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We add the following eccentric poetical description of Satan's ubiquitous influence, knowledge, and attributes (using modern orthography).

In all materials he acquainted is,

From the earth's superficies, to the abyss;

He knows such virtues, as in stones abide,

Gems, minerals, creeping worms, and beasts (for hide

From him you nothing can) for he doth vaunt
Still in the marble, porphyry, adamant,

The coral, pumice, and the chrysolite,
The smaragd, topaz, and the margarite.

The onyx, carbuncle, gold, silver, lead,

Brass, iron, and sulphurs; He is likewise read

In the properties of creeping things,

Ants, toads, snails, serpents (all that the earth brings).
Of all the several fishes he hath notion,
Bred in fresh waters, or the briny ocean;
Of Beasts the sundry qualities he finds,
Sows, bears, tigers, camels, horses, hinds,
The elephant, the fox, ape, ass, mule, cat,

Sheep, wolf, hare, hedge-hog, with each other that

The earth produceth; So in herbs, and trees,

Plants, leaves, fruits, roots, seeds, juices, liquors, these
The artist hath like skill in. He can tell
The sev'ral qualities of fowls, and well
Distinguish them; as such and such belong
To the earth, air, or water. He is strong

In further knowledge of the elements,

As in their power, their nature, and extents.

He is further represented as the sovereign lord of every species of magicians, incantation, &c.

For most of this prognosticating tribe,
Metals unto each planet can ascribe;
Silver, unto the Moon, to the Sun was
Gold sacred, unto Jove copper and brass,
To Venus white lead, unto Saturn black,
Iron and steel to Mars; nor doth there lack
Amber to Mercury. To each of them
They likewise consecrate several gem,

Unto the sun, the carbuncle is due,

And hyacinth of color green and blue;
Th' adamant and crystal to the queen of night,
To Saturn the onyx, and the chrysolite,
The sapphire with the diamond to Jove,

The jasper and the magnet Mars doth love,
Smaragd and Sardis Venus doth not hate,
Nor Mercury topaz and agate.

ATTRIBUTES AND CHARACTERISTICS.

In the present section of our inviting subject, the requisition devolves upon us, to examine a little more fully those wonderful attributes which have been manifested by angelic power and ministration, as well as portray those attractive lineaments which distinguish and adorn the disposition and character of the illustrious inhabitants of the celestial world -those constant, and innumerable, and fascinating courtiers which surround the resplendent Majesty of heaven, as confirmed and illustrated by a variety of declarative facts and striking circumstances recorded in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament.

Under this head it may not be inexpedient to premise and interpose the expostulation,—that the visions, which to the experience of the patriarchs, the prophets, the apostles, the evangelists, and the primitive disciples of Christianity which have preceded or attended the instrumentality of angelic operations, must be received by the mind, unencumbered by sinister reservations or suppositions, referring them to fictious representations, as opposed to positive and veritable realities; for many unestablished, in the biblical reception of divine and revealed truth, by reason of the superficiality of their faith, are apt to consider that those marvellous exhibitions of omnipotent purpose, and prophecies of gracious promise performed by angelic agency, of which they read in the Bible, are to be regarded as the mere imagery, the gor

geous drapery of a dream, the shadowy apparitions of optical illusion, because, forsooth, of the difficulty with which they realise to themselves the actual existence of incorporeal or spiritual beings; usually applying the term vision, in a sense and manner contrary to its scriptural and intended import-virtually interpreting the epithet as something intangible or not seen-a mental phantasmagoria, unreal, and easily produced by a disordered state of the bodily functions, affecting with a sympathetic morbidity, the workings of a distempered brain. Such an anti-christian conclusion no sincere believer in the declarations of an unimpeachable Inspiration can, for an instant, admit or venture upon; though many are inclined to suppose that what the inspired writers have described of what they have beheld and witnessed of angelic beings and their miraculous interpositions, must be understood as a sort of allegorical representation-a vehicle for conveying to the mental perceptions of mortals, the designs and purposes of the Divine will. With these phantomising interpretations we entertain no sympathy, and therefore believe on the sacred authority of immutable and eternal truth, that Daniel really saw with his bodily eyes the angels of God, as also the stationed keepers at our Lord's sepulchre, and the inquiring disciples after the resurrection of Christ from the entombment of the grave, as in like manner we shall all behold them when they attend the Redeemer's second advent to earth, as He comes in "the glory of his Father," surrounded by the splendid retinue of "holy angels," amidst the inconceivable agitations and awful solemnities of the judgment-day, at the assize of an assembled universe!

That God, if he please, can hold intercourse with his chosen servants without the intermediate agency of angelic interference, is proved by several instances interspersed

throughout the Scriptures, but in some cases it has been His pleasure to employ one or more of the heavenly hosts in his communications with sinful humanity, and who has also commanded his witnesses to record such supernatural and superhuman interpositions for man's instruction and hope, encouragement and comfort. And assuredly we owe it to our Divine Teacher, to receive with the gratitude of reverential humility and undoubting credence, what Deity has vouchsafed to reveal to us of the disinterested cheerfulness with which benevolent angels are always ready to promote the spiritual welfare and temporal interests of those who put their trust in Jehovah, and repose implicit confidence in the assurances of divine promises; persuaded that not one thing contained in Holy Writ, dare we with impunity, presumptuously attempt to alter or impugn, which has been given by the Inspiration of God, and most profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,—and that to receive such a book of divine origin, as a volume of riddles, enigmas or allegories, and not as a clear and comprehensive declaration of what we are to believe, as well as what we are to do, would be a palpable violation of the dictates of sober reason, as well as an egregious infringement of the precepts of an acquiescent faith. For thus saith the Lord,—is the solemn AMEN OF TRUTH

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*Could we better understand the angelical nature, properties, and perfection, and what converse and intercourse of these spirits is one with the other, and with God, how they love and praise him, and how He communicates himself to them, we should have more worthy and awful thoughts of God, the Maker and Lord of them,-we should have more worthy thoughts of His power, wisdom, and greatness. Nor should we so easily question his goodness, as now we do. When we hear of God's severity declared against ungodly ones, we are ready to say, Where is the goodness of God if he will send the greatest part of men to hell, to be eternally torment

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