This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... in a chart Depicted, hoping He may yet fulfil Their restitution. Pardon it, if ill.--Lurk in that hope, Great Father! True thou art; Thou sayest the just shall bliss in fulness prove, And, what thou sayest, thy bounty will provide: And yet meseems the blissful souls above, . The sense of earth's sweet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... in a chart Depicted, hoping He may yet fulfil Their restitution. Pardon it, if ill.--Lurk in that hope, Great Father! True thou art; Thou sayest the just shall bliss in fulness prove, And, what thou sayest, thy bounty will provide: And yet meseems the blissful souls above, . The sense of earth's sweet charities denied, Might feel a craving in those realms of love, By angel hosts and patriarchs unsupplied. SECTION VI. The recognition of each other probable, from what is revealed concerning the future feelings of the Blessed. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which has been just noticed in illustration and support of our views concerning the faculties of the blessed, may be further noticed, as tending to shew, that we shall probably carry with us into another world the same feelings with respect to our relatives and connexions, by which we have been affected in this world. Together with a pungent sense of his own condition, the rich man retained a lively interest for those whom he had left behind him, his " five brethren" in his father's housel. Why should we imagine such an interest to be peculiar to those in his condition? Why should we not suppose that, when the righteous are awakened from the sleep of death, they with a personal feeling concerning their own state will unite a reviving feeling concerning the happiness of their relatives and friends? Why should we not suppose that that feeling will be subsequently retained with respect to their former connexions, so far as shall be consistent with their own promised blessedness; a limitation to which we shall presently have occasion to give more particular attention? And why should we not suppose that, retaining the feeling, they will enjoy a fit field and scope for its exercise? That the...
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Add this copy of The Happiness of the Blessed Considered as to the to cart. $52.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1848 by Stanford and Swords.
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Good. From the sixth London edition. Decorative brown cloth blind-stamped, gilt-stamped spine title. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front pastedown, cloth faded and soiled, spine head chipped, thus good only.
