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 The external duties and doctrines of religion—the "dwellings of Jacob," are all excellent and good, as leading onward to "Zion;" but he who stops and dwells in these, will never reach the mount. None can know and feel the delights of a truly celestial state but those who are in it. None can know any thing of Zion, or its joys, but those who enter its celestial gates. "God is known in Judah, and His name is great in Israel: in Salem is his tabernacle, but his dwelling-place is ." Here, in this exalted state of celestial love, in this Zion where his presence is seen and felt; here He will break to us the bread of life, and impart to us the wine of the kingdom. Leave then "the dwellings of Jacob," and enter into the Holy Mount Zion, and appropriate the Lord's love and wisdom: thus eat and drink, and live for ever!