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The Mansions, Halls, and Palaces of Heaven; Or, Glimpses of the Spirit-Land, Under the Similitude of a Vision. Or, Glimpses of the Spirit-Land, Under

The Mansions, Halls, and Palaces of Heaven; Or, Glimpses of the Spirit-Land, Under the Similitude of a Vision. Or, Glimpses of the Spirit-Land, Under

Seager, Robert

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ISBN10: 0217123945
ISBN13: 9780217123945
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK II. The Argument.?Our Reluctant Retreat from the Hall of Audience '?Heaven and Earth contrasted?No Place for Sorrow in Heaven ?Description of the Garden of Paradise?The Palace of the King of Kings?The Colleges of Learning?Growth a Necessary Principle in the Constitution of created Intelligences?Gradations of Knowledge in Heaven?Infants and their Guardians?The Halls of Science?David?Solomon?The Philosophers of Time?The Halls of Music?David's Harp?Miriam's Lyre?The Song of Moses?The Symphonies of Isaiah?Milton?Shakespeare?The Mansions of our Father's House?Happy Recognitions?The Ways of Providence reviewed in Clearer Light. With lingering feet and hearts which burned with purest rapture and delight, we passed amid innumerable ranks of shining ones, whose radiant eyes reflected back the light which He who sat upon the throne had kindled; and looking back we cast on all a loving, longing, but a brief farewell, sheltering 'neath His all-gracious promise who hath said, But I shall see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. Earth has a thousand pangs of sad regrets, which doggedly pursue the weary steps of all her wayfarers 'mid every track of life, and never weary till mortality retires to hide herself within the dreary caverns of the tomb. But heaven being crowded o'er with pure unending joys, there is no room for sorrow or regret. The best of earth'sdelights, if long protracted, but leadeth on to weariness and satiety; but heaven's pleasures wait on appetite, where all enjoyment but enlarges our capacity for bliss. It was, therefore, without a pang of disappointment that we passed from all these scenes of pure felicity to mingle amid other scenes of splendour equally varied and magnificent, bearing alike the impress of His all...

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