| [36] | Another once observed to me, that in the Canticles, the Beloved expresses directly to herself the beauties He discerns in her; the betrothed one never does this, but recites His beauties in the ears of others; and further observed, that there was great moral propriety in this, something quite according to the dictate of a delicate affection. |
| [37] | The saints of the present age, being heavenly in their calling, should be heavenly also in the spirit of their mind, and consciously, in all their tastes and desires, only as strangers, and not at home, in the earth; a people, as another once said, not as looking up from earth to heaven, but as looking down from heaven to earth. |
| [38] | Another once observed, that the moment of highest rapture in heaven is not when the saints wear their crowns, but when they cast them down before the throne. Rev. iv. 10. |
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