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142 Him, from whom, as it was argued, all man's excellences and blessings most be derived. But here, in contemplating the glories of the Spiritual Universe,—as made visible to the eye of enlightened reason cleared by faith,—and in considering the greatly exalted wisdom, goodness, and felicity of man, when passed into that spiritual state, and raised from earth to heaven—we behold all these things, as it were, in a magnified form. Consequently, the evidences of the divine wisdom and goodness are magnified and multiplied in like proportion. If the beauties and charms of a natural landscape bear witness to the power and the benevolence of Him who formed it—how much more those of a heavenly landscape! If the elegance and nicety of structure visible in earthly objects, be proofs of the Divine skill and benignity,—how much more the exquisiteness of those spiritual realities, of which material things are but as the shadows! If the order and the vastness of this natural universe excite our admiration and wonder, at the infinity of the wisdom and power of the great Architect, what shall we feel in reflecting upon the splendor and the immensity of that Spiritual Universe,—which, though at present invisible to our material organs, will one day be seen by our spiritual ones, and is even now visible to the eye of right reason and of faith?—that Spiritual Universe, which, as before shown, must have been, from the beginning, and still is, and will continue to be, the vast receptacle of all the countless generations of men that are successively born, dwell, and die, on all the innumerable worlds and system of worlds in the material universe around us; and which consequently must be as much more vast and populous than