virtue, will then prove gain, everlasting profit, the source of never-ending joy and satisfaction to me. All the good, that I can at present do, and do not, will then diminish the sum of my felicity. The better or worse the sowing here is, the more joyful or lamentable will the harvest be hereafter. Therefore, will I do good, and, in well-doing, not be weary; for in due time, I shall reap without ceasing. Zollikoffer.

579 Upon her centre pois'd;

The earth is a round body; however it may seem, in some parts, to be sunk into valeys, and raised into hills; in other parts to be spread into a spacious plane, extending to the confines of the heavens, or terminated by the waters of the ocean. We may fancy, that it has deep foundations, and rests upon some prodigiously solid basis: but it is pendant in the wide transpicuous ether, without any visible cause to uphold it from above, or support it from above, or support it from beneath. It may seem to be sedentary in its attitude, and motionless in its situation; but it is continually sailing through the depths of the sky; and, in the space of twelve months, finishes her mighty voyage: which periodical rotation produces the seasons, and completes the year. As it proceeds in the annual curcuit, it spins upon its own centre, and turns its sides alternately to the fountain of light; by which means, the day dawns in one hemisphere, while the night succeeds in the other.

587 Under their Hierarchs.

Sacred government or order.

596 Orb within orb,

Are several orbs, one within another, which have the same centre.

598 Amidst us from a flaming mount.

Jehovah talked with you, face to face, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire: and he said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have seen, this day, that God doth talk with man, and that he liveth. Deut. v. 4, 24.

607 And by myself have sworn to him shall bow.

Let us then second the merciful intentions of our great instructor, and carefully apply it to ourselves. The Almighty, who will have all men to be saved, hath graciously made every one partaker in the general means of salvation. We are all formed with an immortal soul, capable of understanding, and adoring the divine attributes: we are all included in the sufficient ransom which the blessed Jesus paid for our regeneration; and most of us, through the goodness of God, are come to the knowledge of the truth.

614 Into utter darkness deep ingulf'd,

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew, xxv. 30. We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terrors of the Lord, we persuade men. 2 Cor. v.

10. 11.

621 Of planets and of fixed in all their wheels.

Planets are those stars that move or change their place, comprehending what is usually called the Solar System.

The fixed stars are so called, because they keep the same situation, with respect to each other, and distinguished, according to their relative appearances, denominated magnitudes.

Consult with reason, reason will reply,

Each lucid point, that glows in yonder sky,
Informs a system, in the boundless space,
And fills with glory its appointed place:
With beams unborrow'd brightens other skies;
And worlds, to thee unknown, with heat and
life supplies.

637

THE UNIVERSE.

Or, that moves in a different centre.
and in communion sweet

Quaff immortality and joy.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light. Psalms, xxxvi. 8, 9.

652 By living streams among the trees of life.

On either side of the river was the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. An emblem of that perpetual life and overflowing joy, which shall be the portion of all the blissful inhabitants of the new Jerusalem.

654 Celestial tabernacles,

Tabernacle, a wooden chapel, erected for the

public worship of God, and by his special direction, among the Jews. Exodus, xxv. In it the ark of the covenant was preserved, as lasting records of God's wonderful acts among his people. 664 Messiah king annointed,

Messiah, the annointed, (Psalms, ii. 2.) and notified with many other different names in the sacred oracles. The Messiah, is that grand prophet, whom the eternal father promised, to redeem fallen mankind from sin, Satan, death, from the beginning of the world; (Gen. iii. 15) and by the voice of all succeeding prophets. The Jews expect him daily; but Christians believe, that Jesus, the son of the blessed Virgin Mary, born in Bethlem, about A. M. 400, in the reign of Augustus, is the true Messiah or Christ, because in him all the ancient prophecies, types and character of the Messiah are really and fully accomplished.

Why did the Gentiles rage,

And Jews, with one accord,
Bend all their counsels, to destroy
The Anointed of the Lord?

The Lord derides their rage,

And will support his throne;
He that hath rais'd him from the dead,
Hath own'd him for his Son.

Be wise, ye rulers, now,

And worship at his throne,

With trembling joy, ye people bow,
To God's exalted Son.

the Grecian islands, being the birth-place of Apollo and Diana; the magnificent ruins of whose temples are still visible. It is now almost destitude of inhabitants.

272 A Phoenix,

The naturalists speak of this bird as single, or the only one of its kind; the size of an eagle; its head finely crested, with a beautiful plumage; its neck covered with feathers, of a gold colour; the rest of its body purple, only the tail white, intermixed with carnation; and it eyes sparkling like stars. They say it lives five or six hundred years, in the wilderness; that, when thus advanced in age, it builds itself a funeral pile of sweet wood and aromatic gums: this it fires with the wafting of its wings, and thus burns itself; and, from its ashes, arises a worm, which, in time, grows up to another Phoenix. Other accounts of this extraordinary bird mention, that it makes a brilliant appearance, and undertakes frequent excursions with a load on its back; that when, by having made the experiment through a long track of air, it gains sufficient confidence in its own vigour, its takes up the body of its father, and flies with it to the altar of the sun, to be there consumed. From this statement it appears probable, that the learned, especially of Egypt, enveloped under this allegory, the philosophy of comets; and that the Phoenix was an Egyptian hieroglyphical representation of the comet. 274 Bright temple, to Egyptian Thebes he flies.

An ancient celebrated city in Egypt, called also Hecatompylos, on account of its hundred gates ;