This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...the present order of the heavens and earth shall pass away, and that last order of the heavens and earth begin, in which man is to find his noblest fields of action, and climb to elevations hitherto unknown. Meanwhile, as individual after individual reaches the heights of his own earthly capability, or so determinedly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...the present order of the heavens and earth shall pass away, and that last order of the heavens and earth begin, in which man is to find his noblest fields of action, and climb to elevations hitherto unknown. Meanwhile, as individual after individual reaches the heights of his own earthly capability, or so determinedly grovels in the dust that union with the God-Man is no longer possible, he passes from the scenes of this life to another, wherein he keeps the upward or the downward path forever; forever Hearing or receding from his native destiny, the hiding of his own life in the Life of God. CAUSES. Our knowledge of the Universe, its Elements, its Combinations, and its Epochs, cannot be complete, until wehave discerned the Causes, from which their existence flows, and the methods, by which they originate, progress, and finally attain their End." There is a reason why the finite modes of being are, in number and in nature, what they are; and why, beginning at the antipodes of creature possibility, they have successively appeared, combined, and been developed into a Person, with whom God Himself could be united. But if we seek this reason in creation, either collectively, or in detail, we shall not find it. There is an infinite, uncreated order, of which this finite and created order is the shadow, and whence it has derived, not only its existence, but all the laws by which its operations are controlled. That infinite, uncreated order is the unbeginning, unproceeding, and unending Life of God: and it is in His Life that the secret of creation must be sought, and the springs of its eternal destiny be found. A study of the truths, which grow out of the necessary character of the Life of God, will thus afford us whatever knowledge we arc able E3 to obtain ...
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