Hence it follows that we do nothing in secret. All our behaviour is known, not only to Christ, but to the watchers, his holy ones. With them is the book of God’s remembrance.
O gracious Redeemer, shed abroad thy love in our hearts. May faith and patience have their perfect work. Beautify us with thy moral likeness, that we may be fair in thine eyes and in the eyes of our kindred who dwell with thee. With them at last may we behold thy glory and celebrate thy love forever. ALLELUIA.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Christ laid down his life for his sheep; but mere law and justice never required this of him.
[2] Even the divine Trinity, existing from everlasting, to speak with accuracy, is the Trinity of Person, not of Persons.
[3] It is the opinion, not only of Mr. Swedenbourg, but of many other pious and learned men, of other persuasions, that when the pious soul has left the body, he occupies a vehicle or spiritual body which may be considered as the resurrection commenced, and to be perfected in the last day, when the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[4] Matthew 10: 28.
[5] 1 Samuel, xxviii, 15.
[6] Eviden. of Christianity, Sect. 7.
[7] Kate with a hide and horns.