The essence LOVE invariably produces its form wisdom.

-The light of Heaven beams,

Effulgent from above;

In gladsome and refreshing streams-
Forth from the throne of LOVE."

There are three heavens in the universal or heavenly world; (viz.) the primary, secondary, and ultimate: in the interior and superior, the primary principle, LOVE, is more intense and predominant than wisdom, and consequently therein more manifested, according to the capabilities of its recipients; and in the next below, the secondary principle, wisdom, is more manifested than love, likewise corresponding; and the ultimate or lowest is also constituted according to the capacitated state of its recipients: in each heaven "a place" is prepared by Christ for the reception of each finite man who corresponds exactly thereto, by his internal life upon earth at the period of his departure.

The three heavens may be called celestial, spiritual, and ultimate. In consequence of fire or love being more interior than light or wisdom, the heaven in which love is most predominant is the highest, superior, and most proximate to the Lord, who constitutes the heavenly Sun, it being the very essence thereof. Gold corresponds to the primary, (love) silver to the secondary, (wisdom) and copper to the ultimate, (power.)

The most exalted conceptions we can form of this blissful abode are extremely inadequate and imperfect as much however as the human comprehension is able to contain, the Lord Almighty has been graciously pleased in his mercy to reveal to us in the Holy Scriptures by his inspired writers, the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, and the Apostles Paul and St. John the Divine, who have given us

very magnificent descriptions of the splendour and beauty of that substantial heavenly world.

"There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea divides
This heavenly land from ours."

WATTS.

The Saints or Angels are constantly praising and glorifying the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ; who is "the King of kings and Lord of lords." (Rev. xix. 16.)

"WORTHY THE LAMB of boundless sway,
In earth or heaven THE LORD OF ALL:
Ye princes, rulers, powers, obey,
And low before his footstool fall."

WATTS.

"And they rest not day and night, singing Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." Rev. iv. 8. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom and strength, and honour and glory, and blessing. v. 12. "Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them." vii. 15. "In the bless'd world above, Where angel hosts reside, The SUN of truth and LOVE, 1s never known to hide; It's sacred heat

For ever glows,
Divinely sweet
To all it flows.

Its all attracting light

For ever flows the same;
No darkness there, or night,

No clouds obscure the flame.
One endless day

Will constant shine,
And every ray

Is light Divine."

ON THE LOVE OF GOD.

"Could oceans, rivers, springs, and lakes;
All that the name of water takes,
Beneath the expanded skies,

Be turned to ink of blackest hue;
Add all the drops of morning dew,
To make the wonder rise.

A book as large, might we suppose,
Which thinnest paper could compose,
As the whole earthly ball;
Were every shrub and every tree,
And every blade of grass we see,
A pen to write withal.

Were all who ever lived on earth,
Since nature first received her birth,
Most skilful scribes to place;

In clearest light, that wond'rous love,
Borne from the Heart of God above,
T'wards Adam's sinful race.

Were each Methusellah in age,
And every moment wrote a page,
They'd all be tired and die.
The pens would every one wear out;
The book be fill'd within, without;
The ink be drained quite dry.

And then, to shew that LOVE; O, then;
Angels above as well as men,
Archangels e'en would fail;

Nay, till eternity shall end,
A whole eternity they'd spend,
Nor then have told the tale."

The punishment of Hell.-Hell is that state opposite to Heaven, which is prepared for the reception of those wicked, wretched, and miserable beings who have, by their own bad motives and conduct, prepared themselves for it. It is a state of dreadful misery and torment, such as we cannot possibly conceive, much less describe; it is a participation in the very opposite qualities to those in Heaven, therefore the torments of Hell spring from themselves, (viz.) the unhappy state of their own feelings, which is exactly in proportion to their previous sin and wickedness. The reflection of having when

upon earth "sinned away the day of grace," by neglecting the means of salvation, by which they voluntarily "filled up the measure of their iniquities," and thereby justly deserved their miserable condition, in fact, actually produced it; and the (apparent) displeasure of God, according to the Word of God and the dictates of their own consciences, constitutes a considerable degree of unhappiness. The loss of the joys and happiness of Heaven, which some of their nearest and dearest relatives have probably realized, likewise increases their misery. It is compared in Scripture to the torment "where the worm (conscience) dieth not, and the fire (anger of wrathful man) is not quenched." Those whom they acknowledged their greatest friends upon earth by being congenial companions in wickedness they will see and feel their greatest enemies; for by following their sinful examples in gratifying their carnal desires and appetites, they of course consider that they had been instrumental, as regards temptation, in their everlasting destruction. It is not possible that material brimstone and fire could affect the immortal soul; but those enblems bear a true analogy to the dreadful punishment; inasmuch as brimstone and fire torment the body, so the unceasing anger and wrath (which is in wicked man) keeps the soul in a state of "everlasting fire" or burning. "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.' Every wicked man who dies in that state becomes a wicked angel, and likewise every good man a good angel.

The death-bed of an unconverted sinner who is awakened to a sense of his awful and dreadful state by the pangs of conscience, "the worm that dieth not," affords a faint but true analogy to the unhappiness of the state called Hell; for he

possesses similar pangs and sensations after death, but in a much more sensitive degree, in consequence of being divested of mortality, by which all his inward powers are fully awakened, all his manifold sins and iniquities (having been registered in the conscience, corresponding to the omniscience or book of God) are clearly remembered during eternity, to an extent beyond human comprehension. The wicked in hell have a continually increasing desire to do evil, (which arises from anger and malice in themselves) but are restrained through fear of punishment: hell being governed by fear, therefore their malevolent desires never can be gratified, the "fire that never shall be quenched:" and as there are different degrees of happiness (love) in the heavenly state, so, there are corresponding degrees of unhappiness (hatred) in the opposite state, and as the happy spirits are constantly striving to increase the happiness of each other by love in their blessed state, the unhappy spirits are making unceasing efforts to increase the unhappiness of each other, by hatred, in their wretched, miserable state; which effort on the part of the wicked is checked or restrained through fear of punishment from a higher order of evil spirits or devils, whose office is to rule over them, according to the degree of perverted power and unhappiness to which they have attained by self-love, and who severely punishes those over whom they have authority, in accordance with the government of the Supreme Being, our just and righteous Judge. They have all incapacitated themselves from perceiving the Lord Jesus Christ otherwise than as a God of vengeance, anger, and wrath, (in consequence of their possessing those qualities) which also tends to increase the indescribable torments of the unhappy spirits, for they doubtless feel quite as much