'^ It is observed, by a powerful anonymous writer of the present
day, tliat the nnixture of good and evil belongs only to this proba-



FOR THE HEAYEXLT STATE. O

That the baU of all men, in tlieir unregenerate
state, is in the wrong direction. Scripture, experience,
and histoiy, unite in bearing testimony. ' Man by nature
is the child of wrath ; he has inherited from his first
parents, in thie 611, a proneness to sin ; and his dis-
tinguishing characteristic is the absence of that lace
to Gody which is absolutely indispensable to true vir-
tue and lu^piness, both here and hereafter. Hence
it follows, beyond all doubt or question, that we must
be <<bom again'' — that we must undergo a radical
and inward change — ^before we can live to the glory of
God in this world, or be fitted for the enjoyment of
his presence in the world to come. << Except a man



tionary state ; and that every spirit separated from the body must,
by a sort of natural cousequence or physical necessity, fly off on the
one side or the other, according as it is affected towards God and
holiness ; for, in the world to come, there is no further amalgama-
tion between good and evil ; but an irresistible avulsion of the one
from the other. "Of every human spirit it may be said, that it pos-
sesses or not that affection to God, which, when freed from the em-
barrassments that here surround us, will spring up toward its object
— will break away exultant from every defilement — and connect the
created to the uncreated Spirit, between which a real alliance had
already taken place. 