be said that it was made in the image and likeness of God— no E "r /'•«'^-ang«l has this iionor And wlien it s said. Let ^ make man ;n our imagrLfl^r our likeness the word being dou- bM may refer to the likeness of m«n""*\^?>^ of Christ, that man resembleth, and that the sou °J™ ^'*'' ^^"^'^ t« ^^'« Jivine Therefore man was made the mastermeco of .the wJxole creation on eartli He is a compendium of the creation, and is called a micrl. - c^m-^ little world in himsdf Ue 18 a being compounded of bod v. eect, to distinguish him from the S-"?'^!', ""^"'^^^ ^««k down made to look upwards-as Lis name in Greek is antrapoa, derived from tre-po-verto to turn the face "rf If' i? f^^V^ behold the glory of God. His frame was made in the image of God • as whenatanytime that God was pleased to reveal himself to man that he appeared, as Angel of the t?«TT'.^"''^^^*h«Vtbat atl^?^ ?f «a^ ^9 more fmmedi- iS I'h/'"'^' of God, as being laat the soul of man is a vital 'STft\ '''^'' ^"bstance t proved by its power of reasoning, perception, and will. Dr. Ferrier o Manchester England, h^ g^eS sufficient proof that every pfrt of £^-i" ^«« been injured wSut d^troying % powi of thonghj. THEOLOOlOAr. AND The soul was infused into man bv tlu. breath of the Almighty,^^^^^^^^^ by he became a nevor-dyili erea- tnre. As to his vital par fwhfck as the body can, but must live somewhere. The soul k some^ together, and scio, to know : be' cause It comprises all the reason- ing faculties of man, and is not satisfied without some kind of re ligion. ". lo ^«n, in Arabic, was pu:, down a« a verb, it is said, because hedTa- cerns, hinks, reasons, and acS. if tr ^" *^^ ^g^Ptian language emphatically pronounce the man, crtatfo^^f'^'^^^^^^^^"«°d'« of Pr..r^ ^^ "''^^^'' monument of creative power-and while he ?!.! '? A"°"^^°^® ^^« '' faint fSfh ''^ S^','' ^r * ^^-^^tor. being tar above all other animals, by ha- ving an immortal spirit, and being possessed of the noble faculty of speech. Solomonsaith, -Lo ti.- only have I found, that God ha h made man upright; but they have sauffAiout many inventions.''' Ec vn. 29. God made man upriffht— a casus rec/t«— upright in Ldy aoul and spirit; but being a fre^' a^ent, he has sought out a'nd con- trived many schemes and inven- t^ns, whicfi "God commanded Inra not neither came into his neart. I recollect an aged critic Mate of ]!^ew York, who in the puzzled some ^;frh7m?n'is£rsT asking them whether it was Go^ whiskey As ho could not get an answer from any of them, he brought the question T'm^ ^ -fU^j«a&iy^„ i;NtVKR8AL IILSTOKT. Still tlnnfking that it could not ho answered. 1 inirncdiutely pointed hiai to Solomon, showing him that It was neither of God or the devil, but one of the inventions that man liat our Saviour, saying, ' Why was not this sold and given to the poor ?" not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, &c. Hence it appears tlut Judas had stolen the poor's money 33 ' *?♦ »« » cwol* \ •is sustains. There is the no- malist, and tho realist or good man. Homo is the Latin name of a carnal, worthless man. Pope says — * Worth makes the man, the want of it tho fellow, That he is nought but leather or prunella. The realist, or real man, is spell- ed «rer, which signifies the her(i —he who hath overcome th» world, the flesh, and the devil : a .1 list and upright man. The cha- racter of an^, the hero, is derived from an epithet of the rising sun, shewing that the genuine Christian shineth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day-^for if you faint in the day of adversity, your strength ia oumii, X lilse the character tibat^, u id ir Crabb ffivoa of the honest I»aa Aahford — HiM truth un(,ue«tiont..l, riml hU .oul.erene; W no man's person Imbo Mt nfruid- • At no nianV «i,i..,t/on h«ac looked dNmayod ; Shame know |„n, not, h , dreaded no dUgmce Truth, iimplo truth, wa« written on his face." WHAT MAKES A MAN r "Kot numerous ynnrs nor lonL'thencd life Nor pretty chUdrcn and a wife, Not pma, and chains, mid fancy rimw Nor any such iiko paitry tilings. ' Not pipp, ciRnr, nor bottled wine. Nor lifwrty with kings to dine ; Nor coat, nor boots, nor yet a hat, A dandy vest, or trim cravat. Nor houses, knds, or golden ortt. Nor all the world's wealth laid in store : Nor Minister, Rev'rend Sir, iror Squire. With lulcs that the memory tiro. Not ancestry traced back to Win V .V '^.^"' *■""» Normandy to 'kill ; Not lf-«tm, Greek, nor Hebrew lore, «or thoua.ind volumes rumbled o'er TniOI/)OI0AL AND Not judge's robe, nor major's mace. Nor crown's that deck the royal rsce- Thcse all united never can Avail to make a single man. Jis a truthful soul, a loving mind, Irull of affection to its kind— A helper of the human race, A soul of beauty and of grace. A spirit firm, erect and free. That never basely bows the knee; Tliat will not bear a feather's weight 01 slavery's chains for small or great. That truly speaks of God within. And never makes a league with sin • That snaps the fetters despots make' And loves the truth for its own 'sake. That worships God and him alone And bows nowhere but at bis throne • 1 hat trembles at no tyrant's nod, A soul that fears no one but God." That carea not what the people nj But miuds his duty, night and 'day : In all good causes leads the ran— This 18 the soul that makes a man f A qnestion has been carried on » the hterary reviews of London and Ghisgow, and iBBtJIIin dobufo, namely " If the oreuturo nmii has been and still is such a noble hero as bo 18 roprcseatt'd to be, from wbenco coinctli nil tbo evil that 18 abroad in tlic Morld I" Tbeae would-bo theologians state that if a good being has made, and Ktill governs the earth, that therefore nothing can bo evil in it. For in this course of things every evil uualiheH some good. They admit tliat Jifjles, or the evil one, is infe- nor to the good being, and cannot thwart his will ; antf here is the endot their judgment. They con- clude by saying that no man has been able, in the course of two thousand years, to disentangle the • meshes of this inexplicable prob- lem, and go on to say that « what- ever tg ,8 right." And tl'.is some of owr heroes call one of the finest sentences in the English language. Now as the blind can only lead tlie blind, we leave these learned judges to themselves, and appeal m^^" of sense and reason. The B. W. Magazine of 1865 expunges the doctrine of St Augustme, who charges the pre- vajhng evil in the world on the abuse of man's free agency. Ho says that « he bitterly regrits and reproaches himself, for not havinff seen at once, that the real cause oT evil m this world proceeded from the freegbm of the will. Also that this conclusion was forced upon lum by the repugnance which he telt in attributing to a perfectly «°°*j, being the authorship of all evn Uis opponents assail him tor this, saying that he has deified of the will God has given to man. /■ '*»«*«i*«*WHI^SS^i«^,,.*rtr' "'^'«s^^ :" < mm* -' > \ Wi UNIVKEgAL HIBTOU" ero it otlierwlBc, liow could man i nblo to tlicsc fi be iudgcHi? Now some SS vo avcnucri of the bad Bay that fioo acency anfrorous ^nft. Wdl then, if you tro not a free agoi i, ^'ou nmst be a machine agent- dead matter —or other wi HO voii uniHt bo under fatahsm, which is pure heathenism. It free moral agcncv k counted a oangcrous qualification, we must reply that without it there can be neither men nor angels, as this is the moHt essential part of their be- ing, as rational or accountable creiiturcH. It is evident that man- kind would not be accountable for their aetiouH, if thoy were not free I eay tln-n that if it bo a danpr- mind. The mind, therefore, is free, though a(la^)ted to the identical condition ot tl hicii sonses, .. no j.ower of choice. The fact h, the senses could bo no senses ex- cept the mind exists to coitiprehend them ; and yet the mind can neither see, hear, taste, smell, or ttel. Wo Ree, therefore, that the acnses have no power over the mind, but the mind has an ai*o lute power over the Bcnses, which proves its freedom, or real free agenc", or the word choice has no application to man. Yet wo con- tend that this sovereign qualilica- tion gives not tiie right to do wron J! " If you lot tliid nmn ^w, von nro nut UivsarV frioiul ;" j^o, jest tlii' Jo\v8 would hoihI an accusation !V,'!\iti8t him to Uotne, ho dolivoml up tho Lord of ^'lory to ho cruoi- rioil, ito. Wo liixl that Hhorty and the froodoiu of tho will is put in oppo- uition to ounstraiut and ju'cossitv. That man is loft at liborty to i\o .s?ood or to do ovil, ia dooidodly the phrasooloj^y of tho Scri|>tnros. (See Dent. xxx. Jf)-!!*). whoro it is HtRted, " 8eo I have sot boforoyou tlu8 day lifo and good, and death anil ovil ;" and apiln, "I call iioa- von and earth to roccird a>;Iif y p.itcntalo, .niilcvs tlio in- iiiiito i>;nv(> (•uii80iit thcivto. TIu« p.irtaU 'to tlia i)!ivilioii of iimii's si)iil had iivo ^atos — (the and inula-s(andinji, .Vc. atui no | llvo s^■Ms,^s) -nanu'lv,i.m---ato. ovo- fruod tl.inj; will ho withh.ddlVoin:p,to, mouth -ato, "noso-jjlvto, luid thou.thnt l.Mul uji-odU- liCo. 'llu. .lool-ato. 1 Josidos those .^tos.thoiv Hss.st.n- -raoo o1(5od is prou.isod , \va^ ii. il.o interior tw.i perennial and pyon to all " i hiu (saith j .prints, r.Uvd iau/>r,fa,,d;n<;mu\ ChiHt) the frur l„jht that l.-ht.-th ! lolll ; vet not one of these J-ould every man on Ins eomino: iut.. the, he fore'ed open or soiled, without world, and "ho that hdh.u elh ; the p.rinisMon of the inhabitant, after me shall not walk m darkness, : Wo have not spae(> in this urtielo but have the l.^ht of life." I to show how the battle mIs lost his asMstui- jxraeo we hav,. and w..n, but tell von that throu.-h without violatmo; our liberty. Den the ne.:,di^r,„,, „,'-,i^, ,,,,,^;,,^y^, , -,, Israel, a tanums rabbi, says, " We subtilty of the adversarv. theeita- st.uud in_ need o| the eoneurronco | del of Mansuul wastak;n. and all ol provideiuem all virtuous ae- 1 the noble w.uks thereof del'aeed tions : ami as a man who is -oiu.i: ■ inlernal and external, so that whoa Ih\,?r'. " li''''^' '"'^'1 '"', 'N^'^i">^'^''^">'l=iN"H< builder thereof, «h>)uldois,eallsonsoniebodytohelp saw the ruin int., whieh if had him up with ,t, so the just man I fallen, it grieved him at his hour? endeavors to tulhl the law, while | and ho mm.fnllv determined to win t-.odd.ke the arm of another per- it l.aek a-ain, tlnu.i,di it should cost son comes to his assistanee, that he I him his life. So he sent an ad- mnyboablo to e.vecuto his resolu- 1 dross to the /Iw, si-nod in this Hon . ...!-.. ' .nunyan, in his "Holy War," flays th;it the soul of man, bein^ innuortal, is of inestiniablo valin" wise "Let all men know that tho son of 8haddai, the L;reat Ivinir, is en- rn^fl i' *r "V-V-V; ■."■;• ^''\-"'<' ''y eovenant to his father to 1 IS tlu breath ot (rod-a partiele briu- Man-soul ba(dc to him a-ain ; of the divme nature. Ihereisnot yea, and to put man's soul too- its equal iinder tho whole heaven. that God lumsell has niade, so that ' more happy eondilion than it was tho an,!^elsean.o down iromhea-.-en in, even Veforo that it was takeu throu^di the powi>r of his luateh- less love, into a far better and to s(-e it, .'ind suuij: l