[384]: Upon my going into the church I entertained myself with the digging of a grave, and saw in every shovelful of it that was thrown up the fragment of a bone or skull intermixt with a kind of mouldering earth, that some time or other, had a place in the composition of a human body.... I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together. (Spectator, nos 26 et 575.)
[385]: Though the Deity be thus essentially present through all the immensity of space, there is one part of it in which he discovers himself in a most transcendent and visible glory.... It is here where the glorified body of our Saviour resides, and where all the celestial hierarchies and the innumerable hosts of angels are represented as perpetually surrounding the seat of God with hallelujahs and hymns of praise.... With how much skill must the throne of God be erected!... How great must be the majesty of that place, where the whole art of creation has been employed, and where God has chosen to show himself in the most magnificent manner! What must be the architecture of infinite power under the direction of infinite wisdom!
(Spectator, nos 580 et 531.)
[386]: Spectator, 237, 571, 600.
[387]: There is doubtless a faculty in spirits by which they apprehend one another, as our senses do material objects, and there is no doubt but our souls, when they are disembodied, or placed in glorified bodies, will, by this faculty, in whatever part of space they reside, be always sensible of the Divine Presence.
(Spectator, nos 571, 237 et 600.)
[388]: The business of mankind in this life is rather to act than to know.
[389]: Tatler, 257.
[390]: Such an habitual homage to the Supreme Being would in a particular manner banish from among us that prevailing impiety of using his name on the most trivial occasions.... What can we think of those who make use of so tremendous a name in the ordinary expressions of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions? Of those who admit it into the most familiar questions and assertions, ludicrous phrases and works of humour? Not to mention those who violate it by solemn perjuries? It would be an affront to reason, to endeavour to set forth the horror and profaneness of such a practice.
(Spectator, no 535.)