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IX. The Lord worshipped as a Divine Object.

1. The Lord Jesus Christ, the true God, in ONE DIVINE PerSON, all the angels worship. Heb. i. 6.

X. The Trinity.

1. The invisible Soul is the Father; the Person of our Lord is the Son; and the Divine Emanation, or Influence, proceeding from Him is the Holy Spirit.

2. In Him (Jesus Christ) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

XI. The Lord is the Fountain of all good.

1. The Lord Jesus Christ is All in all to us. All of natural being, life, and preservation; and All in all of spiritual. All that is truly alive, or has life in us, is His; and all besides is death.

2. All that the heart is in, and to the whole body, and its every fibre and fluid; that is the Lord to the whole church, and every member of it. There is a perpetual pulsatory influx of His love and mercy, with, in, and to all in all.

XII. The Fall of Man.

1. Man's fall from the original purity and perfection in which he was created, was the cause of separation between man and God.

2. As sin separated man from God, it gave occasion to new energies of Divine Grace.

3. Scripture asserts that man, in the general, lived many ages in a heavenly state, but at length declined from it, and fell into many irregularities and abuses of the vital faculties, properties, and functions.

4. Those irregularities and abuses of the vital faculties and principles produced diseases of them, and those diseases spiritual death, or a total separation from the state designed by creation.

5. As the recipient became diseased in its faculties, by an abuse of them, it induced a negation to Divine Power.

6. In process of time, the disease of the recipient principle increased so much, as to render the reception of the kingdom of heaven next to impossible.

7. The possibility was very nearly extinguished when our Lord came into the world, and assumed Human Nature.

XIII. The reign of Sin in the mind.

1. Where grace cannot enter, sin increases and abounds.

2. Where there is no union with God, the Source of Order, Love, and Light, there is neither order, love, or light.

3. Where Order, such as it is in God, exists not; there is the opposite of it.

4. Where Order is not received duly, as in Itself, there must be confusion and mixtion.

XIV. The Lord's Glorification in respect to Man.

1. The Lord was made in all things like unto us; (actual sin excepted;) and by assuming all the degrees of the human mind proper to man, and uniting them with the Godhead of the Father, can assist us with His grace in all the degrees and principles of our mind, whensoever we in sincerity and obedience draw near unto Him.

2. There is but one law in being which the Lord fulfilled and went through in the world. He passed through the whole circle of spiritual and natural order, and assumed all states possible for a man to be in when in progression from the state of nature to that of perfect grace; and by virtue thereof, can touch us in all the states of trial that we can possibly be in.

XV. The Lord's Advent, Incarnation, and Assumption.

1. By the incarnation of our Lord, we are made capable of receiving a fulness of Divine graces in all the principles of our minds, answering to all of prediction and prophecy concerning the reception of those graces by.the church of God.

2. It was done that a means between the Godhead and man might be assumed; whereby the infirmities and corruptions of human nature might be approached by the Divine Power.

3. By this assumption man was delivered, that is, redeemed from eternal death, or the state in which it would have been impossible for him to be regenerated and saved.

4. Since that period, his natural and corrupted sensual mind can be approached (by virtue of the means assumed) by the Divine Power, which before could not fall into such an impure subject without endangering its existence, and occasioning torment from the contrariety of the two principles.

5. The design of the Messiah's Advent was to destroy all the principles of evil and falsity in intellectual nature; and implant His own holy and pure ones in their stead, both in the general and individual state. His advent in the New Church means the

same thing, only carried on in a more perfect degree than heretofore, by a manifestation of purer orders of truth, and a formation of their proper loves by them.

XVI. Divine Graces and Virtues in Man.

1. There is to be a fulfilment of all divine graces, not only in the universal and general state of the church, but also in every individual; and therefore all should look for it, and make themselves meet for it.

2. That man may livingly partake of the benefits of redemption, the substance of every figure and vision must be realized in his soul by acts of regeneration; and all of prophecy concerning those benefits, be vitally fulfilled in the same way.

3. The Lord is ever in the desire and act to bring this to pass in the life of the world at large, and in the soul of each idividual person and we can please Him no better, nor worship Him more acceptably, than by doing all in our power to close in with His designs, that His intentions in our creation may be completed, and all obstacles to the performance of it done away.

4. The more perfect the reception of the divine gifts and graces is, the nearer is the conjuncton.

5. What is a religious life, but a life standing in accord with the laws of Divine Order, as existing in the heavens, and as contained in the Word, the Law and Order of God?

6. Purity descends not into the corruptions of flesh and blood. 7. In respecting and loving the voluntary, intellectual, and real personal graces of another, we really reverence, esteem, and love the graces of order, which is just and right. To contemn them is no property of order.

8. Every good gift or love, and its consequent wisdom and truth, cometh down from the Father of Light, or of Wisdom.

9. All opposition that we find in our natural and sensual minds against the reception of divine loves, virtues, graces, principles, and truths, shews the state of disease and corruption which the principles and passions of those minds now stand in. 10. Silence shall best praise Thee, saith the Psalmist; and thereby is meant, the silence of all the vital principles or states of proprium.

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Miscellanea.

THE LOVE OF FLOWERS.

"The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object as a motive: the cottage has its pink, its rose, its polyanthus; the villa its geranium, its dahlia, and its clematis; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining days; but, perhaps, it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure, and our affections seem immediately to expand at the sight of the first opening blossom under the suny wall or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. In the long and sombre months of winter our love of nature, like the buds of vegetation, secms closed and torpid; but, like them, it unfolds and reanimates with the opening year, and we welcome our long-lost associates with a cordiality that no other season can excite, as friends in a foreign clime. The violet of autumn is greeted with none of the love with which we hail the violet of spring; it is unseasonable; perhaps it brings with it rather a thought of melancholy than of joy; we view it with curiosity, not affection: and thus the late is not like the early rose. It is not intrinsic beauty or splendour that so charms us; for the fair maids of spring cannot compete with the grander matrons of the advanced year; they would be unheeded, perhaps lost, in the rosy bowers of summer and of autumn: no; it is our first meeting with a long-lost friend, the reviving glow of a natural affection, that so warms us at this season: to maturity they give pleasure, as a harbinger of the renewal of life, a signal of awakening nature, or of a higher promise; to youth, they are expanding being, opening years, hilarity, and joy; and the child, let loose from the house, riots in the flowery mead, and is

"Monarch of all he surveys."

There is not a prettier emblem of spring than an infant sporting in the sunny field, with its osier-basket wreathed with butter-cups, orchises, and daisies, With summer flowers we seem to live as with our neighbours-in harmony and good-will; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships."

GENERAL CHURCH INTELLIGENCE.

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, WATERLOO ROAD.

This neat and very substantially built Church will be consecrated and opened for Divine Worship on Sunday the 29th instant, when three Sermons will be preached; that in the morning by the Rev. Robert Hindmarsh ; that in the Afternoon by the Rev. Manoah Sibly, Minister of Friar Street Chapel Doctor's Commons, and that in the Evening by the Rev. Edward Madeley, Minister of the New Jerusalem Temple, New Hall Street, Birmingham. A collection will be made after each sermon in aid of paying the expense of rebuilding this place of Worship.

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, CROSS STREET.

The Annual General Meeting of the Society in Cross Street, Hatton Garden, was held on the 23rd ult. when an able report of the proceedings was read. It does not appear that the income of the Society has been much increased, but there has been a considerable accession of registered members, the number of which is now 143.

CHELMSFORD, ESSEX,

This populous county town in which there has been a few receivers of the Heavenly Doctrines for some years, heard them promulgated for the first time in a public manner under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, on Sunday the 22nd of February; when three sermons were delivered by the Rev. Thomas Goyder. In the morning about 150 persons attended; in the afternoon the audience increased to 240, which nearly filled the place; but in the evening, even the stairs, and every avenue in which it was possible to catch a phrase, was literally crammed; and it is thought that more than an equal number of persons returned to their homes altogether disappointed. No expressions were heard but of unmingled satisfaction at the doctrines, the mode in which they were announced, and of the ability of the preacher.

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9th Monthly Meeting for general information on Church matters and mutual improvement, at Friar Street Chapel, at 7 o'clock in the evening. Subject-Divine Permission.

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Visiting Committee, connected with the Society of the New
Church, Waterloo Road, London, at the house of Mr. Smith,
No. 19, Mitre Street, New Cut. To assemble to tea at half-
past five o'clock in the evening.

Coffee Meeting at 15, Cross Street, Hatton Garden, at 6 o'clock
in the evening.

Union Coffee Meeting at 15, Cross Street, Hatton Garden, at 6 o'Clock in the evening.

Coffee Meeting at ditto.

VARIETIES.

HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND LITERARY.

CHINA.

The recent rebellion in the celes tial empire arose out of the oppressions exercised by the Chinese officers towards the Mahommedans, who bore repeated insults with great patience for upwards of ten years; until Changkibur, who from his virtues and good offices to the poor and the oppressed was looked upon as an almost celestial being, was wantonly insulted and cruelly beaten for attempting to appeal in their favor to the higher authorities. This was the signal for rebellion, and Changkibur was declared leader and head of the rebels. "He essayed" says the Canton Register, "the deliverance of the people, and has failed. Terrible is the fate which awaits him."

been resident in Japan during the last three years, have collected materials for a new account of that interesting but hitherto little known country. It is a curious fact that the Japanese translators were rendering into the vernacular dialect, "Morrison's Chinese Dictionary." The arrangement of the alphabetical part of the dictionary pleased the natives so much that it has become fashionable at Nangasaki to write a column of characters, with their definitions, on Fans, and present them to their friends. From the Canton Register.

KING'S COLLEGE.

The intention of erecting the King's College in the Regent's Park is abandoned; and Mr. Smirke, the celebrated architect, is actually employed in forming plans for the adap Some Dutch gentlemen who have tation of the eastern side of Somer

JAPAN.

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