All method of communication we call intellec- | heart of man to conceive; yet, what we can tual vision, as something analogous to the easily conceive, will be a fountain of unsense of seeing, which is the medium of our speakable and everlasting rapture. acquaintance with this visible world. And created glories will fade and die away in his in some such way can God make himself presence. Perhaps it will be my happithe object of immediate intuition to the ness to compare the world with the fair blessed; and as he can, it is not improbable exemplar of it in the Divine Mind; perthat he will, always condescending, in the haps, to view the original plan of those circumstances of doing it, to the weakness wise designs that have been executing in a and proportion of finite minds. His works long succession of ages. Thus employed but faintly reflect the image of his perfec- in finding out his works, and contemplating tions: it is a second-hand knowledge: to their Author, how shall I fall prostrate and have a just idea of him, it may be necessary adoring, my body swallowed up in the imto see him as he is. But what is that? It mensity of matter, my mind in the infiniis something that never entered into the tude of his perfections! THE END. 191 385 512 579 38 Found in the wise man as well as the coxcomb 38 38 The misfortune of it 404 Described From a gentleman that teaches birds to speak 36 About the Lottery ticket Advice: no order of persons too considerable In what manner to be given to a faulty friend It deforms beauty, and turns wit into absurdity 38 Americans, their opinions of souls Exemplified in a vision of an American Amity between agreeable persons of different Amoret, the jilt, reclaimed by Philander of it 41 The true object of a laudable ambition 257 - 570 34 416 400 401 35 Afflictions, how to be alleviated 501 Age rendered ridiculous 6 How contemned by the Athenians and re- Exemplified in several instances 120 6 God himself the soul of brutes 121 The unnatural misunderstanding between The authority of an aged virtuous person pre- Anne Boleyn's last letter to King Henry VIII. 397 153 Annihilation, by whom desired A comfortable old age the reward of a well- The most abject of wishes 210 The authority assumed by some people on Anthony, (Mark) his witty mirth commended 336 by Tully 386 435 |